Parent Teacher Club

Meetings are held once a month on the first Tuesday at 6:00pm. All meeting dates are listed on the school calendar. All parents, community members, and staff are invited! Projects include fundraisers, Book Fairs, and bringing entertainment to White Elementary. If you would like more information, would like to volunteer your time, or make a supply donation you may contact the White Bulldog Club.

Reminder to Students…Show your school spirit by wearing your school shirt every Friday. If you don’t have one you may purchase one from the Parent/Teacher Club.

Ernesto Garcia, Facilitator; Maribel Serrano, Co-Treasurer; Evelyn Gonzales, Co-Treasurer; Mrs. Castro, Teacher Liaison; Ms. Lugo, Principal

· Mrs. DeFeo and Mrs. Watson’s classroom Science presentation. Great job kids!!

· Mrs. Watson announced that there will be an OMA performance by our primary grades in November and one by our secondary grades in the spring.

· Ms. Lugo requested $1200.00 on behalf of Mr. Mark – “Stories that Soar” program for kindergarten classes and 2 fifth grade classes, Hollis and Molina. Motion to fund the “Stories that Soar” program made by Ms. Orantez, Lori Martinez seconded the motion; motion passed unanimously.

· Olga Crook, Bike Club parent volunteer requested El Tour de Tucson $10.00 fee for each student in the Bike Club, as well as a school shirt. 39 kids have registered and 25 have gone consistently. Motion for the BPTC to sponsor each student and provide him or her with a school shirt made by Robert Martinez, seconded by Janette Dominguez; motion passed unanimously.

· Mrs. Castro requested bus fees for 4 kindergarten class field trips. Kinders are not allowed to ride in chaperone vehicles without a car seat. Cost is $150 per bus. Motion to fund the bus fees for kinder classes made by Maribel Serrano, seconded by Josie Molina; motion passed unanimously. Kinder will also request funds from Tax Credit to supplement some of the cost.

· Mrs. Castro requested $270.00 for Star fall math computer program access for all grade levels K – 5. This program will provide additional resources for all teachers. Motion made by Evelyn Gonzales, seconded by Robert Martinez; motion passed unanimously.

· Mrs. Castro requested $340.00 for 4 A- Z reading program licenses for grade levels K – 4. Program will allow teachers to customize additional work for students. Motion made by Lori Martinez, seconded by Burl Williams; motion passed unanimously.

· Ms. Lugo requested $3,300.00 to assist in purchasing 4 additional laptops for 2 new teachers and 2 resource teachers; 5 document cameras; and projectors. These are additional tools to assist our teachers with providing our students with quality teaching. Robert Martinez motioned, seconded by Lori Martinez; Motion passes unanimously.

· Mrs. Castro is requesting that we reimburse all teachers for any out of pocket expenses made for classroom supplies for first semester the max amount is $100.00. Parent commented on lack of teacher participation and feels that funds should be contingent on participation in BPTC. Ms. Lugo supports the teacher’s and says they are constantly cooperating with BPTC efforts to help our school. Teachers must fill out correct form by the deadline of October 31, 2011. Motion to reimburse teachers who have receipts for out of pocket expenses made for first semester classroom supplies was made by Robert Martinez, seconded by Mrs. Castro; Motion passed by majority vote.

· Grand person’s Day turnout: This event was a success that generated great sales for book fair. Thank you to all our volunteers and attendees.

· Movie Night turnout: Great turnout had to do a 2^nd trip for pizza. Thanks again to all our volunteers and congratulations to all our raffle winners.

Ernie encourages everyone to get involved and remember that “Together Everyone Achieves More!”

Ernie welcomed all parents and staff and introduced the Executive Board. He let everyone know what type of things the BPTC helps the school with. Some things mentioned were: Fieldtrips, classroom supplies, Teacher appreciation luncheon, Live Theater workshops and playground equipment.

He talked about the different fundraisers and events we put on to raise those funds. He also mentioned that teachers also do lots of research to find grants to pay for various projects they are working on or for the benefit of the whole school. For example, the large $100,000 grant that we received from Lowe’s Home Improvement that helped pay for the shade structures in the intermediate playground and the one from the Game and Fish Department that helped pay for the Turtle Habitat.

Please Contact our Community Liaison, Lupita Vega, at 908-5300 or reply to this email, if you would like to help.

