Adobe Bluffs Educational Foundation Meeting Notes (05/09/2022 5:30pm-7:00pm Zoom and Angie Robert’s house)
Attendees:
Angie, Olivia, Julie, Annie, Cindy, Michelle, Angela, Shannon, Sharon, Jenny Tomlin, Jenn Chen, Christine, Mrs. Peterson, Miss Sheikh, Megan, Jessica, Paloma, Arlene, Yecong (Joy) Li
April Meeting Minutes Approval – Jenny T motioned to approve, Michelle seconded, all approved
President’s Report (Angie)
Fundraising goal update: we are going to meet and exceed the 10% increase fundraising goal for this school year! Congratulations!
End of year gifts: please don’t get me any gifts.
Mrs. Boyd’s retirement: ideas: a brick? A profile? A spotlight from the PTA emails? Meeting bench? Anything in the reading corner in the library? Memory box?
Yearbook: submitted
Bricks: 12ish bricks purchased, and they will be all installed at once by Caroline
Principal and Teacher Report (Mrs. Peterson/Miss Sheikh)
Teacher reps for the foundation may change; different teachers rotate for different service roles, 2 reps (from two different grades) for each organization
The bungalow project:
A lot of the furniture came in as assembled
The teachers and the students are using and loving the furniture that’s already moved in
The school will need about $700 to pay for moving/assembling the furniture.
The remaining $2500 will stay with the foundation.
Teachers’ salaries: $66,753 for next school year
Music teacher: $1700 for salary, the class will start right after the school starts, and it will be once a week
PE teacher will start later in fall
Impact Teacher 1 and 2, salaries from January to June need to come from the foundation
The foundation will vote during the first meeting in the 2022-2023 school year for fund allocation.
The overall enrollment for this year is lower than expected. The immersion program is expanding, and it has a waiting list. Minimum 3 more mandarin immersion classes will be added next year.
Bingo Night (Sharon/Angela)
05/11 is the event day
Volunteers (parents and older kids) are welcome. Please sign up in signup genius.
DJ: Sharon’s husband and Mr. Luciani
Thank you for donating the toys for kids’ raffle (record the income for reporting purpose)
The money comes from Kids raffle table needs to be carefully recorded for state regulation purposes.
The sponsor for this event is Marston Orthodontics. The banner will be
Financial Snapshot (Jen Chen):
Corporate checks and Strong-a-thon checks comes in this month.
So far, we are at $119,000 for fundraising, and we have spent $150,000. Current account balance is $68000 with $51000 on reserve for teacher salary. About $3300 is left for the bungalow project.
Bylaws (Paloma):
Due to the growth of the school and the organization, the proposal is to form a small committee to discuss the potential changes we should make.
The committee will finalize the areas for changing at the beginning of next school year.
PTA Report (Arlene)
Book fair is successful!
Teacher appreciation week is last week. The teachers enjoyed the activities planned for them.
Lego league needs more volunteers. Orlando is leaving.
Votes:
VOTE: New board slate as listed below
Position | Member | Voting Role? |
President | Jenny Tomlin | Yes |
Immediate Past President | Angie Robert | Yes |
Treasurer | Jennifer Chen | Yes |
Financial Secretary | Peggy Bain | Yes |
Secretary | Razalene Castro | Yes |
Parliamentarian | Paloma Ramirez | Yes |
Membership VP | Christine Paulson | Yes |
Marketing & Communications VPs | Annie Min & Erin Bauchman | Yes |
Webmaster | Rebecca Barney | No |
Blog editor | Angie Robert | No |
Small Events Chairs (Welcome back, photo, etc) | OPEN | Yes |
Silent Auction Co-Chairs | Julie Peecha-Gonzalez & Megan Flynn | Yes |
Silent Auction Committee | Danielle Kerhoulas + Sheila Foster | No |
Jog/Read-a-thon chairs | Sheila Foster & Seth Camhi | Yes |
Sweetheart Dance Event chair | Olivia Jensen & Cindy Davis | Yes |
Yearbook | Abby Charfauros & Jenny Lee | Yes |
PTA Liaison | Christine Paulson | No |
Teacher Liaisons | Ms. Sheikh and Mr. Figone | Yes |
Advisor | Mrs. Peterson | No |
Members at large (non-voting) | Shannon Dawkins, Alex Holtet, Clara Lim | No |
Michelle motioned to approve, Jenny Tomlin seconded, all approved
VOTE: Eliminate Mother/son in May and turn father/daughter dance into a Sweetheart Dance with special someone, which will be open to all students in ABES
Michelle motioned to approve, Julie seconded, all approved
