Laurel Mountain PTA Minutes - Executive Board Meeting

Laurel Mountain PTA Minutes - Executive Board Meeting January 10, 2017

Call to Order--The meeting was called to order by Michele Martin at 8:01 with Quorum not met – 8 people.

Minutes--The minutes from the November, 2016 meeting were approved by the Minutes Committee via email. This year’s Minutes Committee: Holly Garza, Judit Kolics, and Vicki Walker.

Treasurer’s Statement See Treasury report attached to minutes. Vicki announced Carnival sales of $9,340.

Executive Committee Reports

1. Fundraising –Holly Garza – Catfish Parlour sent LME PTA $300 for Spirit Night. The next fundraiser has been announced already – February 20th at Phils and Amy’s. LME and PTA will need to promote this fundraiser, as both places have a 50 person minimum for the donation, and people must mention LME. The Cookbook committee has only received 6 entries so far – form may take longer than people want to spend – Holly will revisit. Goal is to have the cookbook recipes decided by end of this school year. Green City Recyclers, as discussed at last meeting, would put a bin to collect items to recycle – other schools have received around $400.

Standing Committees 1. Principal’s Report—Johanna Kelley - LME will coordinate celebration of the Lunar New Year this year, January 28th, with speakers, videos and other events. Update on the grant for the outdoor exploration area: District representatives are working with designers to develop the natural play area, and the goal is to have grand opening on Earth Day. Designers are also coming in to discuss Science lab revamp using the Tier II grant funds. Designers are also coming in to do preliminary work for redesign of library, which will be done during the summer. Melanie Kaplan is working on a January 24th meeting for parents of students with dyslexia, as preparation for middle and high school.

2. Science Fair —Chris Gong - There are 244 participants for this year’s Science Fair. The set up will take place tomorrow night and fair will take place on Thursday night. They will sell pizza slices because event is during dinner hours and also to help cover costs. Recognition, ribbons will take place at the PTA General meeting next week.

New Business

1. PIE Auction – Fire & Ice is theme this year – we need a volunteer to buy items for basket and to assemble the basket. The deadline is February 3rd.

2. Nominating Committee – we need 4 volunteers to be on this committee - who have not participated before. This ideally can be initiated via email.

3. PTA Bulletin Board – Michele needs help putting items up on this board – info on PTA, events.

4. Marathon Kids needs more weekly volunteers and Clothes Closet needs to do a jeans drive.

5. We need to promote Pride Night, raise more funds during this event, to make up for falling short on Carnival goal.

Board Meeting adjourned at 8:43AM.