PAC MEETING AGENDA 2015-03-03

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  • Welcome & Introductions, Attendance: PLEASE USE SIGN IN SHEET (Mary) (2min)
  • Approve past minutes (Mary) from FEB2015 – DEFERRED TO APR 2015 MTG
  • Treasurer’s report (Shirley) (5min)
  • Old business/Updates (30min)
  • Garden update (Valeria) 5min
  • EMB Update (Barb) 5min
  • Admin Message (Margaret/Erin) (10min)
  • Principal’s message (5min)
  • Teacher representatives (5min)
    • fieldtrip to the Seymour River Hatchery funding request
  • New business (30min)
  • School Carnival (Keelan) 20 min (see presentation)
  • Fundraising calendar (Barb) 5min
  • Communications: (Jermaine) 5 min
    • Discuss website redevelopment and its role in community building and PAC contribution awareness. Three primary topics: Content contribution, PAC constitution and Contacts. This will be an introduction to issues rather than full scale discussion.

Content contribution:

  • Would like to add a ‘school grounds’ section w/ content contributions – Valerie – re: garden? Other PAC members re: funding for benches and bike racks. Other school ground initiatives
  • Would like other PAC & Parents to contribute posts. Sending written content to PAC communications and creating content authoring privileges with workflow (review) before publishing.

PAC constitution:

  • Would like to publish it on website for public reference/awareness

PAC contacts

  • Researching ways to improve communication. Adding email contacts to PAC exec leaders as per role. ie: Fundraising, Volunteer Co-ordinator, Communications…

Update: adding more content to Volunteer section to assist with Carnival efforts.

  • Community Events:
    • CARNIVAL
      • LOCATION: John Norquay Elementary School – Outside gravel field.
      • DATE: Thursday, 21 May, 2015 TIME: 3pm – 6pm RAIN DATE/LOCATION: Same day – Inside
      • TARGET ATTENDEES: 900 – 1000
      • GOAL: Community building!!!
    • PEDALHEADS – The proposed dates for pedalheads for this Spring are the week of April 20th to the week of May 22nd (for a total of 5 weeks.The camp would go from 3:30-5:30 PM). We need a minimum number of kids registered to run the program so please email norquaypacteam@gmail.com with your interest!
  • Next meeting Tuesday, April 14, 2015