PTG Meeting October 9, 2013
*Elections
*Fall Fundraiser
*Budget 2013-14
Formalize elections
-President: Hemant Mallavaram
-VP: Alicia O’Brien
-Treasurer: Jody Myers
-Secretary: Roz Arneth
Co-Treasurer: Oxana Longinova
All were voted in
We are in need of a community outreach coordinator for next year.
Fall Fundraiser: Roxana
Timing did not work out this year. Next year-community event, fun family event.
Issues with Applefest timing needs to be worked out
Ideas for fall fundraising for this year:
build brick walkway-sell bricks. Donations specified for playground improvement this year.
*Plaque/s engraved on wall at school- Karen mentioned Fire Department has *conditions on wall hangings. Must be encased.
*Karen-engraving of stone wall possibility
*possibly engraved bricks for a garden in the back of the school. Possibility of alumni donating.
Cookbook fundraiser-all families donate a couple of recipes-est. *
$10-$15 sale amount.
*Others mentioned higher price could be charged.
*Suggestions were to have student favorites or family favorites for recipes along with picture of child and/or drawing by child
Roxana would like to do both cookbook and engraving project
Spring Festa
*need to pick a date
*feedback on venues from past-both were positive
*This year possibly Nashoba winery with a jazz quartet
Budget
*Discussed whether to continue with AppleFest or not. Profits have been diminishing since change of venue happened.
*Removed Hannafords from budget category
*planning to up Uno’s nights out from 4 to 6 times throughout the year*more discussion about bricks for budget purposes-up to 6 lines/20 characters per line/$35 purchase price a brick, $5 cost of brick, estimating 50 bricks purchased. Budgeting TBD
*Field trips equally dispersed between classrooms
*removed netbooks category
*technology needs-
Beth Short- microscopes@$190/ea
Chrome books-15 @$250/ea- budgeting 5 chromebooks
(possibly of portion of above paid for by family donation)
*taxes and fees include fees paid for raffle taxes, etc.
*financial management is for ptg software
*cookbooks purchase price extended $25/ea, cost to create book $5, pre-order forms will be sent out. Estimated 50 books purchased, $1000 profit.
*question arose regarding our cash flow- whether our funding would come in before expenses needed to be made. We have starting bank balance of $10,000.
Budget approved for this year
Next PTG meeting Wednesday, November 13th @ 7pm.