MARCH 11 MEETING

Attended by Channelle Wells, Peggy Daley, LaChon Richardson, Roberto Carrasquilla, Cindy Philapil, Lisa Twaronite, Monique Perez-Jones, Tom Dooher, Lynda Tashek

(1) SCHOOL BAND
Peggy: St. Finn Barr's band will be in the 4-school band that will march in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday.

(2) ENROLLMENT
Tom: We have closed next year's kindergarten class, with 35 children paid and registered, and two more on the waiting list.

There are two coming in to next year's second grade, and a smattering of kids in the middle grades. We will be graduating 31 this year, so we break even. We have 216 for next year but will budget for 210.

Bernadette Banks and Amber Weeks went out to boys and girls clubs in area and gave contacts for our school, and will speak to seven of them, and to YMCA afterschool programs.

(3) NEXT YEAR'S EXPENSES
Tom: The registration fee is $325, $25 of which is seed money for the parents' club.
The tuition rise of about 3% will match the teacher's cost-of-living raises.
I want to bring our Spanish program to 5 days a week for K-5.

(4) HIGH SCHOOL ACCEPTANCE
Tom: Two families didn't apply to Catholic high schools -- one is moving to the East Bay, and one will go to SOTA -- and 87% are going to their first choice.

(5) SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
Tom: Good news -- we received the money for nine 32-inch Sharp flat screen TVs.
Our request for new windows is still under consideration, and is going to the full committee at their March 27 meeting.
A roofing company came out and said our roof is good for 10 more years, but they recommended some routine maintenance that will cost about $3,000.
The standing water on the roof over the library is gone after we had the drain cleaned out, and cut out 2 feet of copper pipe.
Our budget will hopefully be approved before Easter, and next year's discussion will be getting new computers.

(6) AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM EXPANSION
Tom: I wrote a grant for Title V after-school enrichment. Our Homework Club is now from 3:00-4:00 but it might go from 3:00-5:00 next year.


(7) FUNDRAISING
LaChon: The final numbers for crab feed are in, and after expenses, we cleared $10,000, so it was about $5,000 each for the church and the school.

The dates for the tuition raffle are going to be April 15th through June 3rd, with each family required to sell $100, and $4,000 cash or one year of tuition as the top prize. We also want to have a prize for the top ticket seller -- maybe a Wii?

The student council's spellathon will go through March 31st.


(8) MOVIE NIGHT
LaChon: We still need a date in May for our "just-for-fun" movie night. May 10th is Sports Night, so maybe the 2nd, 16th or 23rd?

(9) DIRECTORY
Peggy: All the information for the school directory is compiled, but due to software problems, we are having trouble printing the file.

(10) FINANCIALS
Peggy: We are taking out the contribution for First Communion and 8th grade graduation out of the budget.

(11) FURNITURE
LaChon: We are still looking for furniture for the conference room that used to be Sister Maureen's office.

(12) GIFT
Bereavement gift for Ms. Sahagan after the loss of her father? Yes.

(13) PRESCHOOL
Tom: Rather than a preschool, we are considering the idea of doing a pre-K program, which has fewer regulations because the students are 4 years and older. We are looking at the pre-K program at St. Hilary's in Marin.