· Fall fundraiser kick off is, Monday, Sept. 19. Fundraiser will run till Tuesday, Oct. 4^th. (Great American Fundraising packets)

· T-Shirts with school logo in youth sizes, x-small, small, medium, large and x-large, are now available for purchase in the school office. They are $10 each or 2 for $16.

· Box Tops for education are being collected year round. You can print off a copy of the form to fill out from the schools website. http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/white/ just click on the link, Info For Parents, scroll down and click on the, blank form to use for Box Tops. Each form has enough for 50 Box Tops. That’s $5 for our school. Please turn them in to your child’s teacher so that your child’s classroom can get the credit.

· Fry’s V.I.P. barcode cards can be linked to White Elementary. All you need to do is visit our website and go to the, Info For Parents page, print out the White Elementary barcode from our website and give it along with your Fry's card to a cashier. They will scan both barcodes just once and your purchases will then be linked and credited to White Elementary.

· Target Red Cards can be linked to your bank account and used as a debit card. You would need to fill out an application and link it to our school. Red Cards can also help you earn 5% back on each purchase. Visit our Info For Parents page for more info.

Ms. Lugo announced that we are now a Wellness School. At today’s meeting some 2^nd and 5^th grade students presented a demonstration on activities done in all grade levels to promote good health in our school. They followed along to a video of various dance/exercise moves that inspires them to make healthy choices for their wellbeing.

NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2011 AT 6PM IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA

Contact us at whitebulldogclub@gmail.com or leave us a message in the office 908-5300.

BULLDOG PARENT/TEACHER CLUB (BPTC) MEETING MINUTES SCHOOL CAFETERIA, TUESDAY 4/05/11 6:00 pm-7:20 pm

-Mrs. Castro has a list of 15 teachers that will participate in a booth. Mrs. Harper will be in charge of the ticket booth and Mrs. Castro will take care of ordering the prizes for the booths. Need to talk to Mrs. Ramirez about contacting the fire department to see if they can bring the fire trucks and maybe the rescue helicopter. Sandy Monzingo will contact Eva Castro, of Eva’s party rental’s, to get the jumping castles and snack machines. Russ Monzingo would like for us to set the booths up the day before so we will need volunteers to help with that. Parents are in charge of the food booth so we will need volunteers for that as well. Mrs. Castro and Jamila will get the presale form with all the information printed so it can be sent home with the students by April 26^th.

-There will be a Fiesta Committee meeting on Thursday, April 28^th at 6pm in the cafeteria. Anyone who wants to be part of the committee is welcomed to attend.

-Fiesta Fundraisers (Janice Rimer) and Great America (Doug Holmes) Fundraisers gave their presentations. They passed out many flyers for us to look at so we can decide which one would be best for our school.

-Olga would like to know what the best selling items where from this year’s fundraiser before we decide. Decision will be made at our next meeting on May 3^rd.

- Olga Crook and Naomi Drew have put their names in to be our parent representatives on the school Site Council.

-We still have many openings on our Bulldog Parent Teacher Club, for anyone who would like to be a part of the decision making process at our school. Ernie will be sending a note out to let all parents and staff know about the positions available. Anyone who is interested or would like to nominate someone or would like more information, please leave a message with the office or send us an email as soon as possible. Positions available:

Facilitator/President

Secretary/Note Taker

Fundraiser Chairperson

Correspondence Chairperson

-Mrs. Defeo and Mrs. Watson are happy to report that they are finally getting the cooperation they need from the district to start spending the $100,000 granted to us by Lowe’s. Some of the items on their list to purchase are a $20,468 shade structure for the intermediate playground, a $48,640 hexagon steel cover for the outdoor classroom, umbrellas for the tables near the tortoise habitat, benches for outdoor gardens, a butterfly and a lizard garden. Trees For Tucson will also come in to help set up the gardens. They would like to mention that Linda Wright from the TUSD Operations Department has been very helpful.

-Mrs. Defeo is requesting funds for a bus for the 3^rd grade fieldtrip to the Desert Museum.

-Mrs. Castro is requesting funds to pay for lunch to be brought in for Teacher Appreciation, which is the first week in May. Naomi will see if she can have it catered by “Salud” restaurant. Cost is usually between $300-$400 for about 60 people.

