PS 130M - PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Minutes to PS 130M General Meeting September 24, 2026
Attendance: Yvonne Moy, Lisa Wong, Amy Hu, Joseph Li, Michelle, Tammy Yin, Alice, Vanessa, Angela, Itzel, Moe, Ms. Thomas, Ana, Carmen, Yuki and + 40 other participants (see sign in sheet, in person)
Meeting Commence: 8:50am
Joe – Welcome, this is our first meeting, I’m Joe, Co-president and I’m a guardian of Lucas, my kids are graduates of PS. 130M. Tammy here is my Co-president.
Tammy – Hi, I’m this year co-president and my older daughter Hallie graduated last year, and my younger daughter Dylan is a 4th grader.
How was everyone’s summer?
Joe – Last June we voted in our PA members for this year’s board, we do have 2 positions left open for voting. We have 2 open Co- Vice president seats.
Tammy - Do we have anyone who would like to self-nominate themselves as we have Moe our former Co-Vice president who would like to run for the seat again, anyone?
Itzel Fernandez, would like to run for the Co-vice president, anyone else?
Moe – Hi, I’m Mom of Amelia, a 4th grader. I was Co-president last year. My hope is to get more parents involved and to help with all our many programs and events.
Itzel – Hi, I have a 2nd grader here, I’m happy to help everyone here, especially with any help with Spanish.
Ok, let’s cast your vote. Thank you.
Ms. Thomas – I’m Ms. Thomas, the principal, I have been principal since February and before that I was the assistant principal for 12 years. I’m happy to move into this new role. Regardless of our titles or positions, we are all here to support and invest in the students. We currently have about 420 students, we are all here to help support the PA so that they could help us support all the wonderful art programs that are provided here. Following the district policy, we are here to provide excellent academics, and the PA are here to bring in all the art programs. Thanks to Ms. Woo who was our former principal before Mr. Fong, she was the one who brought in all the art programs such as Inside Broadway, RTK, NDI, Lion dance, drum & fife, Violin, YPC, Chorus and Ball room dancing. Just by being here means you are involved; help with fundraising, school events, but more importantly, we will become partners to support our children. As principal we are keeping the SEL, our book of the month, every month everyone on staff gets a copy of the book, from teachers to the nurse to the custodian and everyone in between. We want everyone to connect on the topic of the book. This month’s book is “Your Name is a Song” The book introduces us to a little girl who was upset because her teacher didn’t know how to say her name. Her mother shows her how names are like songs - they are unique. Many of our students here have special names - sometimes more than one! Talking about this book at home can be an opportunity for you as families to share the story behind their names, and why you chose that specific name for your child. They can write about it, draw, or share the story with their teacher and classmates. Hoping to send this out through Operoo. We will start practicing less screen time as the DOE has sent out notices with guidelines. In the morning and during lunch there will no longer be screen time, we will have more choice time activities and outdoor recess. The children have requested that we get more UNO cards. Ms. Mui will be helping to set up a schedule for us to rotate the grades for outside time. In classrooms, we will be having more group work with “WIN” What I Need. It basically uses data to help us identify what the kids need extra help with to support them with succeed in school. MTSS – multi-tiered systems of support is another way we help students. There is scaffolding by the Baxter Street entrance, that’s a good sign that they will start to fix the roof playground for the younger kids. They were supposed to start last year but they found some issues that they needed to correct first. I’m hoping they will be finished by the spring, they will start working in the evenings, after CPC & ISS is out of the building.
Itzel – I see new cameras in the school.
Ms. Thomas – they installed the cameras over the summer, but they haven’t trained us on the software yet, I’m not sure if cameras are recording yet or if there is audio on it. They are supposed to give agent Lewis a new desk console to hold the new screen/monitor setup to view the camera footage.
Thank you.
Joe – Here’s our agenda for today
Agenda
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- Principal’s welcome
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- Introduction of the board
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- Reading & Approval of the Minutes
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- PA Financials: June’s Treasurers’ report
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- Elections for the School PTA Board seats for Vice president for 2026/2027
Introducing the 2026/2027 PA Board members.
