Meeting:Woodview School PTO Meeting

Date:January 12, 2016

ATTENDANCE

Angela Bogosh / Abbie Pietruszynski
Matt Deheck / Cathy Santelle
Julie Dzubin / Michelle Schumacher
Mary Edly-Allen / Beth Webster
Alicia Ernst / Tracy Wildman
Emily Heidloff / Cheryl Wilgen
Denise Mack / Carrie Zook

Meeting start date/Time

January 12, 2016 / 7:04 PM

Meeting end date/Time

January 12, 2016 / 8:42PM

WELCOME AND ATTENDANCE – Abbie Pietruszynski & Emily Heidloff

Abbie and Emily welcomed new faces.

PRINCIPAL REPORT –Cathy Santelle

Erin’s Law

Community Consolidated School District 46's Curriculum must include Erin's Law, an annual state mandated, age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention program for students Pre-K through 12th grade. Governor Pat Quinn signed Erin's Law in January 2013.

The curriculum will vary from grade to grade, however it will be developmentally appropriate per grade level. In grades K-4, students will watch pre-approved videos that meet the requirements of Erin's Law. If you would like to preview these videos, please contact Principal, Cathy Santelle.

For grades K-4, videos will be shown to students between January 18, 2016 and January 29, 2016.

STAFF REPORT – Mary Edly-Allen

Thank You to PTO

Thank you cards were passed along with acknowledgement from Mary Edly-Allen that the teachers appreciate the holiday cookie packages that the PTO provides to the staff.

Lip Sync

The teachers are very excited to be participating in the Woodview Lip Sync event on January 29th.

TREASURER REPORT – Matt Deheck and Alicia Ernst

Review Income/Expenditures

Matt reviewed the budget line by line. Some items to note:

Bank Balance is still big…a lot of money in and very little spent

Request to add a Garden/Line Item expense line

Revenue

  • Check from Culver’s Dine & Share has been received
  • Lou Malnati’s Dine & Share check has not been received

Expenses

  • Flat top picnic tables will be expensed in the spring
  • Researching playground and garden improvements…looking for natural playground purchases
  • Basketball hoops were quoted for $2000 to include installation
  • Working with Lester’s for quotes to create a sand pit with a climbing boulder
  • Art department would like to confirm the $ allotted to them in the budget
  • Copy of expenses for Exploration Day is needed

Spending Committee Update – Cathy Santelle

The committee is getting feedback from the children and they are putting together all of the ideas for review with the committee on what to purchase. The goal is to purchase items that can impact the most number of students.

PRESIDENT REPORT –Emily Heidloff & Abbie Pietruszynski

Food Fight – March 1 through 17

They have been meeting with the Foundation46 to work on a district wide event for families. The event will be hosted at Feed My Starving Children in Libertyville. It is a 5 night event with up to 140 slots per night. There will be a sign up genius link for families.

Coffee for D46 Leadership

Abbie is hosting a coffee meeting at her home on Tuesday, January 26th at 9:30am.

Leadership (PTO/PTF Board, Foundation46 member, leaders in school community) from all schools in the district are invited to attend.

Hosts: Abbie Pietruszynski, Emily Heidloff, Mary Klees from GrayslakeConnect, Kristin Heupel and MisseyVancil from Foundation46. Objective: discuss a couple of ways the families from our schools can come together more as a community.

Woodview Sprouts

There is now a Facebook page dedicated to Woodview Sprouts….please share!

Ink Cartridge Management

We need a volunteer to manage the donation recycling program

VICE PRESIDENT REPORT – Tracy Wildman

Exploration Day – Friday, May 13th

Cheryl Wilgen is managing this event. The kick-off meeting was last Friday. Every committee is filled. They have begun contacting potential presenters. Working on purchasing lanyards via Amazon…estimated cost is $300 for 500. Avon will be hosting their Exploration Day the same day, so there may be some conflicts with presenters.