-Motion for us to pay for a bus for the 3^rd grade fieldtrip to the Desert Museum was made by Jamila and seconded by Naomi. Motion passed by unanimous vote.

-Motion for us to pay for Teacher Appreciation Luncheon was made by Ms. Lugo and seconded by Jamila. Motion passed by unanimous vote.

-Motion to vote in Olga Crook and Naomi Drew to our school Site Council was made by Ms. Lugo and seconded by Maria. Motion passed by unanimous vote.

Bulldogs Present: Ernesto Garcia, Jamila Miqbel, Charlotte Castro, Russ Mozingo, Josie Molina, Lydia Gonzales, Cris Lugo, Marisa Leon, Naomi Drew, Maria Holman, Nancy Defeo, Margaret Watson, Olga Crook and Maribel Serrano.

NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY MAY 3, 2011 AT 6PM IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA UNLESS OTHERWISE POSTED.

Contact us at whitebulldogclub@gmail.com or leave us a message in the office.

BULLDOG PARENT/TEACHER CLUB (BPTC) MINUTES SCHOOL CAFETERIA TUESDAY 3/08/11 at 6pm

-Box Tops. Ernie reports that the company requires that the form be completely filled so he will send out completed forms ASAP. There are two yearly disbursements. One is due by end of February and paid out in April and the other is due by end of October and paid out in December but you can deliver them anytime so they don’t stack up. Please continue to collect all year round and remember that all proceeds are used to benefit our school. Last disbursement was $925.91. Good Job Everyone!!!!

-Ernie has been contacted by, Great American and Fiesta Fundraising so that we can set an appointment to see what they have to offer for the fall fundraiser. They will come in and give us a demonstration of some of their products. Ernie will see if they can make our next meeting on April 5^th. Anyone who would like to be a part of this decision making process must attend the meeting to have a vote.

-Mrs. Bowman suggests that we do a loose change collection fundraiser. Every class would have a big water jug in their class so that anyone can just drop in their loose change. She says that this would get us away from selling any junk food items. Ms. Lugo also suggested a Walk-A-Thon, Jamila suggested a Spell-A-Thon or we can also do the discount cards that sell for $10 and offer discounts to businesses in our area. We will table this discussion for a later meeting.

Movie night will be Friday March 25^th at 6pm. It was discussed and voted on that we will be showing “Despicable Me” which is a family comedy by Universal Pictures, Rated P.G. Jamila made a flyer that will go out on Monday, March 14^th. It was decided that we would once again be selling hot dogs, popcorn, chips, cookies and beverages. To avoid over crowdedness in the cafeteria, we will provide a second screen on our outside lawn and stage area. Students need to turn all presale money in to their teacher by March 23^rd,which is the day that our Treasurer will pick up all presales. There will be extra forms in the office if needed. Fidel says we can get a second audio system from District office. Ms. Lugo will talk to Mr. Garcia about movie screen and audio set up. We will also need volunteers for set up and clean up. Anyone is welcomed.

We have many openings for anyone who would like to be a part of the decision making at our school. Ernie will be sending a note out to let all parents and staff know about the positions available and a future meeting will be set for elections. Anyone who is interested and would like more information, please leave a message with the office or send us an email as soon as possible. Positions available:

P.E. Equipment- Mrs. Castro was able to buy pumps and balls and is still working on getting some parachutes and hopscotch outlines.

-Ms. Lugo reports that about 6-7 teachers are doing after school tutoring for targeted students and that our track team, led by -Mrs. Orantez, is in full swing.

-Ms. Leon reports that a note has been sent home to invite families to the Tucson Festival Of Books on Saturday, March 12^th from 9a.m. to 1p.m. The Rotary Club of Tucson donated two busses for anyone who would like to join Ms. Leon. Already she has had a couple of responses.

-Mrs. Bowman is requesting 3 busses ($180/ea.) for the 4^th grade fieldtrip on March 11^thand would like to know if we are going to be able to fund it. An online vote to approve the expense was made just needed to confirm the cost of the busses. Should be $150/ea.

