PS 130M - PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Minutes to PS
130M General Meeting
April 7, 2022
Attendance: Mr. Renny Fong, Kaitlin
Fuchs, Damian Driver, Kathy Leung, Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Karen Ma, Gloria Tsang,
Yanna Xu, Amy Hu, Sally Chu, and 15+ other attendees (see attendance on record)
Meeting Commence: 8:45am
Translator: Ms. Nicklas
1. PA updates by Co- president, Kaitlin
Fuchs
a. Welcomes everyone and introduces
the executive board members
b. Attendance sheets to be signed by all participants
2. Kaitlin – reviews upcoming
event dates for April
a. Bake Sale – Wednesday, April
6 – (just completed)
b. Deadline for banquet journal
ads – Friday, April 8
c. Deadline for RSVP benefit banquet – Tuesday,
April 12
d. Spring
Break – Friday, April 15 – Friday, April 22
e. Math State Test – Tuesday,
April 26 – Wednesday, April 27
f.
Bake
Sale – Wednesday, May 4
g. Mother’s Day Sale – Friday,
May 6. Will send flyer home asking to send $10 with child to buy
h. Family Day/ Health Fair –
Saturday, May 7. Will have event for community. Closed all Hester St. Gifts and
prizes for kids.
i. Benefit
Banquet – Friday, May 20. Most important benefit of year. Will be held at House
of Joy.
3. Review March 3, 2022 Minutes
– Does not need to be voted in. Approved
and placed on record
4. Review of March 2022 Treasury
Report – approved and placed on record. We received all the vaccine incentives.
Report will also be posted on PA Blog.
5. Annual Benefit Banquet on May 20th. Largest benefit of the year. Four ways to help. 1) Buy ticket 2) Donate for prizes or gift cards 3) Purchase raffle tickets. Will be outside selling tickets. 4) Make tax deductible donation. All to help fund arts program. This year banquet hall is smaller. Purchase tickets ASAP to secure seat. We tried to have all kids to perform at the benefit. Reminder to buy is April 12th. Reach out to Lisa if missing paper.
6. Ongoing fundraisers – Kaitlin
goes over 3 links for donations
a. PA Blog: http://ps130pa.blogspot.com/
b. PA Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1380464
a. Mr. R. Fong – National
Assistant Principal Week. A hand to Ms. Thomas and Ms. Samphaoron. I couldn’t
do it without them.
b. Thanks the PA for their support.
All the arts programs are strong and doing a lot of fundraising.
c. Thanks the parents. We
haven’t had this many parents in the school in two years. Thank families for
their continuing support.
d. Today I am more dressed up.
Tonight I am elected the President of the Asian American Association of CSA.
Lion dance alumni volunteer to perform tonight. Grateful to PA and Lisa who’s
very supportive. Have picked House of Joy for venue to support local business.
e. We have Asia American
Federation for anti-violence to teach self - defense. Sad we have to go through
this but great and important to know. Don’t need to attend all to be at third
meeting. Can see previous recordings. We see elders learning self-defense on
zoom. Sad to see but great they are learning self-defense.
f. Covid
update
ii. I’m
over 50 and just got my 4th shot. Can go to school the next day.
g. ELA went as good as can be.
Students tried their best. Even hard for adults. Doesn’t matter or affect much
on students of the test results. It reflects on the school but let me worry
about that. Lucky none cried or rip up tests like other schools. Two students
tested till 2:30pm. Ate lunch and continued. Two more days for math test after
spring break. Science in June for 4th graders.
h. School survey due next
Friday. Need to do one for each child. Will send reminder through Operoo.
i. There’s
a shelter on Grand & Bowery. A lot of noise is happening. Good to
participate and voicing out.
j. May
/ June will invite parents back in for shows. NDI is at night performance. Will
need to be vaccinated in order to perform.
k. Some asked about Summer Rising. PS130 is one of the hosting schools. 6-8 schools in whole district 2 hosting. 200-250 spots online application. First come first serve. Will announce when it is coming out. Through DOE site. Still planning. In this area PS2 and PS130. Many other schools doing construction so they are not open. PS11, PS40, PS111 are designated to come to this school. Like last year Monday to Thursday 8am-12pm with teachers. Afternoon will be CPC and Fridays CPC. Last week of Summer Rising all CPC.
8. Kaitlin on elections. Expedited elections in June. Will make announcement 10 days prior.
Any
questions?
Nice
to see so many faces today. Thank the PA to help and have in person. Thank
everyone.
Closing time: 9:21am
Next General
Meeting:
May 5, 2022
