MS 447  PTA General Meeting Agenda

12/19/24 7:00pm  Via Zoom

Attendees include:

Jonathan Robohm

Amy Sirot 

Pauline Sauvage

Angela Chew

Amy Kwalwasser 

Megan McKeever

Maghen Brown

President Update:

  • Jonathan made a motion to approve the November  minutes and they were approved via chatbox unanimously 

Fundraising Update

  • Annual Appeal: Foley’s Firs earn $10 for every tree
  • Auction update: trying to secure a venue. Greenwood park is one choice, would give us half profit and a capacity of 110 people so we would have to cap attendance; Commissioner is another option

Members at Large

  • Teacher Event November Recap – Provided breakfast tacos was a success contributions from parents form king david tacos were funded by pool of money for those who didn’t want to make food. 
  • Thinking of ways to brainstorm making it a brunch so more time to set up in the morning 

Communications

  • Not present 

Treasurer Update (Pauline Sauvage)

  • Giving Tuesday–20 donors raised $2750 plus some also have corporate matching  
  • Number of donors similar to last year,  but earned a bit more, had good corporate matching
  • Camp bernie short a few thousand
  • For the 7th grade trip, the first check was paid ahead at time to get discount. Did not launch the campaign  to get the families fees

DEI Update

  • Community Coffee Conversations Update: Shauna is looking into speaking about screen time. We have done research in past and speakers were outside our budget because it is a very hot topic for a lot of parents
  •  she has notes for coffee conversations 
  • Jonathan Robohm recommended this book for parents with screen time questions.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18s2zRVZZEBqnqGFKdIX8ZOrzBt-7gu5HXzXBaZK2WLc/edit?tab=t.0

Happy holidays