Meeting Minutes Rev.

1 – Wednesday, April 1, 2009

DCPS HOME & SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

QUESTIONS &
DISCUSSION/ ACTIVITY DETAILS & STATUS
FOLLOWUP

PRESENT: Michelle Chin MC, Nicole Ferris NF (minutes), Mary Gillis MG, Jennifer Racine JR, Heidi Branton
HRB, Krista Darling KD, John Manzin JM, Carolyn Sheppard-Cocchio CSC, Denise Montgomery DM, Kristen
Teixeira KT, Helen Bartley HB.
Regrets: Jane Lindsay JL, Jenny Pepper JP, Sara Dickinson SD, Barry Morlog BM.

President's Welcome Michelle welcomed everyone to the meeting. The

agenda focused first on the events and ongoing
initiatives.
“Food For Thought” MG: The fridge in the staffroom has been stocked MG, MC
Program with frozen sandwiches and non perishable items Next Step: see how the
for students who forget or do not have a lunch. current demand is.
Staff can go into the fridge and sign items out.
See about local sponsors.
Super Sub is donating end of day whole wheat sub
buns that a group of volunteers put margarine on Form a sub-committee,
and froze. For March Sub Day instead of taking the meet mid April to define
10% profit from Super Sub, we took 10% extra subs scope and objectives.
to freeze, will evaluate for April depending on
demand.
MG has been unsuccessfully trying to reach
Partners in Nutrition. After application, they will
consider granting up to 15% of costs up to $4500.
A “snack” program that must have 2 food groups
represented, a “breakfast” program must have 3
food groups represented. All food must be
prepared at the school and have access to double
sinks for proper sterilization. A good location in the
school is unclear. JM mentioned that another
school received a large grant to put in a new
kitchen. He also mentioned that is takes 17
volunteers to run the program for 2 days.
We will need a sub-committee to call local
businesses to see if they are willing to donate funds
or give a discounted price on foods. Also need to
look at a produce distribution company in Dundas
that may help.
Also talked about having bins in each class with
healthy snacks in them.
Mr. Morlog has given Home and School $200 to
startup; H&S will put profits from Holiday Baskets
$1000 towards this initiative.
Staff Appreciation Lunch DM: Still working on it. A sign-up sheet will go out JL
like last year.
Family Dance DM: Some concern over the date. Is it too close to SD
the neighbourhood dance? SD suggested that we
move it to the end of May. Attendees discussed and
felt the April 30 date would be okay, end of May may
get too close to the year-end picnic. Also Mr.
Morlog may not be able to change the date for the
school.

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 Meeting Minutes Rev.1 – Wednesday, April 1, 2009
DCPS HOME & SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

QUESTIONS &
DISCUSSION/ ACTIVITY DETAILS & STATUS
FOLLOWUP
Plant Sale DM: Pickup will take place on Thursday, May 7, 2009 – DM & JL
just before Mother's Day. There will be flowering
hanging baskets. JL and DM did talk about have
baskets available on the pick-up day for people to
purchase and take back what we didn’t sell, but the
supplier wouldn’t do it. The selection is the same as
last year. Orders need to be in on April 30. Decided
that parents would need 2 weeks with the order for and
it should go out on April 16th and ask for them back by
April 27th. Will need volunteers on the day of to help
distribute the flowers. Maybe 2 hour slots. Would like
to distribute in the Kindergarten play area, so they are
more visible.
Helen is going to put up some flyers around her
neighbourhood and is hoping to get some other people
to put flyers up around the school neighbourhood.
End of Year Picnic CSC Will take place June 18th 5 pm – 7:30pm. CSC
CSC needs people to committee to looking after the
different areas. The biggest one right now is the
Volunteer Co-ordinator. DM looked after this last year
and did a great job.
CSC and her husband will look after the games and
rentals: Sno Kone machine and the popcorn machine
Looking at having face painting, sucker pull, scavenger
hunt, roaming entertainment, tattoos. Any other HB to ask the Parkside
suggestions would be great. Joan Ballantyne offered to Jazz band would like to
provide music as last year. play.
Food – Decided to go with Super Sub. They are willing
to come and have hamburgers, hotdogs and MC to co-ordinate.
vegetarian and whole wheat options. They will need
and electrical outlet and access to water. They need to
be ready to start serving at 5:00 pm.
Face Painting – Try to ask Andrea Unger for the face
painting. No full face painting as it took too long last
year which resulted in long line ups. Maybe have 6
small cheek options that the kids can pick from.
Last year, each student got 8 tickets free. Looking at
the same again this year.
School Heritage This is an ongoing initiative, a committee had been MC
Plaques formed. First looking at a heritage plaque in the
Kindergarten wing.

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 Meeting Minutes Rev.1 – Wednesday, April 1, 2009
DCPS HOME & SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

QUESTIONS &
DISCUSSION/ ACTIVITY DETAILS & STATUS
FOLLOWUP

SCHOOL REPORT John Manzin

Bus Loading Zone Now located on the West side of the school on Elgin
Street.
Rationale: safety, supervision, parking lot
Always problems with changing a parking culture.
No parking around the adjacent to the perimeter of the
property (visibility of students leaving school & crossing
streets important)
Trulee Odd – The Bully Cheque returned. Now looking for middle school
Show presentation & Parent guest speaker.

TREASURER'S REPORT Heidi Branton

Summary: $5900 in account. $800 budgeted expenses
and $1800 for projectors. Check next month if funda
can be spent this year. Next wish list priorities are
music, gym and drama.

PRESIDENT’S NOTES Michelle Chin

Water Bottles Home and School has purchased 200 stainless steel
water bottles through Sir John A MacDonald School
and the City of Hamilton with our school logo on them.
The cost was $3 each and we will sell them for $5 each
at existing events, possible during breaks.
Grade 8 Grad We have set aside $250 for awards from Home and JL will be the Grade 7
School, but Mr. Swackhammer has asked us to parent rep. and will
increase that to $330 for extra awards. There is also a present the H&S award.
parent who would like to donate $200 towards Grade 8
awards. Michelle plans to accept the money and
arrange a tax receipt. HRB will be the grade 8 rep.
OFHSA Conference Jen Racine and Michelle Chin will be the attending JR and MC to report at
delegates at the April 25th Conference from Dundas next meeting
Central.
Exec. & Leaders MC would like to have H&S executive and initiative
leaders in place by the June 3rd meeting.

Next meeting will be on Monday, May 4, 2009 7:00 pm.

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