In attendance:
Adriane Watson, Natalie Searle, Jennifer Johnson, Timette Wankier, Principal Bona, Staci Case, Whitney McKell, Camille Jensen, Tiffany Bowling, Christy Barnson
*Introductions
*Monthly PTA meetings 1st Wednesday of every month at 10:00am
*Discussed back to school night and improvements to be made. Everyone felt it went well and like the first 30 minutes as a school meeting.
*Remind members not to go over budget or they will not be reimbursed. This is National PTA Policy not just Midas Creek Policy
*Moved $50 from room parents budget to teacher appreciation budget, Room parents will not be having a orientation meeting this year and won’t need it.
* Adriane moved.
* Timette seconded.
*Turned the time over to Carolyn Bona to discuss her plans for the school.
-Leader in me program and student leadership team. We will be having leadership breakfast monthly provided by Chick-Fil-A and the 6th Grade Student Council will now be the Student Leadership Team. A lot more responsibility will be given to them to show leadership skills. Mr. Stone and Mrs. Michelsen are the teachers in charge of this.
-Mrs. Bona asked us to Review what “Night of the Arts” and “Bike rodeo” are. We will do night of the art in conjunction with the Spring Choir Concert again this year
-Talk about Johnson leadership. Money can be used for anything the PTA Board deems as a leadership need. Should be discussed in the PTA meetings.
-She discussed starting the 5th grade ambassadors will do all welcoming of visitors and new students.
- 4th grade students will now be PE Monitors, will help clean the PE closet and organize as needed.
- Also she will start a sixth grade mentor program to help kids struggling with different issues.
-Indonesia dancers coming on 14 August. Need volunteers that.
*Fun Run is on track and ready to go
-Kick Off assembly ready to go and get kids excited =)
- Need lots of parent volunteers to help out
-Bracelets will be given to everyone.
-Star Bead for coming to the Fun Run that night (10 classic skating tokens)
-MCE Water bottle for all $15 or higher.
* Reflections Program still needs a chair and volunteers.
-Need someone to coordinate set up and judges.
-Entries are due by October 10
* Carolyn Bona is looking into starting a Mountain Lion Award to motivate kids to participate (including in reflections). The award would be earned by completing a certain number of requirements like participating in reflections, attending the fun run, participating in Safety Patrol etc.
*Secretary will email all contacts to board list
*The historian - give all photos to the Historian so she can keep Facebook, blog and the school's website.
*Discuss the conflict of interest form and what needs to be done with that - passed around for others to sign.
Meeting dismissed until September 3rd @ 10:00 am
Any PTA Member is welcome to attend
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