Meeting Minutes 1-3-13

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OHMS PTSA Meeting – January 3, 2013

Attending: Kellene Adams, Jill Nebeker, Marvelle Morgan, Principal Glenn, Lisa Zupanic, Stephanie Hansen, Shannon Smith, Karla Hendricks, Patty Hales, Tiffany, Suzi Ruggles, Ms. VanDerLough, Raelynn McCleary

Thought: Success is falling 7 times but getting up 8 times

Minutes: Jill read minutes, Mavelle moved to accept and Stephanie seconded, all approved.

Treasurer: We are at about $3000 left in the budget but still need to get a check from the front office for yearbooks.

Reflections: Lots of problems in the process the PTA is looking into revamping the process to improve.

Eagle of the Quarter: On January 14^th, 15^th and 16^th (8, 9, 7)

Bring Your Parents to School Day: Parents want more notice, Kellene will let Ms. Edwards know to put in announcements. March 8^th is the planned day but is only one week after Parent Teacher Conf. so we may want to delay a little bit. We will change to March 22^nd. Parent Teacher Conference is 27^th and 28^th of February.

PTSA Report: Blue Ribbon Week – Feb 4 – 8^th, White Ribbon Week – March 11-15^th. The kids would like to have another dance, Mr. Glen will consider. Jodi and Ms. VonDerLough will need to go together in regards to White Ribbon Week.

Sucker for Valentines? Last year’s tasted awful so let’s look into other options and sell at cost.

Awards: Ms. Denney will be selected for the teacher, we need a volunteer and an administrator.

Financial Gift to School: We will help put some furniture in the library. Mr. Glen and the librarian will choose the furniture, we will donate $1500.

Legislature Day: Feb. 20^th (Wed.) is the PTA day but we would prefer to do another day. We will aim for the beginning of March, Sharron will talk with governor’s office and find a day we can take the students on a tour.

Harmons Day: February 7^th, we were selected to be at the District. We need to have volunteers from 11am – 7pm (three every 2 hours). The bagging competition is around 6pm but can be changed. Patty will get volunteers and coordinate with Raelynn. If we get the most Box Tops collected, we get an extra $50 donated. We would divide between our elementary feeder schools. Need to decorate our checkout line next week, the theme is “Move It Move It”. Raelynn and Amanda will coordinate with students to decorate.

Principal Report: $19,500 was what was raised for the Sub for Santa.

May 6^th and 7^th will be the High School Online Registration days.

February 7^th is the 6^th Grade Orientation here.

Next meeting on Thursday, February 7th at 11:30am

Meeting Minutes 11/1/12

Attending: Kellene Adams, Jill Nebeker, Marvelle Morgan, Principal Glenn, Karla Hendricks, Amy Jessen, Stephanie Hansen, Lisa Zupanic, Mr. Cherry

Thought: Kellene – Enjoy the ride

Minutes: Marvelle moved to accept, Amy seconded, all approved

President’s Concerns:

We need to send the minutes to council, Jill will send email as normal and Kellene will forward to council.

Reality Town – Very successful, all positive feedback. There were enough volunteers.

Reflections – We had 63 entries, up from last year. The display case is open to show the items, but most of the items were writing so we may do a picture of the students once the awards are given. Amy will make a decision. We would like to encourage more art to be submitted next year.

Eagle of the Quarter – Next week it will be on Monday(7th), Wednesday(9th), Thursday(8th). Stephanie is ready for it.

T-shirts – PTA doesn’t have budget so Mr. Glenn will keep working to see if the school can sell shirts.

Bring Parents to School Day – Need to get parents information and let Vicky know how many will want lunch so she can order for the lunchroom. Kellene will do the sign in sheet, Ms. VanDerLough will have 2 students man table for each period. Mr. Glenn will get a table by the front door and maps.

Facebook – There already exists a page for OHMS so we will try to contact the owner to see if we can take over the page or they will release the name.

PTSA Students – Amy wanted to know if we could open up the PTSA group so that other students could help if they wanted. We will look into finding a way to allow other students to come to Ms. Vanderlough’s classroom during TA to help with big projects.

