Present:
Claudia Abarquez, Rose Ventura, Denise Marsala, Nicholas May (Staff Representative), Chiara Mondelli (Principal), Jennifer Kotekar (Staff), Peter Giannone, Sandra Giannone, Anna Barbera-Scialfa, Anna Kalogeropoulos, Sarah Karagossian, Brasilia Naddeo (UofT student teacher), Karen Dobrucki (Evergreen/TCDSB). Recorder: Bonnie Cai-Duarte.
ITEM DISCUSSION ACTION
1.0 Opening Prayer (Ms. Mondelli) Approval of the Minutes
Agenda and any additions
Item to add:
Motion to pass the minutes. Minutes Approved. Agenda Approved. No additional items.
Subway Presentation – location close by in Pleasantview mall.
Options include bread, wrap and flatbreads. Varieties: roast beef, ham, veggie delight, tuna, chicken, turkey breast, BLT. 4 Inch or 6 inch depends on what they want $3 everything in. Paid with school cheque per delivery. The delivery order per child can choose and then the forms given to the Subway delivery person. The platters will be organized by class. Subway can take special precaution to ensure peanut safety in preparation of school order.
Options 9 grain and honey oat which qualify for school board policy. Move forward. Put on the form, we’ve done our due diligence
and can have sign “have peanuts on site”. Refer to subway and they are board approved
Karen Dobrucki (Evergreen/ TCDSB)
Employee of Evergreen Brickworks. Works with the Board to assist them with future greening projects.
Provide information of what can be offered and expertise to “greening the school”. Looking at a subcommittee to get together to do “greening” and work with Karen to do this at the school.
Motion to do trial the Subway for the next cycle with the options of 9 grain and honey oats. 7 voted. Motion passed.
Green Committee – goal for the end of the year to have concept done.
Sara Karagossian, Rose Ventura, Anna Kalogeropoulos., Anna Scialfa., and. Denise Marsala.
Meeting date proposed: Monday night 6:00 after Easter. Ms. Mondelli will
It’s a process that can take up to 1 ½ years; works best with some teacher and some parent involvement and also with some students to be involved. Can provide some photos and go deeper into it at a later time. City of Toronto can have them come into the school to plant trees. They
plant every fall. Can take this opportunity to do this. Set up a proposal to do this.
Costing: getting trees for free; Ms. Dobrucki will try to look into it. Looking at the site, realistically have to phase the projects in one at a time. Play structures are not great bang for buck. Show some
alternatives to play structures.
Holy Spirit C.S.is one example. Can try to see Google Earth on this site. Imagination based learning – getting away from play structure because it’s dangerous. One plan is to bring back logs for natural play. Enquiry based play. Bringing back sand (changed the type of sand as well so it’s better resistant to animals). St. Edwards had put one in. It’s also cheaper with these natural structures. Spreading out the structure. Do surveys to involve the students to get their feedback. If it’s structure, they have to follow CSA guidelines and will have to be assessed every year and the board will take responsibility for that. If doing smaller pieces throughout the yard ($1000 - $5000 is possible for another phase). They will build to your budget.
Free tree planting, we can get to plant the tree to our choice. Emerald Ash Boar is very low in this area. 2017 will have lost all of our Ash trees in Ontario. Plant a more diverse planting. They have a list to provide and also the board has a recommended. Can plant up to 25 trees. Food gardening has also become more popular. It is a huge curriculum
tie in and there is pollinator and other issues. Board wants to allow people from the community on site when designing the garden so please keep this in mind.
Evening meetings at the school, initially more frequently. Asking around the community to see which parents are able to help or do
contracting/donate or put in time. Has to be board approved and fill some forms; so they have to have insurance.
Movie Night
Congratulations on a very successful Movie Night. Went very well, but 3 kids left without parents. For next time, have all exits supervised at all times. Thank you to all parents and staff who helped.
check which day Ms. Dobrucki is available and let committee know.
Made $650. Ms. Stafford made closer to $1000 previously. There is still stuff left over. Some chips/water/juice/iced tea left over.
Chocolate Fundraiser
Tuesday after Easter to have all boxes and $ returned. Currently have 120 boxes “out”. We have 40-50 chocolate almonds left and 15 of mixed nut-free.
Hopefully most or all will come back sold. Kateri Kids
Ms. Mondelli is trying to negotiate with Kateri Kids to reclaim the biggest room for their before/after school program within the school and moving around to accommodate getting the grade 6/7 class room back within school building instead of the portable.
They can have up to 30 kids as part of their before and after care therefore they need a sink and a large enough space. Library is one option for them to have. Ms. Mondelli will continue this negotiation process and update when decision is made.
Computers
Computers are all in. Just needing ports and wireless access. The 9 old ones are gone. And there are 14 new ones.
3.0 Principal’s Update Report (Ms. Mondelli)
Snack Program
Angel Foundation Representative – will come in next time to give an idea of snack program.
Tuesday June 9 is the end of the year school mass
Budget consultation by the board – Asking all stakeholders to get involved. All trustees are already meeting to discuss areas to reduce deficit. Please go online for more information.
Photographer – able to book new photographer. We will try them for 1 year. Current photographer will honor sibling photos.
Whenever someone dies to pick a charity to donate. Angel Foundation chosen. The cards were sent out by Anna Kalogeropoulos
Pro-Grant. Applications are already posted. Does someone want to work on this with Ms. Mondelli.
Sacraments and Grads - $500 went to graduation total. There is cake and Grade 8s have awards. Pay for the cake for SK graduation. In the past, other schools have given a small token from the school. Before the next meeting to have quote of prices of items.
Budgeting – Mary Webster has copies of previous years meetings. Bonnie will ask Mary for the past minutes and attempt to draft possible budget for the year and provide that to CSAC for further review
Motion to give $500 and Pay for cake and refreshments ($150) – Rose. 7 voted. Approved.
Anna Scialfa and Sandra Giannone will look into cost of small token gifts and provide pricing at next meeting.
4.0 Treasury Report
Student trips $10.50/child. The teachers have deducted it already.
Chocolate – pay just over $6000. On each box, make 40% profit. Day after Easter, all chocolates to be returned or money. Last year was over $1000 outstanding. Prizes are iPod nano and chocolate and basketball prizes. 5.0 Fundraising Pancake Tuesday Fundraiser
Anna Kalogeropoulos and Claudia Abarquez to get together to do another pancake day. Order forms to be sent out to see how many pancakes needed. Claudia Abarquez, Sandra Giannone, Anna Kalogeropoulos. will be available to do the cooking.
We currently have the materials and extras therefore can sell it as a fundraiser.
Tentative date: April 21st. Send out an order form and pay for in advance. $2 for 2 pancakes.
Send it out before Easter.
6.0 Other Business Bouncy castle - $300. Anna Kalogeropoulos. provided information on
additional vendor for bouncy castle if the need should arise.
Security Cameras
Survey completed by Ms. Mondelli and submitted to the board for security cameras. They gave a survey why we would need to have cameras. These cameras for indoors.
Next Meetings April 16th May 21st Deferred Items &
Items to Follow up for next Agenda
Follow-up:
Cost of small tokens for sacraments received Pro-Grant
Security Camera Greening Committee Next-year budgeting Pancake Tuesday