Continuation of Minutes 6/4/02

Annunciation School Board Meeting Minutes

Tuesday January 20, 2004

Attendees: James Serafin, Mary Beth Mann, Elaine Ruszczyk, Mary Beth Morgan, Tom Discipio

Pat Griffin, Dave Muench, Jean Sobczak

Absent: Paula Penepent

Elaine Ruszczyk

Mark Phillips

Principal, Mary Jane Liszewski was in attendance meeting. Mary Kay Schaub attended meeting as well.

Meeting called to order at 6:35 pm

Mary Jane Liszewski opened the meeting with a prayer.

Motion was made to accept January absences. Accepted by Mary Beth Mann. Council needs to vote now on absences in December due to lack of numbers to vote. Motion made to accept December absences. Accepted by Mary Beth Morgan. Being absent from meetings currently doesn’t affect your 30 hour credit.

November 2003 minutes correction – 2^nd page - Father Emil passed this on to the pastoral council.

Council reviewed November 2003 minutes. Motion to accept with changes. Accepted by Tom Discipio and Mary Beth Morgan.

December 2003 Minutes -Corrections – Under Education correct Moran to Morgan. Under building and grounds correct classerooms to classrooms. Motion to accept with changes. Accepted by Mary Beth Morgan and Mary Beth Mann.

Committee Reports:

Report of the Principal:

Catholic School’s week begins 1/25/04. A faith filled future. The week starts with Mass on Sunday and a potluck meal following. Monday – Community. Students will participate in the warm clothing drive. Parish organizations will come and talk to the children during the day. Tuesday – Casual day. Children to dress up like the 50’s. There will be a sock hop in the afternoon. Wednesday-Nation. Breakfast at 10:00am for town officials, bus drivers and the heads of transportation. Open house is from 6:30-8:00pm. Special invitations have gone out to all of those families that have inquired about the school. The new computer lab will be up and running. Thursday-Volunteers, special persons lunch and bingo. Friday – Faculty. Volleyball game (teachers vs. 6^th,7^th and 8^th graders), wacky Olympics.

The 7^th graders will be taught project truth. The phones at the school will be down from 3:00-5:00pm tomorrow. Three new students are going to start February 1^st if they past the school test. Report cards will go out on February 6^th.

Finance:

The Pastors have not decided on the budget yet. Robin and Mary Jane have been working on all parts of the budget except for what tuition will be and teachers pay. Father Emil responded to a memo from Jim Serafin regarding the delay in the budget. As per Father Emil, wait for his instructions. See attached. Technology was added as a line item back into the budget. Mary Jane has been reviewing and monitoring the hours that have been handed in to the school office by parents.

Development:

Alumni – Mary Beth Mann will provide a roster. She doesn’t want to chair. It was Jim’s thought that if you volunteer and you want to get out you need to find a replacement. Jim suggested that we hire a part time person to handle the launch of the Alumni project. Jean Sobczak suggested that a social be organized for after a particular mass for alumni’s to come and meet others. You could put this information in the local papers as well. Suggested an Alumni picnic.

Education:

Nothing to report.

Buildings and Grounds:

The anti-virus software was ordered. As per Dave Muench there are cable connections in each one of the classrooms. Mary Jane will verify this. Mary Jane likes the idea of have TV’s in each of the classrooms. Pipes in the girl’s bathroom froze and broke – okay now. The St. Joseph workers are painting the stairwells this week so that they are ready for open house. The Capital campaign was present by Mark Phillips to Father. Father is on board and looking for the next step to be taken. As per Mary Jane we could do a hot lunch program now if we get warming trays. As per Mary Jane the Kitchen renovation was to be included with the capital campaign.

It was discussed that we need to come up will a capital campaign to fund all of the capital improvements that need to be done. Possibly plug into the 100^th anniversary.

Mission:

Nothing to report.

100^th Anniversary:

Festivities to start 3/25/05 – 3/25/06.

Unfinished Business:

Committee chairs – contact people on the sign up list.
Quick list – Remove
Development calendar – Tom will meet with Mary Jane. Open house is in every local paper.
Dance – Nothing to report.
Gala – being removed and to be included in the 100^th anniversary festivities.
Committee chairs need to present goals
Constitution – nothing to report
Ask and you shall receive – nothing
Bulletin announcement – Jim to contact Sharon to discuss.

New Business:

Mary Jane thanked Mary Beth Morgan and Mary Kay Schaub for helping out the Bohlen family.

Open discussion: Teachers – possibility of hanging up their degrees. Under their name plate the school could put what school they attended and their degree, the number of years of service to the school. Why they chose to teach at a catholic school. This would be great for open house. The school could feature a teacher each month in a local paper. Also in the papers, the school will be putting in pictures of the sports teams. Possibly post the school stats in academics and athletics. Jim distributed a Christian C/D for us to listen to.

The next meeting is February 3, 2004 at 6:30pm in Selbert Hall.

Tom Discipio closed the meeting with a prayer.

Meeting closed at 8:30pm.