PTO
Minutes
September 12, 2006
1. Call to Order
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. November Fundraiser
The PTO will sell Home Interior Candles from November 1-15. Money and
orders will be collected every 2-3 days during the sale, a letter
detailing the sale will be giving to teachers and order forms will be
giving to families.
4. Playground Mr. Hubbard has asked what else the PTO will purchase for
the playground. He will give the PTO dimensions of the playground in its
future location. We have discussed benches and swings.
5. School Spirit Sale
This sale will run from September 13 until September 20.
6. Corn Festival
The PTO will not be in the parade. The PTO will be offering Pumpkin
painting, a 50/50 guess the weight of the pumpkin contest, guess how
many tootsie rolls in a jar contest, selling balloons and the annual
perennial plant sale. In conjunction with the school library the PTO
will also have a bounce house. The children will be able to “bounce for
books”. All of this will take place in the small gym (plant sale on the
outside steps of the small gym).
7. Karate Lesson
Karate Lessons will be held on Monday and Wednesday nights at 6:30. The
PTO is trying to arrange for possible high school and adult courses.
8. Roller Skating
The Roller Skating Party is scheduled for Friday, October 13, 2006. The
younger children will skate from 5:00 until 7:00 pm in both the large
and small gyms. The older students will skate from 7:00 until 9:00 pm in
the large gym. There will be no theme for the party. The PTO is in need
of chaperones for this event!
9. Family Movie Night
Our first movie night of the school year will be Friday, October 27,
2006. We will try to plan for a Saturday matinee sometime in the school
year as well. We are unsure as of right now what movie we will show. The
movie will be played in the auditorium and as always will be free for
the community.
10. Open House
The Middle School open house will be October 3rd and the Elementary open
house will be October 17th. The PTO will provide refreshments. Heidi N.
is going to ask the cafe. about the possibility of the cafeteria
catering the event with healthy food and the PTO paying the cost. This
will give the members of the PTO a better opportunity to visit the
school and enjoy open house.
11. Price Chopper “Tools for Schools” and Box Tops
The PTO is encouraging everyone with a Price Chopper Advantage card to
sign up for this program. All that the shopper must do is sign up at the
service desk for an Advantage card and designate Cincinnatus as the
school of their choice. (If you already have an Advantage card simply go
to the customer service desk and designate Cincinnatus as your school of
choice). Price Chopper will match points with dollars spent at their
store. Last year the money earned from this program was donated to the
middle school. This free program runs until December 16, 2006. Box Tops
for education is another great program that earns money for the school.
Simply send in the small “coupon” on the tops of various boxes, the PTO
will do the rest (THANK YOU JOANNE JONHSON!). The PTO sends in all of
the coupons we receive and then get a check for the total amount.
12. Shared Decision Making
In the past Mary Anne Diaz has giving us this report as she sits on the
SDM committee. The committee is comprised of administrators, teachers
and parents. The parents on the committee are asked to share the meeting
report with the PTO. Ms. Diaz stated that she is willing to continue to
sit on the committee, bring the SDM report back to us as well as share
any suggestions and questions the PTO has with the SDM committee. If
anyone else is willing to do this please contact any administrator for
details.
13. Classes for High School (SAT prep class)
Heidi will speak with Ms. Heffernan about brain storming some ideas to
bring this type of course to the students of Cincinnatus.
14. PTO Folders
Folders will be giving out to members as they join. The folders will
have a variety of information in them. We hope this will encourage PTO
communication.
15. New Business
No new business at this time.
16. Adjournment
(P.S. We had record breaking attendance at this meeting, thank you very
much to all who showed up, we hope to see you in October!)
PTO Minutes
October 3, 2006
1. Call to Order
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. School Spirit Sale
There will be lots of items leftover that we will try to sell at
basketball games and advertise in the Lion’s Roar. We may not be able to
order the stadium seats due to insufficient orders. We will divide the
extra items to be sold and have PTO officers store them at their homes.
The extra items ordered will not be clothing items.
November Fundraiser
The PTO will sell Home Interior Candles from November 1-15. Money and
orders will be collected every 2-3 days during the sale, a letter
detailing the sale will be given to teachers and order forms will be
given to families.
