PTA Meeting Minutes from January 6, 2009

January 6, 2009 Mt. Jordan Middle School
PTSA Meeting Minutes

*Minutes from Last months meeting, December 2nd were read by Sheri Tait.

*The following were in attendance; Sheri Tait, Traci Folkerson, Melissa Neilsen, LaDena
Saxey and Heidi Clark. Ben Lems and Misty Suarez joined us a for a few
minutes at the end of the meeting.

*Harmon’s Days is Tuesday, February 10th. More information to follow, after our next
meeting Tuesday, January 13th at 9:00 am. Need to get more information from Heather Winters at Harmon’s.

*Budget: We are in need of more money! We need to sell the school spirit shirts. A
PTA table needs to be setup at school activities, to sell shirts. Also we will send out a flier with school spirit shirt info. We will give school spirit shirts to the SBO’s to help with advertising. Fridays will be school spirit shirt day, students wearing school shirts will get a treat at lunchtime. We need to get Teachers and faculty to purchase shirts as well.
We have raised about $9,000 for the Marquee at this time, but we still need more money.

*PTSA NEEDS a PTSA newsletter. Sheri has been trying very hard to get a sponsor for
the postage, but to no avail! We will keep working on this. Parents need to be informed about the many things going on with the PTSA and sending fliers home with students is not working! Parents do not get them. So if you know of someone willing to sponsor this let Sheri know.

*PTSA Membership: Our membership is very low and quite an embarrassment! It was
decided that a note and enrollment form needed to be put in all of the teacher’s boxes, to encourage them to join the PTSA! A flier needs to go home to encourage more parent involvement as well.

*Fundraiser: It was decided that the Fun Run would not raise enough money. Next year
we will try to do the 5K run as a community event. (We do not have enough time or the funds to pull this off this year.)

The “Mega Mountaineer All Star Game” will be April 23rd at 6:30 pm. This will be the annual Student vs. Faculty Basketball game. The game will be held in the evening instead of during the school day. Students will be encouraged to attend with parents and family members. Wristbands will be sold during the week of the game, for a dollar. We will also hold a silent auction, tickets will be one dollar. Each Climb Class will be asked to assemble a gift basket for the auction, also PTA members will work on getting donations for movies, dinners, hotels… We will be checking with Harmon’s about donut or cookie coupons for anyone wearing their school spirit shirt. We will have a kickoff assembly on April 2nd.

*Teacher Appreciation week is May 4-8th.

*Student led Parent Conferences are February 24th and 25th – PTSA will be providing meals again.

*Next Meeting: Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 13th at 9:00 am to discuss
Harmon’s days, and teacher dinners for Student led Conference.