FLC Parent Board Meeting
October 7, 2009-10-13
Attendance: Serena Hendricks, Trish Rector, Ann Ferguson, ParisAnn Dallett; Linda Larson, Healy Landis, Christina Thomas, Marianna Hanefeld
The meeting was brought to order by President, pro-tem, Serena Hendricks; the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
Formal elections were held. Results were as follows: Serena Hendricks, President; Trish Rector, Treasurer, Kathy Doolittle, Secretary. The vote to instate the officers was unanimous.
Old Business:
By laws, Mission, etc. : Christina suggested going through a process to reestablish mission, vision and core beliefs (this will include parent board, students and staff. Important to be able to articulate who we are and who we are not.
Action Items: Desire to revisit in coming meetings. Also need to address update on Parent Handbook
Open House de brief: “Pass the Hat” netted $205; all felt event was needed and successful.
Calendar: discussion of yahoo site versus free website from Google. No consensus reached to make any changes, nor was anyone designated to maintain the Yahoo calendar.
Decision to calendar all events on the district tandem calendar including board meetings and parent-board sponsored events.
Details of the History Fair and other upcoming calendar events were discussed. History Fair will consist of classes, given by the Burke Museum and held in the portables. It will also include a Bring your own lunch and a pot-luck dessert buffet. It will be held on Tuesday, November 10th from 11am to 2:30 pm; classes will not be cancelled, but will be held concurrently with the Burke classes. Displays will be in the main hallway, lunch and dessert in the Commons.
Healy Landis brought up the issue of giving presentation boards to families. Discussion was mixed providing them. It was decided to give only to families that have financial need. Healy will communicate this via the newsletter.
There was a discussion of how to utilize bulletin boards as a part of communicating sign ups and announcements. It was decided to form a bulletin board committee, headed by ParisAnn Dallett. She will recruit other parents to help keep up the bulletin boards and take down old announcements.
Snow policy/late arrival as it relates to FLC was discussed. Christina clarified that we will keep the schedule as it is written, but classes will begin late. This will be communicated in the newsletter.
Newsletter: Christina announced the establishment of the FLC Newsletter. It will be sent electronically to all FLC families on the average of once a month. The deadline for Oct/ Nov is Friday, October 16. Paula Clements will be writing it.
Action Items:
1. Articles for upcoming newsletter: Pass the Hat update/donation request, Trish Rector; History Fair, Marianna Hanefeld; Presentation Boards announcement, Healy Landis; Bulletin Board Committee, ParisAnn Dallett; Upcoming Events, Marianna Hanefeld; Calendar items to be added to Tandem Calendar, Laurie Carroll; District emergency and snow policies as they relate to FLC, Christina Thomas and Healy Landis.
2. History Fair: Posters need to be made for bulletin boards; sign ups for dessert buffet need to be made; Assignment for setting up and supervising dessert buffet need to be made.
New Business:
Upcoming Events: Discussed activities/field trips other than Learning Fairs Suggestions: Craft fair. It was decided to have a Service learning project; canned food drive with a Roller Skating Party kicks off, on December. 4th 1-3 pm at the Bellevue Skate King. It was also decided that the K-6 would be responsible for collecting the food and the 7-12 grades would be responsible for distributing it through Hopelink or other agency food banks. Sub-Committees will be needed to execute this plan and none were assigned. Other future activities were discussed, but the item has been tabled to the next meeting of the parent-board.
Action Items: Need to establish sub-committee for Food Drive service activity and coordinate with Kathryn Williamson to activate ASB for this activity. Marianna Hanefeld will contact Skate King and arrange for dates.
Principal’s Report: Some decisions have been made regarding classes, security and future schedule and registration policies. These are as follows:
• Limiting the number of classes students can take: Families can only take 5 classes and appeal to take 6. (Or 7 classes and appeal to take an 8).
• Organizing the parent sign in process and parent badges; Need a group of parents to “man the door” and sign parents in. Parents will be required to wear badges while on site. Sign in will be at the back door. Security is the primary reason this is being implemented.
• Cancelling and adding classes: We will only start classes at the semester. Class minimum is 5 children and some classes have been cancelled. Semester classes would be elective rather than core type.
Future: Create course descriptions, and schedule; online registration, facilitates broader base of class choices. Implementation this spring
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Marianna Hanefeld
FLC Parent Board Liaison