PS 130M - PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Minutes to PS 130M General Meeting April 3, 2025
Attendance: Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Amy Hu, Joseph Li, Lily Wai-Lee, Alice Chen, Jennie Yin, Angela Mui, Mr. Fong, Carmen, Yuki, and 8 other participants (see sign in sheet, in person)
Meeting Commence: 8:50am Translator: Ana – Spanish
Joseph Li – Co-President
Joe – Welcome back. My little girl said wow, 3 more months till school is over. Can you believe we are almost at the end of the school year? It went by fast!
Agenda:
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- Bake sale is next week. April is busy...
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- Banquets Ads are for sale. If you would like to promote your business, you can purchase a page of half a page. Please speak to Lisa in the back or in the PA room.
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- Inside Broadway
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- Spring Recess
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- RSVP banquet deadlines is 4/21/25
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- NYS ELA state tests are 4/22 & 4/23 – for the 4th & 5th Grades
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- NYS ELA state tests are 4/29 & 4/30 – for the 3rd graders
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- 22nd Annual banquet 5/16/25
Mr. Fong – Thank you for coming and your support. Saturday, 5/3/25 is family day -there will be street closures. Middle School results come next week. The family survey is now due on 4/11/25. We are now at 51% completion rate, and we hope the number goes up. We would like to be at 80%. Thank you.
Ms. Levanoni, our guidance counselor, will hold a town hall meeting next Wednesday. She wanted to make sure everyone knows how to get onto the waiting lists before the district meeting because the waiting list is time stamped. Spring break is coming up and after that will be the state tests. Have the kids do marathon reading to prepare for the ELA test. For the 4th & 5th graders the test will be on the computer. For the 3rd graders it will be on paper this year.
Lily suggested using Nitro type to help your typing skill.
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 March; 6 people approved the minutes; minutes are placed on record. Thank you!
This is the treasury report for review and approval; 6 people approved the treasury report. The Treasury report is placed on record. Thank you!
Our goal meter reached close to 60%, 3 more months to reach our goal of 100%.
Thank you Jennie, Carmen, & Yuki for spearheading the readathon. Thank you to the PA for helping to execute the fundraising event. We raised $6,000.
- Bake Sale
- Bake Sale - Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Thank you, parents supporting us.
Mr Fong – New York City 529 program Kids Rise is a 529 program, all the kids from kindergarten to 3rd grade are all given $100 through this program. Parents just need to sign up and watch the money grow, you can also contribute more money into your child’s account if you would like. An alumni raised $1000 for the 3rd graders. The 3rd grade parents will see a little more than $125 in their NY kids rise account. If you log in, it will be under your kid’s name. 40 to 50% of our parents have logged in. This $ is for your kids, it has interest, and it can be used to buy books for school. Alumni help public school kids.
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.
- NDI – 1st grade & 4th grade - $17,500.
Joe – please come into the PA room so we can talk about this more and maybe you can help us coordinate, produce, and fundraise with this great idea.
Parent – on Family Day, maybe we can present the art show verses having it in display.
Lily – Art show, maybe we can have Ms. Chan work on it. Do you have contacts for the art galleries in Chelsea?
Parent – we can even do this for the upcoming family day.
Joe – its going to very busy on family day to present the art show that day. The readathon took a lot of time to get together for it to go out as a fundraiser.
May 16, 2025, our annual benefit is the main event coming up. Lisa, do we have any seats left,
Lisa, yes.
Anyone has any questions or concerns?
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 – 9:10am
