Meeting Notes 

PTO meetings


4-24-2023 BGHS PTO meeting minutes

Present (via Zoom meeting): Terri Brand, Pres.; Julie Burton, Vice Pres.,  Greg Shepherd, Treas., Katie Bacon, Asst. Principal

Scholarship night-Local Scholarship Awards night is April 27 @ 7 pm at PAC. 

 Dunn has sponsored 2 $500 scholarships. 

Tim Dunn will be presenting the scholarship awards on behalf of PTO/Dunn Pinert Funeral Homes. 

Greg will try to be present at the awards night as well.

Senior Signs- 69 and a few extra were ordered. 

Andrew will charge us $10 per sign, we charged parents $15.

 Greg will pick up checks and cash from Teri's house to deposit.

Only 5 have not paid for signs.

Hope to have Senior signs delivered the 2nd week of May.

Teacher Luncheon- luncheon will be on Wednesday, May 10th. 

Greg will prepare the food and he will also donate Stadium Salsa and Tortilla Chips. Many thanks to Greg for doing all of this.

 We will need to do a signup genius for desserts and plasticware. 

Terri indicated that people signed up at the beginning of the year to possibly help with serving as well; will need to reach out to them for helping with set up, serving and tear down.

Need to arrive around 10:15 AM to help set up and serve food.

Art Show—PTO usually purchases art (around $100.00) from the Senior Art Show and donates to the school to display. 

Art show is on May 13th this year.

Greg set up a Givebutter account where people can do a “no sale” fundraiser donation to PTO. 

So far, we have received approximately $485.00. 

We will put a link on the BGHS PTO website for our Givebutter account.

Will send out email later to determine our summer meeting. 


PTO meeting January 23, 2023

Present – Greg Shepherd, Julie Burton, Terri Brand, Amanda Parish, Mrs. Bacon, Officer Short

Officer Short discussed school safety procedures and answered questions

Treasurer report given

Adjusted and corrected the withdrawals and which account – the main PTO account or the Principal’s balance that the money came from. 

We have a debit card for the PTO to be able to use to pay bills more quickly.

Discussed coffee and donuts for teachers – reach out to Biggby to help - possibly on Valentine’s Day.

Consider Wednesday and Thursday, Feb 15 and 16, since it is the Block Days for the Teachers

ACT test is February 28 in the big gym.

Reach out to parents for snacks for the ACT’s.

Drop off on Feb 24 and 27 

Leftovers last year went to the teacher lounges.  Terri has a list of what the kids ate from last year so we know better what to ask for and will share that with Julie Burton for the Sign Up Genius.

Volunteers to hand out food for the ACT – 

Test starts at 8am, do 2 waves of food

Amanda and Julie can volunteer to help and will reach out for others, arriving around 7:30 to set up.

Veronica Urban is still chair of the Scholarship Committee

February 17th all the scholarship applications are due

Pass out 2 scholarships for $500 each

Feb 21 – applications to the committees.  Meeting needs to be done by March 24.

April 27th – Local Scholarship Awards Night 7pm in the PAC

Greg Shepherd will try to get Tim Dunn to do the presentation 

Dunn’s Funeral home is donating $1000 to the scholarship

March 18th – Spring Fling dance

Tim and Amanda running the Concession Stand with another volunteer

We will need coat check volunteers

The Art Studio is redesigning the Senior Signs

If we need more Paw Print signs, Andrew at BG Graphics can do it.

Missed a Teacher’s grant request from Mr. Ross

Asked for $300 for books or his class

Unanimous to cover the cost

Mrs. Bacon asked about any donated gift cards from local businesses.  They are averaging about $20 in rewards given per month for PBIS points.  Greg has about $60 in donations from local businesses he will bring in.

Amanda brought up a Non-fundraiser Fundraiser to try to raise money.  Greg has a Give Butter account already set up for another organization and could add another account for the school.  

Greg is willing to run it but we will need to share it.

