September 10, 2007

 

Members Present: Trish Parker, Heather Schuelke, Celeste Hubert, Martha Williams, Ellen Muira, Veronica Divine, Kathy Carr, Darcy Hamre, Cindy Roberts, Renae Alsobrook, Kristin Keener, Andy Greene and Kerry Ugarte

 

Members Absent: Paula Steirnberg

Non-Voting Members Present: Sandy Pennington

 

Ellen called the meeting to order at 6:45pm

Old Business

 

Review of August Minutes

            •       Small edits suggested and Veronica will make necessary changes

            •       Andy motioned to pass the minutes, Celeste 2nd the motion

            •       Motion passed

 

Director’s Report:  Sandy spoke to the following:

            •       Faculty list attachment

            •       New hires – Tina Pena is doing great

•       We are really trying to publicize the parent forums

 

Finance Report:  Kerry spoke to the following:

            •       Instructions on how to read the budget report

            •       Budget attached

 

Equipment Report: Renae spoke to the following:

            •       New sand in the sandbox

 

Volunteers Report: Kathy spoke to the following

            •     Low volunteer sign up this year, perhaps due to the larger percentage of siblings and only 91 total families 

            •     Room representative orientation September 14th, including new procedure to request money at the start of the year for birthday and end of school gifts but that Christmas gifts be from individuals either as a gift to the teacher or towards the “teacher bonus pool”

 

Hospitality Report: Celeste spoke to the following:

•          Ms. Georgia’s father passed away and asked if we should send a note from the FUMP board

§      Decided before we do something like this for other teachers that a policy be in place to ensure uniformity

•          Ms. Elaine is doing alright but coming back as storyteller part-time

•          Thanks to Ann Phipps for her report last month

           

Personnel Report: No report

Chapel Report: No report

 

Publicity Report: Heather spoke to the following:

•          Tree fundraiser will use the metaphor of fall to measure progress.  When a family donates, a leaf with the amount will fall to the ground.  There are 91 leaves and the goal is that they all are on the ground

•          Envelope attached to letter going out about fundraiser

•          Sally Foster will be in the Beacon

 

Special Projects Report: Trish spoke to the following:

            •       Book fair is coming up before the next meeting

            •       Will talk to Scholastics about sending top quality materials

            •       Will ask Ms. Ellen’s and Ms. Erin’s class to make snowflakes as decorations

 

New Business

Sandy spoke to the following:

•          A records subpoena for a previous child and teacher has been issued to FUMP.  The school will cooperate fully but will need to obtain a lawyer as representation of FUMP.  The cost would be $1,000 for lawyer fees.

•          Cindy motioned that we pay the $1,000 for lawyer fees out of the budget, motion was 2nd by Kathy.  Motion passed.

 

Adjournment:  Trish motion to adjourn at 7:45pm and Andy 2nd.   Motion passed