PAC Meeting Notes for Monday, November 18, 2019

Principal’s Report

Welcome back Katie! Shannon Diedrick did a great job!
Staff do not see a need for a room parent, i.e., holiday events coordination, volunteer help, etc; all seems to go well at the current time.
P-T Conferences: thanks from staff for the meals; On 2^nd night parents of K and 4K given note supporting PAC
Raised over $1,000 (staff wearing jeans) and Penny Wars for the family who recently lost their home to a fire
Enforcing a 7:35 am drop-off of students due to kids being dropped off as early as 7:10am
Exceeding expectations in the district per the school “report card” that recently came out
Halloween concert went well; middle and high school students came to perform

Treasurer’s Report

Beginning checkbook balance (11/18/19): $13,402.02
Most of the checkbook balance is allocated to date
Erin has not heard from Mr. Menting or Mr. Maronek re: flexible seating for their classrooms
Teacher reimbursements still open; will close January 31, 2020
Wish List: Erin sent a reminder note to staff. Will be sending to families next week

Badger Sports Night – Thurs., Nov. 7th:

Spirit Wear Fundraiser

Final tabulation: $6,700 estimated profit; 250 orders, over 1,000 products ordered
Terri noted there may be an ability to order more items per a number of requests; she needs to review
Socks are on their way; hats to come in another week; water bottles still to come. Some clothing items still coming
Looking to move up to earlier in the school year, i.e., September due to many requests for orders from parents; may also have product available for cash sales at Open House
Thank you to the volunteers who helped out!

Artist in Residence

Allocated $5,500 for artist (Steven); he will be here March 16-27; he no longer lives in Wisconsin, so he asked if PAC would cover his hotel stay Monday-Thursday each week; Amanda Hedtke offered her hotel rate at $39/night (tax exempt; $156/week); it was approved to cover the hotel stay
Sue Rudolph noted volunteers will be needed; a sheet will be posted for volunteers to sign up; Rebekah Byers volunteered to coordinate volunteer sign up
More newspaper needed for event

Conference Meals

Amanda Hedtke noted first night was soup, crackers & veggies. Second night was hot sandwiches (some people signed up, but things didn’t show up or eaten during the day); a little bit of a scramble to cover to have enough food
Hoping teachers will encourage parent participation in PAC to help with such events

Cookie Dough Fundraiser

Sale ended Nov. 15^th; delivery is Thurs., Dec. 12
To date, we’ve brought in around ($19,000 in orders; $5,000 online orders), with a profit of almost $9,000
One order had approximately $1,300 in sales!!!!
No tallied yet, but teachers incentive of at least 50% was encouraged
Pizza parties still to be determined
Need volunteers to help sort and with pick-ups on Thurs., Dec. 12

School Dance—Fri., Feb. 7th

Brain Bowl – February

Kimberly Groenjes to coordinate; students through 2^nd grade participate
Kimberly looked through the questions and made updates; to email to Judy K. to teachers review updated question listing for review
Pledge sheet has volunteer info at the bottom; Erin suggested moving it to the top to make parents aware; sheets and questions to be sent out early January to students
Pencils handed out for participation when pledges are brought in; it was suggested to look at other incentive items to hand out instead of pencils
Pizza party(s) for top-earning class(es)

Plastic Recycling (ongoing):

450# to date (11/18/19)
A grandmother contacted Erin and volunteered to weigh and turn in to location(s) as she saves a lot of plastic
Ends in April (Earth Day)

Teacher/Staff Requests:

Erin received from an inquiry from Amy Stirk (OT for FES); OT and PT are contracted employees, but asked if they could be included in the teacher gift disbursements in order to purchase needed items for their room use (for students); it would be understood that anything purchased via PAC would need to be left at the school if/when they depart FES; it was approved to include them as part of the $100 teacher gift/reimbursement (same guidelines as teachers)

New Business:

Amanda Hedtke won the $10 target gift card raffle

If you have questions or comments, please email freedompac1@gmail.com

Next meeting date: Monday, January 20, 2020, 6:00 pm, Room 22, Art Room

There is no December meeting. See you in January!