PAC Meeting Minutes - Sep 2022
Date: September 20, 2022
Meeting Began at 6:32pm
In attendance:
Mr. Daum, Amelia Leung, Alaric, Jessica, Jon, Jing Luan, Dan Sang, Lacey Hou, Olivia Liao, Janelle Li, Jennifer + 16 online participants
Welcome and Introductions:
- Alaric welcomed all the parents to PAC meeting
- Introducing PAC positions for the year:
- Members at Large: Yanny, Belle, Mabel
- Secretary: Amelia
- Treasurer: Jon
- Chair: Alaric
Adopt May 2022 Minutes & September 2022 Agenda by Amelia & Jessica
Financial Report for Last Year by Jon:
- Raised $12000 from food days (most from pizza days - about $10000)
- Fundraising for outdoor ed and graduation class
- $28,000 in general account with some outstanding expenses like classroom allocations ($2000) and we have a balance of $4400 in gaming account
Financial Report for this Year by Jon:
- Anticipation events: winter festival, dance classes
- Fundraiser events: bake sale, food days, gift card sale
- Set aside money for classroom allocation, teachers’ wish list, graduation ceremony, health education, any celebration events (winter, lunar year, staff appreciation) and also technology upgrades (sound systems, mics…)
- Boosting classroom allocation from $12 to $14 per student
- Boosting Music and Resource teacher allocation from $140 to $150 each
- Boosting Grad class support from $40 to $45 per student
- New $300 budget line item to help cover teacher special project
- Allocating $5000 to technology upgrades
Food days:
- Right now we have sushi, pizza, chicken, teriyaki, and Subway
- Testing Poke bowls from Westcoast Poke
- Testing smoothies from Purpose Smoothies. Samples were provided for tonight’s meeting.
- We may include healthy smoothies and Poke bowls in the future
- We are still in discussion for more food days. Planning that ensures staff are on board is an important step.
- We have Gr7 students helping with distributing lunches to each students
- Food vendor policies to avoid chaos and keep school safe during lunch time. Services from Uber/SkipTheDishes/DoorDash will be reviewed.
- Parents can drop off lunches again
- Fruit & Milk program coming back again this year
Gr.7 Outdoor Ed:
- 3 nights 4 Days Cheakamus Camp
- Outdoor Ed Committee carried over from last year
Spirit Wear:
- tshirt and hoodies and maybe sweatpants
- Samples are available at the school for sizing
- Will be available soon
Mr. Daum’s Report:
- Welcome all the parents online and in person
- Discussed about class placements for students
- Health & Safety: managing community diseases, going through protocols for students to follow, stay home if your kids are sick
- 4 new staff: Education Assistant, Div7 teacher, School counselor, and Speech & Language teacher
- Meet the teacher & staff Night: Sept 22
- Oct 5 & 6 will have early dismissal at 1:45pm for teacher/parent conference
- Make appointments if parents want to meet the teachers
- First Pro D day on Sept 23
- September 29 is Orange shirt day & September 30 will be a holiday
- There will be changes coming in regards to report cards (no more letter grades); there will be more information about this next PAC meeting
Meeting Adjourned at 7:45pm
Updated:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022