DECEMBER 12 MEETING

DECEMBER 12 MEETING

Attended by Peggy Daley, LaChon Richardson (and Shayla), Monique Perez-Jones, Channelle Wells, Cindy Philapil, Lisa Twaronite Sone and Tom Dooher

(1) TOM:

As of today, we have 30 applications for kindergarten in the office, and a new teacher took over for Mr. Donahoe three days a week, after he left because of a pretty serious heart problem. We also have an Americorp volunteer, Allen Wong, who is free – he’s going into the military at the end of the school year.

Peggy asks, what about the heat? My son got his desk moved closer to the heater and was so happy.

Tom: There was a problem with the timer on Monday and Antonio was out at an appointment but finally came back to relight the pilot light so it’s all fixed now. The heat goes on at 7:30 and off at 11:00.

LaChon asks, are kids allowed to wear jackets in class if they’re cold?

Tom: Yes, they are. But they shouldn’t be cold because our boiler is 46 years old, but is in great shape according to the last inspection.
Cindy asks, what’s the status of grants?

Tom: We applied for $705,000 for new windows, and it’s going to the full board in January, and they will send someone out to inspect the site. We got a lot of the money for new TVs and new DVRs, with disbursement expected in February. We applied to the Herbst Foundation for painting the outside, and to the Gellert Foundation for tuition. We got our share of Mission Alliance funds, about $33,000 from the Archdiocese, which it earns from income on some its properties and distributes to schools. Our portion went right into savings for pensions. All alliance schools got about the same amount, plus or minus a thousand dollars or so, except for Epiphany because it’s about twice the size of the others.

Tom continues, I met with Erin about the preschool and she’s finished her paperwork. And we’ve written two grants for furniture and improvements to the room, and a kindergarten parent brought over a contractor for an estimate on the toilet area upgrades.

(2) CENTERPLATE

Cindy says that due to cancellations, we lost out on second booth -- 23 confirmed, so they signed us up for 2 booths, but only 16 people showed up. Centerplate has earned $7,652 dollars so far, not counting the $300 charge for those families who didn’t participate.

Tom says, I’m going to pursue the $300 really hard and attach it to their tuition.

(3) FINANCES

Peggy distributes charts – charts cannot be easily reproduced on this Web site, as I’ve found out in the past. Anyone interested in seeing the figures can contact me, or Peggy herself.

(4) FUNDRAISERS

Crab feed in March, tuition raffle in the spring – other ideas?
Tom: another winetasting?

(5) TEACHERS' CHRISTMAS

Teachers to get bonuses (discussion of amount off-record, by request) and Christmas lunch.