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Minutes of June 01, 2009
Meeting was called to order by President, John
Hannay at 7:43 PM. Quorum was met and the purpose of PTA was read by
delegates.
The minutes from the 5/04/09 meeting were
discussed, voted and approved
Patricia Gordon from BOE, Patti Caplan and Hon.
Liz Bobo and 3 Boys Scout members were present at the meeting.
BOE
Report: Ms. Patricia Gordon presented school operating and
capital budget numbers and discussed the high-lights of the
operating budget. The final budget of approx. $658 Million was
passed this morning. State was generous and most of the cuts were
non-instructional like automobile reduction, etc. The operating
budget for next year may be more problematic. This is the first year
where we had reduction from previous year. Ms. Gordon attended 4
school graduation ceremonies and was impressed with the preparation
and clock-work operation as the same venue was scheduled for
multiple school graduation ceremonies. She is the longest serving
board member in HC.
Office
of School Superintendent Report: Ms. Patti Caplan provided brief
synopsis on high school graduation and eSchoolNews letter change.
Ms. Caplan thanked parent involvement for a really great school
year. She reported that it was a terrific school year and 4000
students graduated. There were few students who did not compete
graduation requirements and has passed HAS. eSchoolNews letter will
be transitioned for the coming school year and MIS sciences was
selected as the vendor. The new vendor can send messages in multiple
languages and eAlert can be sent. At this time John talked about the
meeting with the school Superintendent. Going forward more emphasis
will be placed on electronic communication. There are 5 Principal
retirements resulting in staff shifting. The PTA presidents will be
informed of the change in the coming week. The staff changes will be
in 4 elementary schools and one middle school which is Lime Kiln.
Special
report on 2009 Maryland Legislation by Liz Bobo : She represents
the legislative district from west Columbia which has the oldest
schools in the county. Ms. Bobo talked about budget population
projections in the downtown Columbia area where there will be 5500
residential units. Howard County school system is one of the
wealthiest school systems in the state. She also high-lighted the
news article by DeLacy urging changes at the top.
Treasurer’s
Report: Treasurer discussed the budget sheet that was
circulated. We are right on target and under budget. The carry over
is less than last year as we have put money into leadership.
Committee
Reports
Project
Safe After Prom – Mary
Ellen Creasy presented year end report. After prom events were
successfully completed for the year and there were no car accidents.
We received donations from HCPSS, CTSP, PTA Council and other local
organizations. The committee has final after prom meeting on June 10th.
We are hosting after prom venue fair on June 17.
Curriculum
– Nothing to report
Family
Involvement –Book drive has come to an end. Collected over
6559 books and distributed to the matching schools. We met 87% of
the request for books and we also donated some books for ESOL
program. Prepare for success is a year round program. Please inform
locals to donate for prepare for success.
Health
and Wellness – 25
schools applied for healthy innovation award. We have 78 members on
face book and 19 of them will be coming to Healthy Howard on June 7th.
Legislative
– Nothing to report
MD
PTA – Summer
Leadership Conference is July 18th.
Reflections
- 30 schools
participated and we have some national winners. The theme for next
year “Beauty Is…”
Nominating
Committee
Nomination of officers was held and the PTA
Council officers for next year are as follows: John Hannay
President, Cindy Haller Vice President, Chaunfayta Hightower
VP operations, Terri Chiu VP issues, Venu Iyengar recording
secretary, Mollie Shea corresponding secretary, and Amy Rivera
Treasurer.
PTA
Council Awards
MD PTA membership awards
Increase of membership of 5% over last year's
membership
Clarksville Elem, Ellicott Mills, Hammond High,
Longfellow
Increase of 15%
Glenelg, Northfield, Oakland Mills High,
Waterloo
Increase of over 25%
Cradlerock, Manor Woods, Mount View, Murray
Hill, Wilde Lake Middle
Three delegates have attended every
meeting this year
Kim Lyles - Northfield
Yetta Yoggrson - Talbott Springs
Donna Sudbrook - Ellicott Mills
PTAs that have had perfect
attendance having a delegate attend every meeting:
Centennial Lane, Longfellow, Northfield,
Pointers Run, Rockburn, St. Johns Lane, Talbott Springs, Triadelphia
Ridge, Bonnie Branch, Lime Kiln, Atholton High, River Hill
Joan Dkystra awards were presented to Cedar Lane
and Rill Hill
Special
input from delegates requested by John
We collected data from the delegates regarding
the PTA council performance related to things that went well and
things to improve. Some of the positive comments received are
on-time meetings and meeting location, budget issue was handled in
an open and honest way, great leadership, etc. We will summarize the
data and take action to improve on the short comings.
Meeting Adjourned at 9:25 PM
Minutes
submitted by Venu Iyengar, Recording Secretary
Upcoming Dates
June 10 – Workshop for new and returning
local unit officers – 7 PM at Faulkner Ridge Center |
