Venice Elementary School
Advisory Committee
Minutes of meeting January 16,
2003
Members Present:
Amy Baker Jeff
Callan Theresa Baus Jill Woodward
Kathy Dean Kristen
Dougherty Debi Hammett Angela Holleran
Jan Molin Marie
Naple Colleen
Pazderski Jackie Ramsay
Brenda Symons
FCAT Incentives: Marie Naple reported that the soccer ball
tipped pencils have arrived. After
looking at other alternatives, the cost of these pencils was less expensive and
so were purchased. They will be
distributed to fourth and fifth grade students during the March 3-5 testing.
Grandparents’ Day: Marie Naple reported that we have had a good
response. The associated costs of the event totaled $78.60. Marie’s students will be stuffing the bags
with the goodies for the grandparents.
Albertson’s has agreed to provide all the baked goods for the day, as
long as they are the only grocery represented – OK! Juice, coffee will be provided by the VES cafeteria. Flyers for the garage sale will be given to
the grandparents as they arrive by student patrols. The dates are: January 23rd
for K-2 and five of the ESE classes (those with younger students) and January
24th for 3-5 and Mrs. Dodge, Mrs. Starkey and Mrs. Burton. The second grade students will entertain on
the 23rd and the fifth grade students on the 24th. After the program in the cafeteria, the
grandparents will go to the classrooms for a visit and then tour the
campus. Kathy Dean volunteered to
decorate on the 23rd and Debi Hammett volunteered for the 24th. Nancy MacDonald had agreed to see if she
could get flowers for the “awards”. I
spoke with her and everything is all set – she will contact Marie.
Badges: Jan Molin reported that PALS has no position
on permanent badges for volunteers.
Since everyone needs to sign in at the office computer for hours (a
5-Star requirement) and for insurance purposes, there was concern expressed
that if the parents/volunteers had a permanent badge, they would not sign
in. We only have 112 approved
volunteers and only 75 of those had hours last semester. The main issue seems to be one left over
from the temporary administration and is something the current administration
feels comfortable dealing with. It was
suggested that new kindergarten parents be given permanent badges for parent
pickup purposes only since they would not be “known” to the staff and other
parents. Mrs. Baus will discuss with
that team. Work is being done to allow
parents/volunteers to sign in while in the classrooms.
Garage Sale: Kathy Dean reported that the sale will be
held on March 1st from 8am-1pm to benefit the Art, Music and PE
departments. If anyone has anything to
donate contact Jack Parsons or Kathy Dean or bring to portable 10. Any donated items not sold will be donated
to Goodwill or Salvation Army.
Volunteers are needed for the set up and the sale.
Climate Survey: Mrs. Baus reported that the staff climate
survey will be done at the next faculty meeting but that SAC needed to decide
who should collect them. In the past,
Bonnie D’Anielo has gathered them and sent them to the Landings. After some discussion, it was decided this
was still acceptable. Parents should be
reminded to call in for the climate survey as we have only had 23 parents call
so far. Ideas to remind parents
include: the marquee, the teacher
newsletters, a special flyer and the on-hold answering machine.
Five-Star: Amy Baker was happy to report that Jeff
Callan and Colleen Pazderski have almost completed the requirements for the
Business Partner section of our notebook.
We will add this to the agenda for February’s meeting so everyone knows
what they need for the notebook.
VES Rumor Mill: Mrs. Baus reported that there is a committee
that will present a position to the school board this month or next. The only known members are Richard Hayes and
Bill Muth. All comments Mrs. Baus have
heard have been positive for VES – there has been no indication that the
recommendation will be to close the school.
Mrs. Baus will notify us when the school board will hear the recommendations
from the committee so that a group may go to represent our cause, if necessary.
Our next meeting is February 13th
at 8:00am in the media center
Submitted by:
Debi Hammett