4. Playground
When the current playground is moved the PTO must decide what to do with
the money (from the playground fund). The PTO would like ideas from
students in the school as to what to purchase next (please bring ideas
to next meeting). There is a 30 x140 ft area for the new swings and a
30x48 area for other equipment. Until the time the money is needed for
the playground equipment it will be put in a CD at Partner’s Trust Bank.
This was voted on by the members present, motioned accepted by Sue
Visser, seconded by Patty Clements. The CD will be purchased within the
next 2 weeks.
5. People to People Donation
Veronica Rowe, a tenth grade student has asked the PTO for a donation to
help offset the cost of a people to people trip to Washington DC . The
total cost for her trip is $2,195.00. The members present voted on
giving her $100.00. Motioned accepted by Joan-Ann Lymen and seconded by
Patty Clements. She will be giving a check.
6. The Brown Family
The PTO voted on giving both of the parents of Jacob Brown a $50.00 gas
card to help offset the cost of commuting to the hospital. The motion
was accepted by Joan-Ann Lymen and seconded by Amber Bonham-DeLarm.
7. Roller Skating
The Roller Skating Party is scheduled for Friday, October 13, 2006. The
younger children will skate from 5:00 until 7:00 pm in both the large
and small gyms. The older students will skate from 7:00 until 9:00 pm in
the large gym. There will be no theme for the party. The PTO is in need
of chaperones for this event; Amber Bonham-DeLarm will do a mass email
requesting help. There will be no charge for this event. We will still
sell refreshments.
8. Open House
The Elementary school open house will be October 17th. The cafeteria has
agreed to cater the event with healthy food and the PTO will pay the
cost. This will give the members of the PTO a better opportunity to
visit the school and enjoy open house.
9. Karate Lesson
There are 15 students, all of them signed up for the second session. It
is going very well.
10. Family Movie Night
Our first movie night of the school year will be Friday, October 27,
2006. We will be showing the movie Monster House (rated pg). We will
have a fun raffle for those present. The movie will be played in the
auditorium and as always will be free for the community. Amber Bonham-DeLarm
will hang posters and advertise.
11. Lion’s Roar
The deadline is October 6 th (the first Friday of the month). The PTO
article will include the November Candle sale, family movie night, the
Spirit sale info and membership information.
12. Breakfast with Santa
The date for this event is December 2, 2006. Heidi N. will send out
donation letters and talk with Greg B. about the use of the cafeteria.
Amber will contact the Cincinnatus Business Association about ideas to
correlate activities and email Mary W. about the possibility of photos;
she will also contact Mr. Clause to check his availability and mass
email members to get volunteers.
13. Student Conduct and Recognition Committee (this was written before
as the Discipline Committee)
Ms. Heffernan described this to us as a committee whose purpose is to
review the school’s code of conduct and consequences and looking for
positive rewards for students. The committee will look at other school’s
policies and bring ideas to the superintendent. The goal of the group is
to be done by the end of the school year. The committee meets the second
Tuesday of the month at 3:30 and the fourth Tuesday of the month at
4:15. She is looking for one or two PTO members to sit in on this
committee.
We also discussed the SAT prep course. In the past classes have been
funded in different ways. Heidi N will look into this and contact the
Guidance Counselor about time and cost.
Ms. Heffernan told us the best way to reach high school families would
be to mail items home.
She also shared with us that in May we will be invited to a meeting to
plan our fundraisers and put it on the district calendar.
14. Theater Works
The PTO will look into bring in motivation and humorous plays or
speakers for the community (to stress the importance of humor with your
family).
15. Shared Decision Making
See attached report
16. New Business
None at this time
17. Adjournment
PTO Minutes
December 12, 2006
1. Call to Order
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. Breakfast with Santa
113 children and 77 adults were served. All went well, thanks to all
that volunteered; we will do it again next year. Suggestions for next
year: have books available for all children again and shorten the length
of Santa’s visit. The raffles were a big hit.
4. Family Movie Night
We will be showing Barnyard on Friday, December 15, 2006. We will raffle
off candy and books from the PTO closet.
