L
OGISTICS
D
ATE
& T
IME OF
M
EETING
Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 7:15 pm
L
P
OCATION
RESIDING OFFICERS
C ENTRAL S CHOOL L IBRARY /M EDIA C ENTER
Kelly Connolly (President), Caroline Lattanzi (Vice President), Kelly Strayer
(Treasurer), and Mary Myers (Secretary).
A
GENDA
/N
OTES
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Welcome and Introductions
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Jay Reynolds motioned to start meeting and Sandra Cinquegrana seconded.
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Treasures Report- Budget review and approval- general
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Spirit Wear
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Invested $4,800 in new spirit wear
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Sold $3,264 or 68% in one month
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Insurance
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Insurance expires 11/1/15
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Propose renewing the policies (commercial general liability and Non-profit professional liability) at a cost of $255 for the year. Melanie Siena-Thomas motioned and Michelle Bourque seconded.
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PTO Membership
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81 Families have joined the PTO thus far in the school year with membership and donations of $3,903 as of 9/7/2015 and calendar/notepad/directory orders of $184.
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Annual Reports
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Annual Reports for 2014 and 2015 were filed with the State of CT on 9/3/2015. The filing numbers are 0005391366 and 0005391372 . Reimbursement of $100, $50 fee for each year, is requested. Diane Reynolds motioned and Josefina Casabal seconded.
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Budget: We will have a budget for approval at the October meeting. Key Items of Interest
 In June $10K of teacher requests were approved. $8K remains outstanding. $6.5 K of the $8K is a Chromebook order that is in process
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Back to school teacher luncheon: we presented teachers with $2,100 of checks ($75/teacher) for classroom spending
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A budget of $9,465 was provided by Kelly deGroot for Classroom Enhancement for the
2015/2016 school year
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A cost of $2,962 was allocated to Central School for Cultural Enrichment for
2015/2016. Payments due Sept, Nov, Jan.
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As of 9/8/15, the PTO Bank Accounts have a total of $18.9K and there are $12.8K (teacher request/teacher checks/insurance/annual reports/cultural enrichment) of outstanding approved items to date
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Old Business
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HUB - school and district goals, details, log in info.

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District goal to have all schools on hub so one stop shopping if you have 3 kids at 3 different schools in Simsbury you would log onto one hub.
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Kelly will add HUB link to Central School Website
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Will send a reminder in List serve on how to login to HUB. Once we have directory we will also send an email blast.
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HUB – online school supplies were a hit and convenient for parents
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Back to School Picnic review
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Huge turnout for picnic. PTO to receive $100 from Ben & Jerry’s
 Committee Chairs and Room Parents
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New Business
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Curriculum Night
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Movie Night details and vote
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Ellen Roberts and Margaret Clark are the Chairs.
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$1,200 requested and motioned by Sandra and seconded by Siobhan Graham
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$350 for movie screen, $75 popcorn machine, $24 DVD, $18 glow sticks, $190 pizza
(will try to work with Fitzgerald’s for a discount), $350 licensing
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Pies and Dough Fundraiser details
 Katie Katz and Siobhan Graham chairs
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Pies from Lyman’s again
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10/7 send flyers home and give 2 weeks for orders, 10/23 need to submit orders
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Still need to set delivery date & time
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Auction details and vote
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Mandy McCullough & Missy Iler are the Chairs
 10/17 at Rosedale’s, Kane’s catering the food, cash bar
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Donation letters and forms going home 9/11
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Requested $4,000 motioned by Mandy and seconded by Missy.
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$1,500 location, $200 invitation, $2,000 food
 Thinking $45 per ticket
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Supermarket Rewards Program
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Flyers going home for parents to fill in card numbers and return
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Box Tops
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Robin Konopka is the Chair
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Looking to do more promotion/competition around the program – maybe use PTO board to post how classrooms are doing
 Principal’s Comments
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Thank you to the new board and to Sandra for returning to help out in so many ways
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We have 368 students this year, 25 new students (not including Kindergartners)
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Curriculum night – changing format moved to one night. Principal will address parents before k-3 session and then again before 4-6. PTO board will also be introduced during that time.
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Friday LARTNEC ceremony 9/11 @1:30