In Attendance: Mary Ann Wilson, Terri Voltz, Renee Brown, John Sykes, Paulette Carrieri, Tami Vasselli, Lucy Shockley, Sabrina Finkbeiner, Kathy Carmer, Maryann Hiscock, Karen Evanoff, Jeremy Parrish, Joyce Fay, Becky Ruth, William Crockett, Kim Davis
Meeting was held in room 2914
The meeting was called to order at 6:45pm by Mrs. Carrieri.
Old Business:
Budget: Maryann Hiscock, treasurer
Funds in hand on 09/01/2013 was in the amount of $2,485.17.
Income:
Membership and Donations $2,154.79
Fund Raising-Yearbook Raffle $ 68.00
Expense:
National and State PTA dues $ 320.00
Balance as of 09/30/2013 $4,387.96
Attached is the Sept+Sept YTD Activity
Mrs. Carrieri welcomed two new members, Kathy Carmer and Joyce Fay, committee chair for Jag Club. Everyone introduced themselves and stated the position we hold on the Athens Drive PTSA board and/or committees.
GROUNDS BEAUTIFICATION: Mr. John Sykes, Committee chair
Lucy Shockley is working on getting pizza donated for the Grounds Beautification Day. On our PTSA homepage, there is not a sign up underneath for volunteers to sign up to help. There was a brief discussion about how sign ups would be handled for the clean up day. Mrs. Finkbeiner created a google document for volunteers to sign up, however, Mrs. Ruth, the Volunteer Coordinator, had created a Sign Up genius for volunteers. It was decided that Mrs. Ruth would continue with her Sign Up genius page and Mrs. Finkbeiner would send the volunteer coordinator the names from the google document.
MEMBERSHIP: Mrs. Kim Davis and Mrs. Renee Brown
Action: Kim and Renee will continue to check the mail room for any new completed membership forms and update the NC PTSA database. Kim and Renee will continue working on the membership cards.
As of October 8th we have a total of 272 members: 75 students, 127 parents, and 72 faculty members.
We have also received $1,886.79 in donations.
ATHENS ALERT: Mrs. Tami Vasselli will continue to add names to Athens Alert.
Action: Tami and Lucy will continue to work on communications through Athens Alert and any other outlets…Will need to add the link for the Harris Teeter VIC card savings, online membership and donations to regular emails sent through Athens Alert.
ADMINISTRATION: Mr. Crockett and Mr. Parrish
Mr. Crockett: The PTSA sponsored a Freshman Parent Coffee on September 26th. There were great discussions during the Freshman Parent coffee time. Mr. Crockett and Mr. Parrish were both pleased and felt parents were better informed than prior to the meeting.
Wendy’s, which is reopening on Western Blvd. after remodeling, sent a $500.00 check to Athens for student incentives. Mr. Crockett mentioned that along with the check, a letter was sent which addressed the positive behavior of Athens Drive students while on the premises of Wendy’s.
PowerSchool for Parents: Mr. Parrish stated that we have had 41 parents and 230 students for a total of 3,564 hits to log into the PowerSchool mobile app. There are a total of 690 parents who have signed in through the web and 8,056 students.
Webpage has been updated by Mr. Parrish. Mr. Crockett commented on what a nice job Mr. Parrish has done to update the school’s website.
Action: Mr. Sykes asked to have the link to the Beautification sign up on the ADHS website page so students could sign up to volunteer.
Mr. Crockett:
As of 10/7/2013 we have a total number of 1,955 students enrolled at Athens Drive. In the Spring of 2013, we were projected to enroll 2,080 students. However, this did not happen. ADHS did lose one teaching position due to the lower figures. In 2012-2013 we enrolled approximately 2,000 students here at Athens.
Mr. Sykes asked Mr. Crockett about where he could find information concerning specific numbers for acreage, plans for any upgrades, and school district information in general for Athens. Mr. Crockett suggested to Mr. Sykes to go to the Wake County Public School website and click on Athens Drive.
