PAC Meeting: May 7^th

Minutes taken by: Sharon Pierce

• Discussed playground and allocating money for fixing the drainage. We discussed sharing this expenditure with extended day since they will also benefit from the north street play area being fixed since they use it all summer.
• Scholarships are given to graduates who attended North Street School. 2 scholarships to Tewksbury high school students and one to Shaw sheen tech student. $250 to each student. They must complete 1^st semester of college and then pass in their report card at the end of the first semester -$ will be given then. The PAC chose the students- looked for community service and good grades. The students have been notified and certificates given to them.

• There will be open positions for next year-Nancy Cappiello will not longer be with us since she’ll have no more children in North Street. The PAC is looking to have a 3^rd co-chair. Also fund raising position/4^th grade committee needs to be filled.
• Fund raising- Genevieve fund raising dropped off some wrapping paper as an incentive for us to go with them for next year. Also discussed next year doing spinner game for fund raising- has been very successful for Dewing school. Need to start that in Jan/Feb next year... we also want to continue doing Script gift cards, family dine out night. Wendy’s will give a school a certain night for a whole month. Discussed possibility having a Fall family restaurant night a week before school begins. Also discussed possible “GOT BOOKS” fundraiser.
• Talent show brought in $1,524/square art made $1,300.
• Patriotic Play is June 5^th at 10AM 3rd and 4^th graders re-enacting battle of Lexington, Ms Meharg coordinating with Dave Marcus. Voted to allocate $ for the play
• Barbara Lawton suggested that the PAC should communicate better to parents about amount of $ they are making on fundraisers and how spent. Feels there is a lack of communication in this area and should have documentation and distribute to North Street community. Should also have a board in the front entrance to show the different activities that the school is involved in. Suggested getting rid of chalk board and putting bulletin board to show what was done.
• Clean up of front entrance May 17^th 3-5pm
• June 2^nd Ms Kolatian with librarian to pass out summer reading need volunteers to help

- Mrs. Kimble discussed school improvement goals- AYP; improving technology, smart boards. character education- “open circle” teaching parent/teachers/students- Miss Finn-school psychologist would be involved- 5 yr program.