PS 130M - General Meeting Minutes - December 4, 2025

                                                 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:  Joseph Li  & Kevin Cheng

Co-Vice-Presidents: Manya Ellenberg & Moe Kyaw

Co-Treasurers: Alice Chen & Angela Mui                                                              

Co-Secretaries: Amy Hu & Tammy Yin

Parents Association Events Coordinator: Lisa Wong

Parent Coordinator:  Ana Leung

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Minutes to PS 130M General Meeting December 4, 2025

Attendance: Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Amy Hu, Joseph Li, Michelle, Mr. Fong, Ms. Thomas, Carmen, Yuki, Moe, Kevin and 10 other participants (see sign in sheet, in person)

Meeting Commence: 8:50am

Mr. Fong – Thank you everyone for being here. Thank you to the PA. We applied for smaller class sizes; we will know more in the spring, if we get approved or not. The deadline was yesterday.

5th graders – Congratulations on getting applications in, deadline is December 12, 2025. Any questions to Ms. Mo, our guidance counselor or Ms. Leung, our parent coordinator? Mr. McQuire came in last week, on Friday, he will be sending out an email about our SLT meeting.

This years’ honorary for our annual banquet will be Assembly woman Grace lee & Chui Man Lai from NY Presbyterian community liaison.

Thank you.

Classes should be downed sized by 2028, they want k-3 at max size 20 and 4-5 max size 23. Next year they would like the schools to be 80% in compliance. Right now, some are under 20+ students, and some are over.

Joe – Hi Everyone, has everyone gone Christmas shopping.

Agenda –

Reading and approval of minutes and Treasury reports, upcoming events. 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.

1. These are the minutes for review and to be approved from our last meeting in November, 7 people approved the minutes; minutes are placed on record. Thank you!

      II. This is the treasury report for review and approval; 8 people approved the treasury report. The Treasury report is placed on record. Thank you!

          Today’s meeting will be short because we are heading to the VA hospital with Voices of 130.

            Upcoming events – December 2025

                -  5th grade Ballroom promenade – Monday, 12/8/25

                -  Bake Sale – Wednesday, 12/10/25
                -  Holiday performances for parents – Wednesday, 12/17/25

                -  Voices of PS 130M – holiday caroling (school main entrance) Monday 12/22/25 & Tuesday 12/23/25
                -  General Meeting – Thursday, 1/8/25
                -  23rd Annual Benefit Banquet – Friday, 5/15/26 

         These are the ongoing fundraising throughout the school year.

          1. PA Fundraising for 2025-2026                                                   

                -  Bake Sale

                -  Candy Sale

                -  Annual Ask

                -  Photo day

                -  Scholastic Book Fair

                -  Spirit Clothes

                -  Holiday show

                -  Benefit Gala

                -  Mother’s Day

                -  Handmade Bead Sale

                -  Readathon

           Readathon, we will continue to do, we just haven’t set up a date yet. If your company does matches, that would be helpful. We came up with another fundraiser for popcorn sale; we will send out letters for that soon.

• All the fundraising money goes to our kids and the art programs.

  If you have any ideas, please let us know and we will see if we have the manpower to do it.

  Bake sale is every month; to help fundraise, it’s mostly every 1st Wednesday of the month. Letters will go out every month when bake sale is near.

  The banquet is on May 15, 2026, it is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year. We are taking donations for prizes to raffle off. Please bring items you do not want or need that are still in the box. When tickets go on sale please see Lisa.

            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.

                

                Our Art Programs
                    -  NDI – 1st grade & 4th grade - $15,325

                    -  Inside Broadway – Pre-k / K/ 2nd Grade - $13,440

                    -  Third Street Music School – Violin (3rd grade & Advance) - $10,050

                    -  Ballroom Dancing - $9,520

                    -  School Chorus – Voices of 130 - $0

                    -  Spirit of PS 130 – Fife & Drum - $8,800

                    -  Young People Chorus (YPC) - $9,900

                    -  PS. 130 Lion Dance - $4,275

                    -  Rosie’s Theater Kids - $15,000

                

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

                    -  Air conditioners and repairs - $11,000

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

                    -  Student appreciation events (we currently have 520 students)- $18,000

Any questions or new ideas?

Mr. Fong – Flyer “Kids Rise” – it started 4/5 years ago – right now it’s for k-4. The kids rise program is under your child’s name and it doesn't affect their financial aid. Your child gets $100 to sign up and an extra $100 for some more steps, it’s free money for your child’s college education.

Some area banks and car dealerships have contributed money to the schools for the children’s Kids Rise accounts, to receive it, you do have to activate your account. This is not a part of the 529 plan.

Last year our 3rd graders got a donor from an alumnus, and she contributed money to their accounts.

Ms. Mo – you don’t need to use it for college- you can use it for trade school; it’s connected to your child’s OSIS #. It started in the Bronx and now they have $300k.

Parent – Moe- we can get a company to match it, and it goes directly to the student’s account.

56% have enrolled so far.

Yuki – Lion dance- is the organizer able to do shows, like at the Hudson yards, I saw a school performing there.

Joe – Lisa is the one that gets the name out there.

Lisa – its only if the schools invite us. Any more questions?

Thank you for coming. 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.

Closing time – 9:05am