-She also reports that KOLD has asked if White Elementary would like to put a weather station on our campus. This would require for us to purchase a $7,000 weather camera that is equipped with a computer program that has lots of data and also teaches students how to collect data. It is TUSD approved. Mrs. Bowman is looking into getting a grant from the Arizona Game and Fish Department that will pay up to $5,000. She will not know if we got the grant until end of April. She is asking if we like this idea and if we do for us to help with the rest of the money. Everyone agrees that this is something the students would benefit from. Ms. Lugo says she might have funds available and will give us an update as soon as she finds out.

Bulldogs Present: Ernesto Garcia, Jamila Miqbel, Nancy Bowman, Charlotte Castro, Russ Mozingo, Lupita Vega, Josie and Fidel Molina, Lydia Gonzales, Cris Lugo, Marisa Leon, Priscilla Velador and Maribel Serrano.

NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY APRIL 5, 2011 AT 6PM IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA UNLESS OTHERWISE POSTED.

Contact us at whitebulldogclub@gmail.com or leave us a message in the office.

Fundraiser announcement parents BoxTops deadline is February 18^th please get them in to your teachers before the February 18^th. BoxTop has been a good source of funding for our school. We recently received Decembers BoxTop monies in the amount of $925.91 GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!! Let’s keep this up.

Spring Book Fair has arrived February 7^th through 11^th, Ms. Leon our librarian is looking for some help for out great parents. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Ms. Leon at 908-5324 or through email at marisa.leon@tusd1.org Thank you for your support.

Rodeo BBQ February 23^rd, has been scaled back a bit we will not grilling outside this year. Instead Mrs. Gonzales is going to ask Mike to have a rodeo meal for that day. There will still be games, popcorn, music, line dancing, western wear dust off your boots and cowboy hats. The school will be asking for donation to provide root beer floats a flyer will be sent out please be on the lookout. Items needed

If you are able to volunteer or willing to donate for this event please let us know by February 14^th. Kinder Round Up is March 8^th if you are interested in assisting in this event please contact the front office. If you are interested in being on the panel for interviewing for our permanent principal please contact the office. Interviews will be March 9^th tentative.

· Miss. Lugo has informed us that the district has a new policy that requires teachers to provide 30 minutes of P.E. twice a week for all students. We have a request for the BPTC to help provide some P.E. equipment, such as balls, jump ropes, hop scotch designs, ball pumps, etc…. Ernie says that we were provided with various balls, volleyball net and poles from Great American Fundraising from our previous fundraiser. Miss. Lugo says she will inventory what we have to find out what we need. Jamila suggested that we provide a coach to assist with P.E. One option is to use our monitors and pay them accordingly or try to get volunteers from the U of A who can use it as school credit. Miss. Lugo will work on a schedule to see how many hours and what hours a coach will be needed. We are roughly looking at 6 hrs. a day for the days left in the semester at about $12/hr. She will also look at the policy on Parent Teacher Clubs paying for wages. In the past, we have lost money from doing this so we want to be careful before we decide to try it again.

· A concern came up about us not sending reminder notices for our meetings. It was discussed that parents should be getting enough notice from the marquee, Principles newsletter, our website and teachers own newsletters. With the exception of January, meetings are usually held every first Tuesday of the month at 6p.m. in the cafeteria. Everyone is welcomed.

· Another concern is the need to have alternating meeting times. We have tried having meetings right after school and have found that evening meetings have a larger response. Currently, Ernie is not available to facilitate after school meetings but Mrs. Castro says that she is willing to facilitate at that time. Miss Lugo suggests that we keep our current time slot for the rest of this semester and try to work out a schedule for next school year

· Sandy Monzingo would like for us to form a committee to find a definite mission statement for the BPTC. Ernie suggests that we get together during summer break to get this done and to also refresh our bylaws. Notice of meeting will go out in May and everyone is welcomed to participate.

· Olga Crook would like for us to survey our Teachers and students to find out what positive changes they are looking for in our school. She would also like to know how we could attract fun activities for our students to participate in after school. Some schools provide karate, guitar, etc… and she would like White to provide something positive for our kids to participate in as well. Miss. Lugo says that some of those organizations would have to go through rentals to rent our school in order to provide their service. Our own Teachers can be paid a stipend to offer an after school activity as well using tax credit money. Currently we do have Ecology club and a Girl Scout Club at our school and soon there will be track.

· Welcome to our new Community Rep., Lupita Vega, who is already working hard at getting a parenting class started as well as computer and English classes.

