Royal View PTA Meeting Minutes
February 12, 2015
CALL TO ORDER—9:35am
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
WELCOME
APPROVAL OF MINUTES—There are no corrections, so the January minutes will stand
as posted.
TREASURER’S REPORT – Lesil Brihn
 Income--$4,609.70
 Expenses--$699.94
CORRESPONDENCE – Alexandra Geffert
 There were many thank you notes this month.
 For Poinsettia plants for Christmas: Cheri Rourke, Cathy Rush, Mrs. Morris, Mrs.
Hassel, Mary Boyer, Mrs. Lumpkin.
 Mr. Pavelich for Panera birthday gift card and for NR coasters for Christmas.
 Mr. Gurka on behalf of Board of Education for $3000 donation toward the
purchase of iPads.
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT – Mr. Pavelich
 Read Across America Day/Royal View Family Literacy Night will be Monday,
March 2, 6-8pm at Royal View. There will be guest readers in various rooms
throughout the school who will read Dr. Seuss stories and do related activities.
Students move room to room with a punch card, and at end of the night can
choose prizes for punches earned. If interested in a t-shirt, please return form to
school by tomorrow.
 Thank you to Barb Davis for all your hard work with the Jump Yard Fundraiser. It
was a great event and well done. It ran very smoothly. The baskets all looked
great!
 Jump Rope for Heart is going on this week with Mrs. Dylong.
 The Third Grade Square Dance is tonight at the Middle School. I love this event!
This is one of the first events where all the NR 3rd graders come together as one
group. It starts at 6:30 tonight, and I’ll see some of you there!
 Donuts with Dad was last week. Thank you to Lesil Brihn for another great job.
The kids love this event and having a dad or special buddy come out to be a part
of it. Despite the Monday snow day, Lesil still did a great job accommodating the
guests on the other days.
 Royal Lunches wrap up this week. Today is the last day for the year. Each class
has a fancy, restaurant-type setting for a nice lunch period. This is a great event
that we enjoy doing with the kids.
 Moving Kindergarten and Preschool back to this building has been proposed. So
far, a discussion was had with the Board members to get their initial thoughts on
it. The more formal aspect of moving forward with this will occur at the March
board meeting. The move would bring Kindergarten and Preschool into the
elementary schools. I believe we would have an all-day, everyday class, and a
M-W, and T-TH class. When I came here to Royal View, we had 18 grade level
teachers from first through fourth grade. With retirements and shifting around in
the district, we could be down 3-4 teachers from when I started here. So that is
where some additional space comes about to make this possibility feasible. We
will be packed in, but it will be possible.
 We would have the entire preschool at our building.
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Modular units have been talked about. I could see that potentially being some of
the support staff that need small areas. I anticipate all of the classrooms being in
the building.
 My sense with the planning that is occurring is that the chances are pretty good
that this will happen for next year.
TEACHER REPRESENTATIVE REPORT – Mrs. Morris
 I brought some forms for the literacy night. They are on the table.
SCHOOL BOARD REPORT – Jackie Arendt
 Couldn’t be here today.
EXECUTIVE BOARD REPORTS
PRESIDENT – Nellie Wislocki
 Valley Vista still has some Elite socks from their fundraiser if anyone is interested
in purchasing them.
1st VP – Stephanie Kostyack
 Door prize drawing
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2 VP (Book Fair) – Jen Kramer
 BOGO book fair will start the night of the art show, 3/25, and will run 3/26-3/27
during the day. I will probably need some help. It will be similar to our regular
book fairs, but if you buy a book, you get one free.
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3 VP (Pictures) – Lisa Adcock
 Spring Photos scheduled for 3/23. They are prepaid, but otherwise will run like
fall photos. This is a more casual, fun photo. Likely to get 25-30% of the student
body. Flyers should arrive in the next couple of weeks.
 Yearbook is coming along. Did ask that third grade moms take photos at the
square dance tonight. Also, if anyone can take photos at the Jump Rope for
Heart events.
 Candid day was hard this year due to scheduling difficulties and conflicts. I didn’t
even get all of the groups photographed. I will make arrangements to come back
again at some point, but next year it would be good if candid day is the only thing
scheduled for that particular day!
4th VP (Malleys)—Gina Mitchner
 Forms are home and fundraiser is underway.
Council Delegates – Jami Haley and Melissa Crowe
 Snow Days/Cold Days—snow days are given based on the safety of the roads;
cold days are temperature driven. 0 degrees with wind chill of -15 is what they
are looking at. Change from number of days in school requirement to hours in
school? We are still on days in school under an existing agreement with the
teachers. We will stay on number of days until the existing agreements expire,
then we will turn over to hours. But Mr. Gurka feels we won’t be able to utilize
the option of the 2 hour delay due to transportation issues (busing and bus
drivers who leave for other jobs during the day)
 PARCC—discussed the “opt out.” You can’t have your child opt out. If you skirt
the testing, it won’t say your child “opted out,” but rather will show a zero—that
your child failed the test. If you are upset about testing, parents need to band
together and make our voice heard. This is the way to truly make a change. Tell
your representatives. Be vocal to Columbus.
 Re-doing the strategic plan. Make your voice heard!
 New safe school tip line. State of Ohio is offering this as a new service to place
anonymous tips of concerning information.
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Car Raffle, 2/20. Giving away a Chevy Cruise. Call the Board Office or HS
athletic office for tickets.
