Minutes - April 2010

NOMS PTSA Meeting Notes April 14, 2010

The meeting was called to order at 8:46 a.m. with eleven people present including Kim Finnicum, Pauline Moore, Denise Rohrbach, Nikki Feuquay, Betsy Lowe, Lyne

Church, Beth Scherer, Sarah Crisp, Rhonda Spangler, Allyson Parker and Jenny Stegeman.

President’s Report: Next month will be a luncheon in place of our meeting.

• We need ideas for next years General PTSA meetings, forward Betsy any ideas you have.
• There is a request from Mr. Smith for funds for school improvement
• Talent Show – great job to all those involved in putting this together and a big thank you for all your efforts! This was filmed and shown the day before spring break to all the students. Note: In the future this should be in Jan. or Feb. so not as many sport conflicts including March madness.
• Little Caesar’s Pizza Sale: Huge thank you to Jenny Stegeman for taking all this on. In the future consider having a bit earlier and adding back incentives.
• Congratulations to Jean Lewis who was elected our new SBDM representative.
• Open positions – please help try to fill these by asking around.
• The nominating committee for open positions is: Allyson Parker, Pauline Moore and Betsy Lowe – thank you for volunteering to handle this.
• Betsy working to finalize 8^th grade dance, cookout and field day. It looks like Thursday is the dance from 7 – 10 p.m. with the Ceremony on Friday from 9 – 11:00 a.m. and then Tuesday will be the cookout starting at 11:30 with the games following this. There will be a letter coming out from Mr. Smith. The Mustang Mentor’s will be coming over to help from the high school. Lyne Church and Jenny Stegeman volunteered to help too.

Principals Report (Ms. Crisp sitting in):

• Presented a Summer Reading Program with the theme “I Read”. There will be posters put up around the school and possibly a form for parents to sign and send back in. The 5^th graders are also getting a presentation on this.

Secretary’s Report: The minutes from the last meeting stand approved.

Corresponding Secretary: Ms. Green had her baby on March 17, 2010.

• The father of Liz Dehart passed away
• Jed Turner’s father passed away
• The father of a student with the last name Harbin passed away, please check with the front office for details.

Treasurer’s Report: The checkbook balance is: $12,100.22 .

• We really need a treasurer for next year.

• Still to come out of budget = 8^th grade promotion, PTSA dance, Teacher Appreciation, Staff Luncheon, Transportation Luncheon, Teacher of year and Health monies so about $1900.00 which leaves us with about $7000.00 and we need to decide where to allocate the excess.
• Betsy to talk to Cynthia about cutting a check for $50.00 for SEPTA.
• All receipts are due now!

Legislative Report: No report.

Membership Report: No report.

Fundraising Report: Unanimously decided to cancel the PTSA sponsored dance due to too many conflicts and lack of chaperones. Also, did not need the revenue from it based on other fundraiser successes this year.

Programs: Blake Dehler’s Reflection entry went onto Nationals and he finds out in May if he wins, Good Luck to Blake!

SBDM Report: No Report

Newsletter: Final newsletter information needs to be to Leah by April 23^rd to make it in the newsletter.

Old Business: Email Betsy Lowe with any updates for the blog.

New Business: Lunch next month at Tumbleweed on the river on 5-12-10 at 11:30 a.m.

• Robb Smith requested the following funds from the PTSA: $2500 for Professional Development Books for staff, $500 for the summer reading program, and $2000 to be spent on additional mini-laptops. Beth Scherer motioned to accept this request with Denise Rohrbach seconding it and it was passed unanimously.
• Project Graduation – Lyne Church to email Betsy Lowe info. about help needed for this. It is in it’s 24^th year in Oldham Co. and is being hosted on the North campus this year.

• Beautification is rough at the entrance to the school so Kim Finnicum to meet with Greenside Landscaping and get an estimate.
• What should the other $2000.00 surplus in the budget be spent on? Beautification? Need your ideas….

Meeting dismissed at 10:07 a.m.