NCHS
PTO
Minutes of the Board meeting 10/15/12
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President Diana Koenig called the meeting to order
at 7:00 p.m. Members and guests in attendance totaled 13.
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Minutes from the 9/17/12 meeting were reviewed. Amendment was made to minutes in regard
to Kim Bray’s resolutions.
Amendment states as follows:
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· Kim Bray proposed a Resolution for
consideration by the PTO commending the Faculty and Administration for the
responses and great care they rendered to students and all persons at NCHS
during the school incident on September 7, 2012. The Resolution was voted on
and unanimously passed by the PTO members.
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· · Kim Bray proposed a Resolution
for consideration by the PTO commending Derrick Schonauer and certain brave
assisting students for their responses and actions that ended the dangerous
school incident on September 7, 2012. The Resolution was voted on and
unanimously passed by the PTO members.
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· These resolutions will be kept on file with
the minutes from the PTO meetings.
Treasurer’s Report
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No report.
Principal’s Report
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Mr. Bollmann stated that the school improvement
team is meeting monthly. This
consists of 4 groups: PBIS, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools and the Core
Team.
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Homecoming went well, with the exception of the
music at the dance. The Olympic
games on Friday went well.
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Parent Teacher conferences will be held on October
26.
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NCHS currently has approximately 300 more students
than NCWHS.
President’s Report
· Diana
stated that she attended the PTO Presidents lunch with Dr. Niehaus. Some items discussed were: bussing (1st
Student), the fact that both high schools are at or over capacity, the District
is up approximately 361 students this year, they will probably build an East
side grade school before a 3rd high school, starting in 2013 they
will be doing electronic achievement testing.
· The
gun incident was discussed. It was
discussed that it was good that many students had their cell phones with
them. They will be looking into
getting high school students on a call list so the school would be able to text
them information in the event of an emergency situation.
Committee Reports
Spirit Store
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Julie stated that they did approximately $800.00 in
sales each from the visiting German students and from Homecoming week. She stated they just received the
tshirt orders and the youth clothing should be in soon. The staff polos have been distributed.
Iron Café
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No report.
Hospitality
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Patty stated that there
will be a staff/teacher lunch on parent teacher conference day (Oct 26). They will be doing jooners for
donations. There will be a crock
pot luncheon on November 15.
Concessions
· Andrea
stated that the last home game will be this Friday (Oct 19). Junior class/after prom will do
concessions for the Powder Puff game on Oct 24.
· Marisol
stated that indoor concessions are going well, except for one delivery that
went to outdoor instead of indoor.
Membership
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No new news.
CAC
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Jodi stated that there are three study areas: Flipped Classroom, Security and
Parental Involvement (how to get more involved).
Web Master
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No report.
Alumni
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Diana stated that alumni
concessions went well.
Agenda Items:
Old Business
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No old business was discussed at this time.
New Business
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Request for Funds: Ms. Newton-Gonzalez is part of the Rewards team that
partners with Orange Crush and “crushing” students each week. She is requesting money for vouchers
for gift cards to the Café and Spirit Store. This was discussed and it was decided that Julie and Judy
will discuss this further and let us know their recommendation at a future
meeting. This item was tabled at
this time.
No further business was noted
at this time. Diana Koenig adjourned the meeting at 8:40 p.m.
The next meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, November 19, 2012.
Respectfully submitted,
Polly Blanchard, Recording Secretary
Polly Blanchard, Recording Secretary
