Attendance:
Rachel Hanko, Jessie Cady-Kauffman, Kris Reed, Angie Beyl,
NatalieMiller, Rebecca Linden, Julie Wood, Nancy Easley, Sarah Parkman,
Christie Saugen, Amanda Davey.
Review of the
Hedges Mission Statement
In light of how busy we get and how many commitments we get
involved with it is nice to know what the purpose of the PTO is.
Our Mission is to provide support and resources for
students, parents, staff and administrations. Where there is a need, we aim to
fill it.
How we do this?
Scholarships- College
bound Hedges alumni
Summer
programs for Hedges students
Fundraising Box
tops program
Smiths
earn to learn
Campbells
soup labels
Toyota
truck raffle
Hedges
spirit gear
Large
door to door fundraiser
Sponsor school community building events
Fall
festival
Skating
party
Ice
cream social
Teacher
appreciation luncheon
Principal Report:
Mrs. Miller has some new behavior initiatives to discuss
including “I caught you” cards. Kids are putting them on her desk and a small
prize is given when their card is drawn as initiative for noticing and
supporting positive behavior.
Mrs. Miller has been working on a Response to intervention
program; this is a multi-tier program that provides intervention for students
that demonstrate a need for additional support. Tier I for behavior, Tier II
for Academics and Tier III for both.
We will be purchasing a new PA system with PTO funds. The
district will purchase a new phone system that will line up with the new PA
system and that should save a lot of money.
Treasure Report:
Deposited $160.00 from the phone book, $230 from t-shirts,
and $739 from the fall festival.
Check went out for Oriental Tranding for $215.14, Little
Ceasars $48.00, Candy $63.00. Our current checking balance is $1,008.75 in
checking.
Old Business.
Fall Festival was fun and had great attendance. Profit was
$367.00. Need to decide if we would like to to this every year or every other
year. Discussion about sometimes out
account decides if we can do it that year or not. Kids really seem to like it,
it seems like a lot of work but it is really fun. Someone suggested it is much
better inside than outside.
Popcorn popper. The old popcorn popper died so a new one was
purchased with PTO funds $193.62 was the cost. It has already arrived.
Elliots fundraiser(cookie dough sales). Delivery was very
easy and organized, the profit was great, $7,173.00 in profit, this money goes
into the activities fund, not into the PTO checking but can be accessed by PTO
if we need it, it is just a lengthy process. Do we want to participate in this
fundraiser again? If so what do we want to do differently? Ideas were to get
the teachers more involved perhaps giving them 5% of sales from their class for
their classroom. Prize for the top sales, like a bike. Online sales were not
very lucrative for us, we only made 3.50 per tub or 10% and they cost buyers
considerably more to ship. We didn’t do a very good job of advertising and it
was confusing for parents. We should do an assembly and give out cookie samples
or something. There needs to be a place on the sheet for cash donations so they
do not get lost. Perhaps we should change the time to earlier in the spring
when families are not still trying to get in the swing of school and it is not
such a busy time. We are having a reward lunch for the top sellers this year
they get to have Pizza with Mrs. Miller. $700 was the top selling order.
Thanksgiving baskets.
We have six dinner boxes to give to families in need from our school but
we still need six turkeys to add to them.
PTO approved $100 to purchase turkeys at cost, the additional expenses
of the turkeys has been donated by Super One grocery store, the turkeys will be
purchased in the form of gift cards specifically for approximately 15 lb
turkey.
Phone Book Report. We changed the form to accommodate all
family make up’s and we changed the wording on the form. We needed 4-6 adds to
pay for the book but got 15 adds, so we raised $480.00 it will cost $100-$200
to print. In the future we would like to have the phone book out earlier.
Suggestions to put out the family contact information with the orientation
packet at the beginning of the year so that we can complete the phone book
sooner.
Box Tops. The first deadline for tops was Nov 1st
and we had $289.00 the next deadline is March 1st. Our school is not
competitive at all with the other local schools, even the smaller outlying
schools are earning way more money for their schools than we are. You can
purchase box tops online by shopping through the box tops websites in addition
to clipping box tops. Suggestions were to have a PTO education table at events
to get our families aware of boxtops and boost competitions with classrooms.
New Business
Yearbook. Hap Aldrich has changed his prices this year so we
have to table this issue for now.
Giving Tree. Rebecca
has suggested we create a giving tree that contains cards with requests from
each teacher for things that they need or want for their classroom so that
families can grab that ornament and provide that request for the classroom.
This lead to a discussion of possibly reintroducing room parents again for
teachers who would like a parent to help in the class room with whatever they
might need.
No Meeting in December.