Mr. Crockett stated Athens Drive is slated to have our roofs repaired. At this point, it is an upcoming event which should happen sometime this school year.
Mrs. Carmer asked: Will Mrs. Mettler be replaced? Mr. Crockett said yes and is still continuing the interview process.
VOLUNTEERS: Mrs. Becky Ruth
Wake County Public Schools Volunteer registration will continue to be open 5 days a week until November 4th or 6 days a week here at Athens. After November 4th, the only day parents will be able to register to become a Wake County volunteer will be on Mondays.
TEACHER REPRESENTITVE: Mrs. Sabrina Finkbeiner
Mrs. Finkbeiner: Discussed the upcoming Career Fair which will be held on November 15th. Mrs. Finkbeiner told us if the PTSA will need tables for this event, we need to go to the Google Document page and request the amount of tables needed.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT REPRESENTITIVE: Mr. Nick Keith
Nick did not attend the meeting, but Mrs. Carrieri read an email from Nick. He wanted to let us know the upcoming Homecoming preparations are in progress. The student government is working on the Homecoming court, decorating the hallways, and the stadium decorations will be completed by the last week of October. The Oracle, Athens paper, will be distributed at the end of next week. For the next issue of the Oracle, Nick will include the beginnings of the landscape project which is chaired by Mr. Sykes.
The WELL Tutors:
Mrs. Carrieri wanted to clarify about our relationship with the WELL Tutors. ALL students of Athens Drive are eligible to contact the WELL for tutors on ALL subjects. The WELL tutors and the students will decide on a time to meet at Athens Drive in our new Tutorial room. However, we do need to have an adult who is a registered volunteer to sign up to monitor the rooms when students are scheduled to be tutored. Tutoring hours are offered from 2:30pm -7:00pm everyday. Mrs. Wilson made a suggestion to divide the times into two shifts instead of one long shift. She also suggested to have parents sign up to be a room monitor, if their child is being tutored. Mrs. Hume suggested to have parents stay as well but, Mrs. Ruth said no due to the parent may not be a registered volunteer and we do not want to exclude any student from receiving assistance. Mr. Parrish suggested the possibility of NC State School of Education students monitoring the Tutorial room.
Action: Mr. Parrish will contact the NC State School of Education person.
Mrs. Ruth has sent out a request to all PTSA adult members who supplied their email addresses a sign up genius link to help with the Room monitor’s position. Since only one person signed up to be the room monitor, Mrs. Carrieri has suggested the WELL tutors meet in the library for their sessions until more room monitors are signed up to help.
Action: Mrs. Ruth will define what a monitor is and what is required and add the clarifications to the sign up genius and any information sent to parents.
Action: Mrs. Ruth will contact Stephanie Griffio, Freshman Parent Coordinator, and discuss the possibilities of attending the Freshman Parent Coffee time to inform the parents of the opportunities for volunteering.
Mrs. Brown made a motion for Mrs. Ruth to continue to encourage volunteers and Mr. Parrish contacting the NC State School of Education and Mrs. Hume seconded the motion.
All approved. Motion carried.
COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Mrs. Lucy Shockley
Mrs. Shockley presented an update for the Community Relations committee. Mrs. Shockley will meet October 15th with members from Western Boulevard Presbyterian Church and the Athens Drive Baptist Church to workout details that will benefit both churches as well as Athens Drive.
Mrs. Carrieri presented the Seventeen Essentials of team work for the PTSA.
Band Liaison: Kim Davis
Upcoming Bar Be Que-10/26
Mattress Sale
Fruit/Nut Sales
The band is continuing on their Competition journey with wins in Mt. Pleasant and Central Cabarrus. Upcoming competitions will be in Hope Mills, Erwin, Havelock and Raleigh.
Future Business:
Action: Who on the PTSA board needs to sign the Code of Ethics? We do need to have the signed agreements for our PTSA to continue to stay in Good Standing with the NC PTA and National PTA organizations.
Meeting adjourned: 8:36pm