Minutes of June 7, 2010
Meeting was called to order by President, John
Hannay at 7:35 PM. Quorum was met.
Special Guests were the PTACHC Scholarship
recipients;
Minutes from the 05/3/10 meeting were
discussed, voted and approved as-is.
The PTA mission was read by a delegate.
Treasurer’s
Report: Reviewed the treasures report. The budget was revised to
increase the office staff line item from $5000 to $6500. The budget
includes MD PTA matching fund for leadership training to support up
to 35 registrations. Let Jane know before June 23, local PTA should
support one registration to get another matching registration.
Motion 1: To amend the budget to increase the
office staff line item from $5000 to $6500 was adopted.
BOE
Report: Ms. Pat Gordon reported that the operating budget of
$657 million was approved. This is about $10 million more than
requested. Howard county school system is in much better shape than
most of the other counties and states. We should appreciate our
elected staff as we have no furloughs, no class room instructional
changes, no layoff of teachers, and no changes to music and art
education. High school graduations went smoothly with no incidents.
Ms. Gordon attended the simulated congressional hearings at
elementary schools and was impressed with the questions, panels and
amendments, etc.
Office
of Superintendent Report: Patti Caplan reported that Pat Gordon
covered all the news. Three schools Hammond Elementary, Hammond
Middle and Northfield elementary will be closing on June 18th
as there are scheduled construction activities.
Report
from the Board of Directors: Cindy Haller presented Ms. Pat
Gordon and Ms. Patti Caplan hydrangeas plant on behalf of the PTA
Council to appreciate their consistent involvement with PTA Council.
Mollie Shea requested questions from the PTA delegates for
the BOE candidates as
part of multi-organizational election forum. Please email Mollie
Shea with suggestions and questions. The new officers training
session will be on June 10th at Faulkner Ridge 7 – 8:30
PM. The topics for the sessions were Treasurer, Presidents, and
Social Media; this will help to organize and to use the tools for
your PTA.
PTACHC
Scholarship Winners – Carolyn Folger thanked the committee
members to select the well deserved students and selected 9 awardees
totaling $10,500. Cindy, Venu and the council thanked Carolyn for
all the hard work and behind the scene activities and organization
of the scholarship committee.
Academic Scholarhsip ($2000)
Muyinat Osoba, River Hill High School
Sean Huang, Centennial High School
Teacher Education Scholarship ($2000)
Niklas Berry, Centennial High School
Catherine Ramis, Reservoir High School
Dr. Charles Ecker Community Service Scholarship ($500)
Jennifer Chase, Marriotts Ridge HS
Amanda Freishtat, River Hill High School
Elysha Johnson, Howard High School
Marissa Kidwell, Centennial High School
Brendan McNelly, Centennial High School
Elections:
Cindy Haller conducted the election of officers for 2010-11. The
PTA council delegates accepted all the nominations and the officers
for next year PTA council are as below:
President:
John Hannay
Exec.
VP: Terri Chiu
VP
of Operations: Chaun Hightower
VP
of Issues: Venu Iyengar
Recording
Secretary: Anne Johnson
Corresponding
Secretary: Tom Comeau Treasurer: Glenn Klein
Terri Chiu and the council recognized the
outgoing officers Cindy Haller, Mollie Shea and Amy Rivera with a
flower basket for their outstanding contributions to the PTA
Council.
PTA
Council Awards: Chaun Hightower presented PTA Council awards for
PTA Parent Teacher Collaboration and Joan Dykstra awards.
Triadelphia Ridge ES PTA received parent teacher collaboration award
for bringing in the entire community for International night. Wilde
Lake Middle for student safety by instituting “Gotcha” tickets
for exhibiting good behavior, Wilde Lake Middle school for the
capital improvement survey and Cedar Lane PTA for outstanding
advocacy for special needs student.
Jane Holcomb presented Mary San Antonio, delegate from Guilford ES PTA with
a flower plant as she attended every PTACHC meeting this year.
Other PTA delegates were recognized for having a delegate at
every PTACHC meeting - . Bushy Park, Centennial Lane, Guilford,
Ilchester, Triadelphia Ridge, Veterans, Oakland Mills High, Wilde
Lake High,
Maryland
Conference on universal design for learning - Mike
Ratcliff attended the workshop on universal design for learning and
he presented the high-lights of the workshop related to
architectural design and how some of the concepts adopted to class
room, situations for individuals with disability, arts and
cognition, what, how and why related to expression and assessment.
The delegates wanted to know what the next steps for this and there
were discussions and ideas in terms of timelines to make this a
reality.
Committee
Reports:
Curriculum
– Foreign Language initiative to have at the elementary school
level.
Family
Involvement – The book drive collected 13,909 books. The
collected books were matched with various school requests. The PTA
council donated $1400 towards the back pack drive.
Legislative
– Sessions ended. The NAACP report was not accurate as the BOE
data was not correct. Subsequent to this the report was corrected
and recompiled. A 89 year old citizen finally got the high school
diploma that was refused many times before.
Wellness
– There were 6 school presentations as part of the Healthy Howard.
Good representation.
Reflections
– No activity
Safety –
No activity
Safe
After Prom – Another successful after prom; Surprise county
council award of $2000 to each of the high schools helped a lot.
Motion 2
– Motion to pay any necessary bills over the summer was made and
approved.
Motion 3
– World Languages Resolution was approved with an addition of a
footnote to indicate that sign language is also considered a foreign
language
Motion 4
– Cradlerock School Resolution was
approved.
The proposed MD legislative Alcoholic Beverage
Tax was not covered as it needs further discussion
Delegates broke into small groups for a
brainstorm session on developing BOE candidate questions for the
August BOE Candidates forum. Mollie
Shea collected the questions at the end.
Meeting Adjourned at 9:30 PM
Minutes submitted by Venu Iyengar, Recording
Secretary
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