PTSA Meeting Minutes

MINUTES

FREEDOM MIDDLE SCHOOL’S PTA MEETING MINUTES

Date | time 4/22/2014 5:00 PM | Meeting called to order by Sarah McCrary- Vice President

 Attendance: All executive board members were present with the exception of president Kim Ault

Mrs. Bryson, Mrs. Mathieu (Vice President nominee/elect 2014-2015) , S.C McCrary, Mrs. Tara Smith (president – nominee/ elect 2014-2015), Mrs. Buster

Approval of Minutes

The minutes were read from the previous meeting and approved.

Board

The Board, and the guests were introduced.

Advisory Committee

There are a number of parent openings for various committees. The election committee and  Mrs. Guillary were able to find 3 people who will run for each office, and Mrs. Bridges – Mathieu decided to run for the vacant position of Vice President since there were no candidates and to make sure that we can run a smooth transition from one executive board to the next in 2014-2015.  The nominee ballot will read as follows: 

Ms. Smith 404-213-0166 is willing to serve as president.

Mrs. Shenica Bridges-Mathieu is willing to serve as vice-president.

Z. Harmon 770-318-4389 is willing to serve as secretary.

Largetta Singletary 727-637-7844 is willing to serve as treasurer.

Budget

The budget for the current school year was distributed by Mrs. Bryson, PTA Treasurer, and reviewed by the board and PTA members at the last meeting.

Principal’s Report

·         Mr. Davidson could not attend the meeting. 

 

Committee Reports/Discussions

See above.

Announcements – We will print out a ballot with the names of the officers and place them in the box

Next Meeting

5/1/14 Executive Board meeting to discuss Teacher’s Appreciation Week 5:00 (TBD if parent conference night)/.

 

·         Motion to adjourn was made at 5:30 p.m. and was passed unanimously.

 

MINUTES

FREEDOM MIDDLE SCHOOL’S PTA MEETING MINUTES

Date | time 3/18/2014 5:00 PM | Meeting called to order by Kim Ault - President

 Attendance: All executive board members were present.

Mrs. Ault, Mrs. Bryson, Mrs. Mathieu, Mr. Davidson, S.C McCrary, Ms. Perryman, a Parent

Approval of Minutes

The minutes were read from the previous meeting and approved.

Board

The Board, the principal, and the guests were introduced.

Advisory Committee

There are a number of parent openings for various committees. These openings will be listed in the next newsletter. In addition, we will try to recruit parents during our next parent teacher conferences.   We will follow up with our parent coordinator; Mrs. Guillary to see if we can do some additional recruiting to fill these openings via the parent volunteers that she has listed.

Budget

The budget for the current school year was distributed by Mrs. Bryson, PTA Treasurer, and reviewed by the board and PTA members at the last meeting. In tonight’s meeting, Mrs. Bryson made a motion to approve the budget which was seconded by Mrs. Ault. All present voted in favor of approving the budget as presented.

Principal’s Report

·         Mr. Davidson just wants to make sure that we have a new board for next year. 

 

Committee Reports/Discussions

Committee reports

·         There were no committee  reports.. 

Announcements – We need teachers to come to the meeting to vote.

Next Meeting

4/22/14

·         Motion to adjourn was made at 5:30 p.m. and was passed unanimously.

 

FMS PTA EXECUTIVE Meeting Minutes

2-26-14

Started at 2:15

1.       Call to order from Mrs. Ault

Discussion –

·         Budget is still not finalized – Mrs. Bryson will finish and distribute at the meeting on Thursday 2-27-14. Basically, we have a balance, but we have not decided what we will use the funds on.  She stated that after National and State dues were paid, we have a little over $500 remaining. 

·         Recruiting Parents – we need more parents to join, and we need to start looking for a new executive board for 2014-2015.

·         Mrs.  Ault wants 3 committees - a nominating committee, Clarkston a Festival, and Fundraising Committee. The people don't need to be active members to volunteer, they have to have a membership to be on the committee, but they don't have be a paid member to volunteer. 

·         We talked about teacher appreciation week. 
Mrs.  Ault would like to do some food and fundraisers to raise money for the teacher appreciation week.

·         We spoke about selling candy or food after school in order to raise money.

·         We spoke about the vendors paying $25 to have booths at our event.  Mr. Davidson would like Mrs. Bridges – Mathieu to contact Sabreen Mateen and check the bylaws to make sure that is ok.

·         The meeting was adjourned at 3:00pm

Attendees: Mrs. Bryson, Mr. Davidson, Mrs. Bridges-Mathieu, Mrs. Ault, Mrs. McCrary

 

FMS PTSA Meeting Minutes

 

Thursday, February 27, 2014

 

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm   

 

 

 

 

 

Date/Time: Thursday, February 27, 2014 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

 

Location: Freedom Middle School PTA, cafetorium

 

 

 

OBJECTIVE

 

 

 

Discuss upcoming fundraisers and to raise money for the end of the year activities. Adopt the proposed budget for the 2013-2014 school year.  Adopt the audit report.  Decide on fundraiser and assign roles. Choose date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.    6:00 to 6:10: Welcome /Call to Order/Pledge of Allegiance – PTA President Kim Ault

 

2.    6:10 to 6:25 Treasurer’s Report (proposed budget, audit report, motions to adopt) –Treasurer Takisha Bryson stated that we had about $540 in the account.

 

3.    6:25 to 6:35: Correspondence and report copies/EC or BOD report/Standing Committee Reports – There are no committee reports at this time.

 

4.    6:35 to 6:45: New Business- (fundraiser, 2014-2015 election of the PTSA nominating committee) – Kim Ault discussed the fact that we need to get parents to volunteer so that we can raise money for the students and Teacher’s Appreciation Week.  She also discussed the fact that we need some other parents to get involved.  Of the parents who attended, many parents said they would not have known about the meeting if it were not for the drama club having a program.  A couple of parents questioned how we communicate meetings to the parents.

 

5.    6:45 to 6:50 -  News from the Principal, NPTA, GPTA and council – Mr. Davidson was happy to answer that the news is communicated via our blog www.freedommiddlepta.blogspot.com, and we sent out calling posts.  Some parents say that the calling posts cut off.  Mr. Davidson spoke about putting a link to the PTSA blog on the Freedom Middle School website and checking the calling post data.

Mrs. Mathieu spoke to the parents who were there pleading for everyone to get involved.

 

After all questions and concerns were addressed, refreshments were sold in the back, and the drama club did their black history performance.

 

 

ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES

 

 

 

Set-up: S. Mathieu

 

Minutes: S. Mathieu

 

Paperwork: S. Mathieu

 

Financials: Mrs. Bryson

 

Announcements:  Mrs. Ault/Mr. Davidson