Jackson Educators for Young Children (JEYC)
March 8, 2013
Minutes
Present: Brooke Rains, Andrea McCabe, Kim St. Charles, Lori Jonas, Kim Trudell,
Kathy Hoszkiw, Cheryl Chaves-Torres, Julie Mead, Sue Hutchison, Mariann
Gladstone
Meeting was led by Kathy
Introductions; shared how we use the PQA in our programs
Speaker
Ginelle Skinner, Hillsdale ISD/Great Start Collaborative Director & High-Scope
Trainer, spoke to us about the Program Quality Assessment (PQA).
Business Meeting
Approval of February minutes:
Discussion: none
Motion: Mariann
2nd: Cheryl
Approved
Approval of Feb Finance Report – Kim S reported out; see separate report; Kim
gave financial report of Feb 28th workshop. 101 registered; 95 participated; profit
of $718.04.
Motion to accept report: Sue
2nd: Kim T
Approved
Discussion about donating $500 of our workshop profit to Imagination Library.
Motion: Sue
2nd: Lori
Approved
Further discussion: Amy Rogers, Feb 28th workshop speaker, would not accept the
$100 gift for this from JEYC. It suggested that we give her a gift card for $50 and
donate $50 in her name to Imagination Library.
Motion: Cheryl
2nd: Sue
Approved
Subcommittee Activity Updates
 Winter Workshop recap – Kathy
o Group talked about the workshop and how things went; decided it
might be helpful to have a checklist to work from, to make sure all
logistics are in place, like sound system, introducing the speaker, etc
 Jackson Conference – Kathy
o Registration is going well! Some sessions are full already
o Booth – Kim T and Cheryl will co-man the table for JEYC; Cheryl
asked about the JEYC brochure – Kathy will forward to her and
Cheryl and/or Kathy will make some copies to have available at our
table
o Kathy will check with Mary DeLuca and Erika at Jesus Loves Me to
see if our revised brochure can be found
o Have Spring Luncheon fliers available at our table!
 Cooks for Books – Cheryl, Kim T, Mariann
o March 22nd, 11:30am-1pm @ First Methodist Church across from the
library - doing the book “Charlie the Ranch Dog” and making lasagna
o JEYC is officially registered to participate!
o Kathy told the ladies to keep their receipts if they’d like to be
reimbursed by JEYC
 Spring Luncheon - Lori, Sue, Andrea
o May 17th @ 11am-1pm @ Darryls (now called One Five One) - Jim
Sinnamon, Licensing updates - $15 (just covers the cost of food; no
profit made from this)
o Andrea created a draft of the flier; will change the RSVP date to May
12th
o Need to find out Jim’s lunch choice (and his wife’s too?)
o Table tent for participants that has their name and lunch choice
o Marketing: CCN will email out to Jackson provider list; Brooke will
share with Lenawee Directors group
 2013-14 Speakers – Brooke and Kim S
o Presented the revised speaker list and which speakers are confirmed
o Changed the October workshop to be a training focused on activities
providers can do to support PALS, versus doing a training focused on
the data from PALS, since it won’t be available in Oct; group would
like Brenda to do this workshop; Brooke or Kim will contact her
o August retreat – tentatively Aug14, 11am-1pm @ Clark Lake Beach
and Boat Club, with lunch @ Beach Bar
o Have schedule, including retreat, available at May Luncheon
o Group decided to create a postcard like last year, to mail to all the
licensed providers in Jackson
 Orientation Program – Erika, Brooke, Cheryl, Sue
o Group will be meeting soon and will bring back a revised plan at a
future meeting
 Facebook Guidelines – Cheryl and Mary
o Cheryl passed out copies of a document she created
o Tabled until April mtg (ran out of time)
 Recruitment – Sue
o Sue invited Joy, the new Dahlem Nature Preschool Director, to come
to the meeting today, but she couldn’t make it; Sue will stay
connected with her
Membership Cards
Group would like to have membership cards, will help with Great Start to Quality
and membership in an association; Kathy will send a version of a membership
card (after the conference ) to Sue and she will work on it.
Locations for 2013-14 Meetings
CAA on Greenwood – 2013: Sept. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 8; 2014: Jan. 10
United Way Building? – 2014: Feb. 14, Mar. 14, April 11
Agency/Center updates
Sue asked a couple GSRP-type questions to the group; also asked about ISD folks
coming into her program and maybe needing background checks (group shared
that no check was needed for them)
Other
None
Next meeting: Friday, April 12th – Hank Weber, Marketing Your Small Business
Motion to adjourn:
Moved: Cheryl
2nd: Kim
Approved!
Respectfully submitted,
Brooke Rains