Night at the Races, 3/28.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Art Show – Mary Ellen Watrobski—Wednesday 3/25, 6-8pm. Artwork will be framed for
purchase. Order forms will be coming home soon. We make around $5/frame which
goes to the art department.
Collections (Box Tops, Campbell’s Labels, Sunny D) - Michelle Cutright—Box Tops
collection at end of February. We have had over $1000 of Box Tops so far. Campbell’s
collection at the end of March, early April. Collecting Tyson labels as well, so send those
in.
Cooking/Baking – Jami Haley—Sign ups filled up quickly---thank you. Please have
food here by 3:30 on conference night, 2/19.
Cultural Arts/Reflections – Stephanie Kostyack—The following are the Royal View
winners who won at district and will move on to the state competition: Emily Hain in
Dance, and Brooke Kostyack in Photography.
The theme for next year is something along the line of “If you could fly. . .” So, you can
start thinking about the topic in advance.
Donuts with Dads – Lesil Brihn—The event went well, thanks for all of your help. We
had 451 people attend.
Grounds/Landscaping – Jen Osborne—concerning the woman whose sister died while
a student at Royal View—perhaps we can purchase a brick for the high school bell tower
in memory of her? But they are around $100, so I am not sure how you feel about this?
Or maybe something in the courtyard? We will continue to follow up on this.
Health & Wellness/PHNR– Marla Lucarelli—
 Hidden in Plain Sight presentation was last Monday. Gave examples of where
kids stash things they don’t want their parents to find, etc.
 Parent and student information session on heroin in the community will be coming
up.
Jump Yard – Barb Davis
 The event went well. We made $2,684.34.
Newsletter Editor – Mary Ellen Watrobski
 If you have anything, please get it to me by tomorrow.
Scholarship – Alexandra Geffert
 Our packet of applicants should be available in the next week. I need a
committee to assist in ranking our applicants.
 Mary Ellen Watrobski and Lesil Brihn will assist.
Shamrock Shaker – Cortney Bokoch
 Coming up next month, on 3/8. Cortney has plans well under way, but really
needs help with clean up afterwards.
Curriculum and Assessment meeting—Gina Mitchner—
 Chrome Books—High School and Middle School have full carts, the elementary
schools need to get them—these are apparently the way to go with technology
purchases, and will be used in conjunction with PARCC testing, etc.
 New elementary computer program—Learning.com. It’s a nice curriculum that will
roll out in full next fall. Helps with computer literacy at the elementary level.
Mr.Hrin has started it with the students. There will be parental access, and it is
linked to common core.
 District PARCC test trial. District is ahead of the game compared with other
districts. We have one dedicated server for the PARCC assessments in the
district.
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Graduation requirements keep changing. Current freshman will be last to take
OGT’s. Then it will switch to 7 end-of-course exams (state assessments).
OLD BUSINESS
 The Nominating Committee met and has selected their candidates for the 201516 Slate of Officers. The proposed slate of officers, to be voted on next month is
as follows:
o President—Nellie Wislocki
o 1st VP—Melissa Crowe
o 2nd VP—Jen Kramer
o 3rd VP—Lisa Adcock
o 4th VP—Kim Marcum
o Council Delegates—Heather Filakowski, Jami Haley
o Secretary—Alexandra Geffert
o Treasurer—Lesil Brihn
NEW BUSINESS
 Ohio PTA Achievement Award Nominations—Nominations are being accepted for
candidates for this award. Candidates may be community members, teachers,
staff, or a parent who you feel deserves to be recognized for the outstanding job
they do and goes the extra mile for our students. The person submitting the
nomination is expected to present the award to the nominee, without them
knowing, at Founder’s Night on Thursday, April 23rd. Nominations will be
accepted until one week before our March meeting, so they would be due to me
no later than Thursday, March 5. If there are nominations today, we can vote on
them at this meeting. Otherwise the last opportunity to vote on award nominees
will be at the next meeting, March 12.
 Anyone slated as a new officer should think about attending Founder’s Night, 4/23
at 7pm. It’s nice, and your name is announced.
 Lego Night – I heard about a company called Bricks 4 Kids a few weeks ago, and
thought I would look into hiring them to come to Royal View for a Lego Night. I
have spoken with Mr. Pavelich about the PTA hosting a Lego Night. He gave us
the ok, so I have reserved Fri. April 17 from 6:30 to 8 pm in the Multi-Purpose
Room. The company Bricks 4 Kids sets up stations around the room, such as
mosaic building, robotics, stacking, ramps for cars, Duplo blocks for younger
siblings, etc. Students can stay for as long as they want at each station. They
charge $5 per person (children and adults) with a minimum of 100 attendees. I
would like to propose that we turn the event into a fundraiser to offset the
Newsletter budget. Back in the fall, PTA Council decided to hire a newsletter
company to produce all the PTA newsletters and to solicit ads for the benefit of
each PTA unit. We estimated $500 revenue and have received only $18 to date.
By increasing the price of admission to $7, considering the company requires a
minimum of 100 attendees, we would be guaranteed at least $200. May I please
have a motion for Royal View PTA to add a Lego Night as a fundraiser?
 Motion to add Lego night as fundraiser, Mary Ellen Watrobski; 2nd, Stephanie
Kostyack. Motion carries.
Adjourn 11:10am
Alexandra Geffert
PTA Secretary