PS130MPA - General Meeting Minutes - Thursday, January 4, 2024

                                 PS 130M - PARENTS ASSOCIATION

一三零小學家長會

143 Baxter Street Room 101, New York, NY 10013

Tel: 212-226-8072

Email: ps130mpa@yahoo.com       Website: ps130pa.blogspot.com

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Parents Association Board Members:           

Co-Presidents: Karen Ma & Joseph Li  

Vice-President: Ana Fung

Co-Treasurers: Gloria Tsang & Alice Chen                                                               

Co-Secretaries: Amy Hu & Lily Wai-Lee

Parents Association Events Coordinator: Lisa Wong

Parent Coordinator:  Diane Chong

Parents Association Email:                      ps130mpa@yahoo.com

Parents Association Website:                 http://ps130pa.blogspot.com 

Minutes to PS 130M General Meeting January 4, 2024

Attendance: Mr. Renny Fong, Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Amy Hu, Joseph Li, Lily Wai Lee, Ana Fung, Gloria Tsang, Jennie, Angela Mui, Aya, Sally and 10 other participants (see sign in sheet, in person)

Meeting Commence: 8:45 am Translator: Ana Fung – Spanish

Parents’ Association opening & Review. 

Joseph Li – Co-President

Joe – Welcomes our principal Mr. Fong

Principal remarks –

Mr. R. Fong – Good Morning, we wish everyone a happy new year, Its January already. It’s almost testing time in a few months. This year 5th graders will be taking their state tests on the computers, 4th graders will be taking their tests on computers starting next year. We will have a test run for the state tests soon to prepare our students to take the test on computers.

We got some funding for afterschool programs, CPC accepted 12 new students. We did not get Title I status this year, but we did get funding for it. We got most of the lunch forms back and we are hoping we will regain our Title I status for next year.

Thank you to the PA for all their hard work.

Joe – Thank you Mr. Fong.

Hi, welcome everyone. How was everyone’s break? I was sick most of the break, so everyone stay healthy. 

1.  Review of the minutes & Treasury reports from our last meeting in December 2023. 

1. These are the minutes for review and to be approved from our last meeting in November; 6 people approved the minutes; minutes are placed on record and will be posted on the PA blog site. Thank you! 

2. This is the treasury report for review and approval; 7 people approved the treasury report. Thank you! This will be posted on the PA blog site. 

0. Any questions?

2.  Upcoming events – January 2024.

    As usual we have our monthly bake sale - Bake Sale – Wednesday – 1/10/24.

    Parents can bake something for the bake sale, if not Dunkin donuts bakes and you can bring in a box or 2 for the bake sale. 

3.  PA Fundraising for 2023-2024

    -  Bake Sale

    -  Candy Sale

    -  Annual Ask
    -  Photo day
    -  Scholastic Book Fair
    -  Spirit Clothes
    -  Holiday show
    -  Benefit Gala
    -  Mother’s Day
    -  Handmade Bead Sale 

   Our annual banquet is on May 17, 2024. If you guys have anything you would like to donate as raffle prizes, please bring them into the PA room, whether its Gift cards or gift certificates to Starbucks or restaurants, or anything your significant other gives you and you don’t want or didn’t like, you’re welcome to bring those in as well.

4.  The PA funds these Programs and more

      Our Art Programs & est. costs (last year)

       -  NDI – 1st grade & 4th grade - $17,500

       -  Inside Broadway – Pre-k to 2nd Grade -$18,480

       -  Third Street Music School – Violin (beginners & Advance) - $10,880

       -  Ballroom Dancing - $9,520

       -  School Chorus – Voices of 130

       -  Spirit of PS 130 – Fife & Drum - $8,400

       -  Young People Chorus (YPC) – $8,650

       -  PS. 130 Lion Dance - $3,900

       -  Rosie’s Theater Kids - $8,650

       -  Dance to Unite - $7500 

       

       The PA also pays for some of the school supplies such as: 

       -  Air conditioners and repairs - $11,000

       -  Office copier, toners, computers, and supplies - $12,000

       -  Student appreciation events - $12,000 (we currently have 580 students) 

       All the fundraising goes to all our kids through the Art programs.

       Any questions, come to the PA room to ask Lisa, Yvonne, myself or any of the board members. 

I think we should work on the meter for fundraising throughout the year.

Reminder – to qualify for Title I, we must get all lunch forms back, if you don’t know how to fill out the lunch forms, please come by the PA room and we will help you.

Jennie – how much have we raised so far, was it the same as last year? How are we doing?

Joe – we have 100 less students now, we are not meeting our goals in fundraising partly due to that.

Lisa – we have less and we are not on target, we need more fundraising from the outside.

Thank you for coming.

Closing time – 8:55am – next general meeting will be February 1, 2024.