PS 130M - PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Minutes to PS 130M General Meeting March 2, 2023
Attendance: Mr. Renny Fong, Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Gloria Tsang, Yanna Xu, Amy Hu, Joseph Li, Alice Chen, and 18 other participants (see sign in sheet, in person)
Meeting Commence: 8:38am Translator: Mr. Joseph Li – Chinese
Parents’ Association opening & Review.
a. Joseph Li – Co-Presidents
Welcome back everyone, its March already; some of your kids will be
graduating in 3 months or so.
Joe - Do we need a Chinese translator? A parent says, Russian? Joe – Our co-president is out today, I guess, I will try to translate in Chinese myself.
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Here is last month’s February general meeting minutes for review and to be approved. 2 people approved the minutes, minutes are placed on record and will be posted on the PA blog site.
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Here is last month’s financial treasury report for February for review and approval. 2 people approved the treasury report, the treasury report will be placed on record and posted on the PA blog site.
1. PA - Fundraising for 2022-2023
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- Bake Sale
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- Candy Sale
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- Annual Ask
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- Photo day
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- Scholastic Book Fair
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- Spirit Clothes
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- Holiday show
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- Benefit Gala
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- Mother’s Day
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- Handmade Bead Sale
Any ideas will be appreciated to make funds increase for or ever- increasing budget.
Parent – some schools have auctions instead of raffle tickets, like a lunch with Mr. Fong or teachers time.
Lisa – We’ve done that in the past and we can do that again. Thank you.
Renny – we can have a silent auction, buy raffle tickets to win a date with Mr. Fong or a teacher.
2. Upcoming events – March 2023
- Bake Sale – Wed, 3/8/23.
- PTC/ half day – Thursday, 3/9/23.
- 5th Grade graduation individual pictures – Thursday, 3/16/23.
- 5th Grade graduation group pictures – Friday, 3/17/23.
- Pre-k & Kindergarten graduation pictures – Wed, 3/22/23.
- Spring dance – 3pm to 5pm -Friday, 3/31/23.
3. The Annual Banquet is on 5/19/23
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- If you want to help sell raffle tickets, please ask Lisa for them.
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- We are still accepting donations for prizes for the Annual Banquet on 5/19/23. Please see Lisa.
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- All donations are appreciated, donate what you have or donate things you have that you don’t want from your wife or husband,
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- Pictures from our last banquet of the kids having fun.
Any questions, please stop by the PA office and contact Lisa & Yvonne.
- Corporate matching programs
- Support our numerous fundraisers such as bake sales and seasonal sales
- Email - PS130mpa@yahoo.com
- PA room 101 – 212-226-8072
- Blog site – http://ps130pa.blogspot.com
Next Thursday is a half day and PTC will be virtual. Dismissal will be 3 hrs earlier than your normal time to pick up the kids. For example, if you pick up your kids at 2:30, then you’ll pick your kid at 11:30am. So pickup times are 11:20am, 11:30am, and 11:50am.
Testing is right after spring break. Now is the time to get ready and practice the ELA & Math for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Please Practice!
Thanks to our community, we have 50 new students, some will leave and some will come in like revolving doors. We welcome them to stay, and we did get some funding to help care for our new students.
We had an unexpected fire drill yesterday, a younger child pulled the alarm at lunch time, they were being curious. Ms. Thomas & Ms. Samparon was here to handle it. If you hear the fire alarm don’t ignore it and don’t wait; we usually make an announcement if we were to have a fire drill. Good news is that everyone got out in 6 minutes.
Any questions?
Parent – Anything on summer rising?
Mr. Fong – Mostly it will be here, but I don’t know much about it yet. They are starting to have the talks about it. The buzz from CPC is that it will mostly happen.
Parent – Anything about summer programing for ISS?
Mr. Fong – Permits haven’t gone out yet, we will keep you posted.
Parent, Jenny – Padlock on the doors?
Mr. Fong – they were talking about putting padlocks on the door. It costs over $100 Million to pad lock the doors, so its still in the talks. In high school, events are outside so the kids would be locked out if they put the padlocks. I only know about this from the news, you know a lot more than we do.
Thank you.
Closing time – 9.05am – next general meeting is Wednesday, 4/5/23.
