Redfield PTSA Meeting Tuesday, August 15, 2107 at 5:15 p.m. Redfield Elementary Media Center

Members present: Karla Chase, Felicia Ethridge, Amanda Evans, Amy Hermann, Dawn Kopplin, Shawn Nichols, Leauna Peterson Angela Rice, Terri Roth, Janell Shottenkirk.

Shawn gave treasures report. The all-school reunion committee will be donating approximately $10,000 for the playground equipment as well. Mrs. Walder thinks the playground equipment will be roughly $40,000 if we don’t do a specific color.

We bundled Redfield Food Center receipts as people arrived. Karla will take a picture of some of the things we got with last year’s receipts and we’ll post on facebook and make a display to let people know how much we appreciate the receipts.

Karla did some checking with the state PTA on some questions we had, she has not got answers yet. We decided we will lower membership dues to $5 as long as we don’t have to pay out more than that. We need to keep our membership with the state PTA because of the insurance that we pay half for and post pays half. Karla will get the membership forms sent out next Monday. We will put on bright colored paper this year and have the due date of September 25th. We will also include “everyone is a member” and list our PTSA facebook page.

The book will be held October 3-6. Karla will also send next week the volunteer forms and we will post on facebook. Hopefully we can find a website to use to make signing up much easier.

The teacher appreciation meal will be Friday, October 6th. Karla will check into where we can serve the meal from. We will do chili this year. We will order the chili, cheese, sour cream, bowls and spoons through the school. We will ask for donations of bars, Fritos and crackers. For the K-2nd grade teachers for their conferences November 14-15 we will get a Subway sub.

The PTSA t-shirts have went very well, we keep getting orders coming in. We will keep ordering them as orders come in. Some of the new students we were going to give shirt to, ordered them so we will give them Dr. Seuss shirts. Amy will post the order form on facebook.

Amy will post on facebook about the meetings. Karla will get them on the school calendar so they are put into the announcements.

There were 16 teams this year at the chili cook-off. We will need to find someone else to head it next year if PTSA will participate.

The is scheduled for Friday, October 27th from 5-8 p.m. We will ask Deborah Burdick and Angela Weller if they would take care of getting the prizes again. We will ask Shirley Howe if she would mind doing the sponsor letter again. We do need to replace some of the games as some are really falling apart but decided maybe we better wait until after the new school is done as we don’t know where we will store the stuff we games now. Karla will check into this. We will get the volunteer worker lists sent out.

Leauna and Felicia will work on the yearbook this year. Leauna is waiting for the packet of stuff to get the cover done, which is due December 1st. We discussed the cover and thought putting drone pictures of the school construction would be nice. We will do the online ordering option again this year.

Dawn brought the afghan that we will raffle off before the carnival.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, October 10th at 5:15 p.m. in the elementary media center.

Respectively submitted by:

Amy Hermann, Redfield PTSA Secretary