Nov PAC Meeting Minutes

Garibaldi PAC Meeting
 November 10, 2013

Attendance:

Lorraine Baker

Joel Ronne (Chair)

Caroline La Pointe

Lisa Nessi

Andrea Lloyd

Julie Beer

Sandra Larsen

Trudy O’Neill

Kerry McCullagh

Joel called meeting to order and asked for any additions to the agenda. Two issues were put forward:

• Caroline: request to move financial updates up on the Agenda
• Discussion of playground rules – request for clarification

A motion was made to accept the agenda, to adopt the minutes for the October PAC meeting.

1) Treasury Report

Treasury update.

Total amount: $6,1073.78.

PAC account: $4627.27

Chequing: $1546.51 (minus one cheque for $50.40 that hasn’t been cashed yet).

Three cheques cashed last month:

$137.60 – Jana garden signs

$361 – Julie bulb sale

$25 – babysitter for last PAC

2) Vice Principal update – Lorraine Baker

- 1st round of photos taken for students. We now have library cards

- Teachers doing in-service this month – Music Pro-D – music, play (6 hours of instruction, with facilitators on-site).

- 2 trained one-to-one reading volunteers, specifically trained for remedial learning to address ‘top-up’ needs, as part of a pilot project

- Parents are informed if their kids are involved with the reading program.

- Baseline date being collected through a school-wide ‘write’. (Baseline to be compared with spring.)

- Tennis – program wraps up November 11th. Skill levels are developing.

- Gloria, the music resource teacher, has gone on maternity leave earlier than anticipated. In her place, Thanh Ngo, will be working 2 days/week.

3) Committees:

3a) Movie Night

Pizza night – raised $200 – a great success.
Next Wednesday November 20th is the next movie night. Movie TBC, but likely “Monster’s University”. December movie TBC – depending on whether new Music Teacher can help arrange the Winter Concert.

3b) Garden Committee:

Harvest Festival was wonderful

• kids made bird-feeders and hand-stamped cards
• homemade stone soup, raspberry jam, cocoa and apple cider enjoyed by all

Garden winter clean-up to be arranged soon. The garden signs were painted by the children at the festival and are ready to be put up. Aiming for spring to put up signs.

Received fruit trees from Parks Board through grant. Will plant in spring in NE corner of school near bike rack.

3c) Fundraising Committee

Are looking at planning for an early 2014 party, possibly a Valentine-themed party.

First Popcorn Fundraiser November 11th! For December, the plan is to have another food fundraiser. Usually during the Winter Concert, coffee and cookies are sold to the adults. If no Concert, then it’ll be a Popcorn Fundraiser again.

4) New Business/Ideas for PAC Activities:

4a) PAC needs to be proactive about registration and push VSB on the sibling and boundary issue.

NB: Lorraine cannot be an advocate for the issue, so she excused herself from the meeting.  Therefore, this item will be revisited in an Executive Meeting.

Re: VSB

Don’t think we are going through another set of closures, but instead focus on utilizing space better. VSB needs the budget down, but not through closing schools. It’s good news, and this merits more discussion.

4b) BCTF gives free presentations for parents if we request it: eg. Anti-bullying/supporting your child’s learning, etc. Lorraine suggested the multi-purpose are could be used for these presentations. Also, a free workshop from a technology business has been offered – “Accomplished Learning Centre”

5) Budget

Joel handed out copies of the budget updates.

Items:

Class Supplies and Equipment

• Gator foam balls:$300 approved
• Magnets sets for Mrs. Moino:$150 approved

-    Classroom books Mrs. Rosati class - $500: approved (some work needs to be done for reader leveling and the library system)

- $100 missing lunch fund: approved

• Minerals sample $50: approved

Fine Arts and Culture

• Performances and culture - $1200: approved, but not allocated yet

Sports

• Sports $1000 approved for all sport, but not allocated yet (includes tennis lessons - $400)

Field Trips

• Field trips – To be determined

Capital items

- Boot scraper - $100 approved

- Soccer target - $150 approved

- Laminator bought – some funds taken from the Library Fund.

6) A discussion and informal vote for the best time to hold PAC meetings was held. Decision made to go back to the evening time, after testing out the after school time for this meeting.

Next PAC meeting on December 11. at 6:00pm.

The meeting was adjourned.