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BROOKE ELEMENTARY
HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES for January 13, 2014
• CALL TO ORDER: Stephanie Shaner called the meeting to order at 7:06PM.
• PRINCIPAL’S REPORT: Mary Pat Long
Book Fair – The teachers were thrilled with the funds! December teacher appreciation ornaments – wonderfully thoughtful idea! Winter fun festival was a great event and turnout. Julia’s Buddy Bench – series of mini-fundraising activities coming up to support this  Jammie Day – Friday, January 17  Favorite Hat Day – February  Pay to eat lunch with your child – March Safety Drills continue throughout the year SMART Boards – expected April delivery End of Marking Period shifted due to snow days:  End of 2nd marking period Monday, January 27  Grades viewable on Skyward on Thursday, February 6th at 4PM. School Performance Profile – http://paschoolperformance.org/  Mrs. Long provided an excellent tutorial and answered questions about the School  All public schools in the state will receive a School Performance Profile score based on 100 points. This score will be considered the school’s academic performance score, and while not the criteria for determination of Reward, Priority, or Focus status, it details the student performance through scoring of multiple measures that define achievement.  Our school score is 92.4 (Please access the profile for information on scoring and • TEACHER’S REPORT: Mr. Laurie
• CO-PRESIDENTS’ REPORT: Steph Shaner and Jenn Dachowski
Thank you cards from Dr McCoy for teacher dinner and enjoyed bringing her 1st Grandson to the Winter Family Festival and from Mrs Wickersham for the teacher goodie bags. • RECORDING SECRETARY’S REPORT: Rebecca Mest
Minutes from last meeting of November 2013 are posted to the website. Motion to pass the November minutes was made by Michelle Christie and Kate Taylor. • CORRESPONDING SECRETARY’S REPORT: Alison Kalish
Recent update to the website – under “Calendar of Events” tab there is an event calendar for all of the upcoming events, due dates, and volunteer opportunities which provides more details. Reminder we are really cutting back on paper and only printing if it is a form that needs to be filled out or a reminder strip for an upcoming event. • TREASURER’S REPORT: Nichole Kaercher
Copies of the current Treasurer’s Report were available during the meeting. The account balances as of December 30, 2013 are: -TD Bank Checking $18,157 -TD Bank Savings $28,564 Total Motion to pass was made by Kate Taylor and Jamie Moretz • COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Basket Raffle – Dawn Householder & Jamie Moretz
Beautification – Need Chairperson
 Jenn took down the winter decorations 1/8/2014.  Thank you to the Dachowski Family for donating new decorations for the school! We now have new pre-lit garland for the polls in the lobby, new strands of lights for the trees, and command strips for securing the decorations!  Email sent out to committee chairs to dispose of or pickup items that do not belong in the H&S closet. Jenn organized the closet as much as possible after taking down the decorations.  Reminder for future winter beautification – Costco donated a $25 gift card towards the purchase of a real tree that cost only $28 at Costco. Book Fair – Shannon Megella & Michelle Christie
 Fall book fair was a success (selling a little more than last year)!  Around $1200 was raised in the coin challenge with Mrs. VonMinden’s class raising  Spring Book Fair theme is Fiesta. Hoping to have it the first week of May to coincide with Cinco de Mayo. Pending confirmation on dates with Mrs. Long.  Michelle will be attending an information session in February. Dance-a-thon – Christine Urner
Family (Bingo) Nights – Dawn Householder & Debbie Reigh
Fourth Grade Celebration – Nichole Kaercher plus 3
 Would like 1 representative from each class to help plan. Gift Card Sales – Jenn Dachowski
 The totals from the gift card sales and Five Below week are in! $0  because  we  did  not  meet  the  $500  order  to  receive  3%.  **In  the  future  we  have  to  advise  parents  that  Kohls  Cares  Gift  Cards  (only)  can  be  used  to  pay  bil s.   KidStuff Coupon Books – Jenn Dachowski and Rebecca Mest
 Plan is to offer again for the 2014-2015 school year and budget $2,000.  Will need to sign and return contract to KidStuff. Market Day – Rebecca Mest, Kim Staquet, and Staci Henkels
 January orders due online 1/23 and pickup is Wednesday 1/29  February orders due online 2/20 and pickup is Wednesday 2/26  New sorting feature starting 2014-2015 school year. All orders will come pre-sorted by costumer from Market Day reducing the number of volunteers needed at sale night! Movie Night – Board
 Showing Despicable Me 2 on January 31, 2014. Doors open 6:30 and movie starts at 7:00PM. Snow date is February 7, 2014.  Entrance will be free and snacks (popcorn/candy) and refreshments (water) will be  Will raffle movie after the showing to one lucky Brooke student attending the event.  Special thank you to the Lebiedzinski Family for donating the screen and projector for Nominating – Need Committee in April
 Open positions are Co-president, treasurer, and recording secretary.  Keep in mind that volunteers on the nominating committee are not able to run for an Olympic Day – Heather Reiter
Outreach – Nichole Kaercher
Publicity – Alison Kalish
 Beginning to work on promoting the big spring event announced at the meeting Refunding – Christine Urner, Robin Perna, and Michelle Christie
 Box Tops continue to be collected on a monthly basis. Year to date earnings are $714. Next submission is March 1, 2014 and will receive check in May. Anything submitted after March 1st will be in the December check for the 2014-2015 school year.  Asked Mrs. Long if a reminder can be added to the students homework book to send  Don’t forget to link your Giant Card and Target Red Card to Brooke Elementary Restaurant Night – Karen Canuso
