Meeting Minutes
September 2020
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Opening & Welcome: 1 September 2020
In attendance:
Katie Frederickson (intern from the District), Marla Keller, Julie Robinson, Neesha Killpatrick, Tiffany Smith, Natalie Hall, Jennifer Long (remote Chelsie Moultrie)
Review and Approval of Minutes from last month
Officer Reports
Lindsay Kjar
Field Trip Filming: “The school song video is near completion, and we have a shoot this Wednesday at the truck center and possibly another one on Friday with the student council for a fun hygiene music video. The following week we have a shoot with a police officer, And we are in the works of scheduling one with the woman who organized our local Black Lives Matter march. We shot at the Capitol last week with Rep Ward and Beverly Ward, and I am so excited for you to see that one! The girls asked such great questions, and the Ward’s gave us a super sweet backstage pass tour. If any of you know someone who has video editing skills.
Marla Keller
School directory completion and need to follow-up with Peggy to see if it is ready to be made available to students and parents, check-on students who opt out
Valley View Veteran’s Park Brick: It was suggested the school ma want to purchase a brick for the Veteran’s Park at the cost $250. A donor has stepped up to buy one on behalf of the school. Marla is going to buy the brick today and Tiffany will reimburse when funds come from the donor. City Councilman Simonson assured our brick could be place with the first to be laid prior to veteran’s day.
Julie Robinson
Birthday lollypops: The teachers will be given a bag of lollypops at the beginning of the year to distribute to students with birthdays. The tag will have it be from the PTA.
Battle of the Books-Lori Thorpe (librarian) very flexible this year because cannot really gather students, she is planning to put kids in teams, and she would love to still do a store at the end of the year, but currently don’t have the funds (Funds usually come from book fairs).
Restaurant fundraiser (PTA and the Principal will rotate months they do this. Parent volunteer, Ann Marie Showalter, has scheduled with first restaurant night scheduled for 9/29 (& she has arranged Zuppas in May) then Principal K plans to do Oct/Jan., no December restaurant night
Jennifer Long
Reflections- How to increase student participation, need parent judges, need to purchase awards, see addendum below with handout for teachers
Chelsea Moultrie
Web, Social Media-calendar great, going to put signs in the yard, only have 100 followers on Instagram, Melissa Miller completed SPLASH pad with all the links of websites of links that the teachers really li
Justina Poulson
Great Artist Program-online options, the program has a link that the students go to digital version for 6 or 7 different artists
Melinda May
Kindness Week September 14-18
Natalie Hall
Budget: Voted to Unanimously accept the 2020-2021 budget and unanimous vote to accept of the budget (Katie Frederickson, Marla Keller, Julie Robinson, Neesha Killpatrick, Tiffany Smith, Natalie Hall, Jennifer Long)
Only raised 10% of what was raised in years past. This is a problem for funds for the PTA to operate, may have to use reserve funds. Additional ways to trim the budget were discussed.
31 Memberships were received as well as 54 direct donations. Every area of the budget has been cut, including teacher appreciation, which we have kept but significantly reduced. The teachers were grateful for our thoughtfulness, but didn’t feel they needed something monthly.
Not sure how much money to make the field trip etc. and other group activities work this year with the hybrid schedule and the much smaller amount of Facetime in class, will that budget be needed in 2nd half of the year?
Principal Killpack: Closing Statements:
COVID-19 Schedule: Just because school has never been done this way is not necessarily bad, in fact most teachers love it because can teach to a smaller class size better and cover the same amount of material, also less behavior problems and adapt to the schedule this year-the fundamentals need to be the emphasis this year.
School service activity: Pantry pack for the schools with a trophy given to winning school.
T-shirts-mostly sold out
Musical-table till October
Meeting Adjourned until Oct.
