MEETING NOTES
PTA General Meeting
Date: October 10, 2016
Location: BSES Media Room
Subject: Monthly General Meeting
Erin Adero called the meeting to order at 7:02pm
Administrators’ Report: Carol Hahn
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Thanked us and Andrea for the Fall Festival
Artist in residence was here for 3 weeks with the culmination of the project today in the school.
The artist was focused in 3rd grade.
Sound System
o She will fill out the paperwork (Donation to School and Alteration to School Facilities
forms)
o Everything has to be approved by the Board of Education
o Baltimore Sound, which installed our current sound system, will provide us with a
proposal that will include a digital mixer, cleaning up our sound and some microphones
o We can use our current equipment with the new system.
Reflections Program
o This year theme is What is Your Story
o Children can create anything in the areas of dance, theatre, music, photography, etc.
o It is an all-inclusive program, doesn’t leave any kid out.
o Children will have to hand in their story by Nov 30 to a committee who will choose the
best ones.
o All students that participate will get a certificate.
o Categories are k-2 and 3-5
There will be a Science Assembly this Friday. The Science Center charged only $60 to do it
because of booked on a certain date. School will be divided Recc – 2nd and 3rd to 5th.
Reading Night will be November 16
We have 744 students who have filled the family file, only missing two students!
President Report: Erin Adero
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William Field’s sister wrote us a Thank you note.
Thanked Andrea Wilds for the Fall Festival and indicated she got a lot of good comments
Our membership is at 331, right now, which is ahead of what we ended up last year. Thank you
Jen for great work.
Thanked Harriett for the PTA shirts and pools.
Superintendent Calvin Ball joined our PTA
There are 57 kids enrolled for our Fall Play – The Lion King.
All our vacancies have been filled. Kate Copsey has taken the chair of Movie Nights and Aaron
Copsey has taken Restaurant Nights. Our teacher representatives are Mrs. Jennifer Waltemire
and Mrs. Kristen Robey.
VP Activities Report: Elizabeth Aviles
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Cultural Arts is almost to the point of signing the contract. We will have Dovie Thomason (a
Native storyteller) in November (either the 14th, 15th, or 16th). She will have scheduled split
performances with workshops in between for Fourth Grade. We will have the Chinese Acrobats
on Wednesday, February 8th with back-to-back performances starting at 9:30am.
Thanked Andrea for the Fall Festival, great attention to detail!
The purple shirts during the Fall Festival were a great identifier, people knew whom to come to
with questions.
Having the registration in front helped a lot with the pumpkin sales, as soon as people came in
they bought a pumpkin.
Went to take the PTAHC Financial Workshop. Our PTA is now in compliance.
VP Fundraising Report: Heidi Roberts
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Will schedule the first Restaurant Night and then will pass to Aaron Copsey to schedule for the
rest of the year.
Fall Festival Committee Chair: Andrea Wilds
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She will be running the Fall Festival next year.
Thanked everyone for his or her support.
Maybe next year do food combos (a slice of pizza and a drink for $2) to make it easier for sell.
Have an agenda ahead of time of the activities so that people know where they want to go.
The event cost $1,982.93 and $2,564.10 was raised. Total gain of $581.17 
Cheetah Challenge Chair: Harriet Sheridan
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Everything from Spirit Wear is in and will be delivered to the children.
Directory
o Howard County Schools can print the directory for us for free; all we need to do is bring
the paper and cover we want to us.
Howard County Schools printed the Cheetah Challenge envelopes for free and in only 4 days!
We just had to bring them the envelopes.
Gifts for Cheetah Challenge
o 1st Price – Bike
o 2nd Price – $120 Road Runner Certificate for Children Sneakers
o 3rd Price – Roller Blades
o Raffle Prize – a one night stay for a family at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor with
complimentary breakfast for 2. Every child that raises $10 or more will be entered in the
raffle.
o Marci asked if this was the only fundraiser we had. We explained that we have other
fundraisers but they are not asking for money (Restaurant Nights, School Supplies, and
Hershey’s Park). This is our main fundraising event that funds all the activities during the
year.
Treasurer Update: Donna Hadley
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Watch Dogs raised $506 in t-shirts