PTO EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

January 11, 2005

v Convened 7:00 p.m.

v In Attendance: PTO President Pam Taylor
PTO Vice-President Victoria Myer
Principal Myra Bugbee

Secretary Sandee Steinberg
Treasurer Kim Liu

Secretary Sandee Steinberg

Trustee Randee Tengi

Trustee Ned Fletcher

· Summer Vacation Workbooks were presented by the Sally Foster representative. The workbooks cost $12 each. This is not a fundraiser, but the school can earn points toward a reward (such as a digital camera, etc.). Myra will get input from some teachers on the workbooks.

· Family Night Readover—The Girl Scouts are collecting paper back books for the Troops serving in Iraq. People may donate books at Family Night.

· New Families—Victoria drafted a letter from the PTO board welcoming new families to Tollgate. The office will notify the board when a new family starts at Tollgate. The board will call them and provide them with a packet introducing the new family to the TG PTO, a collecting some information from the family.

· Newletter – We discussed the newsletter format and the current schedule. Articles are due by 1/19. The newsletter should be ready for copying on 1/31. Another newsletter will go out in April and then again in late May/early June.

· Future PTO meeting format was discussed. We would like to get more people involved in the PTO, create a sense of community. Some possible options were to have longer exec meetings and shorter general meetings with the bulk of the general meeting being a presentation by an invited speaker. The next general meeting on February 3^rd will be a working meeting to get input and discuss the format of future PTO meetings.

· Readathon – The Readathon will be in place of the usual Spring Bookfair. The Readathon will raise money by having students collect money for each minute that they read during a given period. Half of the money will got to the PTO and half will go to the Media Center. The Readathon will kick off will be at the January 28^th school meeting. It will finish on March 2^nd with a celebration. The Readathon theme will be “Got Books”.

· Mini-Grants are due by May 15^th.

· Upcoming Dates:
Friday January 14^th – Circus Day at Tollgate
Thursday January 20^th – Readover Family Night
January 27, February 1, February 3^rd – Mini-Olympics for Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd graders
Friday January 28^th – Readathon kickoff day
March 2^nd – Readathon celebration
Friday May 12^th – PTO Chairperson Thankyou Breakfast
June 3^rd – Tollgate Night at Trenton Thunder

v Adjourned 9:20 p.m.