Presidents’ To-Do List April 2013

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Action Items:

  1. As your levy committees start to form make sure you have parent representation on them and that they understand the role of this in the “Big Picture” of the levy process.
  2. Convention please plan on attending your fees will be repaid by the jump start you will get on the training and ideas you will have sparked for your local unit from the fantastic gathering of “Brains in Bellevue”
  3. Please check the website for information on any of our chairs and to keep your diary straight with the upcoming events as we finish strong to the end of the year.
  4. Please pass on to Judy any positive comments on how we can run our Golden Acorn Celebration to best honour our awardees and keep everyone sane.
  5. School Board ~ please plan on attending 24th April 18, 2013 as one of the agenda items will be the Healthy Youth Survey.
  6. Review you budgets and make any adjustments following the Council proposed budget especially with the reduction of Parent Ed. But remember that it is levy campaign year ~ so look to boost your dollars to ensure the best campaign possible to keep the dollars flowing into our schools.
  7. Last membership payment in May ~ check your rosters then pay and download a copy for your records.

New Information

We are looking to find resources for our community on the topic of drugs and alcohol sparked from the fabulous speaker last meeting. I suggest you start with the Issaquah community network notes that I have asked Lida to include on our website. There are excellent resources and help for our parents. So the ball is rolling…..

Start to think about input on the topics that we will be discussing next month

  • PTSA’s and electronic administration/ registration. ( I plan on attending classes on this at Convention)
  • Emergency prep ~ think about what you do as a LU. Are you happy? is it enough?
  • Could you all as LU’s share with me the amount of money you gift/give to schools and for what sort of things you are financing. I would love to have these rough numbers at my finger tips and how they are being used.

Best Practice Moment

April to do list

  • Enter your new officers on the State PTA website.
  • Begin training of your new Board members.
  • Continue cleaning of notebooks and files.
  • Attend WSPTA Annual Convention.