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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:
  1. Members at Large: Yanny, Belle, Mabel
  2. Secretary: Amelia
  3. Treasurer: Jon
  4. 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