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Reasons to join PTA:

PTA sponsors programs, presentations, and awards for students and is the link between parents and Bloomington Elementary School.
If you cannot volunteer we would still love for you to join! Your $5 membership dues help various programs. It helps us run the programs and shows your involvement and support in your child’s education.
Joining PTA also shows teacher appreciation. We provide many programs that help support and encourage our teachers’ goals.
If you are able to volunteer, we have a meeting every month and are always in need of small donations, one hour, or as much time as you have available!

Click on the links below to learn more about each PTA sponsored program:

Canned Food Drive

Teacher Appreciation Week

White Ribbon Week

PTA Meeting Minutes

August 2018

Bloomington Elementary PTA
August 1, 2018
General Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting started at 1:39.
Attendees: Monica Lopez, Allie Croft, Rochelle Hunt, Melissa Lane, Amanda Green, Holly Harward, Laura Skinner, Kim Cooper, Tara Coughlin, Amber Meyers.
Introductions were made and a Board Position list was handed out. Still in need of positions on board. Herschel is reaching out to people to try and get those filled. If anyone knows someone who might be interested, let Herschel know.

Herschel had all in attendance sign financial and ethics form. All board members need to sign these forms. Talk to Herschel about that.

The budget is going to be posted at the school today, should have been posted 30 days prior to meeting. An email will need to be sent out to the board to vote on budget.

Tara/PTA membership: She will have a drawing for a succulent so if people join PTA they can be in the drawing.

Allie/Rochelle-Reading Program: The theme is “Reading is my Super Power”. People cans still sponsor or just donate. We are doing individual sponsor vinyl signs instead of one big sign. So each sponsor will have their own sign.

We need people to help on August 10th during meet the teacher. Help is needed to take t-shirt orders and sign people up for PTA. If you can help at all from 1-2 please contact Rochelle Hunt 435-773-1457 or Holly Harward 801-245-9206.

August 10th Meet the Teacher Open House 1pm-2pm
August 13th First Day of School
August 17th Kindergarten Open House
August 18th First Day of Kindergarten
August 22PLC Minimum School Day
August 23rd Reading Kick-Off Assembly
August 29th and 30th SEP Back to School 4-7pm
August 29th Teacher Dinner for SEPs
September 3rd Labor Day No School
September 6th PTA Meeting 9:30 in the Gym

September 2018

PTA meeting on Thursday, September 6, 2018
• Opening
• Pledge
• Treasure report
◦ Motion to approve budget 1st Tonja, 2nd Rochelle
• Need 6 volunteers for vision screening
• Need volunteers for picture day
• Still need chair for spell-a-thon on October 5
• Prizes needed for spell-a-thon
◦ Top 2 classes
▪ Pizza party
▪ No food party because of allergies
◦ Incentive for turning in minimum amount of pledges
• Theme for spell-a-thon?
• Individual prizes for spell-a-thon
◦ Kindle tablet
◦ Art basket (donated by Hayley Lambert)
◦ Movie basket (donated by BES PTA)
• Whole school assembly for participating in spell-a-thon
◦ Taunie Bowden will contact Max the Magician
◦ Assembly will be on October 25 beginning at 1:30 (there will be 2 assemblies)
• Spell-a-thon money will be due on October 10. Goal is $10,000
• Discussion on what fundraiser is for
• Motion to allocate funds for technology resources for the school 1st Stacy Karkula, 2nd Hayley Lambert
• Red Ribbon week will be October 29 to November 2. Theme is “Life is a journey, travel drug free”
• Themed days for red ribbon week, Hayley Lambert is chair
• Book fair is November 12-16
• Parents and Pastries is Thursday, November 15
• 5th grade asked for $500 for Eric Dodge assembly. No decision was made.
Meeting adjourned at 10:37

October 2018

October 4, 2018 PTA meeting minutes

In attendance: Heidi Ford, Laura Skinner, Tonja Mast, Melissa Lane, Taunie Bowden, Rochelle Hunt, Tara Coughlin

