1) WELCOME/OPENING PRAYER

Mary Kent welcomed everyone and led the Board in prayer. Those in attendace:

Mr. Kevin Vance	Theresa Eve	Mary Kent
Connie Allen	Sandy Frank	Beth Mastriani
Mary Allgeier	Laura Hagen	Theresa McGoron
Cheryl Asper	Mary Hanson	Bridgett Raffenberg
Sue CaJacob	Michelle Heyob	Fran Vanarsdall
Kathy Downey	Laura Kalas	Amy Zust

 

2) SECRETARY'S REPORT

Attendance sheet was passed around. No further report was given.

3) TREASURER'S REPORT

Theresa McGoron reported a checking account balance of $8,275.21 and a savings account balance of $5,255.51.

4) FATHER JACK

Fr. Jack was not in attendance.

5) PRINCIPAL

The 8th graders leave in the morning (3/21) for their trip to Washington D.C. and will return on Saturday. (3/24). Mr.Vance and several other adult chaperones will be traveling with the students. One very exciting event that may take place is the witnessing of and/or participation in the unveiling of the Education Act by President Bush. In light of the recent tragedies at other schools around the country, our faculty met to refresh themselves on school procedures should such a tragedy ever befall St.Vivian School. The office has recieved several phone calls asking what plans have been made in way of honoring Mrs. Dodd's memory. Plans are still in the works, but nothing will be finalized without the approval of Mrs. Dodd's family. A decision should be made sometime after Easter. A group of 10-12 performers recently visited St.Vivian to give a jump-roping exhibition that "rocked the house"! Mr.Vance expressed his appreciation for all of the fund-raising efforts of the Board.

6) GENERAL BUSINESS

a) The Parisian sales event went very well. Thanks to Laura Hagen, Theresa McGoron, Joy Gunza and Amy Zust for selling the tickets. Fourteen tickets were sold for a profit of $70.00.

b) Kathy Downey's allergy survey was an enormous success, raising over $1000.00 for the PTA.

c) Thirty-nine letters were sent to prospective Board Members for the 2001-02 school year. As of this meeting, eleven responses have been received, with four of these being possitive. Mary Kent plans to call those who have not responded to encourage participation.

7) NEW BUSINESS

a) The Ice Cream Social will take place on Wednesday, April 25th. Mary Allgeier has secured a soda pop donation from Kroger and an ice cream donation from Meijer is in the works. The entertainment will be provided by magician Tom Benmes. A sign-up sheet was passed around for volunteers willing to help with set-up, serving and clean-up the night of the event.

b) The Walk-a-thon will take place on Friday, April 27th. Everything is proceeding according to schedule. Laura Kalas passed around the frisbee which will be given to each of the Walk-a-thon participants.(It's red with a white St.Vivian logo.) The way sponsorships are done has been changed for this year. There will be different levels of business sponsorship that a company can commit to, compared to the unstructured way of giving in years past. It's hoped we can reachthe same levels of success as other schools in our area have accomplished.

c) The Falculty/Staff Appreciation Dinner will take place on Wednesday, May 16th at The Grove.

d) It was decided that the PTA will provide lunch to the students on Track-n-field Day, as was done last year.

e) Plans for Graduation are going well.

f) The Officers for the 2001-02 PTA Board were elected. The new Officers will be:

President Bridgett Raffenberg

Recording Secretary Mary Doyle

Vice President Kathy Downey

Corresponding Secretary Mary Allgeier

2nd Vice Pres. Suzanne CaJacob

Treasurer Fran Vanarsdall

8) OTHER BUSINESS

a) Update on the PTA's financial responsibility to the school for the 2001-02 school year - Mary Kent spoke with Tom Bove and the budget has not yet been set, so he wasn't sure what they would be asking the PTA to contribute for the next school year. There was lengthy discussion as to what the Board felt the PTA's true financial responsibility was to the general budget. It was agreed that this responsibility should be phased out in the near future.

b) New fund-raising ideas were discussed. Sue CaJacob presented her idea for selling temporarytattoos bearing the St.Vivian logo. This idea was received with a great deal of enthusiasm and will be looked into.

9) ADJOURNMENT - The meeting was adjourned at 8:51p.m.

***There is no Board meeting in April due to the Ice Cream Social***

NEXT MEETING - May 15th at 7:00 p.m. in the Ursuline room. This is the last Board meeting for the 2000-01 school year!

Respectfully submitted,

Amy Zust