1) WELCOME/OPENING PRAYER

Beckie Meyer welcomed everyone and led everyone in prayer. Those in attendance:

Mr. Vance	Mary Hanson
Father Jack	Mary Jo Heekin
Connie Allen	Michelle Heyob
Cheryl Asper	Mary Kent
Joan Eckart	Polly Lacker
Chris Elsen	Theresa McGoron
Theresa Eve	Sally Merkle
Sandy Frank	Beckie Meyer
Joy Gunza	Amy Zust

2) SECRETARY'S REPORT

No report

3) TREASURER'S REPORT

Theresa McGoron reported a checking account balance of $14,394.57 and a savings account balance of $5,100.75. P & G Survey brought in $960.00.

4) FATHER JACK

George Charrier is stepping down as editor of Vibrations, since he is leaving the parish. Pat Frey is one of the people mentioned who will be co-editor of this quarterly newsletter.

The parish will purchase the organ that has been displayed in church over the last month. The cost of the organ is $60,000. They have received approximately half the money in donations. Tom Bove will speak at all of the masses in regards to additional donations. The balance of money needed would be borrowed from the Archdiocese with fifteen years to pay off.

The annual St. Patrick's Day Party will be held on March 18th. Stan Riley will set up. Randy Kent helped with creating extra space in the storage room to the left of the stage in the Activity Center. He installed an extra floor between floor and ceiling to help store props (above) and sports equipment (below).

5) PRINCIPAL

Mr. Vance would like to thank all the parents for their patience during the Christmas programs. All three performances had excellent attendance.

On our day off for Martin Luther King Day, fourteen people from Great American Financial Corp. donated their time and supplies to paint some of the lockers in the classrooms.

St. Vivian's has at least four new families who have enrolled their children in our school. Sally Merkle will send them a letter from the PTA.

Dale and Mary Hanson have been working on a new look for our school logo and PR material. Mr. Vance set out some examples of the possible logos and would like feedback this evening.

Over the past weekend, many of our eighth graders received notification regarding high school placement.

Their were scholarships awarded anywhere from $350.00 to $9000.00. Approximately three students from St. Vivians scored the highest score on the placement tests that were given to all students applying to those schools.

Everyone was given a copy of the outline for Catholic Schools Week. The Open House for new students in Kindergarten and First grade was moved to Thursday, February 3rd. Since registration is coming soon, he is trying to target enrollment for the pre-school, kindergarten and first grades.

To celebrate the millennium: he would like to have each child in the school give at least six names of people they can send prayers to and hope to get a response from. The goal would be 2000 prayers and they would celebrate by planting a tree.

Mr. Vance has been getting quite a few calls from people at other parishes who may be interested in changing schools. We need to increase enrollment, but would like to stay with a maximum of 24 students per classroom.

Sally Merkle brought up questions regarding Voucher Program (Grants), Mr. Vance told the PTA that the program is for inner city children who have a desire to attend private school and cannot afford the full tuition. It requires that the family pay a certain percentage of the tuition and follow certain attendance and grade criteria.

Possible "Lock Down" that was discussed at last meeting - no additional information at this time.

6) OLD BUSINESS

a). Santa Shop-Mary Jo felt that it went well and received good feedback. Kids enjoyed it. Santa Shop made $150.00. Mrs. Heyob felt it worked out better this year. PTA agreed to continue next year.

b). Christmas Tree-third grade class enjoyed making ornaments and they turned out cute.

c). Breakfast with Santa- The Santas did a great job &endash; thanks to Stan Riley and Steve Meyer. Kim Parker and Nancy Burck felt that the pancake breakfast did better in the past without Santa. Possibility of having Santa at a December Donut Sunday instead.

d). Christmas Dinner for Teachers-Mrs. Heyob enjoyed the dinner at Martino's on Vine. Thanks from the teachers.

e). Gift for Pre-School-Thank You note from Cindy McMahon and the pre-school class for the money to buy equipment.

7) NEW BUSINESS

a). Ad for Basketball Tournament-Laura Hagen asked the PTA for $150 for a full-page ad in the program &endash; Beckie Okayed.

b). Market Day-note from Ann, Market Day made $637 for the month of December and paid each of the four classrooms for the Market Day Tally $31.50. February special is to get orders for 200 pizzas and St. Vivian's would receive $590.00.

c). Catholic Schools week 1/31 to 2/4-Theresa McGoron will pick up ice cream and ice cream will be given out on Friday of that week at 1:00.

d). Teacher Appreciation Dinner-Mary Jo passed a list around for people to sign up to bring certain dinner items. Idea to give teachers a $20 gift certificate to Applebee's.

e). March Board Meeting- time change to 6:30 since this is a dinner meeting.

f). Ice Cream Social-majority of the PTA board felt that floats seemed to work the best for this event. Chris will discuss planning with Mary Kent and Mary Hanson. Kroger and Meijer are possible places to try for donation of ice cream and pop.

g). Walk-A-Thon-Polly will meet with Theresa, Cheryl and Joan regarding planning for this event. Polly would like to give each kid a better water bottle this year for participation. Kathy Hartmann is also helping with sponsorship.

h). Faculty/Staff Appreciation Dinner-Sally would like to have the dinner at the Grove on May 10th from 5-9:00. She received good feedback last year regarding food and location. She would like to use old St. Vivian letterhead for the invitation, which was Okayed.

i). Track-N-Field Day-Rhonda Morgan is chairing this event and Pam Bias-Daniels is the co-chair.

j). Graduation Day-Connie Allen spoke with Martha Siegel regarding Graduation planning and received a lot of information to use. She has left a message for the same DJ that was hired last year and has hired Craycroft Photography for the pictures. She would like to have the entire Graduation ceremony and party in one area this year instead of using both the Activity Center and Cafeteria.

k). Officers for Next Year's PTA-vote for five people to replace current officers. Mary Jo Heekin and Chris Elsen will be the committee in charge of possible candidates.

8) OTHER BUSINESS

a). Chairs for other 4th grade class-since Miss Guerity's classroom received the new desks and chairs, Miss Hendricks has expressed interest in getting chairs for her class also.

b). Dishwasher in cafeteria-there is no immediate plans to fix or replace the dishwasher. The current dishwasher is at least 15 years old and a new one would cost around $10,000.00. Michelle feels that the Styrofoam trays are working out well-cost wise and for easy clean up at lunchtime. Now they will only need two parents for cafeteria instead of three.

9) ADJOURNMENT - The meeting was adjourned at 8:40.

NEXT MEETING- Tuesday February 15th in the Ursuline Hall at 7:00 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

Chris Elsen