April 2024 Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Schultz Elementary PTO

Meeting Date: April 9, 2024                       Meeting Location: Art Room

Attendance: Tyra Baisden, Heather Calhoun, Nikki Lizak, Melissa Hay, Kristina McDonald, Andrea McFarland, Jay Miley, Bree Saunders, Jerilyn Schmidt, Jess Schwab, Lauren Skillen, Heather Stake, Melissa Stansbery, Becky Travis, Carla Whipple

1. Call to Order at 7:06pm

2. Minutes: Review of minutes from 3/12/24 meeting—motion to approve H. Stake, M. Hay, all in favor

3. Co-President's Report

• PTO Scholarship—10 applicants, 2 scholarships, passed off to Mr. Woodworth

4. Treasurer’s Report

• Budget Update—$14,132.40

  • Attorney General Update—completed and current, 3 years of back filing, official “charity” in state of Ohio, income over 25k we would have the long form

  • Panda Express Totals--$1,181.21 sales, $590.11 back to Schultz

  • Foertmeyer Spring Totals—did not reach goal of $8,000, $7,220 profit, 1,138 items, extending it helps, normally running it spring break and we are earlier, 19.67% of student participation, 10 cents per plant back as incentive toward silly string, gummy prizes coming to school ahead of time, every child who sold gets a Whit’s coupon, top class in grade level gets extra recess, 6 kids sold more than 30 plants

Discussion: Assembly? Participation limited because people can’t with inflation—can we just give money? Penny drive twice a year, can beat that amount in the spring, book a thon, bingo board in increments of $1, 15 minutes outside to clean up/acts of kindness, make a silly video instead of the assembly to hype??

• Funding Requests

  • Request for ELL books from Mrs. Larrison—approved $150 in Feb. for Spanish books, she purchased $180 from Scholastic and Barnes and Noble, can we amend it to reimburse her $30—L. Skillen, H. Stake, all in favor—approved!

    • Add $200 line item next year, FB request donations, over 30 students—L. Skillen, H. Stake, all in favor

    • Idea to ask United Way if multi-lingual resources are available

5. Committee Reports

• Events

  • Game Night—Save for fall, running into Spring Fling timing

  • Spring Fling (May 17th, 6:30-8)—Theme: Totally 80’s Night, neon, black construction, boom boxes, rubix cube, cassette tapes, pretzel/animal crackers/goldfish (Lauren can get pretzels donated), Activities: student/parent dance off, fanny packs for winner, Simon Says, giant twister, cafeteria: “cootie catchers” fortune tellers, guessing game, photo ops: etch a sketch, pacman (Lauren can make), mix tapes with schedule, we need the DJ (thriller, chacha slide, macarena…), Looking for: giant light bright, giant connect four, K&E Entertainment (a parent)??, Quincy Smith (caricatures): 3-5 min, 20-25 people per hour, $75/hour??, charge $5/each?, chairs lining the gym? (chairs may be at graduation), painters tape, RSVP with qr code for estimated count, how much is a weekend custodian if we were to move to Saturday (nothing on Schultz building calendar for Sat.)? 7-8:30? **We will look into price of custodian for Saturday?  Can they work individually?

• Fundraising

  • Foertmeyer Flower Pick Up on Saturday, May 11, Volunteers Needed—sign up out first

  • Parent Night Out—flyers were out today, waitlisted families had first dibs, Theme: Ninja Night, email to send out same day, leave out of newsletter because it may be sold out

• Volunteer Opportunities

  • Art Show (Hanging of artwork)  Thursday, May 2, in conjunction with choir concert

  • Foertmeyer Flower Pick Up (Saturday, May 11)

  • Field Day (May 21st / Rain Date May 22), Monday May 20 prep day, portapots are ordered and invoice coming to school

• Staff Appreciation

  • Staff Appreciation Week (May 6-10)—“Schultz Staff is Sun-Sational” (budget $1,000 but also includes retirement)

    • Rise and Shine- breakfast/coffee

    • You have a Pizza of our heart- donation drink and snacks, Pizza Hut lunch

    • Sunshine cart- snacks and drinks

    • Thank you for Ray-sing the bar—ice cream sundae bar donations

    • Just to Brighten your Day—gift (highlighters, bookmarks from Kelly?)

6. Principal’s Report –Mrs. Baisden—coming up: senior lunch on May 16, and Rose Long’s retirement

7. Old Business

• NexTrek Update—lots of plastic in garage to exceed our goal, restart in fall, need to look into attaching bench down

• 5th Grade Yard Signs—last year $1,000 locally (9.62/sign), $5/sign online, would local price match? ~30ish still in garage, place stickers on back for return options

8. New Business

• PTO Board Positions for 2024-2025

  • Nominations—none new

9. Announcements

• Next meeting will be Tuesday, May 14 @ 7 pm

• Mrs. Long has been part of PTO since Schultz started, H. Calhoun motion to change gift from $50 to $100, H. Stake 2nd—approve!

10. Adjournment @ 8:20pm—J. Miley, 2nd A. McFarland