· Sock Hop Dance: Our 4^th annual fifties style dance will be on 2/21/11 from 6-8 pm in the cafeteria. There will be prizes given out for best fifties style clothes and limbo contest. Other fun activities to have are the hand jive, hula hooping, dancing the twist, hokie poky and the chicken dance. The Flyer for presales should be going out this Friday. Mrs. Castro will organize the Teacher volunteers for the decorating committee. Any parents wanting to volunteer need to contact Ernie at whitebulldogclub@gmail.com Miss. Lugo will help M.C., Mr. Rene Garcia will help set up the music and Parent volunteers will organize the food booth. It was decided that we should sell hot dogs instead of pizza this year as well as popcorn, cookies, sodas and water. We will need volunteers for getting the food ready, serving, ticket booth at entrance, set up and clean up. Decorations are in the BPTC room. Need to be here at least 2 hours early to set up.

· MOTION: Motion to allow a budget up to $400 to be used to purchase P.E. equipment was made by Sandy and seconded by Jamila. Motion passed by final vote of 10-0.

Bulldogs Present: Jamila Miqbel, Ernesto Garcia, Maribel Serrano, Russ and Sandy Monzingo, Lupita Leyva-Vega, Charlotte Castro, Josie and Fidel Molina, Olga Crook and Cris Lugo.

NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2011 AT 6PM IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA.

Attendees: Maribel Serrano, Ernie Garcia, Jamila Miqbel, Drake Florez, Russ and Sandy Mozingo, Bertha Herrera, Cris Lugo, Lydia Gonzalez

January 21 2011 Sock Hop: Drake requested we get better sound system. Naomi knows a parent who will volunteer time with sock hop music. Also has a microphone. We will continue to serve pizza and beverages for sale. Need to brainstorm ideas for games and prizes ideas. Also need to get a flyer going ASAP. Please feel free to email us or sign up for volunteer time. We really need your help with setting up for the event, helping during the event, and cleaning up after the event.

Box tops: Will be receiving $900.00 for box tops. Great job students and families! We can make a lot more with more contributions. Please families continue to collect as many box tops as we can to rack up that number. Next disbursement we’d like to reward the class with the most contributions. This will help us collect lots more.

Bylaws: We need to setup a sub-committee to study bylaws and update accordingly. Will also be discussed at next meeting.

Funding &Purchases: We’d like to restructure and focus on what exactly we are spending and what is being approved. Cris Requested $2000.00 to improve environment at school. Money will be for painting some walls, buying small furniture in the hallways. She’d like to invite parents to visit school more often and get more involved. Cris motioned, Maribel and Naomi 2^nd motion.

Sandy also motioned to purchase 2 large push brooms for janitors to sweep rocks off concrete throughout school.

Jamila would like to contribute to school programs that we’re lacking for example P.E., Arts, and music. We can discuss and make a decision at next meeting.

New Members: We now have two new members of the White staff. In January will be a new teacher’s assistant in the computer lab that will help make computer lab more accessible for students. Also this assistant will help build computer skills and provide workshops for our students. A community representative will also start in January; this person will help support the administrative staff with connecting with families and making phone calls and following up with families. Looking forward to having both supporting staffs on board!

Attendees: Ernie Garcia, Evelyn Gonzales, Jamila Miqbel, Maribel Serrano, Ms Leon, Naomi Drew, Cris Lugo, Olga Cook, Joseph Molina, Ms Tasha, Janette Dominguez, Josie/Fidel Molina, Celina Verdugo, Sandy/Russ Mozingos

Math and Family Science night Tuesday November 16^th 6-8pm We need volunteers starting at 5pm setup for salsa event. Winner’s 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd place will win a $25, $15, $10 gift card to Walmart. Grand opening of the tortoise exhibit. Zoologist will be visiting. U of A planetary scientist. We’ll have flyers made to designate areas of visiting that way everyone’s alternated accordingly throughout all areas. Cris voted to honor Mrs. Watson and Defeo and purchase a plaque and dinner for the both of them. Little Mexico donated 2 gift certificates. Parent/Teacher Club agreed to honor teacher with purchasing award from Tuller Trophy. Maribel will buy chips if not enough are donated. She will also purchase bowls, spoons, see if we have color coded dots and napkins.