Lip Sync – Friday, January 29th

There continues to be confusion about who pays to attend…EVERYONE pays. Candace Postol will repost this information. We have 5 Kohl’s employees volunteering for Lip Sync (Kohl’s Cares program).

There was agreement at tonight’s meeting that if a student is performing and is on the free/reduced lunch list, that a scholarship can be offered to the families for them to attend the event.

SECRETARIES REPORT – Denise Mack

Thanks to Jamie for getting out the Woody Review.

It is sent out to parents and posted on the school webpage as well. Here are the following dates…please keep in mind that submissions should be sent the Wednesday before the review is scheduled to be sent out.

January 29th

February 12th

February 26th

March 11th

April 1

April 15th

May 6th

May 20th

June 3rd

Denise will continue to post Lip Sync updates, Dine & Share, as well as Book Fair .

WAYS AND MEANS REPORT – Cheryl Wilgen, Julie Dzubin, Angela Bogosh

Dine and Share – Julie Dzubin

Penn Station – February 8th

BBQ Productions – late February (TBD)

Chili’s - March (TBD)

Lip Sync - Angela Bogosh, Sarah Grubbs, Gwen Nelson

Ticket and pizza pre-purchase notifications are going out, reminder needs to go out that everyone must pay. Bakers are needed for the bake sale event during Lip Sync. Elvis owl idea for Lip Sync event was agreed upon.

Spring Book Fair – Michelle Schumacher, Beth Webster, Jamie Schaefer

February 5 – 11th

Sign up Genius link will be sent soon. Peace, Love & Books is the theme. Non-mandatory dress up day is Thursday, February 11th …70ths theme.

DodgeballNight - Danielle Mazurkiewicz

Friday, March 11th at Frederick

There was a lot of discussion about art work for a shirt. Can we host an art contest for the students and vote?

There was also agreement that we should continue with a raffle, but stick to 5 large items only…Tracy will take this on.

OTHER

Spiritwear

Loved the items, but the flyer did not do it justice. There was a request to improve the image quality for future sales.

NEXT PTO MEETING – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016 at 7PM

Woodview School PTO Committee Chairs 2015-2016

Fun Run:Abbie Pietruszynski

Fine Arts: Jessica Carrier, Sara Belskis, Leah Levin

Exploration Day: Cheryl Wilgen, Megan Wright, Hillary Halverson

Field Day:Antoinette Mussay; Tracy Wildman

Staff Appreciation: Laura Muller-Jones, Sydney Foster

Picture Day: Karin Weidman

School Supplies: Sara Donisch

Birthday Cards: Karin Weidman

Popsicle Welcome: Candace Postol

Ice Cream Social: Carrie Zook, Alicia Ernst

School Garden: Mary Klees, Abbie Pietruszynski

Bulletin Boards: Sara Belskis, Antoinette Mussay

Woody Review: Jamie Schaefer

Volunteer Coord: Candace Postol

Email/Facebook: Denise Mack

Fun Run:Abbie Pietruszynski

Innisbrook: Kim Della-Peruta

Kohls Cares/Grants: Kris Young

Dine & Shares: Julie Dzubin

Spiritwear: Sydney Foster

Box Tops: Maria Valosky,Megan Willhite, Carrie Zook

Book Fair: Beth Webster, Jamie Schaefer, Michelle Schumacher

Movie Night:Jean Schoening

Lip Sync: Angela Bogosh, Gwen Nelson, and Sarah Grubbs

Dodgeball: Danielle Mazurkiewicz

Square 1:Jessica Carrier, Leah Levin

PTO Board

President:Emily Heidloff, Abbie Pietruszynski

Vice-Presidents:Tracy Wildman

Treasurers: Matt Deheck, Danielle Woll, Alicia Ernst

Secretaries:Jamie Schaefer, Denise Mack

Ways & Means:Cheryl Wilgen, Julie Dzubin,

Diana Spicer, Kim Della-Peruta

Staff Liaison:Mary Edly-Allen