BANNATYNE PARENT COUNCIL MEETING
JANUARY 19, 2010
In attendance: Karen Prendergast, Angela Janzen Roth, Anne Haarsma, Chris Fehr, Karen Richards, Lynn Walker, Tarra Sowerbutts, Sharon Larouche, Pat Haldane-Wilsone, Lucille McGilivray
Meeting called to order @ 6:45
Treasurer’s report:
See attached.
Principal’s report:
- The division finals for Concours d’art oratoire will be held on March 3rd.
Science Fair dates are as follows: March 25 – school judging
- April 14 – Division Science Fair
- May 14 – Heritage Fair
- activities are being planned in the school for The Festivale du Voyageur Week
- January was ‘I love to read’ month with activities that were organized for the whole month
- A Franco Folk teller from Quebec will be coming to the school to speak to the K-3 students on March 9, 2010. This is paid for by the school and will be the story of “Arthur and Tanya at the School of Pirates”
- Ted Longbottom who is funded by the division will also be coming to tell folk tales to the students.
- The students in every grade have also been taking part in “Learning thru the Arts” by having various artists perform.
Movie Night:
- to be presented on March 4th with the movie “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” being shown
copyright approval application has been sent in
Possibility of renting the popcorn maker from U Rent It for $55.00 and $48.00 for 216 servings of popcorn.
Pancake Breakfast:
- to be held on February 18, from 7-8:30 AM
- Michelle Delios will be organizing and sending out order forms on Jan 30 or 31
- Kara Kallenbach has contacted Smitty’s to deliver hot pancakes
- Breakfast will be $5.00 and will consist of pancakes with your choice of bacon or sausage and juice or coffee.
- A live band has been booked for entertainment for the morning.
Teacher Appreciation Week:
- To be held on March 15-19
- This year a token of appreciation the 23 staff members will receive a fleece vest with our school logo instead of the gift baskets they have received in previous years.
- Sign up sheets will be sent home for food donations for each day of the week and lunch on the 19th.
Playground Update:
- The playground committee is working diligently to apply for 3 grants we are eligible for.
New Business:
- A discussion was held about changing the parent council AGM to June from October of the following year. Three notifications in various places need to be posted in advance to announce to upcoming AGM date.
- The school picnic will be held on June 17th with more details to be discussed in the future.
Gradation T-shirts will be made for the Grade 5 students to purchase at cost.
Next meeting on February 16, 2010.
Meeting adjourned at 7:50.
BPC – Treasurer’s Report - January 19, 2010 meeting
I don’t have the December bank statement yet so the financials are only to November 30, 2009.
We received our GST rebate cheque for the 2008/09 fiscal year of $296.26.
We received our notice from CRA that our charities return has been accepted as filed for 2008/09.
Spending motion:
Motion to provide Mme Gallo with $200 for expenses related to the spring musical production “Dig It”.
Motion made by: Chris Fehr
Seconded by: ____________________________
In favour: _______________ Against : _______________
Passed: ________________________
According to my records, our book balance at the end of 2009 was (give or take $10 for service fees/interest):
Chequing $1829.61
Savings $8521.57
Our chequing account has decreased significantly due to expenses related to the upgrades to the playground.
Currently we have paid for:
Evergreen Plans $2252.25
St J-A School Division (benches/tables) 4612.99
Paterson Construction (installation) 1312.50
Total $8177.74
We have no current outstanding liabilities, beyond the monthly milk bill. Also, Pat has not handed in her expense claim for the Christmas corsages yet. However, we do have outstanding promised amounts per the September minutes:
$600 Staff appreciation
$500 Festival du Voyageur
$250 Grad festivities (K and grade 5)
$100 Xmas Flowers (Pat!!!)
$250 Various thankyous
$ 50 Charity of grade 5 choice
$200 Spring concert (assuming it is approved)
$1950 Total promised funds
Therefore, after a suggested $1000 operating balance and removal of the total promised funds amount, we can safely say for grant application purposes that we have raised $15,578.92 for the playground to date. This amount includes money already spent as noted above.
Given past performance, I expect the amount raised will increase by the end of the year.
As you are probably aware, the school division discourages the use of a savings account since all funds raised are to be spent on school related activities and items.
We need to determine the best time to transfer the funds from the savings to the chequing and closing the savings account. If we are expecting more playground (or any other large) expenses in the near future we should consider doing this now. If we aren’t expecting to have any more of these types of expenses until after the grant money starts coming in, perhaps we should leave it until a later time so that the grant money can earn interest until we need to start writing the cheques. Cindy may have some input from her previous experience.
École Bannatyne Milk Program
363 Thompson Drive, Winnipeg, MB. R3N3E5
Dear Parents, November 2, 2009
Tickets will be available again this week. Please pay by cheque if possible, payable to Bannatyne Parent Council. Please print and return this form by Friday November 6, 2009. Thank you for your continued co-operation.
Prices: 30 tickets-----$22.50 40 tickets-----$30.00 50 tickets-----$37.50
Student Name: Teacher & room:
If you have any comments or suggestion about the milk program please call
Sherry Lezak@ 885-5201.
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