Montgomery Blair High School PTSA

Minutes of PTSA Board of Directors Meeting --- October 16, 2007

October 16, 2007
PTSA BoD Meeting

Present: Jeanne Philbin, Gail Peck, Carol Muskin, Cordell Cassell, Andrew Partan, Katya Partan, Carol Smalls, Rosanne Hurwitz, Sam Stokes, Linda Kahn, Matilda Parker, Nancy Newton, Elissa Lichtenstein, Annie Rohlin, Tina Hou, Benjamin Sawd, Robert Gillette, Debra Reed-Gillette,

Facilitator: Bob Gillette
Time Keeper: Bob Gillette
Recorder: Debra Reed-Gillette

Bob called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm.

All members are reminded to CLEARLY print their name on the sign-in sheet for each meeting.

The minutes for the September BoD meeting were approved as posted.

Treasurer’s Report: Nancy presented the Budget for the 2007-2008 academic year as discussed at the September meeting. She will post the Budget on-line with the September meeting minutes. All are reminded that amendments to the budget can be made at any time. Many items not specifically outlined as line-items may legitimately fall under such items as community outreach, like speakers. The budget as presented was approved to take to the membership.

Mini-Grants: The mini-grants committee presented the mini-grant process, and discussed the rationale for approving grants. A total of $20,959.36 in grants was requested and a total of $10,019.36 was approved by the board to take to the membership for approval. The final recipient spreadsheet will be posted to the website with the September membership meeting minutes.

President’s Report: A request that the PTSA provide a motivational speaker in November as a community outreach activity was brought to the board by Bob Gillette for Dave or was unable to be here tonight. There were many questions about the speaker and the purpose of the speaker. Nancy Newton assured the board that this fell under community outreach on the budget line items. Jeanne Philbin agreed to take this to the cluster meeting to see if other cluster schools would be willing to promote this as well so if we sponsored the speaker we would have a good showing. This item was tabled until next Board meeting so that Dave could answer specifics about the speaker.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 pm to begin the membership meeting.