CG Stangel PTO Minutes
Meeting: February 4, 2016
Executive Board Members Present:
Gen Uecker, VP
Cari Larsen, Treasurer
General Board Members: Tania Haile, Anna Beatty
2 additional Stangel moms joined us.
Next PTO Meeting will be Mar. 3rd @ 5:00pm in the Stangel Library.
Principal’s Report:
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Stangel had their quarterly, Super Star Way Assembly last week. The grade levels participated in
a game of Wheel of Fortune. Students were picked randomly from the tickets students had
received during second quarter. There were 3 puzzles solved: one for grades 1-3, one for grades
4-6, and a final one for the entire school.
The PTO has approved a request for Walkie-Talkies for the building. They will be purchasing 6 of
them for the office staff and playground supervisors. Each one is priced at $209.
There was discussion about donating money for the classroom teachers to purchase books for
their new literacy units (non-fiction / historical fiction). We tabled the discussion for now until
we know how much money each grade level would like.
Mrs. Staude would like a projector and we tabled this discussion also until we have more
information regarding the cost.
The PTO also made the decision to pay for the instructional staff (classroom teachers, specials
teachers, and sp.ed. teachers) to have a yearbook.
Mrs. Beatty updated the PTO on the sixth grade community service project. They raised $1,200
from their art auction and currently have a total of $1,710 raised. They would love to raise a
total of $6,000 in order to purchase the dog park equipment from a manufacturer. They will be
having the penny war starting on Feb. 15th and it will run until Mar. 4th. They also have a Buffalo
Wild Wings fundraiser on Feb. 22nd. The teachers have put in an application with the Parkland
Dedication Fund in order to see if they will match their funds if the kids raise at least $3,000.
There was a discussion about spring photos and we will not be having spring photos taken this
year.
K-kids offered to help with Bingo Night but it looks as though the PTO will have enough
volunteers. Thanks you K-kids for the offer.
The PTO is trying out “Sign Me up Genius” for finding / organizing volunteers for the teacher
meals. They may use this for other events in the future if it works well.
PTO also is looking for the following positions to be filled for the 2016-17 school year:
o President (Creates an agenda for PTO mtg., helps organizes calendar of events for PTO,
runs PTO meetings, & communicates with principal regarding school needs)
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Vice-President (Helps the president with his/her duties, comes to monthly PTO
meetings)
Treasurer (Comes to monthly PTO meetings to inform the PTO of where we stand
financially & pays invoices for the PTO)
Box Top Chairperson (Organizes the monthly drawing/prizes, totals box tops, packages,
and sends them into the company.)
Schwan’s Chairperson (Sets up the Schwan’s Care site for the school year, determining
when the kick-off of the fundraiser begins, communicates this information to families
with flyers, & updates the PTO with funds raised)
Animal’s Pizza Chairperson (Communicates with Animal’s Pizza to determine the
fundraiser window, communicates this with families, gets out order forms to families,
tallies up the orders, takes orders/money to Animal’s Pizza, & organizes the pick-up
night)
Book Fair Co-chair (Helps to organize the book fair dates, book fair set-up, and
volunteers)
PTO Bulletin Board Person: Someone to update our PTO bulletin board (outside the
office)
Teacher Appreciation Chair or Co-chairs: To plan a meal and activities for Teacher
Appreciation Week
Next PTO Meeting will be Mar. 3rd @ 5:00pm in the Stangel Library.
Note the time change due to the Orchestra Concert.