PTA 2024-2025

Meeting Minutes Tuesday, January 28th

• Welcome! – Emma Anderson (PTA President)

• Group introductions 

• Review of Agenda – Emma 

• Meeting Minutes from previous meeting reviewed – Ashley Priest (PTA Secretary)

  • Kimberly Power motioned to approve, Kim Syltebo seconded, ALL IN FAVOR✔️

• Treasurer’s Report – Kimberly Power (PTA Treasurer)

  • Moved surplus in budget (from COVID years, etc) into savings certificate; estimated to earn about $700 over 6 months. Option to do again if interested

• Principal's Message – Aaron Darragh (Roosevelt Principal)

  • 5th Graders are heading to “Mountain School” next week at NCI

  • Opportunity for all 5th Graders in our district

  • Our group is going to NCI but some schools opt to go to “Beach School” at Camp Kirby

• Guest from Kulshan Middle Schools PTSA – Lynette Bennett (Former Roos PTA President)

  • Currently looking for board members for next year; workload is about 25% less than elementary level

  • Main tasks include creating sign up geniuses for parent volunteers and running the budget (requests for staff special projects, art room supplies, button maker STEM room, field trips, 6 grade t-shirts, vinyl stickers, staff appreciation once a quarter, and 8th grade celebration)

  • One Middle School fundraiser with all the Middle Schools in partnership with Bellingham Schools Foundation

  • Parent involvement is less at the middle school level being on the PTSA board is one way to be in the know

• PACS Report – Elsa Lenz Kothe

  • Inclusion: District working on understanding,student by student, school by school

  • Teacher training handling behavior, learning styles, safety wise

  • Technology: phones, watches, middle/high school expectations around that, processes for consequences 

  • Technology in the classroom understanding of how it was used vs guidance 

  • Wade King panel tomorrow (open to any parents)

• Committee Chair Reports

  • Communications - Missy Asplund

    • Directory is out!! No negative feedback has come in

    • Social media engagement reminder: KEEP sharing and liking posts to boost overall engagement

  • Enrichment - Kim Syltebo

    • Winter session coming to an end

    • Spring enrollment is open and scholarship requests close Friday 3/21

• The following classes need additional students enrolled to run

  • Yoga-5

  • Gardening-8

  • Drama & Dance-3

  • Improv-2

  • Chess-2

• Offered a MLL help session for Spring enrollment and scholarships and no one attended. Will offer help sessions in Fall and Winter next year

• **Looking for co-chair for this committee next year; providing sustainability and to avoid burnout**

• Events - Ashley Priest

  • Betime and Books happened in Feb. Will have an all school cozy day in the future to help bring awareness.

  • Next event is the Pizza and Dance Party in April. Committee meeting for planning is 03/25 at Lakeline; all are welcome

  • T-shirt design contest shirts will be white to glow for the dance party

• Fundraising - Kimberly Power

  • Goat Mountain Dine Out Update: $741

  • $ .50 Book Sale Update: $1014

  • Our next Bingo and Brews @ Wander on 04/01 from 6-9 pm; sign up genius will go out (would love student helpers as well)

  • Art Walk Friday 05/09 4-7 pm; discussed partnership with Talbot Group

  • Next committee meeting sometime after the break

• Staff Appreciation - Emma Anderson

  • Celebrating the staff the week of 05/05-05/09. Kicking it off with a catered lunch on Thurs. 05/01. There will be sign up geniuses shared for items

• Yearbook - Karla Villanueva Montiel

  • Order has been finalized with print shop. Final draft is due 05/15 

  • 04/28 will be the next yearbook committee meeting. All candid photos due by this date