St. James Home & School/Regular Meeting
April 25, 2017 at 6:30pm
Tobin Hall
Present: Roberta Stakland, Suzanne Horak, Rachel Berdo, Dianna Flannery, Sonya Love-Smith
*Welcome
*School Report, Beth McBride—Not present
Secretary Report: The report was reviewed individually.
MSC: Rachel B, Roberta S. To approve the secretary report for March.
*Treasurer’s Report, Rachel Berdo
Rachel reviewed the treasurer’s report.
Currently: H & S Checking--$22,946.58
H & S Savings--$6,212.39
Total-- $29,158.97
MSC: Suzanne H., Diana F. To approve the treasurer’s report for March.
*New Business
*Spring Concert—Callie sent out an email about items still needed. The concert is May 10th!
*Graduation—Amanda & Suzanne have met & are working on it. 5th grade graduation is May 20th.
*Old Business
*Preschool event March 30—There were 5 preschools present for the night. Not many families came to register. It was great to host the event.
*Old Cremery program—May 16th from 2 to 3pm
*The Big Event--The expected profit is $8,000 which is similar to previous years. There are still bills out that need to be settled up. The silent auction went really well this year! There were lots of great reviews about food & décor. There were 206 tickets sold for The Big Event, with Jeanne Kos being the winner of the $10,000.
Ideas were discussed for the next Big Event. Rachel updated the Google doc with the ideas. Dates were discussed & the final date will be decided by the start of school next year. Ticket sales were discussed. There are only a few people selling tickets & this is making it hard for ticket sales. Ideas were discussed & noted.
*Teacher Appreciation Week—Laurie & Stacey have it covered.
*VSP Review of volunteer needs
The list of needs was reviewed by Rachel. It was discussed getting the volunteer list ready for next school year, what is going well & what is maybe needing a boost. We discussed the covering recess volunteer spot. Sonya will get with the teachers & see if this is being utilized for teachers to get together for all staff planning time or if we should be using the H & S resources elsewhere. She will bring them to the next meeting.
*Other business—
*Date of Next Meeting-
It was decided that the next meeting would be in July. It will be announced at a later date.
Respectfully submitted,
Sonya Love-Smith
St. James Home & School Secretary
We ask for God’s blessing on St. James Parish
Lord, grant us the will to work together,
The wisdom to listen to each other’s views,
And the insight to plan together, in recognition of our role in supporting one another.
Help us to build St. James School as one that supports the development of each individual child,
And provides a focus for the local community, especially in this, our 150th school year.
Let our school become an example of Christian witness in our world
And Christian roots in our community. Amen