MINUTES – January 14^th Meeting

ATTENDEES

Sheila Bailey Liane Hubbard Richard Western

Andrea Lall Carole Banwell Miriam Collins

Diane Kriksciunas Marisa Di Monte

TOPIC	DISCUSSION	OUTCOME
Previous Meeting Minutes	- Reported on status of action items. All items are complete except: 10-8: Roshene to convene a meeting of the Appropriate Dress in January. Diane Kriksciunas has offered to convene the meeting instead. 11-1: Sheila and Marisa set up a new e-group with an open invitation. Communicate this in December newsletter. 12-2: No parents have approached Andrea about eradicating lice problem 12-3: Kamlesh Tukrel will attend the Ward meeting in January. Anyone else for the remaining meetings should just attend on the dates listed 12-7: Letters will go out to the class parents reminding them of their duties. 12:10: VOTED to participate in Toque Tuesday – letters to go home. 12:11: Winter Carnival to be planned when snow is here.	Accepted minutes of December 3rd.
Principal’s report	Andrea spoke about the following issues: Budget reductions: - We are still feeling the effects of the amalgamation process. - Most of the reductions will be in Board administration (vacate College St board office with 3 satellite locations left). Toronto Parent Network Report - Recent report indicating the health and safety deficiencies of Toronto schools. - Hollywood was not on the list. - Washroom issue – Caretakers have addressed the problem of the washrooms and a thorough cleaning of the student washrooms was completed over the holidays. Optional Attendance: - Hollywood is closed for optional attendance. - Some concern about the number of students that might be attending our school from the new developments in the neighbourhood. - Andrea stated that the homeowners were informed when they purchased their homes that Hollywood would not accept them. - Area Review meeting will address these concerns and we are encouraged to attend. Workshops: - Public Health Dept wants to run a workshop on managing children’s stress. - The attendees unanimously thought that this would be something that would add to our community experience. Milk Programme: - Dairy board approached us about having a milk program operate at lunch time. VOTE – declined the programme for this year First Aid: - Attended by 15 staff members and went well	1-1 Richard Western will contact Judi Codd regarding this concern. 1-2 Diane K will contact Lee Dash and make arrangements.
Membership and Committees	Class Reps – some parents don’t know who they are - list will be sent out in Friday File Pizza Lunch – note will go home about new term and new monies due Enrichment- Marisa will attend a meeting Curriculum Testing – EQAO results are not official yet due to school discrepancies	1-3 Marisa will attend new Enrichment committee
Treasurer’s Report	- Andrea inquired about a cheque for some of the enrichment projects that have been approved. - Richard did not prepare statements for this meeting but will do so for the next meeting. - We will decide at the next meeting if there is still a need for additional fundraising.	1-4 Kamlesh will write a cheque for this for the amount of $1181.00 1-5 Richard to file statements
AOB	- Sheila will be resigning as chair since she will be moving to Sarnia. - We wished her well and thanked her for all her hard work. - Some expressed a need to recruit more people to attend meetings since several of the usual parents will not be at the school next year. - Some parents wanted to know if there would be reading and math workshops similar to those that were held in the past for both students and parents.	1-6 Andrea will approach some parents to attend next WHO meeting 1-7 Everyone present will ask one other parent to be at the next meeting 1-8 Sheila will announce her resignation to the parents, post the election, and ask all class parents to attend the next meeting
Next meeting	February 11, 2002 7:00 pm

TOPIC

DISCUSSION

OUTCOME

Previous Meeting Minutes

- Reported on status of action items. All items are complete except:

10-8: Roshene to convene a meeting of the Appropriate Dress in January. Diane Kriksciunas has offered to convene the meeting instead.

11-1: Sheila and Marisa set up a new e-group with an open invitation. Communicate this in December newsletter.

12-2: No parents have approached Andrea about eradicating lice problem

12-3: Kamlesh Tukrel will attend the Ward meeting in January. Anyone else for the remaining meetings should just attend on the dates listed

12-7: Letters will go out to the class parents reminding them of their duties.

12:10: VOTED to participate in Toque Tuesday – letters to go home.

12:11: Winter Carnival to be planned when snow is here.

Accepted minutes of December 3rd.

Principal’s report

Andrea spoke about the following issues:

Budget reductions:

- We are still feeling the effects of the amalgamation process.

- Most of the reductions will be in Board administration (vacate College St board office with 3 satellite locations left).

Toronto Parent Network Report

- Recent report indicating the health and safety deficiencies of Toronto schools.

- Hollywood was not on the list.

- Washroom issue – Caretakers have addressed the problem of the washrooms and a thorough cleaning of the student washrooms was completed over the holidays.

Optional Attendance:

- Hollywood is closed for optional attendance.

- Some concern about the number of students that might be attending our school from the new developments in the neighbourhood.

- Andrea stated that the homeowners were informed when they purchased their homes that Hollywood would not accept them.

- Area Review meeting will address these concerns and we are encouraged to attend.

Workshops:

- Public Health Dept wants to run a workshop on managing children’s stress.

- The attendees unanimously thought that this would be something that would add to our community experience.

Milk Programme:

- Dairy board approached us about having a milk program operate at lunch time.

VOTE – declined the programme for this year

First Aid:

- Attended by 15 staff members and went well

1-1 Richard Western will contact Judi Codd regarding this concern.

1-2 Diane K will contact Lee Dash and make arrangements.

Membership and Committees

Class Reps – some parents don’t know who they are - list will be sent out in Friday File

Pizza Lunch – note will go home about new term and new monies due

Enrichment- Marisa will attend a meeting

Curriculum Testing – EQAO results are not official yet due to school discrepancies

1-3 Marisa will attend new Enrichment committee

Treasurer’s Report

- Andrea inquired about a cheque for some of the enrichment projects that have been approved.

- Richard did not prepare statements for this meeting but will do so for the next meeting.

- We will decide at the next meeting if there is still a need for additional fundraising.

1-4 Kamlesh will write a cheque for this for the amount of $1181.00

1-5 Richard to file statements

AOB

- Sheila will be resigning as chair since she will be moving to Sarnia.

- We wished her well and thanked her for all her hard work.

- Some expressed a need to recruit more people to attend meetings since several of the usual parents will not be at the school next year.

- Some parents wanted to know if there would be reading and math workshops similar to those that were held in the past for both students and parents.

1-6 Andrea will approach some parents to attend next WHO meeting

1-7 Everyone present will ask one other parent to be at the next meeting

1-8 Sheila will announce her resignation to the parents, post the election, and ask all class parents to attend the next meeting

Next meeting

February 11, 2002 7:00 pm