Welcome Lydia Gonzalez our new assistant principal will attend to our Math and Family Science night to introduce herself and meet the new families of White.

Book Fair Report- A very special thanks to all the hard work and dedication put in for Mrs. Leon. She did a great job manning the book fair and thanks to all the parents that volunteered and help families in purchasing books. As always, Thank you to all the families and parents that attended, we sold $6,000.00 in books! Mrs. Leon would like to cash out the profit of $1540.00 a brand new computer workstation for the kids to be able to use during their library time. Also, she will purchase Girls USA, Sports Illustrated for kids, and Zoobooks, and school library journal Black stallion for 1^st and 5^th graders.

Parents! Coming soon you’ll be able to enjoy the library yourselves too. Mrs. Leon is putting together a parent collection and we need your donations of gently used books that you’d like other parents to read as well. She will be donating a big supply of her own books as well. Visit the library with your children and open an account and start reading!

Interactive board- is a very great new technology tool for a lot of classrooms. An advanced high performance projector with interactive pens and presentations enables children to interact on any subject. There are lesson plans that enable students to stay actively involved with interactive pens and markers. Mr. Molina found online for $625.00 but the stand that mobilizes it is $720.00. There may be some issues with it not being a TUSD vendor preferred brand. They will not support it or maintain it. Discussion was tabled until we further investigate and find more details to if TUSD will support.

Olga’s Fundraising Idea- Olga, a parent, presented a great idea to develop a calendar for families to have. It would be perfect for a beginning school year gift for our students. The idea would be to leave about 10 spaces for local businesses to advertise for $100 per space. For a one page card stock sheet the cost would be $245.00 for 800 copies in just black in white. Discussion was tabled so we can find out more info on if we can do it for beginning of school year or what the cost would be if we did a calendar book.

Motions The group voted on providing teachers and support staff $100.00 reimbursement for 1^st semester. And for 2^nd semester teachers $100.00 and support staff $50.00. Receipts are due on November 30^thfor 1^st semester. Please fill out appropriate request form.

The group voted and approved the purchase of awards for Ms. DeFeo and Mrs. Watson from Tuller Trophys.

Jamila Miqbel, Damian Pulliam, Evelyn Gonzales, Ernie Garcia, Charlotte Castro, Maribel Serrano, Russ & Sandy Mozingo, Cris Lugo, Stephanie H, Bertha Herrera, Celina Verdugo,

Treasurer’s Report: Checking: $6421.21 & Savings: $2389.64. See attachment for full report

BoxTops: Submission deadline is November 1, 2010. Teachers will be asked to turn in any BoxTops by October 22, 2010. Please use the BoxTop worksheet created by Mrs. Ramirez. School wide incentives will be presented to the teachers for ideas to promote BoxTop collecting. Jamila M and Bertha H will lead the school wide promotion.

Fry’s V.I.P.: Damian P. will contact the Fry’s manager, Frank, and arrange a date when White Elementary can solicit Fry’s customers to link their V.I.P. cards with our school barcode. Currently we have 19 cards linked and only $2962.00 in sales. We need to reach $50,000 in sales 4/24/2010 so that we can receive a reward of $500. LET’S GET THOSE CARDS LINKED!!!!

EScript: Safeway need to re-enroll for the new year our group ID # 65868827 http://www.escrip.com/program/about.jsp. Bertha H is going to follow up with local Safeway stores about placing a box to collect receipts for our school.

T-shirt sales: Gloria (front office) and Frank (Comm Rep) will be assisting in with logo sales (t-shirts).

October Movie Night: Movie night has been moved from October 29^th to Friday, October 22^nd. Jamila M will be lead for this event. Volunteers will be needed for set up, clean up, and food/popcorn sales. Please email the BPTC if you would like to volunteer at Whitebulldogclub@gmail.com.

November Math/Science/ Salsa Night: The date for this event has changed it will be Tuesday, November 9^th.

BMX Bike Show: The date for this event is Thursday, November 18^th at 9:00am. This is a school wide event earned by the Fall Fundraiser.

Ms. Lugo announced she will be the Interim Principal until the end of the current school year.

Group voted for Parent School /Site Council Position nominee – the vote was unanimous. Nominee will be contacted before official announcement.

1. Ernie made motion to reduce price of current logo items (t-shirts $5.00, polo shirts $8.00, and adult long sleeve shirts $6.00); Jamila seconded and the motion passed by unanimous vote.

