May 5, 2009

Bradley Home and School Club

Membership Meeting

Bradley School Library

Attendees included: Bob Williams, HSC President; Melissa Scott, HSC Vice President; Holly O’Brien, HSC Treasurer; Lisa Dove, HSC Secretary; Jennifer Wiley, HSC Parent Volunteer Coordinator; Kelly Mennie, Betty Alvarez, Jen Stewart, Joe Stewart, Kathleen Blair, Steve Harrington, Jennifer Meltzer, Sunny Nunez, Diane Avelar, Kelli Lasher; and Kathy Arola.  A quorum was present.

1.    Meeting called to order at 6:12pm by Bob Williams.

Welcome/ Introductions.  Thank you and recognition from HSC Board given to Bart Meltzer for assistance with HSC budget; Kelly Mennie for Spaghetti Night; and Melissa Scott and Holly O’Brien for cook book.

2.   Agenda adopted.

3.   April 7, 2009 Membership meeting minutes approved.

4.   Treasurer Report

Holly reviewed budget and as of now, HSC has a $2400 surplus due to the recent fund raising efforts!

• Art cart notes found in June 08 meeting minutes for $500.  Holly will arrange for payment of this money for Art cart supplies.  Line item for this will be added to the 08- 09 HSC budget.  This will impact the surplus and it will be $500 less than expected.
• June 09- 10 Preliminary Budget will be presented at the June 09 meeting.  A proposal of a Finance Committee was made to work on the budget during the summer months.
• Line item #20- 6th grade graduation discussion on how much is left to be spent.  Due to a balloon arch (which was thought to be donated, but a bill was received in May 09 for the June 08 of over $100), the monies left will be less than last year.

5.   Nominating Committee Report

Nominations for 2009- 2010 school year are as follows:

President: Bob Williams

Vice President: Melissa Scott

Secretary: Betty Alvarez

Parent Volunteer Coordinator: Veronica Parra

Treasurer: OPEN

6.   Reports/ Old Business

     A. Principal Report given by Kathy Arola.

• Open House will be on May 6th from 6-8pm.  Kathy will be in the Computer Lab from 6-7pm so the students can show their parent’s the lab.
• A thank you to Driscoll’s for bringing in berries for Teacher Appreciation week!
• Kathy reviewed the District Budget and gave a hand out. 

Library:

Library tech position is eliminated at this time, but there is a rumor that it may be reinstated at 3.5 hours per day, but no confirmation on this has been heard.

Library Fund requests have gone well and the letter raised almost $4000.00. Salesian Sisters gave $100 to the library fund.  Ed Kelly Foundation gave $500.  There will be a thank you in the Pajaronian.  Because of all the fundraising efforts for the library (Escript, direct donation letter, book fair) Bradley will have the library open at least 2 hours per day!!! Unfortunately, the library tech position may not be Ms. Terre, as it is based on seniority.  But she will take the position at 2 hours per day if no one else does.

Reading Intervention:

Driscoll’s donated $7500.00 to the reading Intervention position.  A thank you will be in the Pajaronian.  The Read a Thon raised $1596 and there is a $500 commitment from the HSC.  A 10% position is $9200 per year.  So it is close to being funded for 10%. Jen Yatson will do this again, along with 50% third grade teaching position.  Discussion was held about a volunteer position to support the Reading Intervention position.

Superintendent Newsletter:

Hand out given.  Bradley was the top school in the science fair with three 6th graders scheduled to attend the State Science Fair at UCLA!

    B.  Fundraising Committee Report

• Cookbooks- Ordered 100 and sold 70 and the cookbook has made about $192.00. There are 30 cookbooks that are still for sale for $10 each.
• Spaghetti Feed- The feed made $685.00. All had a fun time!  Special thanks to the Aptos High Student volunteers!
• Pizza Night- This has made $400.00 so far.  There will be another pizza night on 5/28/09.  The results from the 4/28/09 night are not tallied at this time.

7.   New Business:

       A.  2009- 2010 HSC Board Elections:

Voting was held for the following positions: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Volunteer Coordinator.  No one was running for the treasurer position.

The following people were elected by a majority vote:

President: Bob Williams

Vice President: Melissa Scott

Secretary: Betty Alvarez

Parent Volunteer Coordinator: Veronica Parra

The HSC Board will appoint the Treasurer Position.

       B.  May 19th Special Election discussion

Discussion was held about HSC taking a stance on the upcoming election.

• Motion: HSC will pay for the cost of a half page flier to remind parent’s to vote in the upcoming election on May 19th, 2009.  Joint approval between Kathy Arola and Bob Williams regarding the wording of the flier.  No stance will be taken.  Vote: 7 for, 4 against, 3 abstained.  Motion passed.  A flier will be generated to remind parents to vote in the Special election on May 19, 2009.  HSC will fund cost.

      C.  HSC proposed By Law Amendments

Eleven proposed By Law amendments were reviewed and submitted for review.  The proposals were submitted in writing and will be voted on at the next HSC membership meeting.  Discussion was held about each proposed amendment.

      D.  Ice Cream Social

Jen Meltzer will coordinate.  The ice cream social will be held on 8/10/09 from 4- 5:30pm at the Bradley School playground.  There is funding in place for this activity through the HSC.

      E.  T-Shirts

Kelly Mennie will coordinate.  Discussion was held about a possible new design and how to go about this.  Discussions on this will continue.

8.   Announcements

• Fun Hoop is at the school and will be installed shortly!
• A volunteer is needed for the Parent to Parent Newsletter- please see Kathy if you are interested.

9.   Meeting adjourned at 8:16pm.

Next HSC membership meeting will be held on June 3, 2009 at the Bradley School          Library at 5:45pm.

Minutes completed by Lisa Dove, Bradley HSC Secretary

Minutes approved by Bradley HSC Membership on 6/2/09.