1/21/20 Meeting Minutes

1/21/20 Executive Board Meeting

Attendees: Christina Crawford, Mark Niehls, Barbara Newell, Tyler Newell, Chris Blasko, Jill Barton, Elizabeth Howe, Kim Jenkins

Auction

• Still on schedule

• Invitations delivered today, working with John Mark to get addresses printed off. Should be going out next week and tickets going on sale next week

• Food secured (buffet style) from Cutilos, working to get Desserts donated

• Confirmed Venue at the Carousel

• Still need people to help with procurement (Sending home ideas sheet with the students (looking for special skills) or approach one business to procure items)

• Looking to organize a volunteer meeting for next week

• Limit ticket sales to 180
  

Urban Air - 100th day of School

• Date: Thurs 2/13 from 6pm-8pm

• Tyler to set up a website for registration and payment

• Include on the website that there is no makeup day

• $6 per person + $1 per slice of pizza

• Elizabeth to follow up on getting the remaining balance paid on the day of the event instead of by the end of January

• Elizabeth to provide a waiver that will be posted on the website
  

Penguin Patch

• Do we want to resign with them? Do we want to do something different?

• Looking to get a 2nd person to help so everything is not on Kim (setting aside an entire week)

• We think a fewer variety of items might be better

• Possibly look at teaming up with Five Below or Dollar Tree to have volunteers help the kids shop and do it on a single night (fundraising)

• Kim J. is going to look into Five Below fundraisers as a possible option for next year

• Union Soccer Game (Philadelphia)

• Possible fundraiser that Kim J. is looking to put out to the school

• Kim J. to check with Sports Boosters to make sure that is not overlapping with other sports events

Email addresses

• pto@educatingforlife.com add forwarding to Elizabeth and Tyler

• Work with

• Believe we are good with the distribution list

• Use a new email when changing the subject

• Tyler to create a new pto executive email address

Budgeting

IEW funds remainnig

• Work with Jill to put requests in

• Jill is going to review costs to see if additional reimbursements to the school may be needed

Voting and Bylaws

• Tyler to revise based on active attendees

Performing Arts Boosters

• Barbara will draft an email to re-allocate underruns for mics and new spotlight

Small Fundraisers

• Signed up for Giant and starting to receive money

• Spirit Wear - Cheryl just got her first check of $433

Jenny to send out the doodle for next meeting