September 9, 2025

Dedham School PTF Meeting 

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025; 5:34 p.m.

Location: Music Room

1. Welcome & Introductions

• Attendance and Roll Call: Jerry Troger, Katie McCourt, Jody Butilier, Douglas Wright, Madeline Wright, Lindsay McMurray, Larry Clement, Karl Whitham

• Review and approval of August minutes (approved)

2. Treasurer’s Report

• Checking balance:  $12,778.04

• Scrip balance:  $2,696.88

• PayPal: $4.8

3. New / Old Business

• Officer nominations:

  • Pending nominations:

    • President: Katie McCourt

    • Vice President: Madeline Wright

    • Treasurer: Karl Whitham (contingent upon employer approval)

    • Secretary: Lindsay McMurray

• Discussed:

  • Officer roles, procedures

  • Granite plaque presentation for retired teacher

  • Fundraising ideas:

    • Monthly sponsor from local businesses (restaurants, bars, gas stations) to pick up their cans/bottles

      • Smoke & steel

      • Fog Town

      • Brewsters

      • Marquee advertisement on 1A Dedham School “Bottle Sponsor XXXXXXXX”

    • One-off demon t-shirts for sale

      • Next year tricorn hat demon for the signing of the declaration

    • Christmas/craft market, selling vendor spots, bake sales, santa photos

      • Constrained timeline

      • Non-Dedham residents allowed to come

  • Leveraging the survey respondents for baked goods / etc, we’ve a pool of emails to pull from 

  • Starting a quarterly newsletter

    • Thank yous

    • Marketing for PTF

      • Tiktok style video showcasing our events with link to join / paypal

        • Videos would need to be explicitly shared 

  • Trunk or Treat 25th of October

    • Food truck (Katie to follow up)

      • Smoke & Steel

        • Concerns with the queue for the food truck, last year was a bit much

      • Popcorn (Madeline Wright)

      • Drinks (Katie to email survey respondents / Jody to buy from Sam’s Club, pass off extras to the concession stand)

    • Movie

      • Stephanie Lee’s OR Tim Bush’s projector (Jody & Jerry to reach out)

      • Scooby Doo, Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts Scooby Doo (1969)

    • Rain night? Next day

  • Santa Crafting event

    • 7th of December

    • Afternoon, 12 - 4

    • Santa for 2 hours, 2 - 4

    • Madeline to reach out to potential vendors

• Request for funds:

  • $566 staff open house tshirts (approved)

6. Adjourn: 6:50pm