November 2023 Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Schultz Elementary PTO

Meeting Date: November 14, 2023                       Meeting Location: Art Room

Attendance: Tyra Baisden, Krista Bear, Heather Calhoun, Kelly Carlson, Sara Casper, Jayme Hiller, Logan King, Rose Long, Kristina McDonald, Andrea McFarland, Angela Miley, Jay Miley, Bree Saunders, Jerilyn Schmidt, Lauren Skillen, Heather Stake, Kenzie Staley, Lindsay Stamm, Melissa Stansbery, Mike Troutman, Heather Ward, Kaitlyn Young

1. Call to Order—7:05pm

2. Minutes: Review of minutes from 10/10/23 meeting—motion to approve K. Young, 2nd H. Ward, all in favor

3. Co-President's Report

• Thank you for Veteran’s Day breakfast—served almost ~60 veterans, ~70 students

4. Treasurer’s Report

• Budget Update—balance $17,024.68 (as of 11/11/23)

• Funding Requests

  • Sarah Bills (Guidance)

    • Literacy Night—$170 from “Literacy Night” budget for 1,700 bookmarks from Project Lightwell—R. Long, 2nd J. Miley, all in favor—approved!

    • General Student Use—~$800 from “Inclusion” budget:

      • Kelly Carlson (founder of Project Lightwell)--Fair Trade bunnies/stickers/bookmarks to deliver message “Loved…No Matter What”, goal to place truth, value, and light in the dark, willing to help design candy grams (donating design work to Schultz)

      • 16 Project Lightwell bunnies (K-2nd calm down kits)

      • Project Lightwell stickers (3rd-5th)

      • R. Long, 2nd J. Miley, all in favor—approved!

  • Sarah Heald--NFL prizes, activities, snacks

  • First Grade Field Trip--$715, asking $5.50/student so that parents don’t have to send in 50 cents due to 5% multicultural fee—R. Long, 2nd K. Young, all in favor—approved!

• 2022 Federal Taxes filed (7/2022 - 6/2023)

5. Committee Reports

• Volunteers 

  • Kona Ice (January / February / March)—3 volunteers needed to count funds/call students

• Fundraising

  • Pie Sales Update—transportation to Delaware is a 3rd party refrigeration truck, not picked up yet, flyers will go out with each student---profit $1,768, shipping $212

Discussion—Big Picture: we’ve had so much fundraising this year and we want to go to one larger thing to, Apex Company does it all, Empower

• Pie Gift Card Drawings

  • Kindergarten Amelia Parsley, Jackson Butz

  • 1st Jayden Santana, Gina Dinovo

  • 2nd Syla Schaefer, Thomas Gunthorp

  • 3rd Liam Butz, Bradyn Calhoun

  • 4th Bennett Parker, Ellie Mrazek

  • 5th Brilyn Worthen, Jude Ashton

• Spirit Wear Sale—L. Stamm spoke to Pat’s Print Shop with Online Order Form for Christmas, Live end of week to run through thanksgiving or end November, 2 week turn around needed, soft good stuff with fewer offerings, need to choose 2 images, dark grey/black/orange

• Pizza Sale—bumped up date to align with Super Bowl

• Secret Santa

  • Update from planning meeting

  • Grade Level Raffle Baskets—get out before Black Friday, volunteer sheets Friday and Saturday, Holiday Treasures, will have another S.S. meeting 11/29@6:30

6. Principal’s Report – Mrs. Baisden—support appreciated (Kona, Literacy Night, Veterans, etc)

7. Old Business

• NexTrek Update—93.6lbs already collected and recorded, 907lbs to go!

8. New Business

• Winter Pacer Fest (Monday, November 20th @ Hayes)

9. Announcements

• Next meeting will be Tuesday, December 12 @ 7pm

• Secret Santa is Saturday, December 9

10. Adjournment—8:01pm motion to adjourn R. Long, 2nd M. Troutman