Minutes from September meeting were not available to approve

Budget approval: 1st by Tara Coughlin; 2nd by Taunie Bowden; all approved

Membership drawing to occur this month by Tara

Fundraiser - Max the magician set to come on the 25th at 2 pm per Taunie; money due by the 10th; not too much money brought in yet; spell a thon taking place on the 5th

Red Ribbon Week - Oct. 29th-Nov. 2nd “Life is a Journey, Travel Drug Free” Ideas for the week per Haley; (need to get to teachers ASAP)
Mon - “cool” to be drug free (popsicles with tie dye or bright colors)
Tues - out a “cap” on drugs (wear hat; sign pledge)
Wed - Say “Boo” to drugs (wear Halloween costume)
Thurs - “team” up against drugs (jersey/team logos)
Fri- pledge to be drug free (school shirts)

Treasure Cove-October 18th; need volunteers; possibly send out sign-up genius to members

Box Tops - looking for a day to do small presentation?

Book Fair - Nov. 12-16; Tonja has sign-up sheet; needs a few more, will send around at next meeting

Reading - 192,511 minutes read for school for September; about a 69% school participation with 4th & 5th grade being the lowest; hoping for better participation next month

Spirit - discussed a possible trophy to be given to 1 class per week based on # of students that wear school shirt/colors; Tara said she would try to put something together as it’s been done that way in the past

Maturation - schedule for Oct. 18th 10 am; teachers aren’t a fan of that time as discussion occur during the day between students, but maybe that was the only time the presenter had available; in the future aim for a 2:30 pm time

New committee (service) discussed - Kris Draper would like to try & start a recycling drive & a service project committee. Recycling costs money, but she thinks we may be able to have businesses donate to cover the cost; service group would possibly collect old; dried out markers
& submit to Crayola who then refills & sends to 3rd world countries??

Existing secretary is unable to continue duties so if anyone is willing to be secretary, the president would greatly appreciate it.

November 2018

November 1, 2018 PTA meeting minutes

In attendance: Melissa Lane, Tonja Mast, Holly Harward, Rochelle Hunt, Herschel Hill, Stacy Karkula, Laura Skinner, Rachel Kidman.

October Minutes Approval: Motion by Stacy, 2nd by Laura, all approved.

Budget approval: Motion by Holly, 2nd by Tonja, all approved.

Fundraiser: Money brought in $8221.49. Max the magician set to come on the 25th at 2 pm per Taunie;

Give Me Liberty: The 5th grade would like extra money for awards and T-shirts. A letter was read but it wasn’t clear what exactly the needed the money for so Herschel will have Kathy get with the 5th grade to get a proposal so we can vote on that.

A nominating committee will be needed by January to nominate positions for the executive board. All positions will be open.

Reflections: Winners were announced Nov 2. There will be an assembly on November 16th for the winners. A volunteer is needed to take the reflections projects to the district office. Stacy said she could do it.

Parents and Pastries: **2 people are needed to help out November 15th from 8am-9am**

Book Fair - Nov. 12-16; Tonja Mast needs 3 people to help set up for the book fair on November 8th at 3:30.

Please remember if you take any pictures send them to bloomingtonyearbook@gmail.com. The more kids in the pictures, the better!

Existing secretary is unable to continue duties so if anyone is willing to be secretary, the president would greatly appreciate it.

Meeting adjourned at 10:06

January 2019

PTA Meeting Minutes for January (1/11/2019):

Meeting started at 9:35 A.M.

Attendees: Heidi Ford, McKell Clark, Stacy Karkula, Rochelle Hunt, Laura Skinner, Brenna Hansen, Tonja Mast, Melissa Lane and Herschel Hill

Report of Treasurer: Laura went over Nov. and Dec. budget since there was no meeting in December. Motion by Rochelle, approved by Melissa and approved by all.

Since there was no meeting in December no minutes needed to be approved during the meeting.