5. Karate
All is going well with Karate. The karate group did a fundraiser which
has brought up questions. The group did a fundraiser which Gary Busby
initiated and was in charge of, the problem with that is the school and
the PTO had no knowledge or paper work of this fundraiser. Karate is a
program sponsored by the PTO; therefore the PTO is responsible for the
group’s actions. The PTO wishes to continue with Karate but things must
be done following protocol. Two suggestions that were brought up at the
PTO meeting were as follows: The PTO keep Karate going and do all of the
paperwork or Karate becoming a club of its own. The pros and cons were
discussed for each of these suggestions. We decided to keep karate in
the PTO and to make one PTO member “in charge” of Karate and be a
liaison between the karate group and PTO. We will discuss PTO policies,
insurance and tournaments with Mr. Busby. We nominated Sue Vissar for
this position, she accepted. The PTO will be drafting an agreement for
both the PTO officers and Mr. Busby to sign. The draft will state that
while at the school the PTO will support the Karate group. While away at
tournaments Cincinnatus school and the PTO will not supply insurance.
Please speak to a PTO officer or Sue V. if you have any questions
regarding Karate.
6. Theater Works
We have decided to book Queen Nur for a performance during the week of
3/12- 3/16. She will adjust the show for the age of the children
present. Heidi N will book the performances and give more details at a
later date.
7. Candle Sale
We sold $10, 524. 00 with the candle sale. We profited $5,262.50. The
highest seller was Owen Kneller ($563. 00). Pick up went fairly smoothly
at Breakfast with Santa.
8. Shared Decision Making
Nothing new to report
Mary Anne D was good ( J ). The last meeting focused on improving
achievement.
9. New Business
Student Conduct and Recognition Committee
The committee met and discussed P.D.A. (Public Displays of Affection)
and the dress –code.
Heidi will look into starting an art class mid January and February.
Heidi will look into starting “tumbling” (no longer called gymnastics)
mid February and March.
The PTO will look into having a Roller Skating Party in January
(possibly January 20, 2007) from 1-3pm and 3-5pm.
If anybody has any ideas for a motivational speaker for the community
please bring them to the next PTO meeting.
We still need to tell Mr. Hubbard what else we will be putting in the
permanent playground.
We also are looking into a Mother/Daughter self defense class with Mr.
Busby. More details to come later.
10. Adjournment
PTO
Minutes
February 27, 2007
1. Call to Order
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. Wish Box
The Wish Box in the teacher’s center is for everyone. The PTO members
present voted that the PTO will be willing to donate $1,000.00 to grant
wishes. We will vote at the next meeting what “wishes” we will grant.
4. Playground
The PTO decided that we will purchase the swings and with any leftover
playground funds we will purchase benches. We will not be buying any
other equipment for the playground at this time.
5. Ice Skating
This went very well, 90 people attended
6. Roller Skating
We will attempt to have a roller skating party on March 24 from 4-8 pm.
The cost will be $4.00 per child. Heidi will check on availability and
take care of advertisements. Amber will buy candy from Sam’s for resale.
There will be no theme.
7. David Moreland and/or James Warren
The PTO is looking into either of these programs. David Moreland is a
local magician who performs an “I love to Read” assemble. James Warren
is a local motivational speaker who discusses common middle school
themes such as bulling, smoking and drugs. We have contacted the
administrators of the school to discuss which program they would like to
see and arrange a time for the program to visit.
8. Teacher Appreciation
Teacher Appreciation is the week of May 6-12. We have decided on a gift
for the teachers (which I will omit from the minutes so it is a surprise
for all of the teachers). At the next meeting will discuss the
possibility of have a teacher brunch as well.
9. Family Movie Night
We will be showing National Treasure on Friday, March 16, 2007. We will
be encouraging Senior Citizens in the community to come (Bring your
Grandparent to the Movies Night). We will be showing Happy Feet at the
next movie night. Amber will take care of the advertisement.
10. By Laws
A committee was formed to look at the by laws in depth and try to amend
them. Patty C, Carolyn N, Sue V and Amber D are on the committee.
11. Karate
All is going well with Karate. The group still meets on Mondays and
Wednesdays from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. The class will end for the year in May
(the 23rd). Mr. Busby is willing to allow the Cincy students to attend
the YMCA for summer lessons. Sue V and Joan-Ann L have more details
regarding this. We will start classes again in September.
12. Events: Mumford, Theaterworks, Summer Programs, Syracuse Symphony
We were all asked to think about all of these programs and discuss them
at the next meeting. The PTO is considering setting up a fund to aid
students in a program (Cornell Summer Program for example). More will
follow later. We also would like to book a program with the Theaterworks
Company for the 2007/2008 school year.
