April 8 2024 Present: Kelli V., Kevin M., Renee G., Lisa H., Taffy M., Val V., Julianna S., Emily K., Meeting Start: 5:20 pm Agenda Finances Savings $3,558.48 Checking $2,082.47 End of The Year Carnival All is on schedule with the carnival. Payments have been made for the inflatables and the Gee petting farm. At least 2 volunteers per station. Sign-up will go out later. Spring Fundraiser Pop’s Popcorn sounds like a good fundraiser. 11 different flavors with 7 cups of popcorn per bag. Good...

PTO meeting notes March 11, 2024 Present: Ashley, Krystal, Joane, Todd S. Char, Teri, Kelli, Taffy, Lisa, Renee, Julianna Meeting start: 4:30 pm Agenda Finances Savings $4,558.37 Checking $2,640.31 Intro from Waterford High School Board Candidate Todd Sobrilsky. Recently retired with family in Tichigan, his granddaughter will go to school at Washington-Caldwell. Todd lives in Waterford village. Knows Luke Francois through a lifetime of working in education. He was on the Citizen Action Group...

PTO meeting notes Feb 19, 2024 Present: Lisa H, Taffy M, Val V, Joane S, Kelli V, Lucas F, Julianna S, Ashley W, Teri T Meeting start: 6pm Savings $4,558.27 Checking $3,336.31 PLEASE VOTE in the REFERENDUM for WUHS on TUESDAY 2/20 Dr. Lucas Francois on Waterford High School 2024 Referendum Dr. Francois presented to the PTO on facility improvements that would be made available for our future high schoolers if the referendum passes tomorrow. What is it for? This is going to make it a more usable...

PTO meeting notes January 15, 2024 Present: Lisa H, Taffy M, Diane W, Val V, Teri T, Joane S, Julianna S, Ashley K Meeting start: 6:05 p.m. Bank balances $4,142.88 checking $4,558.15 savings Movie license We want to do the movie license and split the cost. The license is $441. Streaming option is $1k. Movie night to talk to parents and promote referendum? Lisa will circle back with Kelli regarding having the honor society split the concession stand with us. Maybe in Feb or March? We could...

Attendees: Lisa H, Taffy M, Val V, Kelli V, Kevin M, Renee G, Ashley K Meeting start: 6:02 pm Bank balances $2,183.57 checking $4,558.06 savings Penguin Patch & Giving Tree We made $3,545.50 at the holiday shop. We received 10% of sales, so we will donate around $500 to the Giving Tree. Kelli is picking out the gifts and will cover the cost, we can reimburse her for the full amount. The sooner we sign up and return our items we get loyalty points. We are saving our points to redeem in...

Attending: Ashley, Kelli (also in school board meeting), Lisa, Toby, Val, Julianna Start meeting: 6:05 p.m. Bank balances Checking $4,984.66 Savings $1,608.02 Conference meal recap Taco bar went well and was a hit. Easier for parents to bring smaller items than to ask for larger items. Ideas for the future: baked potato bar, nacho bar. Next conferences will be in February. Fall Fest recap Made $450 after pizzas and concessions. Seemed like everyone waited to get food until the end to use up the...

Attendees: Lisa, Kelli, Toby, Joane, Val, Julianna, Heather, Ashley, Renee, Teri Meeting start 6:03 pm Bank balances $1,029.99 checking $869.46 savings PTO board nominations Lisa found the bylaws. No board member is to serve more than two consecutive terms in the same position. We did not get any nominations. So we will try again in Spring. We will talk up the board at all our events. We have all been on the board for several years! It would be nice to have a few parents to step up and help...

Attendees: Kelli V, Toby T, Julianna S, Ashley K, Renee G, Kevin M, Lisa, Joane, Val, Taffy Meeting start 6:05 pm Overview of what PTO does Lisa acknowledged that most on the call are aware of what we do: fun events for the kids and the school that are not budgeted for. Bank balances $631.67 checking $1,820.95 savings This is one of the first years in many where we have a surplus. Open house recap We got a list of people (~30) interested in being informed of our happenings (I emailed them...

PTO Meeting on 5/8/23 Attending: Toby, Joane, Taffy, Ashley, Val, Teri, Lisa Agenda Bank accounts balances $1,820.77 savings / $837.05 checking Staff appreciation week/gift/breakfast – Chinese lunch worked out well today (~$300). Everyone liked it. Breakfast had lots of signups, just need some dishes for eggs and sausage. Small crockpot of scrambled eggs will be done by Taffy and Lisa will pick up two packs of sausage at Wal-Mart. Start at 7:15. We will get the lanyards for a back-to-school...

PTO Meeting on 4/17/23 Attending: Teri, Toby, Lisa, Joane, Taffy, Val Bank accounts balances Savings $4,020.69 $2,166.05 Staff appreciation– red carpet week – Reach out to parents to give them cards or a note to show our appreciation (VV will write a message for the parent update.) We can also give an idea in email to get a starter for people to do something. Breakfast – do a signup genius for parents to donate items. Date: May 11 Thurs 7:30-8:15 Let’s also get them lanyards and do a...