Jackson High School PTSA 7.3.95
PTSA Meeting March 5, 2014
Call to Order: PTSA Co-President Mary Lou Evans called the Jackson High School PTSA to order at 7:04pm in the school career center.
Attendance: Co-Presidents Loran Bond & Mary Lou Evans, VP Membership Meggin Podnar, Treasurer Sandi Mak, Co-Secretary
Brandi Lind, Financial Review Member Delia Kelly, Email Administrator Lori Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator Shonda Reinikka,
Newsletter Publisher Kathryn Lee, Staff Appreciation Chair Michele Johnson, and Principal Dave Peters. General member Laura
Gothro was also present.
Approval of Minutes: The minutes from the Feb 5, 2014 meeting were reviewed. Minutes were changed to reflect that Barbara
Nowak will no longer being doing the Wolf Tracks layouts for next year instead of DeeAnn Williamson as written.
MOTION: Mary Lou Evans motioned to approve the minutes as amended. Motion seconded. Motion accepted.
Financial Report Sandi Mak gave the treasurer’s report. She reviewed income and expenses since the February meeting. Sandi
reported income from the class of 2015 summer mailings, a new PTSA member, Escrip and Scholarship donations. Expenses for the
month included the filing fee for the corporate annual report and reimbursements for refreshments for programs. Total income for
the year is below budget as no money has come in from sales of advertising space in the planners. She reported the current checking
account balance is $12,017.50 and savings balance is $15,582.28. The financial report will be filed for audit with total current assets
of $27,599.78. No claims were made to the PTSA insurance this month. Financial books were available for review at this meeting.
Presidents’ Message: Loran Bond and Mary Lou Evans
 The Washington State PTSA Convention will be held in Bellevue on April 25-27th. Registration information for those
interested will be available at the next meeting.
 Loran and Mary Lou have submitted Wolf Tracks to the state PTSA in an attempt to earn an award
 Kathryn Lee, Lisa Steckler, Cheryl Mackay, Christa Pederson and Laura Nelson are working on the Awards
Committee. They have nomination forms available at the meeting tonight and are working to get students at
Jackson involved in the nomination process as well.
Principal’s Report: Dave Peters
 Dave reports that 667 checks were received for AP testing this spring for approx 800 seats. This number is up
significantly from the ~400 checks received last spring. Administrators and teachers have been identifying students
they feel are good candidates for the AP program and are personally encouraging those students to sign up for AP
classes next year in order to encourage all students to work to their full potential.
 JLC has been working out a plan that would allow students who failed a year-long class the first semester to take
tests for significant assessments they may have received a zero on during the actual class period in hopes that it
would better reflect the students’ abilities and possible to allow them to pass the class. The relearning that would
be necessary would be covered by funding available from the “On Time Graduation” funding.
 The school will be adding an Awards and Recognition link on the JHS website. This data will stay on the site and be
archived so that people can reflect on Jackson’s achievements for years to come. The school will start with data
from this school year, but will gradually add information from previous years as well. Anyone with photos and/or
information related to awards/recognition from previous years can turn it in to Laurie Wirtz who will add it to the
site.
 Kathryn Lee requested that Jackson archive old “Daily Announcements” for a couple of weeks so that parents and
students can refer back to the information. Dave Peters said it would look into doing that.
Staff Representative: Dave Peters
 Janet Hitt gave kudos to the students who performed at the Regional Solo and Ensemble Contest recently. 41
students performed in 47 different entries with 24 performances earning the Superior rating and 27 individuals
qualified for state as winners (6) or alternates (21). Students competing at state are Kaelyn Barnes, Jonathon
Escobar, Grace Miller, Marguerite Ainsworth, Bailey McIntyre and Abigail Heivilin.
 Shaun Monoghan wishes to remind everyone that 10th grade HSPE testing will occur March 18-20th. Passing the
HSPE is a graduation requirement. 9th grade students will be taking the SWA on either the 18th, 19th or 20th of
March.
 Kelly Dietsch reported that 94 students attended the German Band Tonbandgeraet at the Civic Auditorium today.
