6 June 2008
PTA Meeting Notes
(These are not the official minutes, just notes taken at the meeting)


Attendance: Linda Nelson, Wilfred Mueller, Selena Grant, Rochelle Hume, Naeri Nicholls, Jenine Abarbanel, Linda Falconer, Gillian Irons.
Apologies: Colleen Julian.


Assembly on Monday morning because ERO is coming to visit.

Looking for people to relieve Linda Falconer and Linda Nelson. Both wish to resign from PTA board. Linda Nelson does not wish to organize Turf n Surf next year, and Linda Falconer does not wish to do wine auction either.

Linda Falconer says we are having a disco at the sawmill. Someone needs to work with Susan and Ed there to put that together during winter sometime, midweek. Naeri and Colleen have said they’ll look into it.

Sales of the DVD. Our license only allows us to sell the DVD for the cost of materials, not cost of production. We could purchase the music for that purpose, but that would run towards $600. Linda Falconer wants to sell it through Learning Media who would market it to other schools around New Zealand. Her key goal is to recoup the cost of making the video. This was not clearly stated during the production of the video, and as a result there is copyrighted material included. The video could be remade with new music.

Carnival organizer: Linda Falconer wants to appoint an organizer sooner rather than later and is looking for people to put their hand up now. If nobody puts hand up now, she wants to look for outside paid organiser. Gillian suggests we wait until the AGM and see who is looking to go forward with the PTA. Jenine and Rochelle offer to draft organiser guideline document.

PTA accounts are with Fiona Longuet-Higgens, they may not be done by the AGM. Linda Falconer did not disclose how much Fiona is being paid for this work, nor who is to pay.

Rochelle offers to draft constitution for the PTA to replace guidelines that were used previously. Will present at AGM for review and ratification.

AGM set for June 20, 3:00, straight after school. Newsletter from PTA on AGM to go out next Thursday, with nomination form.
Meeting closed at 4:15 pm.