Ms. Vanderlough’s students would like to do an assembly on anti-bullying, but there is no time in the schedule until after the holidays. Over the next two weeks they will set up their schedule and order the hoodies.

Do we want to combine Blue Ribbon & White Ribbon Week – we decided to keep separate.

Maybe do Blue Ribbon Week toward the end of January .

PTSA students did a run through of Eagle of the Quarter. They need to plan on 3 rd period to come help Stephanie next week.

White Ribbon Week – Will be week of March 11 – 13. We need to decide what we are planning on doing (who we are asking to do assembly) so we can schedule the people and make sure they can come on the week we have planned. Kellene will follow up with Jodi.

Principal Report – School Community Council recommended looking into having more parent volunteers in classrooms. Mr. Cherry sent out a survey to teachers asking if they would like help from parents & currently it is about 60% in favor and 40% not but still waiting for more response only about 30+ responses so far. Studies show the more parents are involved the more successful students are.

OHMS – We are in the 93rd percentile in the State academically. This is a great achievement.

Next meeting on Thursday, December 6th at 11:30am

OHMS Events

If you missed the Meet the Candidates night, you can still find out which candidates will be on your ballot by visiting vote.utah.gov and click on the tab that says On My Ballot.

Upcomming events include the Vision Screening and Reality Town. Check the calendar for more information!

Budget for 2012-2013

Below is the proposed budget. Please vote if you approve at the end of this post.

Proposed Budget of

Oquirrh Hills Middle School PTSA

Fiscal Year 2012-2013

Balance Carried Forward:     $16,794.11

INCOMING FINDS:

     Membership (700 members)     $3500.00
     Harmon’s Grocery PTA Days Fundraiser     $500.00
     Memory Books Fundraiser     $8000.00
     Total Projected Income:     $12,000

BUDGETED EXPENSES:

     Student Support

           Eagle of the Quarter     $1,000.00
           Field Day      $1,500.00
           Legislative Day      $1,000.00
           PTSA Student Representative Sweat Shirts $800.00
           Miscellaneous Student Activities (Reality Town, Reflections, etc.)      $500.00
           Student Support Budgeted Expense s:       $4,800.00

     Health/Safety/Welfare

           Red Ribbon Week      $800.00
           White Ribbon Week      $1,200.00
           Health/Safety/Welfare Budgeted Expenses:      $2,000.00

     Hospitality

           Volunteer Appreciation     $500.00
           Teacher Appreciation     $2,200
           Teacher Birthday Gifts     $800.00
           Parent-Teacher Conference Dinners for Teachers     $1,500.00
           Hospitality Budgeted Expenses:     $5,000.00

     Administrative

           Membership     $100.00
           Leadership Training     $300.00
           National/Utah/Council PTA Dues:     $2625.00
           School Gift:     $1,500.00
           Office Supplies/Copies/Postage     $500.00
           Administrative Budgeted Expenses:     $5,025.00

Total Budgeted Expenses:     <$16,825.00>

Projected Ending Balance:     $11,969.11


Do you approve of the proposed 2012-2013 OHMS PTSA Budget?

Welcome Back!

Dear Oquirrh Hills Middle School Families,

Welcome back to school! The summer flew by!

Just a quick reminder about Back-to-School Night tonight; please join us 5 p.m. at the school.

Also, as always, we are eagerly looking for volunteers! If you would like to get involved in your student’s education, the PTSA is a great way to do it. We have several activities planned throughout the year, and we couldn’t do any of them without out amazing volunteers. You don’t have to spend a lot of time; some activities only take an hour or two. Please consider sharing your time and talents with us. If you’d like to volunteer, you can call or e-mail our PTSA president, Kellene Ricks Adams at kadams@stampinup.com or 801-833-1521.

Also, please take a minute to vote on our PTSA budget. We are moving to online communication as much as possible, and our bylaws state that we must post the budget and allow parents to vote on it. You can view and vote on the budget in the post coming next.