Co-presidents – Joe & Tammy
Co-treasurer – Alice & Angela
Co-secretary – Amy & Vanessa
Co- Vice Presidents – Moe & Itzel – congratulations to Moe & Itzel for winning the VP seats.Most importantly our events coordinator – Lisa Wong & her assistant Yvonne and our parent coordinator Ana Leung.
The PA conducts various fundraisers throughout the school year. The fundraisers for 2026-2027 are as follows:
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● Bake Sale
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● Candy sale (Cherrydale Catalog)
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● Annual Ask
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● Photo Day
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● Scholastic Book Fair
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● Spirit clothing
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● After-school Snack Sale
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● Holiday Show Fundraisers
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● Benefit Banquet
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● Mother’s Day Sale
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● Handmade Bead Sale
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● Read-A-Thon
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We are always open to additional fundraising ideas. Any new ideas can be added as a fundraising source. All fundraising supports our art programs and more.
Parent – How about Donor choose, my wife raised $20k on it.
Yuki – It’s an amazing tool – they are always matching your donations. Also, Amazon to help on resources.
Yvonne – Amazon Smiles – they no longer have this available.
Amy – Donor choose is a teacher base fundraiser and its project based upon what the teachers need in their classrooms. I don’t believe it would work for PA fundraising.
Joe – here are some pictures of our children showcasing our wonderful Art programs.
Here is a slide featuring photos and video clips of some of the children’s performances from the various arts enrichment programs.
We need to work hard to ensure these programs continue. We need your support to bring up new fundraising ideas.
Upcoming Events:
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- Wednesday – October 7, 2026 – Bake Sale
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- Thursday, October 8, 2026 – General Meeting
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- Thursday & Friday – October 15 & 16, 2026 – Picture Day
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- Monday to Thursday – October 26 to 29, 2026 – Book Fair
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- Friday - October 30, 2026 – Halloween Party
Reading and approval of minutes and Treasury reports.
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 June, 12 people approved the minutes; minutes are placed on record. Thank you!
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This is the treasury report for review and approval; 13 people approved of the treasury report. The Treasury report is placed on record. Thank you!
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Budget – Here is this year school budget, which will be posted on our blog.
Parent – do you have a team to send out to work with or get donations from all the business around the neighborhood.
Joe – If a parent wants to volunteer to help support the school, they can. We do have some sponsors that donate to our school community.
Carmen – No, we do not have a dedicated team to do that, but Lisa & Yvonne have a few places they reach out to and work with. I have reached out to a few local businesses for the Readathon.
Parent – Its was suggestion, he didn’t want to spearhead it.
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Parent – If the business help with donations they could be mentioned on print for some notoriety, like a printed acknowledgment.
Tammy – we have an annual program that we can add them to our journal.
Parent – do you have a solicitation letter?
Joe – we do and if your company does a matching donation that would be great.
Tammy - Thank you for coming and your support, everything will be posted on our blog spot and if you have further questions or suggestions, please visit us in room 101, in the playroom.
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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.130mpa@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/ & Instagram Http://www.instragram.PS130MPA for more information.
Ms. Lai – Hi, I’m a pre-k teacher here and I help facilitate the Cool Culture program that the schools pay for but are free to the parents. This program is available to PreK to 3rd graders. Cool Culture is a pass that allows you and the family up to 5 people to attend Museums, Zoos, Botanical gardens for free, this is for general admission only. I will send an email out and parents will have to register with our school link. Its 1 pass per family, so if you have a 1st grader & a 2nd grader you can only complete 1 application to get 1 pass. I’m trying to advocate for grades 4 & 5 but it might take some time as it took a very long time to advocate for the pass to go up to 3rd graders. When you do go on these trips, please send me pictures to my email so I know you are taking advantage of these cool programs as it costs our school $4000 a year but it’s free to you as families.
Parent – what about Urban Advantage?
Ms. Lai – that is for upper grades and that is up to the upper grade teachers.
Parents when the Cool culture passes are available for pickup, you must pick up the cards yourself. I will not pass them out to your child, as I am limited by the amount cards I receive from them and do not want them to get lost before they reach your hands.
Parent – what about after – school for PreK & Kindergartens?
Joe – There are afterschool programs, you have to sign up for them. Tammy – PA room is open if you want to discuss more.
Closing time – 9:40am