New Business:

PTA Awards:
- Banquet is in April
- We need to decide who is receiving awards and need people to volunteer one teacher, one student and one volunteer PTA individual
Canned Food Drive (Feb. 11-15)
- Need a theme for each day
- Rochelle will send me information so I can set this up
- Herschel will add my email/phone number to newsletter going out next week to get volunteers
- Will work on sign-up genius and have email sent also
- Will call Food Bank to get truck for pickup on Friday
Teacher Appreciation Week (Mar. 25 - Mar. 29)
- Theme (Willy Wonka Magic Maker)
- Volunteers are needed
Book Fair
- Not going to do Book Fair unless they can fit us in during SEP week
- Can possibly do a Book Fair in May, it will be BOGO

Unfinished Business:

Meet The Masters
- Mrs. Lane was able to get it taken care of and 5th grade now has their own assembly
Reading Program
- Participation is down (more participation in lower grades)
- Should this be the last year the PTA does the reading minutes? Maybe let each teacher do their own?
- Rochelle may send out a survey to get feedback on ideas for this year.
- Brainstormed on ways to increase participation this year
  - Weekly calendars instead of monthly
  - Use charts so students can see progress for their grades or classes.
  - Possibly offer prizes for the class or grade that does the best
Board Positions
- Herschel has one position filled for next year but needs more individuals for the other positions. These positions will be voted on in the next few months

Calendar:

No school on January 21st

Meeting adjourned at 10:37 A.M.

February 2019

PTA Meeting Minutes for February (2/7/2019):

Meeting started at 9:17 A.M.

Attendees: Heidi Ford, McKell Clark, Stacy Karkula, Rochelle Hunt, Laura Skinner, Holly Harward, Tonja Mast, Melissa Lane and Herschel Hill

Approval of January minutes: Motion by Holly, second by Tonya and approved by all.

Report of Treasurer: Laura went over January’s. Motion by Heidi, second by Rochelle and approved by all.

New Business:

Yearbook: McKell and Holly
- Information regarding yearbooks will be sent out in the next month
- April 6th is the deadline for $15 yearbooks, after that they go up to $20
- May 6th is when we will receive the yearbooks
- Trying to figure out how to send out the yearbook envelopes, in student’s backpacks or have teachers hand out at SEP
Book Fair: Tonja
- Book Fair is happening during SEP week
- Thursday will be Parents & Pastries @8:15 A.M.
- Volunteers needed

Unfinished Business:

Box Tops: Rochelle
- Box tops are needed by February 27th so they can be sent in for this year.
Canned Food Drive: Heidi
- Need volunteers for next week
- Everything else is taken care of
Teacher Appreciation
- All faculty need to be included in luncheon
Reading: Rochelle
- Participation is up (but still more participation in lower grades)
- We hit 1 million minutes in January
  - Going to do a small treat like popsicles for the school for hitting this goal.
- Rochelle sent out the survey to teachers, to get feedback on ideas for this year.
- Going to do a Read-a-thon during Dr. Seuss week on March 1st

Calendar: Herschel

Calendar was discussed
- February 11-15 - Canned Food Drive,
- February 14 - Valentine’s Day,
- February 18 - No school (Presidents’ Day),
- February 21 - Treasure Cove
- February 22 - Parent Reunification Drill
- February 25-28 - SEP’s (Early out at 1:15 P.M.)
- February 27 - Meet the Masters Training
- March 7 - P.T.A. meeting @9:30 A.M. in gym

Meeting adjourned at 10:05 A.M.

March 2019

PTA Meeting Minutes for March (3/7/2019):

Meeting started at 9:34 A.M.

Pledge of Allegiance

Attendees: Heidi Ford, McKell Clark, Stacy Karkula, Holly Harward, Tonja Mast, Brenna DeBry-Hansen, Amanda Green, Jenna Vaughan, and Herschel Hill

We didn’t have a quorum so we were not able to approve or vote on anything. We didn’t go over the minutes from February because of this. We will do February and March minutes in April.

Report of Treasurer: Laura was not able to attend so no report was given. She will go over February and March in April.

