Dailard School Foundation

Dailard School Foundation Board Meeting Minutes September 9, 2014

In Attendance Frank Sanfilippo Lorie McKee Jerry Phinney Cameron Bresnick Karen Miller Rebecca Smith Maria Linfoot Andrea Loyko Beverly Fitzpatrick Guest- Sandy Crumpacker

The meeting was called to order at 5:37 PM by President, Rebecca Smith

Principal’s Report - Counts: Kinders = 93, 1st = 81, 2nd = 93, 3rd = 89, 4th = 83, 5th = 92 - 1/monthly District Professional Training for every teacher grade levels - School Budget: identical to last year’s numbers - Approved After School Programs: Mad Science, Spanish, (Mondays), Soccer Shots, Woodworking, Heartlight, TGA Golf, Jump Rope, YMCA and Girl Scouts - Guidance Assistant: Looking to hire new one - SSC (School Budget Planning) need 5 new parents. SGT (School Safety) needs 3 parents. Latter can be the same 3 parents from SSC. Sometime this month Principal will provide information in seeking parents.

President Report - Budget - Need to cut down budget to leave 50K in bank for following years. Cutting $49,800 From August budget meeting. Motion to approve new budget: 1st- Cameron 2nd- Lorie - Need to research Building #1’s copier lease and overage amount situation - Pledge Drive - Already @ $650. Flyers in Wednesday folders. Table will be set up at Back 2 School night before and after. - Back 2 School night - Rebecca to speak with slide show presentation - PE Teacher - Tommy just confirmed tonight that he will be our new PE Instructor - Feedback - Board needs to be the cheerleaders of the school being positive about the interactions of the school.

Treasurer’s Report - Currently $109,000 in the bank - Loss from last year was 19K

Secretary’s Report - See next month

A&E - 3 new chairs from going to the first A&E Meeting - Auction - October 25, 2014 @ 6pm – Elks Lodge - Approved for $49 to Donationmatch.com for more items - Items are coming in and website is up - Scrip “Dailard Shopping Cards” - Tables set up for Back2School Night - Spent $500 on reloadable cards to sell - Jersey Mikes Nove 11th Week - Ritas Snow Cones - Principal said to go ahead and sell every month or two on Wednesday after school; $3 charge/$1 goes back to Dailard

Communications/Website - Newsletter coming out Sept 24th - Want to change to Paypal - Once a week news pings from Dailard.org to subscribers

Community Liaison - 5 Hospitality chairs to help this year - Possible Coffee Talk or Town Hall meetings to be set up monthly Teacher’s Report - Computer Lab (Betsy) says computers all breaking down and there’s only 23. We need to check with San Diego Foundation as they offer free compuers/equipment to non-profits. - Teachers would like Raz Kids for K-2; First in Math for 2nd, 3rd, and 5th; BrainPop for 4th. - Teachers all voted for Art & Drama in all grades except 1st wants Art only but will concede. Andrea to check with Jr. Theater and Art on the teacher options. Need to lengthen art times.

Visual & Performing Arts - Edudance (5th grade) too expensive $1450 per class. Idea on back burner - Mobile Dairy date has been changed to November 19th (during conference week) - Water Assembly – free assembly regarding water conservation set for 1/15. - Sky Dome Assembly – STEM program about sky constellations. Board liked- Andrea will book this one - Kite Assembly – Construction of kites, history etc…Board liked – Andrea will book this one. - Chinese Lion Dance – Andrea will look into this one to tie into Chinese New year Dance

Action Items - Rebecca - Rebecca making Event List for Beverly to give to teachers - Andrea - Andrea checking on lease issues for Building #1 Copier - Andrea checking on Jr. Theater and Art teacher options - Cameron - Cameron setting up Rita Snowcone dates - Lorie - Lorie to check on price levels for Brain Pop and First in Math

- Karen - Karen to call San Diego Foundation about computer lab needs

Upcoming Meetings and Dates

Thursday, September 11th – Back to School Night Saturday, September 20th – DADs Campout Saturday, October 25th – Dailardfest Auction