Hb Brunner Pta

HB BRUNNER PTA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING - 7:30 p.m. March 12, 2013

Meeting called to order by Rita Route, PTA President at __7:36__ pm

RECORDING SECRETARY- Heather Negley- Please sign our attendance sheet.

Please send me your committee reports for today’s meeting; if you say more than a sentence then you have a report that should be sent to me.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY- Jennifer Ryan- Rose Piccola's (instructional aide) mother-in-law passed away Pat Kavet (K teacher) - father-in-law passed away Mr. Rosenberger's recent nuptials. Sympathy card to Jill and Rich Brenner on the loss of a family member. a thank you note was received from the Rosenbergers for our note

TREASURER – Sharon Au – See attached report

FIRST V.P. – Susan Judge-

SECOND V.P. –Ella Greenberg –

THIRD V.P. – Dawn Smith- Fundraising/Family Fun Night survey sent to all Brunner parents

HONORARY V.P. –Scott Bortnick –

PTA PRESIDENT- Rita Route- COMMITTEE REPORTS

ACE –Heather Negley

Board of Education/ District Legislative Team- Jennifer Fazzino

Book Fair- Kaneez Madraswalla/Michelle Mauer/Kathy Stewart Spring fair will be first week of June. Looking for alternate vendor for fair.

Box Top- Janine Boylan Box Tops were received on February 28th. Funds are pending and should be mailed to Brunner in April.

Brunner Backp@ck- Danielle Hale/Michelle Abate/Susan Judge/Jamie Reineman

Chemical Dependency – Sue Rash

Think Purple Week is March 18-22. It is a district-wide campaign run by the Chemical Dependency Committee to raise awareness that “Drugs & Alcohol Hurt Kids.”

Brunner is participating in several ways:

· All students are decorating paper “I am special” dolls, which will decorate the halls at Brunner during Think Purple Week.

· Ms. Hirschorn is preparing a special display in the Media Center for Think Purple that will emphasize self-esteem and anti-bullying messages.

· Also in the Media Center, students can try the Think Purple guessing jar of candy to focus attention on Think Purple.

· On March 14, the district is sponsoring an assembly at Brunner to complement the Think Purple initiative.

· During Think Purple week, students will be asked to do something every day. On Monday, students will be asked to “Think Purple, Wear Purple,” for example.

· Every student will receive a Think Purple wrist band and pencil. 3rd/4th graders will also receive special folders.

· All students at Brunner will write letters on purple hearts to Scotch Plains Fanwood High School graduating seniors. These letters will be hung at the high school before graduation.

· A Think Purple banner and purple ribbons will decorate the school. Teachers and staff will wear purple lapel ribbons.

Also at the High School, a person dressed as the “Grim Reaper” will walk the halls and randomly choose people to represent how drugs & alcohol can hurt people we know. Those students will be asked not to speak for the remainder of the day, as if they were not there. This program is run every four years in the high school.

Children’s Garden/ Beautify Brunner – Mary Fanning

Clothing Drive- Angela Scott Cultural Arts- Karen Ciccarello

Day of Discovery –Farid Madraswalla

Faculty Advisor- Fernanda Waxman

Family Bingo Night- Danielle Lorenzetti

Family Fun Day- Deb Lambert Just wanted to give a quick run down on Family Fun Night. (Not game night.) This is the off-site event that was held in June at Bowcraft last year.

Plans for Family Fun Night will be confirmed once feedback from PTA survey is in. I have made some preliminary inquiries and would ideally like to have arrangements confirmed by end of this week. I will ask for a "Save the Date" in the Backp@ck for next week (3/20). We are shooting for the evening of Friday, June 14

Fourth Grade Activities- Tracy Fletcher/Jen Fazzino 4th grade activities – things are moving along nicely. Our next meeting is 3/21 at Lagrande Park. Our 4th grade picture is APRIL 8th and all 4th graders are expected to wear their t-shirts. We held the first ever SNOWBALL dance in January for our 4th graders and that was a great time. 67 kids attended. All committees are busy preparing for yearend events – picnic, pool, EOR, yearbook, slideshow, etc.

Go Green- Caterina DiLollo/Heather Negley

Guest Reader- Tracy Fletcher Guest Reader – was a success on Wednesday, 1/30. We had readers for all classes except for one which had an issue with scheduling. Both kids and parents had a great day.

