Friends of Briggs PTO

Meeting Minutes for April 14, 2005

 

Meeting called to order at 6:35 PM. Attendance sheet is attached.

 

Secretary Report –Minutes reviewed and accepted.

 

Treasury Report – Current numbers leave us with approximately $7000.00 to start next year. Guidance was not able to submit a mini-grant request by the deadline but has requested $100.00 from the PTO. There was a vote and it passed unanimously to give $100 to Guidance.

 

Old Business

Bunny Breakfast - We made approximately $626.00 at the breakfast. We sold 465 chocolate bunnies and made approximately $800-$1000. There were some problems with the film when taking the bunny pictures. Everything else went well, there was just enough help. We need to find another way to do coffee. One suggestion was to try Dunkin Donuts if we can get a discount and it is a cost effective.

               

Mother/Son Dance – We did have one major hurtle with dance. The caller that was scheduled got sick the day of the dance and went to the hospital. Renee was lucky enough to find that overlook had a dance that afternoon and the DJ was still at the school. She was able to convince the DJ to come and do our dance that night. He was a little more expensive but it turned out that he did a really great job and we would like to use him again in the future. We made $31.91 on the event. Next year we would like to try a regular dance again. We would like to try and get some fathers to chaperon to keep the boys in line. The light-up sticks were good but the gift probably isn’t necessary. Gail Dumont has volunteered to organize the event next year.

           

Mini Grants – All mini-grants were funded approximately $7700.00. The PTO is funding $5000.00 and the Enrichment fund is funding $2700.00. The PTO also voted and approved a late request of $100 to Guidance. Martha has all the individual mini-grant requests if anyone would like to review them. 

             

PTO Board and School Council Nominations – Michelle Gianino, Carolyn Uminski and Olof Johnson are the three new parent members appointed to the School Council.

           

Staff Appreciation Day – Will be on May 25^th . We will be requesting small breakfast items such as fruit salad, yogurt, small beagles, flavored cream cheese, mini muffins, juice, coffee and flavored creamers. Sarah Wright will do lunch and deserts. There are approximately 70 staff members to serve.

 

Box Tops – We have collected $1371.10 for the year. Great Job!!! We are still collecting box tops through June which we will hold for next year. We would like to give out freeze pops to the entire school as a thank you. Katie Cook suggested we do that during the filed days. June 7^th and 8^th (rain date 9^th and 10^th ). Each class will also get a year end certificate for their total collections.

 

Family Skate - There was a lower turn out but it was a fun time. Ice cost is approximately $300.

 

New Business

Kindergarten Registration -  for Kindergarten registration we would like to distinguish between fundraisers for different school funds and fundraisers that go directly to PTO.

 

Fine Arts Night -  May 25^th at 6pm . We will have a table to sell cook books and old year books.

 

Community Breakfast – The PTO has been strongly encouraged to offer an in school breakfast for local businesses. Due to the time frame for the first breakfast we are looking at asking the Business council to hold the monthly meeting at JRB where we can offer a nice continental breakfast or snacks for them rather then having speakers come in.

 

BJ’s Adoption -  We are looking into what would be expected of us if BJ’s is willing to adopt our school and help support some events.

 

Down Town Days – Dr. Zipantis would also like us to do a table at the Ashburnham Down Town Days to promote community involvement with the schools. We will discuss this more at the next meeting.

 

Meeting Adjourned 7:55pm