Mrs. Bacon will look into how we can share the fundraiser out.  We can possibly make a flyer and hand it out through the Superintendent’s office to the different buildings.

We will consider setting it up for this year.  Greg will start to work on the flyer and we will discuss how we would like to have it look.  We will discuss further how any raised funds will be used and how that will be conveyed to the any donors.

Could credit a PTO membership if the donation is over $25.

Make the goal $10,000

Teacher luncheon again.  No date set yet but National Teacher’s Appreciation week is May 8-12.

Recommend doing it on Wednesday or Thursday.  AP tests should be done by then.

Scheduling it for May 10th.


August 29, 2022

Present – Katie Bacon, Julie Burton, Terri Brand, Greg Shepherd, Ashley Rader, Jennifer Gottschalk, Stacey Higgins 

Board members introduced themselves:

Terri Brand – President

Julie Burton – Vice President, Chair of Teacher Appreciation

Amanda Parish - Secretary

Greg Shepherd – Treasurer

Paw Print sign sale through Sept 23.  We have sold 99 signs so far, a little down from last year

Registration – 32 members which is likely a little low compared to last year

Mini Grants – 

Approved Mini Grant from Dr. G asking for a new podium for $150.

Approved Inspiration Award for $30

Already gave out $300 for scholarship for Fan Fair

Mrs. Tesler will also have a grant she is submitting.

Regular Homecoming dance this year – October 1 – the theme is Hollywood

We help out running a coat check – Guys’ jackets and girls’ shoes.

1st Teacher Appreciation is in October.

Open for anything people would like.

Stocked lounges for the first day of school and it is gone already

Treasurer Balance-

We have a portion of our money that ($9650) goes to the Principal’s account

Our balance is $4156.17

Dunn Funeral Home has sponsored $1000 for the Senior Scholarships at the end of the year.

Tim or Brittany may come to present the scholarships

He has collected $100 in gift cards for the PBIS rewards.


Update from Mrs. Bacon:

We will be receiving a grant for more consistent and bigger prizes for PBIS this year.

Possibly looking for more exciting things for the students:

Ways to redeem the kids’ points at lunch and then bigger things like monthly 

rewards.

Calling students down for birthdays – some sort of birthday present treat.

Trying to do more positive things for the kids.

Trying to talk with all the kids and get to at least see a face in a positive style.

Officer Short will be attending the January meeting to discuss safety procedures within the school.

Discussed ideas for PTO:

Senior scholarships – parents have to be a paying member at least their senior year. 

Deadline for parents to be members is the end of September.

Push application out to Junior and Senior parents

September 26 at 7pm – financial aid night for the Senior parents at the PAC.  Consider a 

station there with the forms.

Update the dates on the website, things are out of date.

PTO opportunities throughout the year:

Helping at teacher appreciation in May

ACT snacks in winter

Homecoming help

Sorting and giving out the paw signs – hope to have in by the end of October

Senior signs by winter so the students will have them longer

Brain-storming:

Prepaid chicken dinner at a football game to fundraise for the PTO

One of Greg’s neighbors – Crawfords will cook the chicken dinners for us.

Next meeting is January 23.


BGHS PTO Meeting July 18, 2022

Attending: Greg Shepherd, Terri Brand, Amanda Parish, Julie Burton, Deb Clifford

Election of officers held and the officers are as follows:

President: Terri Brand

Vice-President: Julie Burton

Secretary: Amanda Parish

Treasurer: Greg Shepherd

Paw Print Yard Signs:

       $60-$65 for the signs this year.

Send out the flyer with the school packets, can also order on the website.9

Sale will run August 1 – Sept 21

We will be sending in the orders Sept 26, 27

BG Graphics usually has a 4-6 week turn around to return the signs

PTO sign-up form 

How do we increase the scholarship participation?

Increase the amount we offer?  Currently offering $250

How do we increase PTO participation?

Greg suggsest that on the website when people buy the pawprint that we have a spot where

  the parents can sign up for PTO when they buy the pawprint sign.   We can contact 

them afterwards for committee sign up.

