1. Welcome
2. Adopt previous meeting minutes
3. VP Report - Lorraine Baker
4. Financial Report
5. Committees
6. Spending Requests & Allocations
7. Other Business - Discuss Thursday, January 22nd meeting with Denise Johnson, Board of Education
8. Next Meeting - February 11, 2015
9. Adjourn
Minutes of Garibaldi PAC Meeting – December 3rd, 2014
Attendance:
Lorraine Baker
PAC Executive (4)
General PAC Members (2)
Metta Hamaguchi, Lord Nelson Principal
Margie Trovao, Lord Nelson Vice Principal
Agenda:
• Welcome; Adopt previous meeting minutes
• VP Report
• Special guest report Metta Hamaguchi and Margie Tovao, Lord Nelson Principal and Vice-Principal
• Financial Report
• Committee Reports
• Spending Requests
• Other Business
• Next Meeting
• Adjourn
• Welcome and Approval of Minutes
• Welcome to Metta and Margie from Lord Nelson
• Minutes adopted; Sandra move to adopt November minutes.
• VP Updates: Lorraine Baker
• Thanks from Lorraine for care from everyone regarding her injury
• Since last meeting:
• Mobile Dairy visit with 6 day old calf; children learned about where milk comes from 4H presenter
• School photos taken (date of photo re-takes to be confirmed)
• Library barcodes
• Children performed at Lord Nelson for Remembrance Day – very special and thank you to Lord Nelson for the invitation
• November 28th Pro D Day – afternoon spent on school growth goals; morning spent on iPad learning cart – use of iPads, apps (e-books, embedding video, etc) and how to enrich and extend these tools
• Audrey Von Alsten has volunteered to come to school to meet with parents to learn about how to use these resources
• At Lord Nelson, Metta and Margie work very closely with iPads and it has been very successful with high student engagement
• “Snow Rules” – reiterated policy
• Pedestrian safety – Constable from VPD did a presentation on pedestrian safety
• School administration asked to look around for “attractive nuisances” for children after a child fell off a school roof on a weekend; the school was found partially responsible
• Security buzzer installation for Board employees – North exit by bike racks
• Ms. Rosati – Dec. 5 is Ms. Rosati’s last day. ToC will fill post until January. Closing date for maternity leave posting was Dec. 1st – 8 applications.
- End of VP Updates
• Special Guest report – Metta Hamaguchi and Margie Tovao, Lord Nelson
• Sandra invited Metta and Margie to say a few words. Garibaldi is the annex of Lord Nelson and most children at Garibaldi transition to Lord Nelson for Grade 5
• Metta and Margie shared Lord Nelson’s Code of Conduct and School Handbook
• Metta invited interested parents to come to Lord Nelson events - January 20th Kindergarten night and January 26th presentation from parent/neuroscientisist on how children learn
• For children transitioning to Lord Nelson, there is a school tour for the kids scheduled for sometime in May. Parents are welcome to attend with their kids
• If you have a child with a special need, there is additional support available from Lord Nelson resource teachers in assist in making the Garibaldi – Lord Nelson transition a smooth one
• Financial Report
• Lisa presented financial updates and the Draft Budget
• 2 accounts: $2486.16 (Savings); $3136.65 (Gaming)
• Budget for year - $7348 to fund a year’s activities
• Healthy financial balance; the fundraising goal is to shoot for an additional $3500 (eg. Movie nights, manure sale, popcorn and bake sales, other fundraising TBD by fundraising committee)
• Some activities have already been paid for (eg. Teacher allocations for consumables, tennis, Pumpkin Patch)
• Teachers have been asked to price out their Wish List items
• The Draft Budget can by passed to next year’s PAC – thanks to Lisa and Sandra
• Move to accept Draft Budget – Lisa moved; Angela accepted.
• Committee Reports
No spending requests at this time. The Kitchen Committee will put together a Wish List for items for kitchen; Lisa will spread the word about the upcoming hot lunch
Movie Night Committee:
• Next movie night: January 28th – to be confirmed
Garden Committee:
• Nothing to report; everything is frozen
Kitchen Committee:
• Hot lunch planned for December 5th
• Bake sale planned during holiday concert (afternoon and evening) on December 17th
Fundraising:
• Sandra suggest organizing a PAC fundraising committee meeting for January to discuss options
Sustainability
• Clothing and boot swap went very well
• Other Business
• MuseWest – two music concerts are organized for Spring term; first one is January 14th; honorarium for performers approved at previous PAC meeting
• District PAC representative – Angela is looking for someone who can represent Garibaldi at the DPAC meetings. Meetings are weekday evenings. Angela will let us know and we can try to make sure that we have a representative attend
• Meeting with VSB’s Scott Robinson on December 2nd. As follow-up, Ann-Marie will collate the key messages from the meeting so that we can send the summary to the Board and also relay the message back to the parent community
Meeting Adjourned
Next meeting: January 14th at 6pm