February 2019 General Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes for February 5 2019 from 8:30am-9:00am

Leigh (CoP), Molly (CoP), Alex (T), Matthew (S), Judith (VP), Stacy (FCC), Pam (Principal)+ 10 other parents

Wellness committee Updates

Principal Wright’s Announcements

Teacher announcements (skipped- teachers were unable to attend this month)

FCC updates

East Missoula Family Night was successful
- E Msla families like the proximity
- Board games always a good time

Lost and found will be donated at the end of the month, PTA will announce on FB
Box tops so far are approx. 5000 collected, which is about $500
- Last year amounted to approximately $1100 net, hopefully more will come in

Spring Fling planning

We will have the same theme as last year (Hoe Down)
Need donations for the action. Sponsorship financial donations are also being solicited this year.
Spreadsheets are available to solicitation volunteers to stay organized
Alcohol as a donation
- Alcohol can be auctioned, however cannot physically be present on school grounds.
- Donations from bars and restaurant are acceptable so long as they don’t visually promote alcohol

Decorations
- In years past have been time consuming and perhaps not the best use of time- maybe scale back a bit on decorations
- Kids can volunteer and make posters/decorations
- There are some decorations from years past on hand in the FCC
- Teachers like to be kept in the loop on setup of decorations to minimize disruptions

Volunteers are needed for set up/operations/cleanup
- A signup genius will be established for volunteers

District Boundary Study Update by Rattlesnake’s Parent Representative, Kristie S

The first official committee meeting noted a lot of concern regarding impacts
Involvement and transparency are a key aspect of the current process
This effort is meant to create a 10 year plan
- Attempt to prevent unnecessary transfers of kids to non-neighborhood schools looking forward.

Webpage has comments/notes/updates (https://www.mcpsmt.org/elementaryschoolboundarystudy)
Rattlesnake is currently at 96% capacity
Rattlesnake’s community meeting in January was the best attended of all the elementary school meetings.
The discussion does include the concept of Mount Jumbo possibly being reopened- this will be dependent on population and other needs/conditions.
- The district is currently renting unused space as the population grows
Lowell is currently at 62% capacity.
Safe Routes to School conversation- noted that the city has some money, but currently improvements in some areas such as sidewalks are the responsibility of homeowners.
The Open House meetings will go from start to end as scheduled, but participants can come and go and there is not necessarily a structure or presentation to drive that entire time.
- 3-4 more meetings are planned this spring

– The PTA’s website will post more information once our rep (Kristie) has written up a summary

Adjourn

Rattlesnake Elementary PTA