PTO Meeting Minutes

Subject / PTO Meeting / Date / April 21, 2016
Facilitator / Melissa Gerry / Time / 6:00 – 7:08 pm
Location / Library - Academy of Early Learning, Greenfield, MA / Scribe / Melissa Gerry and Kristin Hmieleski
Attendees / Gabriel Hmieleski, Shannon Schmalenbery, Sue Goddard, Aliesha Coyne, Faith Reipold, Kristin Hmieleski, Julie Letendre, Kim Howell, Janice Fuller, and Melissa Gerry

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Topic

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Discussion

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1

/ Treasurer’s Report / Sue presented Treasurer’s Report. Current ending balance is $2,330.10.

2

/ Minutes / Minutes for May Meeting Reviewed / Minutes Approved

3

/ Teacher Report / Kiwanis came and read to the kids and gave out free books.
June 15thlast day of school.
Requesting that the end of the year musical performance could pair with the annual PTO ice cream social. Hoping for May 26th at 6pm for concert,6:30ice cream.
Possible field day in the works with Lisa Moore from GHS. More info to come.
Birds of Prey was a hit and Tom Ricardi was great with the kids and the audience. Enjoyed by all.

4

/ Old Business / Beef jerky fundraiser raised about $1,023 with about 20 students participating.
Spring Spruce Up went well even in the rain. Martin Farm and Compost donated the mulch.
Melissa spoke to Four Corners about box tops for this year, however, we are past the deadline to turn them in. We will look at working with them next year. / ·  PTO will send a notice home to have families save box tops for next year. Will need someone to coordinate cutting and dividing them by 50 into baggies.

5

/ New Business / Melissa contacting Winterberry Farm to have another event for the fids in May or June.
Thinking about one more fundraiser with Hillside Pizza / ·  Melissa will contact Hillside for forms and make arrangements for fundraiser.

6

/ Teacher Appreciation / Decided to do an event each day for Teacher Appreciation Week. Discussed doing a breakfast, massages, lunch, a shout out board, and giving out movie passes and making a theme movie basket for each teacher, para, aide. / ·  Flyer will be sent home with students to ask parents for donation of food items and/or dollar donation.
/ Next meeting Thursday, May 19, 2016 @ 6:00 pm