Annunciation School Board Meeting Minutes

Tuesday September 9, 2003

Principal, Mary Jane Liszewski attended meeting. Mary Kay Schaub had a previous commitment.

Meeting called to order at 6:32 pm

Jim Serafin opened the meeting with a prayer.

As per Jim, going forward all meeting minutes, agendas, etc will be emailed.

There were 2 changes that needed to be made to August 2003 minutes; 2^nd page, report of principal the word is dismissal. The name of the music company is Paul Effmann.

Motion was made by Jim Serafin to accept August 2003 minutes. Accepted by Paula Penepent and Elaine Ruszczyk.

Tom Discipio, a parent from Annunciation, submit a letter of interest to be on the school board. After reviewing the letter to board voted. 7 Yes, 0 No.

Finance:

• Nothing to report. Karen is working out the final numbers for the Chancery report. Karen will then meet with Father Emil and Mary Jane to discuss.

Development:

• #113 Paula to check on Proctor & Gamble.
• Still need someone from development to talk at the October Home School Guild Meeting.

Education:

• Nothing to Report

• Nothing to Report

Mission: Nothing to Report

100^th Anniversary:

• Mary Kay, Paula and Mary Joe Ketchum meet over the summer. Passed all information on to the parish council. Paula indicates that we need to start at the school level.

• The theme this year is Walking by Faith, Growing in Love. One goal that the school has will be to provide parents with educational material to help educate their children to be good Catholics.
• "Flat Stanley" will be added to the writing program for grades 2-4.
• All students and parents must attend mass weekly.
• Every month the Goal implementation sheet is reviewed with the teachers at teacher’s conference.
• Enrollment:

• On September 20^th at the 5:00pm mass all teachers and religious educators will be commissioned. There will be refreshments following.
• Debbie Doyle and Kelly Bettinger wrote a grant and submitted it to Target. Due to their efforts the school received a $2000.00 grant for the 1^st grade reading program.
• The code of conduct sheet will be reviewed with all volunteers that interact with our children.
• Mary Beth Mann to write an information sheet to go home in the yellow envelopes. (DONE)
• Playground committee has submitted a request for a $5000.00 grant from Wegmans.
• Father Emil has one goal for the development committee – Get the Alumni Association off the ground.

New Committee Chair:

• Finance – Jean Sobczak
• Development – Tom Discipio
• Education – Elaine Ruszczyk
• Building & Grounds – Mark Phillips
• Mission Statement – Paula Penepent
• 100^th Anniversary – Paula Penepent

1. Development Committee to handle
2. There is a portfolio on all the students, just not on CD Rom.
3. On going
4. Open
5. On going
6. On going
7. On going
8. Home School Guild only
9. Open
10. Tabled
11. On going
12. Open
13. Yes

1. Open – possibly a mini course

1. New gift letter must be done. Jim Serafin to handle. Jim needs to know from Mary Jane when is

• Quick reference list – Dave Muench to handle.
• Vote on new board member.
• Future votes will include the chair. He/She is a voting member.
• All changes to the constitution will be made as an amendment. Amendments will be reviewed every 3 years to determine if it should still apply.

School Board meeting dates are as follows.

October 14

November 10

December 9

January 13

February 10

March 9

April 13

May 11

June 8

• Someone made a comment that it should be made mandatory that our children serve as alter servers. It was determined that this is not a good idea.
• Absence Policy – Unexcused absences: When you don’t call prior to or just after the meeting. You must notify the President as soon as humanly possible.
• 2 years worth of meeting minutes are to be brought to every meeting. All others are to be archived.

• Enrollment
• School name change – Academy?
• Cafeteria.

The next meeting is October 14, 2003 at 6:30pm in Selbert Hall.

Mary Beth Mann closed the meeting with a prayer.

Meeting ended at 8:30pm.