Attendees

MaryPat Burke Cathy Conroy

Cathie Sweeney Linda Plemenik

Michele Calderon Kelly Millington

Christine Polsinelli Melissa Peterson

Tammy Zwicklbauer John Tobiassen

Beth Fritzeen Irene Trudell

Clara Bisaillon

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 7:04 pm.

Approval of Minutes

The minutes of the November 15, 2005 meeting were accepted as posted.

President’s Report – Cathie Sweeney and MaryPat Burke

A committee has been formed for the 5^th Grade Luncheon.
A reminder that the Founder’s Day Dinner is February 7^th. Tickets are $23.
There is a need for clarifying safety issues for school events. Each event needs a chairperson with access to an emergency call list. If there is an emergency, call 911 from a building phone rather than a cell phone if possible, to avoid the extra routing that cell phone calls must make.

Principal’s Report

The Spelling Bee competition has begun in grade 4 and 5 classrooms.
Kindergarten Registration is earlier this year – January 23^rd – January 27^th.
State testing is going on now in grades 3 – 5.
Scores for Grade 5 Social Studies tests came in last week – 75% of Sac students scored at Level 4, and all our students scored at Level 3 or 4.
Transitional Kindergarten began after New Year’s.
Grade 4 has their dance performance with Sinopoli Dance Studio on January 25^th. The dance residency program is later this Spring.

Treasurer’s Report – Christine Polsinelli

There is currently a balance of $10, 415.86 in the General Fund.
There was income of $18.52 from interest in the savings account.
Payment of $5605.02 was made on the merchandise from the C&H Fall Fundraiser.
The Holiday Bazaar had sales of $1,690.45, leaving a profit of $572.15.

Teacher’s Report – Kim Lavery

The Ellison machine is broken – they are not sure what is wrong with it, but Ellison is taking it back and repairing or replacing it.
There is a balance of $477 in the Box Tops fund left over from the purchase of the machine – they are putting in an order for more die cuts.
Ticket Town has not been discussed yet at a faculty meeting but she thinks the teachers will be interested.
There is a need for someone to do the slide show for the 5^th grade luncheon.

Standing Committee Reports

A presentation was made during the meeting by Kristine Gregory regarding the new Scotia-Glenville Family Room at Lincoln School. She is a former Kindergarten and 3^rd grade teacher at Burnt Hills School District, and has started this program on a grant from Cornell Cooperative Extension. It is designed to be a drop in program for caregivers and children, with structured playtime, parenting classes, and nutritional workshops, but most importantly, just for networking between parents. Ms. Gregory provided all at the meeting a flyer about the program and a calendar for January 2006 (this flyer was also sent home with students).

Dinner With Santa (MaryPat Burke) The program went well, especially considering the change of date due to the snow day. The kids did 2 crafts, Sacandaga merchandise was sold along with Krispy Kreme donuts (not as many as last year – many donations to local fire and police stations) and sign ups were held for upcoming Fabulous Fridays. She recommends a snow date being built into the district calendar next year. Another change for next year would involve student volunteers – there will not be supervision between the end of school and set-up at 4pm. Volunteers should go home and return at set-up time.
PTA Council (Cathie Sweeney for Maureen Ciotoli) PTA Council will be held here at Sac on 1/25 and we will need to provide refreshments. Also, see Maureen about Founders Day questions or nominations.
Ways and Means (Karen Normington) The Niagara Chocolate fundraiser is all set to begin on Friday, January 27th. The sale will run until February 17^th, with delivery time 3/29. There was some discussion as to whether or not another fundraiser should be done. Tammy Zwicklbauer pointed out that if we hold a Spring Picture date, the yearbooks will be $2 cheaper per student, even if families do not actually order any photos. Linda Plemenik made a motion to hold a spring picture date. The motion was seconded by Cathy Conroy, and all members present voted in favor of this.
Yearbook (Tammy Zwicklbauer) She is in need of lots of candid photos for the yearbook. The first photo deadline to Lifetouch is 2/13, and the final one is in April. Photos can be uploaded to Tammy at tatdragonfly@aol.com or burned to a cd and left in the PTA mailbox. Print photos can be used as well. Please label/caption all photos with the event and grade or teacher if possible. There was some discussion about dealing with all the photos for 5^th graders, between the yearbook and 5^th grade luncheon. 5^th grade luncheon photos will be submitted to Cathie Sweeney and shared with the yearbook committee. It was reiterated that someone needs to take over the slide show project for Kim. The yearbook committee is also in need of people to help design the yearbook pages. Contact Tammy.
Membership (Melissa Peterson) 16 new members joined, giving a total of 200. She is sending in the form this February as there is a special award for having at least 15 new members join in February. Sac is also eligible for some other awards – one for 100% of faculty as members, one for having 10 members who are not affiliated with the school, and one for ¼ of our membership being male.
Box Tops (Clara Bisaillon) There are currently 19,212 points in the account. There was some discussion about getting some games for the classrooms to be used during indoor recess. It was mentioned that we could do a budget of $25 per classroom for 20 classrooms, and that this could be the class gift from PTA this year. Clara Bisaillon made a motion to do this, which was seconded by Beth Fritzeen. A vote was held, and passed. Beth and Clara will do a wishlist flyer for the classrooms and the shop for the games.
Programs (Cathy Conroy) The Zucchini Brothers are booked for after the dinner in March, and also booked for a snow date. There was some discussion as to whether or not to book a speaker recommended by Barb Wurz, who will be in town from California for an Elementary Physical Education leadership award dinner. We could share a program with the other schools in the district – it would be like the circus but much smaller. It was decided that this would not be feasible due to conflicts with the speaker’s available dates.
Fabulous Fridays (Linda Plemenik) 120 kids are signed up for this program. Some classes had to be cancelled because only a couple of students signed up for them. All the information is on the computer, and she will be making a list for all classroom teachers so that they know what classrooms their students will be going to.

New Business – Open Floor

It was suggested that the Ticket Town drawings get done during the April 28^th Family Fun night. After some discussion, it was decided that this program would be cancelled, and the drawings would be done during an assembly.

MaryPat Burke suggested that, instead of a dinner before the March 10^th Zucchini Brothers program, (snow date March 24^th) we use the ice cream left over from Back to School BBQ (there are 9 unopened gallons left). It was also noted that this will not be a drop off program.

There was a reminder that Linda Liggett needs to approve any flyers going out to the classes.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Michele Calderon

PTA Secretary

Attachments (for file copy only)

Meeting Agenda

Treasurer’s Report – January 10, 2006