Thursday, November 10, 2022

PAC Board Meeting Minutes 11.10.2022


 Board members in attendance: Tamara Potruch (chair), Korrin Fyall (co-chair), Roxie Anderson (treasurer), Dan Standke (co-treasurer), Kimberly Felton (secretary), Ashley Weston (co-secretary)


Tamara called meeting to order at 6:42pm.

Tamara reviewed minutes of Oct 20, 2022, meeting. Minutes approved.


Treasury report (Roxie): $20,916.02 in bank account
Bank error fixed so that Roxie is again a signer at the bank.
Destiny software – no update at this time.
Wreath payment from one family went to the school; the school has written a check to PAC.

Wreath updates: Tawni Carr is the main support. She will have the wreath order forms, contact numbers, supplies. $2,275 profit from sales.

  • Delivery at 9am at the school. Dan will be at school to pay Al’s. 

  • Six extra wreaths available for purchase. Roxie will take extra wreaths & try to sell them. Cash, check, and PayPal are options for anyone who wants to buy an extra wreath that morning.

  • Two extra crosses; will gift to Sherwood Friends Church. Roxie will take cost of gift crosses out of profits of wreath sale.

MudPuddles: Put us on the list for Shop for Your School Fundraiser.

PAC Meetings/Cleaning crew: What is protocol for alerting church office of our events, so that cleaning crew is aware that we are having an event? Tamara waiting for clarification from school office about who gives PAC events to cleaning crew.

Winter Festival (Korrin): Ms. Raboli did not want another harvest festival. No activity stations. Something warm & cozy, low key. Maybe change “festival” to “gathering.” Or call it “Cozy Winter Evening.” Korrin will run agenda by Ms. Raboli. $500 budget.

  • Long table with self-service food, drinks.

  • Round tables with games, coloring pages

  • Sing-along

  • Snowball fight

  • long table for making snowflakes & snowmen

  • photo booth

4th Grade hosting luncheon in January: Collect donations in December. Use Thursday newsletter to request volunteers for luncheon setup.

Student lunches: Christy Sturm & Sadie Peterson working together; adding Kimberly Felton to the group. Challenge is finding restaurants that have reasonably-priced meals, and will deliver. Or a parent needs to pick up lunches.

Candy fundraiser: Not yet turned in to Wilson Ortho.  Note: The candy monsters have been secured for storage at the Felton residence, until needed next year.

Pumpkin Contest: MudPuddles gift cards delivered to winners.

DNO Nov 16-18: Spaghetti Factory – pickup or delivery only.

Bottle & Can Drive: 11/17/22


Meeting adjourned at 7:33pm.


Thursday, November 3, 2022

PAC General Meeting 11.03.2022

 




Board members in attendance: Tamara Potruch (chair), Korrin Fyall (co-chair), Roxie Anderson (treasurer), Dan Standke (co-treasurer), Kimberly Felton (secretary), Ashley Weston (co-secretary)

Parents in attendance: Lambi Swenson, Brandy & Wes Crockett, Jennifer & Kenneth Kellam, Shannon Moorman

Staff in attendance: Joy Raboli, Nora Stuckey


Tamara called meeting to order at 6:36pm. Board members introduced themselves; Dan Standke read the PAC mission and SCS HEART skills.

Approval of minutes from 10/06/22: Change “Joy Raboli will choose the winner of the pumpkin carving contest” to “parents will vote on pumpkin carving winners.” Minutes approved pending this change.


Principal’s corner (Joy Raboli): Fun Fall Festival event. Joy opened the floor to questions.

Korrin: How many people came to Fall Festival – in order to plan for Christmas Festival?
Joy: Unknown number; but in terms of fundraising, it was the second-highest amount ever raised at an event (approx. $2000). However, we had to make all of the games (which can be used in years to come), so likely we did not make money on the event this year.

Tamara: How does the school district budget struggle affect us?
Joy: The district has a budgeting error where they miscounted the enrollment. But we do not operate on the district budget; this mistake does not affect us. We are the healthiest, financially, that we have ever been.

Ashley: What is our enrollment?
Joy: Our enrollment is 215. We can go as high as 225. We have more kindergarten applications for next year than we have ever had at this point of enrollment.


Staff/PAC liaison report (Nora Stuckey, PE teacher): The Mediterranean staff/teacher lunch was AMAZING.


Treasury report (Roxie):
Current accounts --
    Paypal: $1,811.70
    BottleDrop: $123.90
    Chase: $17,045.68
Surplus in budget of $1300

Budget changes

  * At the end of last year, we had $200 left over after buying items from school’s wish list (chromebook cart, benches in office). Not enough for Chromebook storage unit for library. The library opens next week; they still have this need. Proposing to give the $200 left over to the library; they will use their funds to cover the rest of the cost. Motion passed.
  * Motion to remove the word “Zoom” from the “financial software/Zoom” budget line. PAC meetings last year were on Zoom, but are not this year. Money in this allocation will simply be “financial software.” Motion passed.


Old Business updates:

Book fair – $3,872 – biggest book fair we’ve had. This earned the school $2,786 in scholastic dollars, to use for library and for teachers. We were able to purchase all of the teachers’ wish lists at the book fair.

Teacher luncheon – 5th grade hosting a soup & salad bar. Hosting on 11/4/22.
January: 4th grade is hosting.

Spirit Wear (Lambi) –
*  Ready to be delivered to classes on Monday
*  8th grade sweatshirt: orders are low; giving it a couple more days
*  total order is $1200; $143 of this goes to the school

Question from Korrin: Daughter loves the House shirts. Can spirit wear include shirts for houses?
Answer from Joy: Yes; we will move toward doing that in the future

PAC lunch program – Still in the works. The challenge, post-Covid, is finding restaurants that will deliver for free (or at all).

Dining Night Out @ MOD: raised $91.42


New Business/Announcements:

Wreath sales – Sales closed. Pickup: November 19. Sales = approx. $5000 (rough estimate).

Winter festival update (Korrin) -
*  series of crafts that are winter-themed
*  games/activities
* middle school choir do some caroling or lead a sing-along?
* vouchers for kids to get food, to insure that everyone gets something (rather than a few kids eating all the donuts, etc).
* decorations: maybe Christmas lights (challenging to hang); perhaps table decorations
* photo booth
* Tamara will ask if church plans to have a worship practice on the night of the festival
* setup: 4pm
* Tamara will ask if church lobby/narthex can be used that evening
* Nora: has a projector that could be used for words of songs – if singing in gym

Candy Buy-back: Wilson Ortho gives $1/pound; over 50 lbs, Wilson will give an extra $100 to the school. “Candy monsters” in lobby for candy donations.

Next bottle drive is November 17. Our last turnout was not very good; hoping this drive will go better. This bottle drop will be at the Sherwood public parking by railroad tracks.

Library – Updating library; opens Monday. 

OBOB (Shannon Moorman) - Shannon will talk with students about what OBOB is.
Roxie: Has the Destiny software been renewed? Answer: it is working (unclear whether or not the software has been renewed).

Pumpkin Carving Contest – winners will be announced next week

School grounds cleanup: Raking pine needles, etc; this Saturday. Any time 9am-12pm.

Dining Night Out:
MOD in October - $91.42.
Next: Spaghetti Factory – Nov. 16-18 – delivery or order online & pickup. (Donations will not be made to school for meals eaten in the restaurant.) Must put in school code online, in order for school to receive donation. Code: CHARTER


Parent raised question about morning car line options when late. 


Meeting adjourned at 7:30pm.


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