Halloween Party- Rita Route/Danielle Lorenzetti

Health and Safety- Sapna Llano

Holiday Boutique- Sue Rash/Karen Piesch

Hospitality– Rachel Lassman Teacher Luncheon May 9, during Teacher Appreciation week.

Liaison To CHILD-MaryKate Lesnevich

Liaison To The Community – Michelle Mauer/Stephanie Young

Liaison To Park Middle School – Cheryl Kriney Author Michael Northup will visit Park on April 11th. Hershey Park Tickets now on sale at a HUGE discount. Order before March 19th. Flyer is on the website. The Spring Bookfair (BOGO) IS APRIL 15TH -19TH

Liaison To High School – Tracy Fletcher HS – Spring sports have kicked off. If you have not seen the WEDDING SINGER – go this weekend. Play kicked off last week and was a good time. As a part of RACHEL challenge – ANTIBULLYING Campaign – a contest was run in the HS. Students/classes had an opportunity to paint a message on a ceiling tile about anti-bullying. So next time you go into the HS – look up. SOME of the art work is really great and very very creative. Last night there was a guest speaker at the HS about PROM safety. It was well attended and very interesting.

Liaison To Preschool – OPEN

Market Day - Dawn Smith

Media Center Rep- Maribeth Fisher

Membership –Jutta DiVizio

Parliamentarian- Marla Mackey

Parent Social- Sandra Karyczak

Past President- Marla Mackey

Physical Education- Nicol Klien Field Day: We will be Celebrating Brunner Field Day in tribute to the Jersey Shore on May 31st (Rain Date: June 19th). We are excited that this year we will be including both the Pre-K and Kindergarten classes.

9:00am - 9:45am / AM Pre-K & Kindergarten Will partake in 4 stations

10:00am - 11:30am / Grades 1 & 2 Will partake in all 8 stations (which includes the rest station)

12:30pm - 1:00pm / PM Pre-K & Kindergarten Will partake in 3 stations

1:15pm - 2:45pm / Grades 3 & 4 Will partake in all 8 stations (which includes the rest station)

Stations: Toms River Tummy Tube Relay Keansburg Catch Sandy Hook Slide Around Beach Haven Hop Point Pleasant Pull Seaside Sand Sprint Sandy Hook Slide Around Belmar Beach Bum

We have already received a handful of volunteers and are looking forward to receiving many more. In the coming weeks, I will reach out via “Brunner Backpack” to request water bottle donations and provide additional information to students, parents and teachers.

Pretzel Sales- Chrisitne Schunke

PTA Council – Cheryl Kriney

PTA Web Page- Sheila Trenery Publicity- OPEN

QUEST – OPEN

Read to Succeed – Kathy Lamendola

Reflections – Jennifer Lubalin

Scholarship – Jen Fazio March 14th – Screeners Meeting at 7:30 pm April 26 – Last day for reading May 3 – Foundation Screeners Selection Meeting – 9:30 am at my home May 7 – PTA Screeners Selection Meeting – 7:30 in room C-101 a decision to increase the HS scholarship amount will be determined at the April PTA meeting

Summer Reading- OPEN

Toner Recycling- Angela Scott

Variety Show – Samantha Nelson

Ways & Means- OPEN

Week of Respect- Sapna Llano

Young Peoples Theatre- Eileen Villar

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Are there any corrections or additions to the meeting minutes from February’s meeting?

I make a motion to approve the minutes. All in favor, all opposed any abstentions? (The minutes were approved from the 2.21.12 meeting?) Approved by ___ _Jennifer Ryan, Heather Negley, Rita Route____(names)

NEW BUSINESS Discussion to increase the Health and Wellness budget line from $50 to $100. Rita Route made the motion to pass. Tracy Fletcher, Farid Madraswalla and Marla Mackey voted in favor. Budget line increase passed. We will begin the process to pre-order school supplies. Students order standard, grade-level supplies in June, and those supplies are at their desk in September when they arrive.

REMARKS FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER There will be a general meeting on April 16 at 7:00, during Family Game Night. The three new Executive Board nominees will be presented at this meeting. On June 5 we will swear in the three new Executive Board members before the 4th Grade Band Concert. Our next, and final, Executive Board meeting will be June 11, 2013 at 7:00. Both outgoing and incoming Executive Board members will be in attendance. Meeting Adjourned by Rita Route, PTA President at 8:47 pm