September 9, 2009 at 3:00pm;
In attendance: Lisa Tuttle, Robin Tregenza, Christine Moffet,
Lizzie Congdon, Sue Fay, Jane Dickinson, Carrie Melucci, Darlene Froberg, Lisa
Kerr, Brenda Hawkins
The minutes
from the June 2009 meeting were approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Christine Moffet reports approximately
$8000 in savings and $1300 in checking for a total of approximately $9300.
Cultural Arts & Enrichment: Lizzie Congdon presented a
proposal for this year’s slate of cultural arts assemblies:
|
WHO |
WHAT |
WHEN |
WHERE |
HOW MUCH |
|
Shakespearience |
Music & drama workshops
inspired by Shakespeare |
Oct 29 (?already booked) |
Lawn |
$925 |
|
|
Native American music, stories,
dance, history |
Oct or Nov |
Melrose & Lawn |
$1000 |
|
of Science |
Varied science programs (e.g.
electricity, motion, heat & temperature) |
Dec |
Melrose & Lawn |
$1500 (20% discount if booked for 2
days) |
|
Valerie Tutson/ Rochel
Coleman |
African-American storytelling &
drama |
Jan |
Melrose & Lawn |
$2500 |
|
Skip Gorman |
Songs & stories from the
American West |
Feb |
|
$600 |
|
Len Cabral |
Storyteller |
March |
|
$450 |
|
Inca Son |
Peruvian music & dance |
April |
Melrose & Lawn |
$500 from PTO (additional $2500
from RIF & JEF) |
|
RI Philharmonic |
Varied music programs |
May |
Melrose & Lawn |
$1550 |
All of the above were approved with the
understanding that some details may change during the scheduling process.
Carrie Melucci mentioned that she is working on funding for an
Island Moving Company program for the 3rd grade in February. She may request funding from the PTO if other
funding sources fall through.
Fundraising
Golf tournament:
We are holding our major annual fundraiser – a golf tournament and
dinner – in just TWO weeks on September 26.
Please join us! You can sign up
to play in the golf tournament and/or for a steak or swordfish dinner, or you can
just come enjoy the company of friends while browsing our silent auction of
over 100 items. Don’t delay; sign up
today!
Tile fundraiser: The
PTO’s has only one other fundraiser planned for this school year, one in which
families purchase tiles for their children to design. The completed tiles will be fired and framed
and hung in the school hallway. We will
kick off this fundraiser in early 2010.
New
Business
2009-2010 PTO Board:
Robin Tregenza, President
Wendy
Rafferty, Co-Vice-President (other Co-VP is TBA)
Lisa
Tuttle, Secretary
Christine Moffet, Treasurer
Lizzie Congdon & Jen Black, Cultural Arts & Enrichment
Steph Cotsonas, Volunteer Coordinator
Sue Fay,
Membership Coordinator
Darlene Froberg, Health & Wellness Event Coordinator
Lisa
Tuttle, Webmaster
Bev Rudman,
Lawn Liaison
Lawn SIT
Liaison, Melrose SIT Liaison, Pre-school Liaison, & JEF Liaison are all TBA
Outline of PTO Events for this
School Year: Robin Tregenza
reviewed our preliminary outline of events for this school year:
|
Time of Year |
Event |
Notes |
|
FALL |
Golf
Tournament fundraiser – 9/26 |
Sign up!! |
|
Movie
night – 10/23 |
Need
volunteers – see below |
|
|
Harvest
Fair – 10/30 |
Need
volunteers -- see below |
|
|
Young
Shoppers’ Club |
Early
December |
|
|
WINTER |
Parent/Child
Dance |
Grades
pre-K to 4th/5th |
|
Tile
fundraiser |
|
|
|
Providence
Bruins family outing |
|
|
|
Scholastic
Book Fair |
Week of
Feb 8-12 |
|
|
Spirit
Week |
Week of Feb
8-12 |
|
|
SPRING |
Movie
night |
|
|
Pawtucket
Red Sox family outing |
|
|
|
Scholastic
Book Fair (Buy One Get One) |
In May |
|
|
Teacher
Appreciation Day & Luncheon |
In May |
This rough
schedule does not include health and wellness events, which will also be
planned throughout the year.
Babysitting at
PTO Meetings:
We are in need of babysitters during PTO meetings on the second
Wednesday of each month at 3pm. Sitters are
compensated. Do
you have or know of a teenager who can help with this?
Open Houses: PTO volunteer sign up sheets will be out at both the Lawn
Open House (9/16) and the Melrose Open House (9/23). We will not be holding a PTO Volunteer Fair
this year. Volunteers
are needed to set-up & staff the PTO volunteer sign-up tables at the Open
Houses. Ideally, parents of
Movie Nights: The first
movie night of the year will be held on Friday, October 23 in the
Harvest Fair: The PTO’s annual Harvest
Fair is tentatively scheduled for Friday, October 30. Location will be either Escobar’s or Schartner’s. Food
will be served, and Halloween costumes will be encouraged. One or more volunteers are
needed to organize this event. This is a
great opportunity for someone who wants to contribute to a short-term project
and then be done!
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
if you can help, contact robin at jrjcmt@aol.com
or just reply to this e-mail
Old
Business
PTO web site:
Please bookmark the PTO web site (www.jamestownri.com/school/classes/pto/ptohome.htm
-- there’s a link on the schools’ home page) and don’t forget to check it for
info on upcoming events, fundraisers, meeting minutes, etc. Please send any web site additions to Lisa
Tuttle (Lisa46xx@yahoo.com).
Meeting
adjourned at 3:45pm.
The next meeting will be on Weds, October
14th at 3:00pm in the library at Lawn.
Lisa Tuttle
PTO Secretary