Attending: Jan Posin, April King, Ali McAleer, Dana Stansbery, Jill Summer,
Cindy Dean, Kelly Conner, Debbie Conner, Chuck Rantala
-Treasury report:
$64, 500 in bank acct
$20,880 PTO contributions
Debit card-set up Constant Contact, Pay Pal
Dana and Jill will close Meridian Account
-Fall Fest
*Dunk Tank-not going over well, we are not doing it…
replacing it with a Pitching Booth
*Tickets for Teachers-10 tickets and 1 raffle ticket
*Tavan volunteers-10 tickets each (5-10 volunteers) they will take
Soap for Hope contributions with them that night!
*Booths-Spalfini pizza, Applebee’s, Islands, Coldstone, Icee, Kettle
Corn and Cotton Candy
*Donations-Jan will make sure that some things will be held over until Auction
*Centerstage/Performers- approx 85 dancers, they will each get 1 free
raffle ticket for a special prize (bling shirts , sweatbands,
gift cards to Sweet Hair Salon for haircut and 1 for tinsel)
*Staffing-PTO in middle area handling ticket sales
-Chuck update
*Shade update-measuring is done, still scheduled to start sometime in November
*Painting work order is in
*Artist in Residency-all set up, January 31st and Feb 1st 1:30-3:00,
tech crew from DMHS will record and upload to internet..Oral
Storytelling
*Holiday lunch-NYPD for teachers, Thurs, Dec 15th…Family Fun is the
same day! Cindy and Jan will order for Chuck 
-Family Fun
* Dbacks Family Fun Night made over $1000!!
* Chick-fil-A – $283.00, great turn out
* Nov – Subway at book fair
* Dec – NYPD (on the 15th) 20% back to DCES
* Jan – Chipotle (on the 11th) 50% back to DCES
* Feb – Family Movie Night (on the 24th)
* March – McTeacher night at McDonalds 4:30-7:30 (on the 1st) , 20%
back to DCES
* April – maybe Airtime? Dbacks opening game April 6th ?
* May – Yogurtology
Donuts with Dad – April is working with Walmart, trying to get Dunkin
Donuts? “Tip Jar”, napkins in closet, working on coffee Starbucks?
-Book Fair
*Theme is Space
*Teacher preview is Friday
* Set up Nov 10
* Wed is Family night 16th (5pm-7pm)
* Donuts with Dads 18th (7:30-9am) set up 7am
* maybe $250 for teacher allocation? usually $200
- Vendor Boutique
* location is free
* $50 vendor fee
* 8 paid vendors
- Rewards Program
* Lisa has Wetzel Pretzels, McDonalds happy meals, Ali got Chick-fil-A
* Teachers didn’t want to reward kids for grades
*not doing this as of now
- Community Cares Event
* It was a dud, nothing came from it
- SPI Lectures
* Bullying lecture for 3rd, 4th and 5th coming up soon
* Internet safety lecture on November 9th
- Grant Status
* Jan met with Jill Feinstein
* Shade
* Water Fountain
* Computers-grant for the whole complex? Jill will look into getting these
* Solar? Covered Parking?
- Hospitality
* Jill’s doing November…granola bars, bars, bars! Fruit, soda (Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, Diet Dr. Pepper, Sprite) Put in copy room
* Holiday gifts are done
- Ride Share program wants donations
* $5 donation monthly
- Auction/Bingo/Golf
* Troy Weurding, Jan left him a message
* Brian Imwalle would help
* Debbie Blasé will chair the Auction
* Jan will talk to teachers about new ideas!
- Next meeting December 5th General and Board Meeting
