Board members Present: President Kimberley Wormley,
Treasurer Brian Olson, Secretary Laura Cooper, Board Member at Large Terri
Marshall.
Others Present: 4th Grade Class Rep CeRae
Speidel, 5th Grade Class Rep Mike Berger, International Day Co-Chairs
Nara Clark and Pia Laurie.
Kimberley called this meeting to discuss some interim
Booster items. First was a short discussion of the board composition. Laura
Cooper, current board member and secretary, has volunteered to step down as a
voting board member but will continue to serve as secretary. This change will
be put forward and voted on at the next meeting. Laura will communicate with
principal McMillen to make sure he can be there at the next board meeting, as
the other board composition issue is that he must put forward a staff person to
serve as a board member, and this person must be duly elected as soon as can be
to ensure compliance with our bylaws.
Next item was discussion of when International Day Chairs
will meet and get information out to interested parents and the school
community as a whole. The Int’l Day
chairs are planning to meet in late January and will put out information at
that time about the event and how parents can become involved.
Next was discussion of Electives. Since these come up in January, the proximity
necessitates information to the Teach community coming out very soon. Terrie
Marshall and Mike Berger stepped forward to help Kurt Rightmeyer get information
out. It has been proposed that there be a meeting on October 24th to
sketch out a plan to raise up a team of parent volunteers for electives.
There is continued interest in getting the Infosnap
volunteer data so that other chairs/reps/board members may know which
parents have already indicated their volunteer interests. Nara indicated that
the Infosnap data had already been transferred to Christine Kimball. Kimberley
will follow up with Christine.
Mike Berger moved that the Boosters add a Teach Boosters budget
line item of $300 for International Day. Brian Olson seconded the motion which
carried with all board members present (4 board members) in favor, none opposed
or abstaining. Mike Berger moved that
the Boosters add a budget line item of $500 for Electives. Kimberley seconded
the motion which passed with all board members present (4 board members) in
favor, none opposed or abstaining.
There was discussion of recess equipment, but this topic was
tabled until Principal McMillen can be present to help guide options in terms
of safety concerns, etc.
There was discussion of how all the classes were doing in
terms of pledge forms. Laura will contact Wendy Sylvester, 5th grade
room rep, to see if Wendy can email parents in a way similar to CeRae’s contact
with 4th grade parents, to raise awareness of need for those forms
being returned so that the Boosters know what all families’ needs are in terms
of assistance or ability to donate funds. Kimberley will follow up individually with
families who will follow up individually with families who have neither turned
in a pledge form nor submitted a pledged donation. Brian will send the latest numbers on monies
collected, pledge forms received by class to all board members and reps/chairs
so that they have this information when talking with parents.
There was a question about what teachers wanted in terms of
class parties for the year; CeRae will check and see what teachers have decided
about parties for the year as teachers were going to select dates for class
parties. She will bring this information
to the November meeting.
CeRae reported that she has been organizing GoogleDocs and
making new folders organized by year so that the most recent info can be more
easily located. She asked for feedback
from people in terms of if this was making it easier to find items to assist in
the process. The immediate reaction was one of gratitude for CeRae having taken
on such a worthy and onerous task.
Kimberley has been cleaning out the Boosters storage area,
and found a cache of outdated electronic equipment. She will put an announcement out to the Teach
Community to see if anyone has a claim to any of it; what is not collected by the
end of December will be donated or otherwise disposed of. She also has found boxes full of outdated
financial records, which will be shredded if the records are older than 7
years. Wendy Sylvester has offered the
shredding services of DocuTeam for this. Kimberley will bring boxes to the Nov.
Boosters Board meeting so that people can assist with pre-shredding prep after
the meeting wraps up.
There being no further business, Laura Cooper moved that the
meeting be adjourned; Mike Berger seconded the motion with all present in
favor, none opposed or abstaining.
Respectfully submitted,
Laura Cooper, Boosters Club secretary
