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Esther Jackson Elementary PTA Board
Meeting Minutes
October 21, 2014
Present:
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Dan MacLagan, Shannol Grant, Tia MacLagan, Jennifer
Cassidy, Lisa Stamey, Becky Anderson, Karen Weatherspoon, Sunday Farmwald,
Cheryl Maloch, Paige Janco, Debbra Sparks, Leslie Greindl, Emilie Long
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Location:
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EJ Media Center
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Next meeting:
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November 20th 5:30pm, During Chorus Concert and
Multicultural Night (Budget Vote)
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Welcome and Call
to Order: 6:35pm by Daniel
MacLagan
Principal’s
Address – Ms. Cassidy
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Fun Time Live has gone through the Fulton County
Schools approval process and is on track to begin soon. (In next few weeks.)
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Would like to thank parents who attended the
Round One Redistricting Meeting. The
Round Two Meeting is on November 5th at Alpharetta High school and
will be very important to have a presence from EJ at that meeting. It will be where the proposed maps are shown.
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There will be a Community Meeting at EJ on
November 10th at 6:30pm regarding the new school. This will include plans and the architect and
construction manager will be there.
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There was a great parent workshop last week
given by Summit Counseling Center. It
was not well attended, but well received by parents.
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School system bought license for Peachjar.com to
send out flyers in e-mail. Outside
organizations, such as PTA can request that flyers be sent out. This will be an
option for us to send flyers instead of paper.
President’s
Address – Dan MacLagan and Shannol Grant
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Tia went over the proposed budgets.
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There was a discussion on the Annual Fund drive
and the lower amount of donations this year.
We will have to reduce or cut some items from the budget unless more
funds are raised.
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We discussed ways to continue to raise money
with the Annual Fund.
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Shannol and Dan talked about some other fund
raising ideas, such as Reading for Education.
Committee Reports
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Spirit Wear
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8 designs are out on Café Press and ready to
order
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Need to advertise
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Spirit Nights
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Sky Zone will be moved to Wed the 12 in Nov due
to conflict on the 13 with Multicultural/Chorus Event
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Still having low turnouts
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Thursdays seem to have higher turnouts
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To increase attendance, every month, if any
class has over a 50% attendance, they will get a pizza party.
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Planning a Monterrey’s night in November, date
TBD.
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Directory
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Shannol mentioned that this is the time of the
year when the directory is normally out.
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STEM Day – Nov 7th
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Becky and Ms. Cassidy gave STEM Day update:
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2 Assemblies have been booked with Big Thinkers
Science Exploration. They will be held
for PK-2nd from 8:15 – 9:15 and for 3rd-5th from 9:45 –
10:45.
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Each grade has chosen a theme and will have
students do a hand’s on project around that theme.
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The teachers are sending home requests for
supply donations for the projects.
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Grandparent’s Day – Lisa Stamey
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With budget being cut, we will still have money
for the turkey raffle, but will need donations of gift cards for the
raffle. (This is the raffle that families
enter in the teacher’s name, where the teachers get the prize if they win.)
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Book Fair – 11/17 – 11/21
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Needs volunteers!
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Dad’s Club
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Working with teachers at school on the new Boys
Club (4th and 5th grade boys.)
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Boys Club meets on Wednesdays and will work on
projects.
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Dad’s Club kickoff went well – 8 dads at meeting
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Mystery Reader Day – Nov 5th
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Julie Paz is organizing, needs readers
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This is traditionally Fall Volunteer Day, but
since there are not a lot of projects this year due to the building tear down,
it was decided to hold MRD instead.
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A discussion was held about whether Kindergarten
would still need help with the Thanksgiving Feast items that are normally
assembled by volunteers during Fall Volunteer Day. It was determined they
would, so some of the volunteer readers might be asked to assist with that as
well.
New Business
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Paige mentioned that during the redistricting
meeting, she learned that Hillside utilizes Mt. Pisgah buses to transport
families from apartments to and from evening events at the school. Ms. Cassidy made a note to check into.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:00
by Dan MacLagan
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