We’d love to have you attend our meetings, where we discuss all the fun activities that we have planned, as well as the great things that are happening at OHMS. The meetings are as follows:

• September 6, noon, OHMS conference room
• October 4, noon, OHMS conference room
• November 1, noon, OHMS conference room
• December 6 noon, OHMS conference room
• January 3, noon, OHMS conference room
• February 7, noon, OHMS conference room
• March 7, noon, OHMS conference room
• April 4, noon, OHMS conference room
• May meeting: TBD

 Finally, this blog is a great place to get important information, not just about PTSA, but about the activities your student is involved in and how you can be involved as well. Become a follower of the blog, and you’ll automatically be notified whenever new information is posted.

We look forward to seeing you tonight.

Memory Books

Dear Parents-

Time has flown by and we have reached the end of another school year.  I have just a few last minute items to make you aware of.

First, Memory books will be distributed on Wednesday, May 30^th to the ninth grade, and Thursday, May 31^st to the  eighth and seventh grades.  I need to make one last request for volunteers.  I need 12 people to help Wednesday, May 30^th  from 1:15 – 3 pm and 24 people on Thursday, May  31^st  from 1:15 -3 pm.  If you are able to help us out, please let me or Jodi Parker (jodiparker@hotmail.com) know. I can’t thank you all enough for the time and support that you have given us this year. Reality Town, the Book Fairs, Harmon’s Day, Vision and Hearing Screening, the  Bring your Parent to School days, and Teacher Appreciation have all been a tremendous success because of you.

Second, I want to introduce The PTSA Executive Board for the 2012 – 2013 school year. Serving as PTSA President is Kellene Adams, with Wendy Judd as President-Elect and Tiffany Parks as Treasurer. Jill Nebeker will continue as Secretary, Lynnae Dunn will continue as Membership VP, and Shannon Smith will continue as Legislative VP.  Thanks to all of you who participated in our online voting this year.

Last, I want to express my appreciation to all of the wonderful ladies that have served on the PTSA this year, as well as Mr. Anderson, the staff, and the teachers. Also, Ms. Howard and the amazing PTSA Student Board. You all have been incredible to work with.

Thanks for a great year,

Lisa Zupancic

OHMS PTSA President

Uplift Utah Families (Free Tickets)

You are invited to the Uplift Utah Families parenting conference on May 4th and 5th.  The mission of Uplift is:

Our mission is to assist parents in gaining access to programs and information that will help them acquire the skills necessary to raise loving, responsible children. We believe that strong parent-child relationships are the key to providing children with the tools necessary to make safe and healthy choices in their lives, keeping them free of drugs, alcohol and exposure to pornography. Our program will include an original musical program, presented by elementary students to their parents, with future plans to have yearly conferences on the family and a website linking different programs and resources together throughout the state.

During the conference parents can attend workshops that will help them be better parents.

The first lady of Utah, Jeanette Herbert, would like to increase participation so she is making tickets available for free to our parents. You can find a link to the ticket here. Please feel free to print off as many as you need.

A packet has been created if you would like to print some of the information from the website and share it with others or if you prefer just a flyer you can get one here.

Please Vote

The nominees for the OHMS PTSA 2012-2013 board are as follows:

 President: Kellene Adams
Secretary: Jill Nebeker
Treasurer: Tiffany Parks
 Legislative VP: Shannon Smith
Membership VP: Lynnae Dunn


Each position had only one volunteer/nominee.  Please vote at the right to accept or reject the board as listed above.

We are still in need of a President-Elect for next year.  Please volunteer if you are willing to do this job.

Canned Food Drive

The students at OHMS are collecting canned food items to be donated to the Utah Food Bank.  Please consider donating cans to help those served by the food bank.  The last day to collect cans will be Monday, April 16th.

Yearbook Orders

The last day to order a yearbook is April 20th.  The cost is $20.00.  Checks should be made out to OHMS, not to the PTSA.

Yearbooks will be given to the 9th graders on May 30th at 1:30pm to the 7th and 8th graders on May 31st at 1:30pm.