In attendance:
Katie Frederickson (intern from the District), Marla Keller, Julie Robinson, Neesha Killpatrick, Tiffany Smith, Natalie Hall, Jennifer Long (remote Chelsie Moultrie)
Review and Approval of Minutes from last month
Officer Reports
Lindsay Kjar
Field Trip Filming: “The school song video is near completion, and we have a shoot this Wednesday at the truck center and possibly another one on Friday with the student council for a fun hygiene music video. The following week we have a shoot with a police officer, And we are in the works of scheduling one with the woman who organized our local Black Lives Matter march. We shot at the Capitol last week with Rep Ward and Beverly Ward, and I am so excited for you to see that one! The girls asked such great questions, and the Ward’s gave us a super sweet backstage pass tour. If any of you know someone who has video editing skills.
Marla Keller
School directory completion and need to follow-up with Peggy to see if it is ready to be made available to students and parents, check-on students who opt out
Valley View Veteran’s Park Brick: It was suggested the school ma want to purchase a brick for the Veteran’s Park at the cost $250. A donor has stepped up to buy one on behalf of the school. Marla is going to buy the brick today and Tiffany will reimburse when funds come from the donor. City Councilman Simonson assured our brick could be place with the first to be laid prior to veteran’s day.
Julie Robinson
Birthday lollypops: The teachers will be given a bag of lollypops at the beginning of the year to distribute to students with birthdays. The tag will have it be from the PTA.
Battle of the Books-Lori Thorpe (librarian) very flexible this year because cannot really gather students, she is planning to put kids in teams, and she would love to still do a store at the end of the year, but currently don’t have the funds (Funds usually come from book fairs).
Restaurant fundraiser (PTA and the Principal will rotate months they do this. Parent volunteer, Ann Marie Showalter, has scheduled with first restaurant night scheduled for 9/29 (& she has arranged Zuppas in May) then Principal K plans to do Oct/Jan., no December restaurant night
Jennifer Long
Reflections- How to increase student participation, need parent judges, need to purchase awards, see addendum below with handout for teachers
Chelsea Moultrie
Web, Social Media-calendar great, going to put signs in the yard, only have 100 followers on Instagram, Melissa Miller completed SPLASH pad with all the links of websites of links that the teachers really li
Justina Poulson
Great Artist Program-online options, the program has a link that the students go to digital version for 6 or 7 different artists
Melinda May
Kindness Week September 14-18
- Monday and Tuesday: Welcome to Oz=wear green and wear bling
- Wednesday and Thursday: which way witch=crazy hair clothes
- Friday: There is no place like home=write a kind note and deliver it.
- Music at lunch
- Yellow Brick for all the classrooms and have the kids sign it at lunch
- Banner for lunchroom with affirmations on it
- Daily affirmations: Morning announcements (hope to continue that all year)
- Stickers or Bookmarks
Natalie Hall
Budget: Voted to Unanimously accept the 2020-2021 budget and unanimous vote to accept of the budget (Katie Frederickson, Marla Keller, Julie Robinson, Neesha Killpatrick, Tiffany Smith, Natalie Hall, Jennifer Long)
Only raised 10% of what was raised in years past. This is a problem for funds for the PTA to operate, may have to use reserve funds. Additional ways to trim the budget were discussed.
31 Memberships were received as well as 54 direct donations. Every area of the budget has been cut, including teacher appreciation, which we have kept but significantly reduced. The teachers were grateful for our thoughtfulness, but didn’t feel they needed something monthly.
Not sure how much money to make the field trip etc. and other group activities work this year with the hybrid schedule and the much smaller amount of Facetime in class, will that budget be needed in 2nd half of the year?
Principal Killpack: Closing Statements:
COVID-19 Schedule: Just because school has never been done this way is not necessarily bad, in fact most teachers love it because can teach to a smaller class size better and cover the same amount of material, also less behavior problems and adapt to the schedule this year-the fundamentals need to be the emphasis this year.
School service activity: Pantry pack for the schools with a trophy given to winning school.
T-shirts-mostly sold out
Musical-table till October
Meeting Adjourned until Oct.