{"id":338,"date":"2017-10-11T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/?p=338"},"modified":"2017-10-11T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:08:01","slug":"pta-general-membership-meeting-minutes-october-10-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/meeting-minutes\/pta-general-membership-meeting-minutes-october-10-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"PTA General Membership Meeting Minutes, October 10, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Principal\u2019s Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water donations are still needed for 8AM Wellness walk at BBES on Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Yankee candle fundraiser being held by the school, starts on 10\/16 for 2 weeks; proceeds go to benefit resources for students (BrainPop program is one possibility)<\/li>\n<li>Interim reports come out on Thursday<\/li>\n<li>MAP testing almost finished (baseline), in past years, Grades 1-5 were each tested 3 times a year; this year Grades 3, 4, 5 will not do spring based on feedback from parents and teachers<\/li>\n<li>Over 40 kids signed up for chess club, more turned away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PTACHC: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boosterthon is allowed if schools choose to use them in the future<\/li>\n<li>APFO was big topic of discussion; requesting that parents write to express concern about rate of development in county which outpaces ability of schools to keep up with enrollment<\/li>\n<li>Resources for parents:\n<ul>\n<li>Special Ed Citizens Advisory Committee, Facebook group: HOCOSECACC<\/li>\n<li>HoCo Office of Children and Families \u2013support base for school and family related questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>410-313-CARE, also assists families in locating child care options <a href=\"mailto:children@howardcountymd.gov\">children@howardcountymd.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019ve had two Boosterthon collections\/counts, about $2000 in pledges are still outstanding<\/li>\n<li>About $27,000 in account currently, but Boosterthon has not taken their share out yet (about $12,000)<\/li>\n<li>Now that we know where we are, we will try to finalize the budget allocations (working on it later this week)<\/li>\n<li>Merritt\u2019s plan is to send out proposed budget prior to November meeting so people will have a chance to review and we will vote on it in November<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Online Auction: <\/strong>first week of December<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of contributions and plenty more pending:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-front row seats to 5<sup>th<\/sup> grade graduation, 2 swim lessons with Ms. Jordan, $90 Otterbox gift card, extra \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 recess, lunch with Wendell, visit to birthday party by Wendell, principal or VP for the day, tickets to \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 National Aquarium, lots of gift cards<\/p>\n<p>-staff items: cupcake decorating party, lunch bunch, movie for student and friend, lunch and golf balls, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3D printing and coding, hiking, after school karaoke party, Nationals tickets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planned platform is Biddingowl.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Multicultural Night Update: <\/strong>11\/10 at 6:30PM<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5<sup>th<\/sup> graders will do presentations (choose a country)<\/li>\n<li>4<sup>th<\/sup> graders are making flags<\/li>\n<li>3<sup>rd<\/sup> graders are doing suggestion boxes for next year<\/li>\n<li>2<sup>nd<\/sup> graders will be greeters in different languages<\/li>\n<li>K and 1<sup>st<\/sup> will do a fashion show<\/li>\n<li>Information fliers will be in next week\u2019s Wednesday folders<\/li>\n<li>Parent volunteers still needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Box Tops and Misc. Fundraising Updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have about $500 left over from boxtops last year (from March on), $106 submitted so far, $170 about to be sent off, about $200 waiting to be counted<\/li>\n<li>Make sure name, grade, teacher is on bag so they can enter into class contest for Pump-It-Up party<\/li>\n<li>Occasional raffle prizes for anyone who has turned in even a single box top<\/li>\n<li>Ice cream social for winning grade at end of year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>amazon.com &#8211; Please designate BBES PTA as your charity, then shop by originating at that website so we receive a portion of your purchase proceeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harris Teeter does rewards program, very few places still do, remember to re-link your VIC card each year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spirit Restaurant Nights: two times a month is the goal<\/li>\n<li>Red Robin night sounds like it was a big success, tons of families, servers commented on high number of BBES.<\/li>\n<li>Grotto Pizza on Wednesday 10\/11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hearts of Bollman Bridge:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any interest in holding a dance for the weekend before Valentine\u2019s Day? Parent\/child theme? Yes!<\/li>\n<li>Hearts sent home to families who could decorate\/dedicate it and they could be used as decorations at the dance<\/li>\n<li>Glow sticks? Snacks? Photos? Buy a teacher as your date?<\/li>\n<li>Looking for a volunteer to head this committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Coffee Cart<\/strong>: October 18th<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donations (homemade or store bought) can be dropped off at side door of cafeteria during before care hours (7AM to 8:30)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Trunk or Treat: <\/strong>Friday 10\/27<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bin in the mail room to collect candy and prize (bubbles, tattoos) donations<\/li>\n<li>Expecting 300+ kids to come through<\/li>\n<li>Partnering with math night; must have completed math night ticket\/hand stamp to go through trunk or treat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Yearbook:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jen Macomber needs people to take photos at evening events<\/li>\n<li>Email her if you are going to be at an event so she can arrange to get you the cameras<\/li>\n<li>Goal is to provide a yearbook for every fifth grader by asking for BBES parents\/staff to donate one if they are able.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fifth Grade Updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fifth graders have many financial needs: graduation, BBQ, t-shirts, field trip, simulated Congress.<\/li>\n<li>Box tops may help fund some of these costs<\/li>\n<li>Sandy will look into getting sponsors for the programs (Congress, graduation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal\u2019s Update: Water donations are still needed for 8AM Wellness walk at BBES on Saturday Yankee candle fundraiser being held by the school, starts on 10\/16 for 2 weeks; proceeds go to benefit resources for students (BrainPop program is one&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/meeting-minutes\/pta-general-membership-meeting-minutes-october-10-2017\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bbespta.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}