13. Art Classes
The PTO, along with Nicole Fabian, the art teacher, will offer art
classes for students in grades 2, 3 and 4. We discussed allowing grades
2-8 to be in the same class but voted against that. We may offer a class
for the older students at a later date. The class will have 15 slots and
available on a first come, first serve bases. The late bus will be
available to take the kids home. The class will be March 21, 22, 28 and
29. The cost will be $20.00 for all four classes.
14. Lowe’s Grant
This item was tabled until next meeting.
15. Ideas
The PTO discussed looking into a milk machine (for the kids) and / or a
fruit machine (for the kids).
Heidi ordered “Family Night” kits. Upon arrival they will be looked at
and discussed.
The possibility of the Boy and Girl Scouts helping at PTO functions was
also discussed.
16. Old Business
17. New Business
Thank You cards read to the group and passed around.
Discuss at the next meeting: PTO fund and or Scholarship
Earth Day Community Clean Up
18. Adjournment
PTO
Minutes
March 13, 2007
1. Call to Order
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. Wish Box
After much discussion we voted to grant the following wishes:
Ms. Maroney~ DVD/Videotape player for 5th Grade Eng/Social
Studies
Ms. Haington~ 7-12 ELA AIS, Linking Literature to the Curriculum
book set
Ms. Loomis~ kindergarten, money for supplies for the classroom
Ms. Wright~ 1st AIS Reading Recovery, 2 small portable tape
players
with headsets and black tapes
Alessia Shore~ kindergarten, we will look further into purchasing
a
“master card reader with magnetic cards”
Ms. VanGundel~ 1st Reading Recovery, magnetic word builders and
sight
word magnets
Wild about Reading Program~ Money for monthly awards
UPK/KIND Recess~ Money for recess carts, games to be purchased by
PTO
members and given to school
1st/2nd Recess~ Money for recess carts, games to be purchased by
PTO
members and given to school
3rd/4th Grade Recess~ Money for recess carts, games to be
purchased by
PTO members and given to school
4. Roller Skating
There will be no Roller Skating party in the near future
5. David Moreland
The month of March is too busy for a concert as of right now. We will
try and have a concert in correlation with the end of the Wild about
Reading Program in the month of May or June. Patty will continue to be
in contact with Mrs. Carpenter and Mr. Moreland.
6. Family Movie Night
This Friday, March 16 we will be having a special movie. The theme
will be “bring your Grandparent to the movies” and we will be showing
National Treasure. We have another movie scheduled on March 30th, we
discussed showing Happy Feet but as of right now we are unsure.
7. By Laws
We will continue to review these and bring changes to the next
meeting.
8. Art Classes
The classes will be March 21, 22, 28 and 29 right after school. The
cost
is $20.00 (checks can be made out to the Cincinnatus PTO). We have 10
slots left.
9. Earth Day
Amber will look into doing a community clean up day (the liability and
ability to be on the sides of the road) around the town of Cincy. On
earth day we will also be sending home Seed packets with the students,
each grade will get a different kind of seed. More information to come
as details unfold.
10. Science Night
The PTO will look into arranging a Family Science Night for all ages.
This may be at the end of this year or beginning of the next school
year.
11. Old Business
Items for sale: we will be giving away some of the spirit items for a
few upcoming events. We will also be sending home a flyer offering the
remaining Spirit items for sale. The items will be able to be picked up
at the March 30th movie.
12. New Business
Sherry Byron asked if the PTO wanted to buy and ad on the 4th of July
Placemat, the PTO voted yes on this matter.
Mr. Kilabrew asked that if we wanted to purchase key chains again for
the Seniors next year that we order them by January 1st. He is unable
to make them for us this year as he did not have enough notice.
Paula Waltz asked the PTO if we would be willing to donate money for her
daughter to help cover the cost of the Jr. National Young Leaders
Conference. This is a chance for Susie to go to Washington DC. The PTO
asked that Susie submit a letter > trip and why she would like to go,
then we will vote on the issue. The PTO would like it known that all
written requests for self improvement opportunities (such as People to
People, Jr. National Leaders, ect.) with be considered and voted upon.
13. Adjournment
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