Senior signs – Greg suggests having the senior signs throughout the year

We have 21 left over from last year.  

Considering reusing the signs next year, remove the stickers.

Ask the seniors to submit new designs for the 2023 pawprint signs.

Fan Fair – Wed Aug 17 from 6-8

Usually take up a collection and people can drop off items for the Fan Fair at registration.

Help for the PTO Table at Registration:

Monday  8-12 – Amanda

12-3 – Terri

Tuesday  8-12 – Terri 

12-3 - ?

Wednesday  8-12 – Julie

12-3 – Terri

Thursday  8-12 – Terri

12-3 – Greg

We usually place treats for teachers in the Teacher Lounges – K-Cups, bottles of water, granola bars, snacks

We usually stock the lounges during registration week to start the year and then restock the first day back from Christmas break

Ask Veronica if she will be the scholarship chair again.

Discussed increasing the amount of money.

The amount has historically been $250 – and we give out 4 scholarships.

Mini-Grants

Already have interest from at least 2 people, one of them is Dr. G.

Greg asked if there was a max on the Mini-grants.

Discussed setting a December 1 deadline for grants and let people know there can be a several

week turn around.

Greg has been able to have local businesses donate gift cards for the students.

Deb suggested a letter to the BG Chamber of Commerce asking for donations to support BG City Schools and for student recognition.

Greg is a member of the BG Chamber of Commerce

BG PTO meetings 2022-2023

August 29, 7 pm

January 23, 7 pm

April 24, 7 pm






Bowling Green High School PTO meeting

April 25, 2022

Attending:

Terri Brand, Amanda Parish, Julie Burton, Greg Shepherd, Deb Clifford, Katie Bacon


Tuesday May 3rd is the teacher appreciation luncheon.  Greg is going to cook the meal for the teachers which saves us over $300.  He will bring soft tacos as well as hard.  We will still buy Queso dip for them.  The luncheon will be in the library.  Greg will arrive at 10:15.  Julie Burton and Amanda Parish will come to help at 10:30.  A sign up genius was sent out for desserts, plasticware and plates.  The plasticware and plates are set but no one else has signed up.  There are 80-90 staff members.  

Senior signs – we ordered 65 which are done.  Debi picked the signs up Friday.  We are unsure of the cost as we have not been billed yet.  Terri will hand them out Friday afternoon and then Sandy said we could leave them in the office.

The Scholarship awards is May 4 at the PAC.  Greg will speak.  We only had 2 students who applied.   Discussed that the number of scholarship applications are down for several groups.  Amanda McBride knows Greg is presenting.  Next year may just say that there are $1000 worth of scholarships available and then the scholarship committee can decide how to divide the money among the applicants.  The scholarship amounts could vary depending on how many apply.

The Art Show is May 14th (?) in the store front 244 Main Street, 11a-3pm.  The PTO buys some art and then donates it back to the school.  It usually lasts a couple hours.  Not all art is for sale.

When do we need the student gift cards for the year – unsure what we need and when.

The number of students going to after prom is low this year and it may end up being cancelled.  There are around 125 students signed up right now to attend.

We have $3500 roughly in the bank minus pending expenses.


January 31, 2022

Present: Rachel Barnett, Julie Burton, Amanda Parish, Terri Brandt, Debra Clifford, Katie Bacon

ACT March 1st in the gym – 215 kids taking the test

Terri spoke with Laurie Moss

Senior scholarships

Senior signs

The teachers really appreciated the coffee and bagels.  He only charged us $97 for everything.

We are going to send out a general treat sign up for Valentine's Day.

We sold 169 pawprint signs at $50 and 6 at $55 because they were late.

Our balance is a little over $2500

Grants

Shared thank you notes from Mrs. MacIntosh and Mrs. Kern.

Next meeting is April 25th


BGHS PTO Meeting 9/20/21

Attending – Terri Brand, Julie Burton, Amanda Parish, Deb Clifford, Francis Scruci, Dan Black.

