Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Board Members Present: Sr. Zachary, Nancy Pagley, Patricia Prodanovich, Jessica Saccameno, Jodee McGraw, Teresa Perez, Brian Prus, Jordon Wolf

Guests: Karen O’Dowd, Kathy Capra, and Karen Jones

Call to Order: 7:05 p.m.

Opening Prayer: Sr. Zachary

Computer Task Force:

Karen O’Dowd has come to the School Board requesting some assistance in bringing the computer classes up to date. She has compiled a list of tasks that need to be completed within a certain time frame. The board has agreed to assist in any way possible to achieve these goals.

Principal’s Report:

Contracts were offered to the teachers before Spring Break and have to be signed/returned to me on Thursday, April 3^rd. They are not all returned yet.
I am still working on the 2008-2009 school calendar and it should be ready for print before the end of April.
Registration for the 2008-2009 school year is going very well ($11,550.00 fees were collected and banked during the Spring Break). We have a total of 214 students as of today (which includes the new students). We have no waiting list.
I received a donation of $524.62 from Target for Education and hope to use some of the money for our School Wish List.
We applied for the ADA (Average Daily Attendance) Safety and Educational Block grant from the Illinois State Board of Education for State-recognized nonpublic schools at the end of the 2006-2007 school year. We had to calculate the daily attendance and average the best three months which was 214 (our student total for this year was 219). Funding amount is about $32 per child (which totals over $6,000) and the expenditures should be spent on school safety. We can use the money to tile the floors of Grade 1 and 2, the school offices and lounge which will make us “Asbestos free”. We will receive our check direct deposit in late May. We can re-apply for the 2007-2008 and the 2008-2009 school years.
Next school year we hope to use the Trimester quarters (which means we will have three quarters/report cards) of 12 weeks each quarter. Mid-quarter reports will go home after six weeks. Our online TeacherEase reports/report cards are working very well.
Our Junior High Dance this year is on Friday, April 25, from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. in Kyle Hall for Grades 6-8 sponsored by the PTC.
Tuesday, April 29^th is the Kane County Cougar Game and on Wednesday, April 30^th is our annual Sport’s Banquet. Thursday, May 1^st is our school May Crowning and the 8^th grade class receive their Ribbons.
We are collecting Ultra Food register receipts again from March 3^rd – June 1^st. We will get 5% of the total receipts. Our last check was over $1,000 and the teachers are buying more Reading Counts, Ellison Dies, software, etc.

Pastor’s Report:

No Report

Old Business:

Texas Hold’em:

Trish will shop for the most the food that is needed for this night.
Irene will call previous players to inform them of the upcoming tournament.
Registration will be at 5:30 p.m. and games will start at 6:00.
Brian will have Fr. Bob sign all the necessary paperwork for this event.
Advertisement for this event will be in the Daily Herald’s Faith Section, which is free.
Bulletins will be stuffed for next week’s mass.

Walkathon:

Dairy Queen has sent coupons to be handed out to the students.
We are waiting for Burger King to get final approval from headquarters regarding a donation.
Target will do a donation when they receive a letter from the school.
We might be getting the beanies again this year. We will need to pick them up when ready.

Committee Reports:

Involvement:

Teresa will meet with Tina to give her the totals. Credits will go to families that have completed their involvement.

Market Day:

No Report

PTC:

We received the Family Life books and will be sending out notices for approval and should start the program after Easter break.
Waiting on the SIP for A/C Units we might be able to get them a cheaper way.
Teacher’s birthday parties are all worked out with the room Mom’s.
See’s Candy for Mother’s Day for a fundraiser towards A/C units.
We have an ending balance of $10,758.00
Daddy Daughter Dance raised $119.92 and $1275.08 was paid out.
Chuck E. Cheese brought in a profit of $144.30
We are going to work on a flier to get families opinions on Benefit Nights and other events.
We are winding down on Benefit Nights for the school our next benefit night is at Max & Erma’s 3/12/08.
We are still getting Burger King Receipts towards our sports program
Jewel Shop n Share days are March 17^th through March 19^th.
****GOOD NEWS*** Marlo Lunz has showed an interest in taking over the position of Ways & Means. Lynda will be working with Marlo and getting everything turned over to her.
Two fliers will be created this month to announce the following events: See’s Candy for Mother’s Day and Candlelight for April 8^th at Streamwood Lanes.
We will be combining Glenbrook School in our Candlelight Bowl fund raiser.
Packets for registration will be going out 3/12/08 and need to be turned back in before March 20^th.
March 14^th at 1:15pm will be Stations of the Cross for 2^ndand 7^th graders.
Sports Banquet has been changed from May 21^st to April 30^th.
Mrs. Carlson picked up check for Ultra Food Store receipts and we received $1,072.00 from these receipts.

Sports:

No Report

Computer:

No Report

New Business:

New Board Members

Karen Jones and Kathy Capra have submitted their resumes for consideration. The School Board has unanimously approved their membership.
Tonight is Nancy Pagley’s last meeting as School Board Chair. Trish Prodanovich has agreed to take over the duties of Chair and Jodee McGraw will take over the duties of Vice Chair. Positions for the rest of the Board will be discussed at upcoming meetings.

Adjourned: 9:00 p.m.

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