ATTENDEES: Jamila Miqbel, Evelyn Gonzales, Naomi Drew, Ernie Garcia, Charlotte Castro, Marisa Leon, Eileen Gow, Victor Polacios, Russ & Sandy Mozingo, Alejandra Pealta, Kamalani Peralta, Ambie Rivas, Cris Lugo

Treasurers Report: Checking: $8884.7 & Savings: $2,414.34. See attachment for full report

Box tops: Keep collecting your box tops and turn them in to your child’s teacher. Teachers please us BoxTop worksheet to submit your BoxTops. We will be receiving a check in April for $25.00 and in December we will be receiving 2 checks in the amount of $710.00 GREAT JOB EVERYONE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! I will attach form to email.

Food City: Eileen Gowe will follow up with Food City to see if we need to re-enroll again for this school year.

Fry’s V.I.P.: Re-enrolled for Fry’s V.I.P Cool Cash Program. We need to re-link our V.I.P cards to the school barcode. If you do not have the barcode you can print it out on the schools website. We also sent a copy of the barcode home in our Welcome Back Letter that was sent out just before the holiday. We need to reach $50,000 in sales 4/24/2010 so that we can receive a reward of $500. LET’S GET THOSE CARDS LINKED!!!!

T-Shirts: We are still in the process of setting up T-Shirt sales. The Parent/Teacher Group is being stretched to the max. We are going to be working with the front office to hopefully get this going. We need to take an inventory of what we have first. If anyone is interested in volunteering to take inventory please contact Ernie at whitebulldogclub@gmail.com it should only take a few hours to do.

Book Fair: The book Fair is here September 13 – 17 volunteers needed contact Marisa Leon. All monies raised at this event will go directly to the library.

Grand Person’s Day: White’s first Grand Person’s Day will be on September 14^th come and have lunch with that special someone child, grandchild and while you here stop by the Book FairJ.

Fall Fundraiser: The Fall Fundraiser Kick off is September 20^th and will run through October 4^th. Be on the look out for the packet.

Positive Behavior Incentive Program (PBIS): A program for kids to earn coupons or coins to redeem them for some sort of incentive for themselves. The school will implement one for this year and Ms. Lugo will facilitate. Details on this program are still being worked on.

Meeting Times: Meeting will be held at 6:00 pm, the group is focusing on recruiting more parents and an evening venue seems to be ideal since most parents are working during the day. Teacher’s your input is valued so; if possible for once a month please join us. If you are not able to attend remember to use your teacher liaison.

Parent/Teacher Group is looking into mission statement for the group. What direction does the Group want to head in supporting the school (supplies, technology, field trips, theater and arts) or that one big ticket item?

1. Ernie motioned to have all the Fiesta monies split equally among the teachers who participated. Motioned was passed with majority vote. The list of teachers was provided to Marbel our treasurer to start the process of paying out the teachers

2. Mrs. Castro motioned to purchased reeds, music sheets, and cleaning agent for band, motion was second and the motion passed by unanimous voice.

2. Ernie motioned to reduce See’s candy bars from $2.00 to $1.00 just so we can get rid of product, motioned was second and passed. If any one is interested in purchasing some candy please let us know.

Ernie would like the staff to know that we are here to support them and in turn would like their support at all the great events we have planned for our school. It is important that we interact more so that together we can reach all our goals in making this a better school for them and our kids.

Parent Attendees: Marible Serrano, Jamila Miqbel, Fidel Molina, Josie Molina, Haydee Bolanos

Faculty Attendees: Jane Klipp, Ms. Ramirez, Ms. Birchak, Mr. Garcia, Mr. Mark, Mrs. Castro, Ms. Carrillio

Our fiesta coordinator Sandy Monzingo has been work diligently with parents and teachers to put this year’s fiesta together. We are waiting on a few responses from Walmart, Pepsi and Dasani Water hopefully they will come through with donations. If not, Parent Group will provide funding for materials.

The fiesta is May 7^th from 4:30pm – 7:30pm. Volunteers are needed to help setup booths on Thursday May 6^th at 5:00pm. We currently have 10 metal frame booths that need to be assembled if you are interested in helping out please come out and join us. We can use all the help we can get.

