Marlow PTA
John D. Perkins, Sr. Elementary School
919 NH Rt. 10
Marlow, NH 03456

PTA Meeting Minutes – December 4, 2006

The meeting was called to order at 3:10 pm with 7 members and 1 staff present.

Treasurer’s Report

The treasurer’s report was not available for this meeting, as the statement had not yet come in. It will be presented at the January meeting.

Craft Fair

Details were finalized for the holiday craft fair. Lynne received a donation of 500 nice plastic bags with handles to use for bringing home student crafts. Therefore, we will not need to use the flat boxes this year. There have also been donations of tape, wrapping paper, hot glue guns, cookies, juice, and veggies.

Volunteers were confirmed to run the craft tables. Several youth group members are also expected to attend to help. Set up will begin at 1:00 pm on Thursday, December 7.

There was also a discussion on the gift baskets that will be distributed to Marlow elderly from the proceeds of the craft fair. Last year the baskets included gift cards to Hannaford’s and other small items. If 40 students attend there would be $120 to use for the baskets.

Future Fundraising

Nancy mentioned that a representative from Genevieve, the fundraising company, called her to ask if we will be doing our fundraising through them next year. Nancy told him that the PTA will decide at the January meeting and let them know in February. She asked that P TA members bring their ideas for new fundraisers to the January meeting for discussion. There was then further discussion about how hard it is to connect with everyone, that the catalog items are not that great, and that they seem so overpriced. Some people would prefer to do direct donations instead.

Enrichment Program

Nancy will get the application letters out this week. Last year the deadline was before Christmas, but that seems to short now. It was agreed to set the deadline for January 5.

Other

Food Drive - Mrs. Peterson had asked if the school participates in any food drives. Marcia mentioned that it would be possible to connect with the church food drive in terms of delivery logistics. Food would have to be in to the school by December 15 for delivery on the third Sunday, December 17. Donations would have to be non-perishable foods. Nancy will check with Mrs. Peterson on this.

Box Tops for Education - Tracy asked if the school is interested in doing Box Tops for Education. Discussion followed on what this provides and how long the expiration dates are. Box tops are labor intensive since they have to be cut just right. Beth offered to be the coordinator. There was also discussion about Campbell’s labels. Nancy said she will check into this with Mrs. Peterson and get more information from the website.

CPR Certification - Tracy asked if staff are required to be CPR certified and said that they all really should be. She asked if PTA money could be used to cover training. Nancy mentioned that this is currently and SAU-wide initiative and should be covered by school budgets. Trainings are coming up in Keene.

Spirit Week - Nancy will talk to Mrs. Peterson about doing spirit week again. The kids really seem to miss it.

Next Meeting

Monday, January 5, 2007, 3:00 pm

Meeting was adjourned at 4:00 pm.