FOOTHILLS PTSA BOARD MEETING MINUTES
April, 14th 2008

The meeting was called to order at 11:35 am by Amy Frris. Attending the
meeting were, Joan Mullene, Tom Dietrich, Jenny Parks, Cindy Fraley, Elizabeth
Nordi, Lisa Riggan, Angela Schaub, John Waldren, Jackie Ferguson, Sandra
Lancaster and Silvana Dice.

1- LIT Team and Teacher Representative: Sandra Lancaster had submitted an
Art budget proposal in the amount of $ 725. 00 a week prior to the Board
Meeting. The executive board 1ataQt-had not reviewed the request to date.
The Art proposal program would cycle on a three year rotation, featuring 36
artists and exploring one artist a month. The materials to be purchased for the
project are not consumable and could be recycled. This project could also
open up some doors for careers in Art to be explored by students. The
proposal was voted on and approved by the board. Jackie moved the board
to accept the motion, and Lisa seconded the motion. The Art Club will be
meeting on Wednesday and Thursday for the coming week. On the LIT
update, Sandra shared that the PLC conference is ongoing. Read- Aloud will
be incorporated in every reading period. The protocol for the WASL testing is
in place and ready for the coming week.

2- Fundraising: Jackie updated the board that there arel66 students that still
need to return their 2 for 1 fundraiser cards. The fundraiser revenue efforts
were successful; however Jackie commented that student participation was
still at a low 25 %( 150 out of 600). Some of the fundraising efforts were
carried out by a few numbers of students that did an outstanding job at
selling. Some of Jackie's ideas to rally support for the fundraising event
included, a greater level of communication between teacher's ands students,
and a way to have the fundraising committee to come in the staff meetings
and coordinate collective efforts between the teachers and our Foothills
families. ASB students could provide service hours to man the event. Jackie
ended by saying that the fundraising efforts started in February, and perhaps
it's time for a change. The fundraising event hade brought in just under $ 8,
000. 00, and we can expect some additional monies to come in. The board
would like to thank Jackie and Lisa for the incredible efforts put into this
event, as well as all the service hours put in by the parent volunteers.

3- Edible Garden: Angela Schuab opened her comments to the board by
sharing that there is a $ 1, 000. 00 grant from STEPS coming to Foothills.
They don't front the money, but they will reimburse ongoing garden costs.
She will contact the excavating company and they normally donate their
services for projects such as this. The dates for the excavating are set for
April 26th and 27th• A line item needs to be added to the budget to include the
project. Angela said the she is looking for a third person to co chair the
committee at this point. Angela will act as a liaison between the school
garden and the community. A parent coordinator volunteer is also needed for
the project. Jackie commented during the discussion that she would like to
meet with Angela to brainstorm some Art ideas around the garden project.

4- Nominations for the 2008-2009 school years: Jenny Parks and Angela
Prater are heading the nominating committee. Angela had to be excused from
this board meeting due to an out of town commitment. Jenny shared that she
will send a copy of the updated list of nominees to the 6th grade coordinators.
She will also email a list for the records. The upcoming 6th grade orientation
on May 20th may prove to be an added opportunity for recruiting volunteers.

5- Welcome Sign Proposal: Jackie has proposed to the board the 2 welcome
signs be placed at both school door entrances. The cost is $250. 00 to be
incorporated in this year's budget. Jenny motioned to accept Jackie's
proposal, and Elizabeth seconded the motion.

6- Community Service: Jackie shared with the board that Kendall Doerr had an
excellent article on the Wenatchee World recently, and that the board should
considered involving him on a service project effort with our Foothills needy
families. Elizabeth Nordi said that at Lewis and Clark the PTSA funds $ 500.
00, in $ 25. 00 gifts cards for their needy families each year. The school
Family Advocate could help determines eligibility. Lisa Riggan will approach
Kendall about the project, and it will be tabled for now.

7- Jazz Workshop: Jackie proposed that the board fund the framing of some
jazz posters to be presented to Mr. Sandberg. Jenny presented the motioned
and Lisa seconded. The cost is $ 210. 00.

8- May General Membership Meeting: The Board contemplated the idea of
using the May 20th six grade orientation for both recruiting volunteer efforts for
the upcoming school year, and also to hold a PTSA General Membership
Meeting prior to the orientation. A decision was not made in the matter.
Another idea was to have a gang awareness related meeting, with Phil
Thompson facilitating it. Amy added here that PTSA training will be coming to
Wenatchee.

9- Old Business: The Mark O'Donnell refurbishing project is still on the table.

10-Principal's Report: John touched on the intervention issue that he had
brought up before the board earlier, and said that there is not much of a
choice on the matter. The idea is to support enrichment efforts in Middle
School. The Enrichment Committee is leading the project for the 6th, 7th and
8th grades. Their task is to fine tune how to individualize enrichment for all
students. The reading and writing part of the schedules will remain the same.
As far as the schedule goes, as always Music and Math are the driving
elements behind it. John shared with the board that he had been talking to his
staff about the idea of holding Fireside Chats at perhaps different locations,
such as the homes of some of our Foothill families. Silvana volunteered to
serve as an interpreter for our monolingual Spanish speaking families.

11-Treasure's Report: Tom had updated copied of the budget available for the
board.

12- Review and Approval of March Meeting Minutes: Tom motioned to accept
the March minutes as presented, and Elizabeth seconded the motion. The
meeting was adjourned at 1:35 pm.

Meeting Minutes prepared by
Silvana Dice
PTSA Secretary