Pawprint sales – 110 sold so far.  The last date to order and pay for them is Friday 9/24/21

Cost of the pawprints is $50 and will be ordered on Monday.  If they want it in the middle of the year it is $55.

We have sent out emails to the parents for the signs

We have 2 signs free.  We asked the counselors for 2 names and would like to do one for the Torres family.

We have approved one mini grant and got 2 more applications – Mr. Ross and Mrs. Tessler for books.

Both are to have the right reading level for their students.

Mr. Ross teaches a large range of students.

Mrs. Tessler – intervention specialist and 2 English classes.

We approved the 2 mini grants.

We bought art from the art show last year.  We still need to finish paying the students.

Stu Crew – last year gave $115, we would like to repeat the $115 grant this year

Mr. Black asked us to help with rewards for teachers.  Thinking - $20 for each teacher each quarter.

Total of $200 for the year. Consider Downtown Dollars or Elite Collegiate Amanda Parish will pick them up.

Homecoming is different this year – reached out to Stu Crew and they are still figuring things out. Still don’t want backpacks and things like that coming in. Looking to do on the softball/baseball field Using Robin Short EZ Plus DJ equipment and kids can select music Lights, Inflatables – more directed to the order kids, Dunk tank, Yard game tournaments Adult volunteers to run the yard games.  Possible large inflatable screen. 

Greg Shepherd is interested to be on the board and take the Treasurer spot. – This is Deb’s last year.  Have Greg come on as Vice President and then observe the Treasurer to take over next year.

We have someone to fill the scholarship chair.

First teacher appreciation is Halloween.  Will send the names of volunteers to us soon.

The staff has debriefed about the bomb scare earlier this week.  The police just didn’t want the exact wording to be released.  Will not release the locations of evacuation.

Wood County is the lowest of the schools around for Covid cases. Wood County – 62% of the residents have had both shots.

Now opening to the community.  The email had gone out to the entire district for possible Quiz Bowl leader, no takers so far.

PTO summer organizational meeting. 7/19

Members present – Terri Brand, Julie Burton, Terry Burton, Amanda Parish

Julie Burton will be in charge of Teacher Appreciation and Amanda Parish will be the Secretary.

We are in need of a Scholarship Chair and that person cannot have a senior.

The dates of the pawprint sale were set to be August 1 – September 24 with orders being turned into BG Graphics on September 27.

There are 2 pawprint signs that are left over from last year and can be donated.  Terri Brand will talk with the counselors to see which students may be in need.

This year students must pre-pay for their pawprint signs.

High School Registration is August 16-19 from 8-3 and we need people to man the registration table.

Fan Fair

The PTO usually assists with collecting pop, water, chips, cookies, plates and napkins.

Terri Brand will talk with the new coach and Athletic Director to see if they still plan to do a Fan Fair and if they want the PTO’s help. 

Mini Grants – go out in August to the teachers.  In the past there has been an end date for the grants but last year no date was put on the application and that was preferable.   There will not be a monetary limit placed on the grants.

The budget for the Mini grants was set at $2500-$3000.

Homecoming was discussed as well -The PTO usually runs a Coat check in the small gym.  We write numbers on bags that match bracelets that are given to the students.  

The PTO also buys $5 gift cards for the Pep rally up to about $25.

There was discussion about the senior scholarship applications to possibly weight or give preference to applicants whose parents have been paying members of the PTO all 4 years.  This could be more easily accomplished since better records are being kept now.  No final decision was made.

Future meeting dates were set as

September 20th at 7pm

January 24th at 7pm

April 25th at 7pm


                                                                  PTO MEETING MINUTES April 26, 2021

Teacher Appreciation Luncheon was discussed and it will be held on Friday, May 7. It will be catered by El Zarape serving all BGHS faculty and staff. Volunteers will be setting up and serving meals. Parent volunteers will be providing individually wrapped desserts, utensils and paper products. This event is always a highlight of the year as we show our teachers and staff how much their hard work and efforts are valued. 












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