New Business:

White Ribbon Week is March 18-22 and Jenna Vaughan is in charge
Teacher and Staff Appreciation: Brenna
- Needs volunteers and donations
- Needs doors to be done and they need to match the theme Willy Wonka
  - McKell and I will do Mr. Gale’s room
  - All doors need to be put up the Friday, March 22nd.
  - Please contact Brenna via text to help
Yearbook: McKell and Holly
- Information regarding yearbooks will be sent out in the next month.
- April 6th is the deadline for $15 yearbooks. After that, they go up to $20.
- May 6th is when we will receive the yearbooks.
- Trying to figure out how to send out the yearbook envelopes, in student’s backpacks or have teachers hand out at SEPs.
Book Fair: Tonja
- Book Fair is happening during SEP week
- Thursday will be Parents & Pastries @8:15 A.M.
- Volunteers needed

Unfinished Business:

Reading: Rochelle
- We need more involvement
- We hit 1 million minutes
- Still working on what to do next from the surveys sent out
Yearbook: McKell and Holly
- The order forms are going to teacher’s today
- April 6th is the deadline for $15 yearbooks. After that, they go up to $20
- Cash and check only for pre-orders
- We received quite a few Shout Outs
Canned Food Drive: Heidi
- 1st place: Mrs. Empey (Pizza party), 2nd Place: Mrs. Bautista (Ice cream sandwich party), 3rd place: Mr. Gale (Root beer Floats)
  - I wanted to add that even though I said the wrong name for 2nd place I did email the right teacher :)
- All teachers are contacted, just waiting to hear back from Mrs. Bautista
  - The others are scheduled
- We did 6347 items for the drive
Give Me Liberty (Stacy)
- Still need shirts and trophies for this
- Need extra money in addition to what is budgeted
- Hoping to use Shout Out money for Give Me Liberty since we had not allocated this money for anything
- We couldn’t vote on it but we did do a preliminary vote and Holly approved, Brenna seconded it and we all approved it
  - We need everyone to reply to this email to say they approve this so we can allocate the money to Give Me Liberty
    - Any questions contact myself or Herschel
Board Positions: Herschel
- The Executive Board for next year
  - President: Herschel Hill (if board approves)
  - President Elect: Stacy Karkula
  - Secretary: Heidi Ford
  - Treasurer: Rochelle Hunt
- Other positions
  - Treasure Cove: Tonja Mast
    - Committee: Holly Harward
  - Yearbook: Holly Harward and McKell Clark
  - All other positions still available so if you or anyone you know are interested in helping please contact Herschel
Book fair: Tonja Mast
- The book fair was open for about 15 hours and made ~$7500
- The school took cash instead of scholastic bucks
- We did earn scholastic credit

Calendar: Herschel

Calendar was discussed
- March 11-15 - Spring Break
- March 18-22 - White Ribbon Week
- March 21 - Treasure Cove (Will need help)
- March 25 - PLC Early Out @ 1:15 p.m.
- March 25-29 - Teacher and Staff Appreciation
- March 29 - Reading Calendars Due
- April 4th - P.T.A. meeting @9:30 a.m.

Meeting adjourned at 10:20 A.M.

April 2019

PTA meeting minutes

April 4, 2019

Meeting started at 9:38 with Pledge of Allegiance

Attendees: Stacy Karkula, Holly Harward, Rochelle Hunt, Tonja mast, McKell Clark, Brenna Hansen, Rachel Kidman, Melissa Lane, Amanda Green, Herschel Hill, and Laura Skinner

February Meeting minutes were approved via email.

March Treasurer Report: Ending balance is $14,769.00 for March. 1st approval by Stacy, 2nd by Tonja, all approved.

New Business:

-New Board-Herschel has been getting positions filled, but there are still some available. If anyone would like to volunteer, these are the positions that are still available:

Book Fair, T-Shirts, Canned Food Drive, Fundraising, Membership, Reading Program, Maturation, Newsletter, White Ribbon Week & Volunteer Coordinator

Contact Herschel if you would like to handle the open position.

