Brighton High PTSA Meeting Minutes

Brighton High PTSA Meeting Minutes

October 14, 2015

In attendance: Katie Tatton, Kristen Dickerson, Cheryl Harrison, Misty Herbstritt, Crista Thompson, Cindy H., and Mr. Kraus

Welcome: Katie

Minutes: Crista - September 2, 2015 minutes were presented and approved

Presidents Report: Katie- None

Treasurer Report: Kristen-Budget was passed out for everyone to review 3731 members 3406 donations with 533 members. $1500 to PTC lunches, that gives us $500 per trimester paid $360 AMI Insurance online the check #1288 had not cleared the account as of September 1st. We need to keep watch on the account and if the check clears we will have to speak to AMI to get a refund. The bank will charge a $34 charge for a stop payment.

Teacher Report: Mr Kraus - PTC went really smooth and everyone appreciates what the PTSA does. The surveys were really helpful for feedback on ways we can improve. We need to educate about the times for the PTC meetings 3-5 minutes. With the kids and parents that need more time they need to schedule a meeting with the teachers at a different time outside of the PTC. Open House Forum idea a possibility for future PTC. We discussed lengthening the PTC meeting times for the Special Needs students to be 10 minutes.

Principal’s Report : Cindy- Bagels at Brighton went really well we had about 60 attending. Students looked for an opportunity to earn extra credit in their Government Classes. We will get the information out for the upcoming opportunities and who will be at the meeting. Principal leadership we have them talking about issues going on at the school. Ways to get positive messages out with the social media and changing people’s perceptions for the positive. We talked about super secret opportunies that we have her at Brighton and the student representatives are researching these to get the word out to the student body. Morp is 24 October sponsored by the Drill and Cheerleaders. Graduation is June 2nd at the Maverick Center.

Student Report : Committee 1 response for the PTSA , Cheryl . We have a total of 2 that would like to be involved. They could possibly get service learning credits or enrichment credits for the required social studies points they need. They would possibly plan a dance, come to the monthly Board Meeting, really low key, you got caught awards. We may need to send an email out to the parents of the student for approval.

Membership: Email sent out and no response. Business Partnership options: Chick Fil A, Zupas, Freshmarket. In the email we have a separate list for membership cards only. Make note to send thank you note and membership card to Betty. List of contacts cleaned up. Fundraiser for Pink Night we should get involved with the Pink Night and look at the Silent Auction and how we can participate.

Reflections: Cheryl –Deadline November 20. Entry form is online and judges are selected.

Teacher Appreciation: Teacher birthdays. We need to get the August September and October birthdays out to the teachers. There are 160 teachers to plan for with Mentos, mints, gum. Katie is going to get the gum from Costco while it is on sale and the cards are signed and ready to go. Kristen is going to check with her contact to see if she wanted to do anything more like a cupcake at the first of the month for all the teachers that had birthdays in that month and if we could get the cupcakes donated. Idea for the saying if we got mints: “ You’ve MINT a lot this year.”

Hope Squad: Cheryl will look into. Led by students and they are focused on reducing suicides. ARC recovery offered on October 21 2 for 1 Lifelines the counselors are presenting 7-8 pm.

Katie will send PTSA membership cards.

Student committee will be in charge of the You Got Caught Awards and the Student Choice teacher awards. Katie will contact the parents of Kassi Beck and Calandra Crowley (the two students who are interested in being on the student committee) to give them the information regarding missed class time while attending our meetings.

Misty Herbstritt has accepted the position of President Elect.

Meeting adjourned: 1:15pm

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