• Welcome/ Sign in: Deborah Brown
• Celebrations!!!!
• Approval for minutes: motioned by Donna Seams and second by Stephanie.
• Norms for meetings/ Roles:

• Start and end on time,
• be respectful,
• stay on the agenda,
• have light snacks.

• October: Holli
• November: Dawn
• January: Cherita
• February: Candis
• March: Jill and Cathy
• April: Katie

• President report

• Turn in Signed Standing Rules
• Thank you to each of you
• Vote and approve the minutes from last month

• Treasure report

• Budget
• Monthly Treasurer Report

• Status check on goals for PTA
• All goals should SMART Goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time Bound)

• Increase Reading

• Reading Buddies Program
• Family Nights and Title 1- dates have been set/

• increase support for staff
• Increase parent involvement and build GES community
• increase communication between parents and staff and PTA

• Committee Reports

• Committee Guidelines

• Committee Organization Tree/ Volunteers
• Volunteer website/ PTA blog/ PTA website
• Budget within the committee
• Communication - copy me
• Copy deadline to go in boxes.
• All communication goes through communication committee so parents teachers aren't getting multiple emails, multiple papers when it could be combined.  Too much and they want see it.
• Jill- school wide contact for mass emails.

• Updates from:

• Shop and Support- Chair- Erica

• New Board for tracking will be up Thursday.  
• Coming up with new incentives and contests between classes, and how to do it with both Labels and Box Tops each month, or alternate months? 

• Labels for Ed- Chair- Holli
• Box Tops- Chair- Erica--has assigned people counting and reporting numbers to Erica each week. She is shipping 3375 box tops this week. First submission date is Nov. 1
• Coke Rewards- Chair- Jennifer D2,011 points
• Funding Factory-Chair- Deborah- $45.90 

• Decorating- Co-Chairs- Myriam and Tisha

• what events coming up need decorations?
• Ideas- nothing really

• Communication- Chair- Deborah

• Enews, social sites, connect eds, marquee, bulletin boards, flyers sent home, newsletters, copies

• Restaurant Nights- Chair- Kim

• Menchies- 4th monday of October, November, February, March, May
• Chick Fil-A- 1st Tuesday of -October, December, February, April.
• Rio Grande- 3rd Wednesday of each month

• PBIS and volunteers- Cindy
• Call Volunteers to keep them interested.
• Education blog Ideas form Cherita are suggested.
• Book fair- Chair- Deborah

• submit idea for scholastic bucks to teachers, and library vs taking any cash.
• dates- October 21-25-

• Volunteers will be needed

• for the spirit store, which will be in the library as we did during the family night last year
• family night will be on Tuesday this year- K-2 Harvest concert
• Parent Breakfast- date TBA
• Extended shopping day- Date TBA
• Other information- watch emails

• Fall festival booth

• Advocacy/ Membership- Chair- Jess- was absent, so was not discussed

• Staff membership incentives?
• Student membership incentives
• has the board paid their dues?
• Advocacy ideas?

• Staff Appreciation- Elena- Stephanie is taking this over, for right now - Elena was not here, so this was not really discussed.

• What is the plan for staff appreciation- monthly, quarterly?
• Rio Grande- Early Dismissal- idea
• Ideas?
• Gift bags-?
• Monthly drawings?

• Social- Chair- stephanie

• Skatenight- Feedback, thoughts- Chair- Kim

• Theme for next month?

• Dances- 1/quarter- pull chair from the social committee
• Fall Festival- Nov. 8- Chair- stephanie
• Family Nights- 1/ quarter- pull chair from the social committee

• Ideas that people would like to see.

• Spirit Store- Chair- Cherita- update?

Random notes:

• Online store- changing site to more user friendly site.
• Male Involvement Program- GCCPTA Rep
• Title 1 family night november 1st “Dinner and a Movie”.
• 30 day recognition
• Kids are involved with it by a lunch buddy
• Buy one get one ( free for class) April book fair
• October skate night theme is in progress
•  October is bullying awareness month