-The PTA Awards Dinner put on by the Red Rock Council will be April 25th at 6 pm at the Children’s Museum. Zade Smith is the student that will be honored, Tara Coughlin is the PTA member that will be honored. Congrats Tara!

-If there is any information for any happenings for the end of the year that you’d like posted on social media, please send the info to Laurie Trujillo at laurie.trujillo@washk12.org

Unfinished Business:

-Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week-went great; the teachers were thoroughly spoiled. Volunteers for door decorations were hard to come by, so maybe we revisit not decorating doors next year??

-Reading Program-apologies for the confusion on the due date of the March calendar. They are due April 5th. The book prize will be done on April 11th. April calendars are due May 10th; Color Fun party will be May 17th. We will need about 20 volunteers for the Color Party. Students who met the 3500 minutes read goal will be given a ticket to attend. 5th grade will need to be in the afternoon due to Give Me Liberty. Low participation numbers have us wondering if another route should be taken for the program. Ideas for next years program were discussed: a separate program for 4th & 5th grades since reading is required by teacher already. Teachers will have more involvement with that program. Possibly have a book report style calendar to submit. Lower grades are good at participating, so possibly keep it the same for them.

-Yearbooks-last day for $15 cost is April 5th; goes up to $20 after that, but can be ordered until they are passed out. Will bump order up to 425 for the school; teachers receive free.

-Give Me Liberty-shout out money can be used but doesn’t have to be since the other programs within the education commission have leftover money. That money can be used for over expenditures.

-Treasure Cove-Tonja volunteered to run program next year

Calendar:

April 8th-yearbooks go up to $20

April 19th-No school

April 22nd-No school

May 2nd-next PTA meeting and last one for the year, 9:30 am

Meeting adjourned at 10:12 am

May 2019

PTA Minutes (May 2, 2019):

Attendees: Rochelle Hunt, Herschel Hill, Heidi Ford, McKell Clark, Stacy Karkula, Holly Harward, Melissa Lane, Laura Skinner, Tonja Mast, Jenna Vaughn, Tara Coughlin

Meeting started at 9:32 A.M. with the Pledge of Allegiance

Holly approved the minutes from April and Stacy seconded the motion. Everyone else approved the minutes from April.

Laura (Budget):

- Went over the budget from last month

- Heidi approved and Tonja seconded the motion. Everyone else approved the budget from April.

Tonja (Treasure Cove):

- Treasure Cove is next Thursday (May 9th)

- Volunteers are needed

Rochelle and Jenna (Reading):

- Color Run is May 17th

- K-2 (9:30-10:15)

- 3-5 (10:15-11)

- Volunteers are needed

- In order for students to participate, they need the 3500 minutes read for the year

- The school did not hit our minute goal for the Reading this year

Holly (Yearbook):

- Yearbooks are coming, not exactly sure on the date but soon

- May 21st is the yearbook signing

Rochelle (School Supplies):

- We have $2000 for the teachers to use for school supplies

- PTA will grant the money to the school and it will be dispersed evenly to each teacher

Tara (Award):

- Tara wanted to thank everyone for the award and she loved going and loves being a part of the PTA.

Herschel (Positions for next year):

- We still have quite a few positions to fill for next year

- T-shirts, Fundraising (newsletter), Membership, Reading Program (not exactly sure how this one will be done next year), Maturation, White Ribbon, Red Ribbon

- Tara agreed to do Canned Food Drive at the end of the meeting

- Herschel will send out the email about these positions soon

With Laura leaving Bloomington PTA since her daughter is in 5th grade she received a gift from the PTA for her hard work and dedication. Thank you, Laura!

Meeting adjourned at 9:59 A.M.

Empowering students to reach their greatest potential.

PTA

Reasons to join PTA:

Click on the links below to learn more about each PTA sponsored program:

Book Fair, Parents & Pastries

Box Tops

Canned Food Drive

Home Reading Program

Meet the Masters

Red Ribbon Week

Reflections

Science Fair

Spell-A-Thon Fundraiser

Teacher Appreciation Week

White Ribbon Week

Yearbook

Empowering students to reach their greatest potential.