Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Board Members Present: Sr. Zachary, Father Bob, Patricia Prodanovich, Jessica Saccameno, Kathy Capra, Jodee McGraw, Teresa Perez, Brian Prus, Karen Jones

Guest: Larry Rybicki

Call to Order: 7:00 p.m.

Opening Prayer: Fr. Bob

Principal’s Report:

Christmas Concert on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in church… “Carriers of the Light”. There will not be a reception following the concert this year due to lack of space.
An Advent Light Service at 9:30 a.m. in church on Friday, December 19^th… this is a special prayer service presented by the 8^th grade class. Parents are ‘Welcome’ to attend.
The last day of school for 2008 is Friday, December 19^th with a 11:30 a.m. dismissal… Christmas break begins!!! NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE PROGRAM. Classes will resume on Monday, January 5, 2009. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Catholic Schools Week begins on Sunday, January 25, 2009 with an opening CSW mass at 11:00 a.m. followed by an Open House, Art Fair, and New Family Registration in the school/Kyle Hall. The theme this year is ‘CELEBRATE SERVICE’.
PTC Santa’s Workshop is this Thursday/Friday in Kyle Hall.
Our Parent/Teacher Conferences went very well this year.
Change of date for NO SCHOOL ON February 12, 2009… all the teachers will be attending an intervention workshop in Arlington Heights. There will be school on Friday, February 27, 2009.
The draft/application for the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School will be sent on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
Our Pizza and Hot Dog Days are doing very well and so is the Hot Lunch Program.

Pastor’s Report:

The construction project has been named the Trinity Project. No date has been set but the possibility is that it will begin in March.
Brian Harrington is the contractor and also the chair for the project.

Old Business:

SB Goal Setting for 2008/2009:

Goals will be discussed at the next meeting

School Survey:

Has been postponed until budget has been set.

Trivia Night:

A small group of parents and teachers attended Trivia Night at St. Margaret Mary to do research for our own Trivia Night.
Many of the participants came in theme outfits and many brought different kinds of food and drink.
There were 10 categories each with 10 questions. Each category ranged from sports to alcohol to cooking, etc.
They had 50/50 raffles at a cost of 1 for $1 and 6 for $5. One problem about their tickets was that they were in 3 different colors. So when a number was drawn, people knew right away if there were eliminated.
They also had Mulligans, which meant that you would pay for one answer in a category. The cost was $10 per category, which is a little steep. We might try with just $5.
There are 5 judges total. Participants have 2 minutes to turn in their answer sheet after each category.
Participants have only 30 seconds to answer a question in a category.
Some questions towards the end did get very hard that some of the participants at our table got discouraged. The questions should be hard but not so hard that no one can answer them.

Teachers’ Wishes:

To have a MAPS Test.
To have a Spanish Teacher.
To have a Resource Person.

Involvement:

Revise program for the upcoming school year.
There are currently 156 families – 92 have started involvement, 8 have done the buy-out and 56 have not started any involvement.

Committee Reports:

PTC

No Report

Market Day

· No Report

Sports

No Report

Computer Lab:

No Report

New Business:

2009-2010 School Budget:

Karen Jones has been in touch with Larry Rybicki to get the current year’s budget.
She has come up with 4 proposals that can be modified to fit our school’s needs.
Proposal #1: 3% increase in tuition, 4.75% increase in salaries, parish subsidy $130,000, registration fee $100 per child (no discount on multiple children), Involvement fee $300 (you can earn $200 back, $100 income), added lunch supervisor, removed Texas Hold’em/Other fundraising.
Proposal #2: 4% increase in tuition, 4.75% increase in salaries, parish subsidy $130,000, registration fee $100 per child (yes discount on multiple children), involvement fee $300 (you can earn $200 back, $100 income), added lunch supervisor, removed Texas Hold’em/Other fundraising, removed Market Day fundraising.
Proposal #3: 6% increase in tuition, 4% increase in salaries, parish subsidy $130,000, registration fee $100 per child (no discount on multiple children), involvement fee $200 (you can earn $200 back), removed lunch supervisor, removed Texas Hold’em/Other fundraising, removed Market Day fundraising.
Proposal #4: 8% increase in tuition, 4% increase in salaries, parish subsidy $130,000, registration fee $100 per child (no discount on multiple children), involvement fee $200 (you can earn $200 back), removed lunch supervisor, removed Texas Hold’em/Other fundraising, removed Market Day fundraising, removed Walkathon fundraising.
Other Considerations: Before and After School Care rate increase, Text book fees, formal tutoring programs, library upgrade fee (in lieu of PTC discount cards), reading counts fee, computer lab fee (upper grades), evening book fairs.

Adjourned: 9:05 p.m.

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