The members of the band visited with a few JHS students on campus yesterday. German students covered the
auditorium yesterday with posters and formally welcomed the band with a gift basket filled with goods from
Washington. Also juniors McKenzie Day and Paul Schastlivets have applied for the Congress-Bundestag German
Youth Exchange scholarship and have advanced to the next round. Winning the scholarship will allow them to have
an all-expenses paid trip to study for a year in a German High School next year.
JHS PTSA Meeting Minutes 3.5.14 - page 2
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Brian Marshall says the Theatre Society’s production of You Can’t Take It With You opens this week. Prices and
show dates were given.
Librarian Barbara Stolzenburg was excited to announce that the Battle of the Books group is now an official club at
JHS. The 5th annual Battle of the Books is tomorrow for JHS students. The top 3 teams will go on to the Tri-Battle on
March 27th which will be hosted by Jackson High. Barbara will also be presenting at the NCCE conference March
12th in Seattle to help facilitate the Teacher Librarian Summit. Amalia Pimenta and Deb Payne will be working with
Barbara.
Kathleen Guffey reports that April 17th will be the Day of Silence.
Margaret Thorliefson welcomes PTSA members to join the FIRST Robotics team at their upcoming competition at
Glacier Peaks this Friday and Saturday. A flyer of events was provided. She also reported that JHS hosted several
events over the past two months. The team has been working long hours in January and February building their
robot with many new features.
New Business:
A. ORFF Instruments: Leslie Moffat asked the PTSA in an email whether funds were available to help purchase
instruments for the music department that would benefit the special needs students in the class. Most funding had
been raised, but $200 was still needed. Discussion ensued.
MOTION: Meggin Podnar motioned to use the $200 that had been allocated in the budget for the Fall PTSA Conference
and grant it to Leslie Moffat for the purchase of the ORFF instruments. Motion seconded. Motion passed.
Old Business:
A. Nominating Committee: Mary Lou Evans and Meggin Podnar volunteered to serve on the Nominating Committee.
MOTION: Kathryn Lee motioned to elect Mary Lou Evans and Meggin Podnar to the 2014 Nominating Committee. Motion
seconded. Motion passed.
Committee Reports:
Staff Appreciation: The next staff luncheon will be next Wednesday, March 12th. It will be a St. Patrick’s Day theme. Michele
Johnson reports there has been better participation since she has started sending the Sign Up Genius request out the before the
weekend.
Reflections: Loran Bond reports 3 students’ pieces are moving onto the state level.
Membership: Meggin Podnar reported there have been one or two new memberships this month. Membership is campaigning to
get a few more memberships in order to qualify for a membership challenge by the National PTA which is sponsoring an opportunity
to win $1,000 prize for our local PTSA. The state PTA is also going to be giving incentives for new memberships this spring.
Programs: No report.
Ways and Means: No report. We are still looking for someone to head up this committee for next year.
Wolf Tracks: Kathryn Lee reported that the deadline for the next edition of Wolf Tracks is March 19th. A discussion took place as to
whether JHS students could serve as designers for next year’s edition. Also, instead of sending out Wolf Tracks by email, the PTSA
will instead email a link that takes the reader to Wolf Tracks on the schools website. This will lighten the load on the servers sending
out all the large files. It will also hopefully encourage readers to explore other parts of the PTSA website.
JLC: No report.
Scholarship: No report.
Announcements:
 The Region 7 Service Delivery Team is putting on: F.A.C.E.S. of Outreach - Families and Community Engagement
Summit on Saturday, March 22nd from 10:00am – 2:00pm. Brandi Lind will distribute further information to everyone
by email.
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Laura Gothro stated that Heatherwood is planning to install a new electronic reader board. Their PTA has pledged to
pay $10,000 towards the cost of the board and their PTA is working to raise the money. Laura requests that
Heatherwood Middle School be allowed to place a Box Tops For Education collection box in the JHS office for a short
time to collect Box Tops.
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Nominations for Golden Acorn, Outstanding Advocate and Outstanding Educator are due March 21 st by 2pm.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:12pm by Mary Lou Evans. The next meeting will be April 9, 2014 at 7:00pm in the
Jackson High School Career Center.
Minutes submitted by Brandi Lind, Co-Secretary