WELCOME/OPENING PRAYER

Bridget welcomed everyone and led the Board in prayer. Those in attendance:

Rich Gunza		Karen Rutz
Theresa Eve		Mary Joan Heckle		Molly Shumate
Sue CaJacob		Fran Vanarsdall		Barb Ballinger
Bill Cavanaugh		Julie Phillippi		Mary Volker
Kathy Downey		Bridgett Raffenberg		Rose Young
Mary Doyle

2) SECRETARY'S REPORT

Attendance Sheet was passed around. No other report was given. Need to fix date on last minutes.

3) TREASURER'S REPORT

Fran presented the treasurer's Report. Earnings for the month were $1496.64. Expenses were $2500 for Computers and $2000 for Quarterly School Pledge. Balance is $11,496.76 in checking and 2675.69 in savings.

4) FATHER JACK

Fr. Jack was not in attendance.

5) PRINCIPAL

a.) He expressed his and the teachers thank you for the PTA Teacher Dinner on Conference Night.

b.) Michelle Zins worked hard on the Book Fair. They raised approximately $1600 for the Library. There was approximately $5400 in sales. The teachers received $250 toward their wish list.

c.) He reported that school was closed due to illness. There were approximately 40-50 kids out each day prior to the days off.

d.) The new bus procedure has been implemented. He would like everyone to bear with it until they get all the bugs worked out. He is requesting that no one park in the first two rows and to watch out for children walking in from parked cars.

e.) The Playground committee has been working hard. There report will follow

f.) He reported that the Maintenance staff will install the ceiling fans for the classrooms on either Spring or Summer Breaks.

6) GENERAL BUSINESS

a) The General PTA meeting only had 9 people in attendance.

b) The Ice Cream Social is on schedule. This year we will have some Break Dancers from St. Xavier High School

c) Pancake committee will meet on the 21st.

d) Barb Ballinger reported on the Lynda Dodd Memorial. The sale of stones is over. 211 bricks were sold. A mason has been chosen and is doing the work for costs. We plan on having some UC design students design the area. She is looking for ideas to add. Suggestions have been stone benches, which are very costly. The groundbreaking Ceremony is March 11th on her Birthday.

e) Teacher Appreciation Dinner went well. Plenty of food was available. Need to request more diet soda. Suggestions were offered that maybe in the future there should be a theme, i.e. Soups. Recipes should also be provided for the homemade items.

f) Candle Sale went well on Conference Night. 40 candles were sold. We make $1.50/candle. Hopefully the remainder of the sale will also do well.

7) NEW BUSINESS

a) Parisian contacted for their special sale event. The notice was too close to advertise well. It was declined. Elder Beerman is also doing a sale event. Barb Ballinger will prepare notice for Elder Beerman coupon books.

b) Walk-a-thon Committee discussed some ideas for this year. The date is Friday May 3rd. We are requesting if anyone has any wonderful prizes to donate to the give-away. Ideas were discussed as to how to involve the upper grades. Mr. Cavanaugh was requested to talk over with teachers as to what goals and incentives would be appealing to the upper grades. We need to do a better job at getting sponsors money.

c) The Faculty/Staff Meeting is progressing. It was determined who is invited to this meeting.

d) The Track and Field Event does not have a date yet.

e) Graduation Date has been set for June 6th at 7:00 p.m.

f) Nominating Committee will be voting in March for new officers

g) Kathy Downing presented the PTA will their conclusions for Playground ideas. There were several phases presented. Phase I: They put together a list of items that need to be purchased for the children. It will include equipment and painting of lines on the blacktop. Estimated costs were $1700. She was reminded that each year replacement funds would be needed for lost items. Phase II: This phase involved putting in picnic tables for the children to sit at under the trees by Kindergarten and Preschool rooms. Estimated costs $1300 for 2 quality long lasting tables. Phase III: Involves fencing the area by the street so balls do not leave the area. Estimated costs for this is $2700. Questions were raised with this phase so they need to be resolved. Other ideas were Magical Mondays in the Activity Center, Gardening, and Exchange Program with St. Rita's School and Clovernook. $3000 was approved for Phase I and II. Additional funds may become available at the end of the year when Walk-a-Thon is over.

h) Ceiling fans were approved at $50/fan. $2000 was approved to start the purchases. Also it was brought up that Mrs. Ortman's office would need something as well. Her area will require an air conditioner unit due to no windows. Hopefully we will have enough funds to consider this request as well.

i) A new school supplies company was introduced. They will do the same packages as our other supplier with the exception of Kleenex and paper towels. This new company will box up the supplies in a keepsake box that is color coded by grade.

8) ADJOURNMENT &endash; The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Next meeting is March 20th.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Doyle