 Outback Steakhouse provided 2 options; sell tickets for a fixed meal (choose 3 entrees with 2 sides and a dessert) which would cost us $6-$7 and we can sell the tickets for any price or chose a night where we will get a % of the bill. Karen will follow up with Outback and see if the tickets can be used any night.  Looking into Red Robin and Vince and Tonys for future months. Also, Rossi’s Pizza and Michelle’s Jewelry Studio were suggested as options. Santa’s Secret Shoppe: Rebecca Mest and Chelsea Lods
 Thank you to all of the volunteers that made the Santa’s Secret Shop a success! The kids really enjoyed shopping for their friends and family. School Store – Anne Schwenk
 The school store is held during recess time for grades 1-4. Upcoming dates are Friday, January 17th, February 21st, March 21st, April 11th, and May 16th.  The School Store is still happily bustling once a month with eager little shoppers. We are grateful to all the volunteers who come help the children shop. We are also thankful for the 4th grade students who help man the "cash register" - we couldn't run things so smoothly if it wasn't for their help. Spirit Wear – Steph Shaner
 All spirit wear has been delivered to the students Teacher/Staff Appreciation – Katie Druckenmiller, Dawn Svendsen
 Thank you for the donations for the teacher/staff appreciation meal in  Will reach out to volunteers once the next date is scheduled. Winter Family Festival: Dawn Householder
 Winter Family Festival was a great time! Thank you to everyone that came out to the event and for all of the volunteers that helped out! The Interact students did a great job volunteering. Yearbook – Kate Taylor
 Cover submitted and approved.  Fourth grade memories requests given to teachers and due back Friday, January 17th and class portraits handed out for review and approval.  Asked Mrs. Long for yearbook intro.  Email sent to yearbook volunteers for help typing in the 4th grade memories and page  A memory page for Julia was suggested by Jamie Moretz and will be included in the  Kate requested help from H&S for collecting the yearbook orders.
• NEW BUSINESS:
Jamie Moretz followed up with Exelon about a grant for refurbishing the library chairs and she should hear something by the end of January. Jenn DeRosa is willing to provide her expertise in refurbishing the chairs. Home & School would like to assist with the fundraising for Julia’s Buddy Bench by hosting pretzel sales in the upcoming months. Jenn Dachowski introduced the new spring fundraiser… Brooke’s First Color Me Fun 1
Mile Run/Walk. Please see attachment on next page for all of the details!
• ADJOURNMENT:
Motion to pass was made by Karen Canuso and seconded by Jamie Moretz. ****THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD March 10, 2014. ****
Color Me Fun Run/Walk
We are officially announcing that we have approval from the Spring-Ford School District and Mrs. Long to hold a color run/walk for Brooke students and their families, which will be named the "Color Me Fun Run/Walk". Keep in mind that this event is geared to the students and is not for marathon runners. This will be an untimed event that emphasizes healthy lifestyle and fun over competition. Some of you may have participated in color runs, but for those of you who don't know what a color run is: "The Color Run is a unique paint run/walk that celebrates healthiness, happiness and individuality. Usually a Color Run is a 5K untimed event in which runners/walkers wear white t-shirts and get showered by colored cornstarch every 1K. It has taken the US and other countries by storm. The "Color Run" has exploded since its debut in 2011 and has tripled in growth, hosting more than 170 events in 30+ countries in 2013." The Brooke "Color Me Fun Run/Walk" will be on a much smaller scale geared to the children, but with the same concept of getting kids, along with at least one parent, healthy by running/walking 1 mile around the school track while having fun. Family, friends, and volunteers will color the runners/walkers by gently throwing colored powder on their shirts. The date is set for March 22nd, with an inclement weather date of March 23rd. There will be a pre-registration cost of $12 for children 11 and younger, and a cost of $15 for 12-year-olds to adult. For those who don't pre-register it's never too late to join in the fun. There will be late registration up to the day of the event but the price will increase. The registration price will include 1 bag of powder, goggles for safety for elementary and younger registrants, and a snack (to be decided). We will be looking into creating t-shirts for the event to be purchased separately along with additional bags of powder. The board has worked together to decide on a basic outline of what we feel will be needed for the event to be successful. I have already spoken to Mrs. Beiber, who is completely on board and excited about the Brooke Color Me Fun Run/Walk, and she will work as our teacher liaison to get as much support as we can and to assist in the facility event planning. Therefore, at this time, we will be asking for volunteers for a core committee to help with the planning and execution of this potentially great event. I will be hosting the first core committee planning meeting at my house on Tuesday, January 21st at 8:00 pm. We need to start planning this event like a month ago so we really need all hands on deck. After our core committee meeting on January 21st, we will be able to hash out some sub committees which may include: registration, food, powder, t-shirts, facility planning, sales, and general volunteers. With everyone's help this could be a huge fundraiser and an awesome, fun event for the students and the entire families of Brooke. We are really looking forward to this and hope we have your support! Please email me at [email protected] if you are interested in attending the core committee planning meeting on Tuesday, January 21st at 8:00 pm. If you are unable to attend the meeting, but are interested in volunteering please let me know via email.

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