Minutes to PS 130M General Meeting June 4, 2025
Attendance: Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Amy Hu, Joseph Li, Lily Wai-Lee, Jennie Yin, Angela Mui, Ramiro, Mr. Fong, Carmen, Yuki, Charlie, Michelle, and 15 other participants (see sign in sheet, in person)
Meeting Commence: 8:45am
Joseph Li – Co-President
Joe – Good morning, everyone. We have breakfast here, feel free to have some.
Mr. Fong – Let’s give the PA a round of applause, they raised close to $80k at our annual banquet. With losing our Title I funding this money raised means more to our school and students than ever. I appreciate everyone and their efforts and support. Next week I have our budget meeting to see how poor we are. In SLT we talked about the Karate Kid, thanks to the PA and the DOE for orchestrating this surprise event. The DOE doesn’t usually allow such events to happen. A marketing company called Inspired Consumers reached out to us and I reached out to the DOE, and we all made this happen. Inspired Consumers even donated $1500 to our school. This is my last full year here, but I will still be around to help. Like Obama I am leaving with less hair. Chinatown is shrinking, we had 1000 students at one point and like PS. 124 we will have less students in the coming year. We’ll have less than 500 students. The parent’s association is always working so hard, Thank you Joe for your leadership. My door is always open.
Amy – Could we give a big hand to Mr. Fong for all the things he does for us at PS. 130M. Everyone gives Mr. Fong a big round of applause.
Joe – Thank you, Mr. Fong. Let’s start with elections. – We will be handing out a form/ballet for elections.
We have 2 candidates for SLT – Carmen & Yuki
15 people voted for Carmen & 15 people voted for Yuki to be a part of the SLT team.
Joe – welcomes Carmen & Yuki onto the SLT team.
Does anyone want to self-nominate to be a board member? It’s a lot of volunteer work and we don’t get paid but its all worth it for the kids.
Joe closed the self-nomination and the ballots were passed out. We will tally the ballots.
Parents’ Association opening & Review.
Here are last month’s meeting minutes to be reviewed and approved. They will be posted on the PA Blog site.
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These are the minutes for review and to be approved from our last meeting in May; 11 people approved the minutes; minutes are placed on record. Thank you!
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This is the treasury report for review and approval; 12 people approved the treasury report. The Treasury report is placed on record. Thank you!
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Here is the budget for next year to be approved. 11 people approved the budget.
Budgeting for next year, everything is going up and we have less students.
Mo (a parent) – will this be sent out? Joe – no, but it’s posted on the PA blog.
These are the ongoing fundraising throughout the school year.
1. PA Fundraising for 2024-2025
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- Bake Sale
- - Candy Sale
- - Annual Ask
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- Photo day
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- Scholastic Book Fair
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- Spiritwear Clothes
- - Holiday show
- - Benefit Gala
- - Mother’s Day
- - Handmade Bead Sale
- - Readathon
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All the fundraising money goes to our kids and the art programs. If you have any ideas, please let us know.
2. The PA Funds these Programs and more
Here are all the costs of the arts programs the PA funds, as you see all the art programs are not cheap. All our fundraising efforts go back to the school and our students.
Amy – I called them yesterday and their open house is full and closed. They said you can log onto their website the day of the open house, June 17, 2025, there will be a link to their virtual open house where you could sign up for their program.
Lily – Third street music has partners program where students with participating schools will get 1 year of free in-house music courses, the second year is half priced and the 3rd year is discounted.
Mo – Can you skip a year?
Lily – That’s totally up to Third street music. Third street music is fully funded by the parents’ association in the school during school hours for violin.
Yuki – you should call them because sometimes they will say “just come”
Joe – here are updated pictures from our events this year.
We have 2 graduating members, Lily and Mei. Thank you for your service.
Thank you and have a wonderful summer!
Anyone has any questions or concerns?
Mo – Proposing trips, who takes care of that?
Joe – That’s up to the teachers.
Jennie – if you have any questions or interests in any programs or want to propose anything, just email Mr. Fong directly.
Joe – Meeting adjourned.
Thank you! You can always come by the PA room 101 to chat with us, come to with any ideas, suggestions, or issues; our door is always open. You can also reach us by emailing us at PS.130pa@yahoo.com or by phone – 212-226-8072 ext 101 or reach Lisa at 917-821-7056 or visit our blog site at http://ps130pa.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Thank you everyone!
Closing time – 9:15am
