Executive Board & Leadership
2025/2026
2025/2026
Officers
President: Bianca Gruell
Secretary: Bobbie Stone
Treasurer: Karen Dunkerly
VP Communications: Kaitlin Barrie
VP Fundraising: Marissa Smith
Committee/Activity Chair(s)
Membership: Carly Brazil
Health & Safety: Tiffany Hart and Katherine Coppola
Hospitality: Debbie Vacher
Appointed Positions
Auditing Committee: Nevie Vance
Historian: Erin Bie
Parliamentarian: Patrick Dunkerly
School Staff Representatives
Principal: Josh Costa
Teacher Rep(s): Luci Galvan & Deb Matson
Elected Officers Position Descriptions
PRESIDENT (4-8 hrs/mo): Impartially preside and coordinate meetings, work with members to define and set goals for the school year, sign checks prepared by the Treasurer. Act as the primary liaison between PTA and the school administration.
1st VP-COMMUNICATIONS (4-8 hrs mo):Update the Google Site and Facebook page with PTA events, maintain electronic mailing list of members and registered non-member email recipients, send weekly emails to the electronic mailing list with information on school and PTA events, provides information for school “all calls” and newsletter for PTA events.
2nd VP-FUNDRAISING (8-12 hrs/mo): Organize and run fundraising events such as Family Dine Outs, Family Lunches, spirit gear drives, and more. Also facilitates Kelly Karnival planning and implementation efforts.
SECRETARY (4-8 hrs/mo): Works with the President to develop meeting agendas for both the Executive and full Association meetings; keeps accurate records of all meetings; provide monthly meeting minutes for board approval.
TREASURER (4-8 hrs/mo): Keep accurate permanent books of all accounts. Create annual budget for board’s approval. Receive, track and balance all income and expenses using spreadsheets. Update available campus support funds and provide monthly updates and a monthly treasurer’s report during PTA meetings. Prepare and sign all checks in a timely manner.
AUDITOR/AUDITING COMMITTEE (attendance at mtgs + ~3 hours/2x year): Work closely with the Treasurer to develop a common set of procedures and tools that will support the fiscal aspect of PTA. Review & sign monthly account reconciliation(s) from the Treasurer. Perform audit of PTA records/procedures at least bi-annually. The duties of the Auditor can be full-filled by President-appointed members (two or more) instead of a single auditor. Accounting software adopted in 2023 is MoneyMinder. Remote participation and training is logistically possible.
Committee Chairs/Program Lead Descriptions
Committee Chairs/Program Leads are appointed, NOT elected. They are considered 'Executive Board Members'. They are encouraged to organize volunteers to help get the work done. (They are not expected to do all the work by themselves.)
HEALTH & SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIR: Organize Red Ribbon Week, Coin Drive, and additional activities.
HISTORIAN: Keep record of PTA activities and successes. Report annual PTA volunteer hours.
HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE CHAIR: Coordinate acknowledgements as needed including staff appreciation luncheons.
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR (2-4 HRS primarily in October): Conduct ongoing membership drives for the PTA. Keep a current list of members.
PARLIAMENTARIAN: Update the PTA bylaws; facilitate the nominating committee and elections process. Attend meetings to help with questions on procedure.
YEARBOOK COMMITTEE CHAIR (10-15 HRS primarily in Spring): Photograph school events and/or collect photographs from families and staff. Create school yearbook. Organize yearbook sales and distribution. //***photographers are welcome to submit pictures anytime***//
Bookmarks for Thomas Kelly PTA Leaders
PTA & Administration Leadership
Local https://www.3rdpta.org/home CA PTA Third District is our go-to local first contact and place to start looking for information outside our own unit. For example, calendar at https://www.3rdpta.org/calendar. The YouTube training videos get posted at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KlBtDDNJk_3D7UD8wmfng/videos .
State https://leaders.capta.org/log-in Register to access CA PTA Leader Resources. We are unit 501 in CA PTA 3rd District.
National https://www.pta.org/ There are many resources for leaders at the national level too including the official Branding and Web Guidelines https://www.pta.org/home/run-your-pta/PTA-Branding-and-Web-Guidelines including prescribed specifications of the 'every child one voice' Logo for Thomas Kelly Elementary PTA.
Thomas Kelly PTA DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/login?cont=%2Fhome%2FThomas%2520Kelly%2520PTA%2520Files
Websites:
Google published Site is https://sites.google.com/view/thomaskellyptasite?usp=sharing. Authorized Editors enter at https://sites.google.com/
SJUSD/Thomas Kelly see "Get Involved" page click-->'PTA' Tab at https://kelly.sanjuan.edu/connect/get-involved
Facebook page 'Thomas Kelly Eagle News - Current Students' at https://m.facebook.com/groups/thomaskellypta/ to connect and communicate with staff and families.
Fiscal Leadership Links & Shops
MoneyMinder is the overall accounting system https://app.moneyminder.com/login used for budgeting and reports from several sytems (Totem/Stripe, Chase Business, Square, etc). Once logged on to MoneyMinder, you can directly enter the PTA "MoneyMinder Shop" aka CheddarUp located externally to the public at https://my.cheddarup.com/me/857249.
Chase Business https://www.chase.com/business
Join Totem is at https://jointotem.com/ca/carmichael/thomas-kelly-elementary-pta. In 2020 Join Totem was adopted as the official membership database. Members can view and print an e-membership card. Join Totem also contains an easy to use messaging system to reach our active or recently expired PTA members. Your email at member sign up (paper or electronic) is important to know when trying to log on. Generally, the Membership Chair, Treasurer and President can access the system internally to add/edit members, view membership count reports, extract fiscal data, current membership and leadership lists. Stripe Pay Account at https://connect.stripe.com/express_login is the backbone pay account system behind Join Totem.
Shops
MoneyMinder Shop aka CheddarUp https://my.cheddarup.com/me/857249 (established 2023/2024)
Spiritwear Square Shop https://thomas-kelly-elementary-pta.square.site/ (established prior to 2023/2024)