Minutes of August 27, 2008

NOMS PTSA Meeting Notes August 27, 2008
The meeting was called to order at Java Brewing by Betsy Lowe at 9:02 a.m. with 19 people in attendance including: Betsy Lowe, Cynthia Paris, Renae Riley, Kellie Harrison, Lyne Church, Holly Ansman, Beth Scherer, Cheryl Junion, Jean Lewis, Nancy Stevens, Stephanie Mattingly, Kim Finnicum, Karen Morrison, Pauline Wasser, Terri Stinebruner, Pauline Moore, Deborah Alston, Laura Karaglanis, Robb Smith and Jenny Stegeman.
Principal’s Report:

• Bathroom update – The district office is getting bids and finalizing contractors with the intention of the renovations to the front bathrooms being done over fall break in October, plus all 4 bathrooms will be receiving higher partitions at that time.

President’s Report:

• The PTSA ended up donating $11,000 towards the bathroom renovation
• Thanks to all volunteers who worked registration, it went very smoothly
• Thanks to Monica for her excellent job on the Birthday bulletin boards
• If you have not gotten your black PTSA binder from Betsy please do so asap, also along the way this year, as you plan your events please keep notes on your planning time frames, what worked – what didn’t, future ideas etc. for the next person to be able to look back on
• Loretta Shake takes care of our website so please send anything you need posted to her but be patient as we have changed servers and it is a bit challenging to load new items right now
• General PTSA meeting will be 8-28-08 at 5:30 to present the budget for approval and welcome the 6th grade parents to North.

Corresponding Secretary:

• Please send anything you hear about to Stephanie Mattingly and she will send a card, this month a card was sent to Mrs. Tuney as her aunt passed away

Treasurer’s Report:
Current checkbook balance as of 7-23-08 is $14,621.00.

• Approximately $5,000.00 taken in for Membership and Directories is not in the #’s
• Made $1,700.00 at the PTSA sponsored dance with $502.00 in expenses
• $11,000.00 being written to NOMS for the bathrooms
• Approximate balance after above adjustments will be $7,519.00
• A motion by Lyne Church was proposed to add a line for Operation Spirit to the Treasury recap not to be listed in the operating budget and was seconded by Jean Lewis and passed unanimously. These monies taken in will help offset the $400 we spent for workbooks in the beginning of the project.
  

Membership Report:

• We currently have 1026 members including 637 parents, 376 kids and 13 staff. There has been a challenge from other Middle schools to see who can get the most staff signed up, Mr. Smith will encourage the staff for us.

Fundraising Report:

• Java update = kick off is 8-29-08 with forms going home with students. Every 5 bags a student sells they can bring in a coupon to enter a daily drawing for $100.00 which will be given away for 8 days in a row. The top seller overall will receive $200.00 and sellers 2-9 will receive $100.00 each. The class with the most sales in $ volume will win a fancy breakfast. Our goal is $7,000.
• Paragon Update = last year generated almost $7.0, 42% was from the gift catalog. Kick off date is 9-25-08 with orders due 10-8-08. An assembly to kick off this would be great which Mr. Smith said he thinks will tie into an assembly about test results and award winners

Kentucky Kids Day update
This is 9-23-08 and the plan is to make a DVD of the kids again which will be shown at the end of the day in the classrooms. The red carpet will be out to welcome kids in the a.m. with paparazzi taking photos of the kids. Decorations and a treat are still being discussed.

Reflections Report:
The theme this year is “Wow” and the deadline for entries is 9-25-08 with everything to district by 10-15-08. They are working on securing judges and getting this on the website.

Newsletter Report:
Articles are due on 9-5-08 to Laura so the newsletter can be out by 9-10-08. It was motioned by Robb Smith that there be 5 newsletters a year going forward and seconded by Jean Lewis then passed unanimously so the 5 newsletters will be in September, November, January, March and May.

SBDM Report: Mr. Smith said the only update was the new food policy that no food would be allowed in classrooms.

New Business: It was decided that future PTSA meetings would start at 8:45 a.m. with the next meeting being on 9-24-08 with location TBD.

Meeting adjourned at 10:27 a.m.