There have been some questions on who needs to have a finger print card on file with TUSD? And who’s paying for these cards the school or individual? Also, what’s the cost?

Jane Klipp, interim principal has looked into this item and this is what she has found out.

Update on finger prints. All volunteers (except parents of students enrolled in the school) are to be finger printed. Volunteers go to 1010 (TUSD main office) and the fee is $21.

A request has been submitted at this time to get a copy of the financial reports for this position which was funded by the Parent/Teacher Club we are waiting TUSD. As more information is received we will provide follow-ups.

Lowes Grant is pending; TUSD Grant’s Office is working with all parties involved in finalizing the approval of the Lowes Grant. As more information is released we will provide updates.

Prop 100- Please take the time to go out and support Prop 100 on Tuesday May 18^th, 2010. Here’s the website for the Arizona Education Network. www.arizonaeducationnetwork.com. Good information please feel free to pass it on to anyone you feel would be interested.

We have a new Teacher Liaison please welcome Mrs. Castro to the Parent/Teacher Board. Thank you Mrs. Castro for taking the lead for your fellow teachers.

ATTENDEES: Maribel Serrano, Jamila Miqbel, Robbie Ramirez, Evelyn Gonzales, Naomi Drew, Gail Dent, Georgina Carrillo-Gaxiola, Russell Mozingo, Eileen Gow, Murielle Coste, Olga Cook, Haydee Bolanos, Lorena Ruiz

· Buffalo Wild Wings event brought in$ 399.00. Money will be for principal fund.

Harkins Summer Movie Fundraiser: (03/18 fliers have gone out to teachers, Eileen Gow and Frank Espinosa new community Liaison in charge of collecting and ordering movies.) The school can earn 20%, 30%, and up to 40% depending on number of sales. Monies will be applied to the general account. Please have your orders turned in by March 30^th.

Box Tops: Missed the deadline for Feb 28th pay out for Box Tops. However, they will honor for December collection. Deadlines for Box Tops are Oct. 31^st and Feb 28^th every school year. Lookout for the VIP receipt coupons allows us to go to boxtop online and redeem online also. There will be a pizza party given at the end of this school year (?) For the class with most box tops we are still working on this item.

Fry’s VIP: 30 cards are currently linked to White. Will need to reach 50,000 in sales to get a check for $500.00 a good idea would be to give a handout one Sunday morning with our White Elementary flier w/ the barcode to link existing customers. Will also need to follow up with Food City to see where we are.

Book Fair: BOGO book fair schedule for last two days of school May 25^th and May 26^thparent or family volunteers would greatly be appreciated. We’ll need to know how many volunteers are available to determine hours of operation. Please see our librarian Gail to sign up for volunteering. Attached is the sign-up form for the book fair. Please let Gail know as soon as possible. Gail will be retiring at the end of the year and at this time no monies have been designated for a new librarian. Jamila will follow up with U of A librarian studies to get hooked up with volunteers attending U of A earning credits.

Popcorn Machine: Some valid points were made as to this year being the most difficult dealing with the budget cuts and frustration with the district. Some feel like this is not a time to be spending money on those luxuries when there are struggling teachers with not enough resources, money for field trips, supplies etc. the team voted on Popcorn Machine. Gail, Robbie, and Naomi chose not to vote.

Teacher Feedback for supplies needed: A good idea/plan was brought forth by Jamila to have a budget at beginning of next school year to go out and buy all sorts of supplies for all teachers and have a universal parent/teacher bulldog group room which is just north of lunchroom windows. Jamila and Naomi took a look and it’s a great size to hold meetings, store supplies, event supplies etc. Dr Samuel appointed Fidel to help us get it cleaned out after Spring Break and we can get started. We will need to vote to have this done and get started before the end of the year. Document readers are a high priority for teacher’s classrooms. We’ll need to research which readers are best for purchasing. The Parent/Teacher Group team voted on the $100.00 monies for second semester for teachers and 50.00 for support staff, Ernesto will get a detailed list of who are the support staffs. You will need to fill out the request for funds form in order to receive your monies for second semester, the deadline for is April 1st. Attached is the request for funds form.

Monitors: We need to follow up with monitors and Dr. Samuel to see if plan worked to have designated coverage during school time. Dr Samuel still feels we need to replace Marcelo’s position (coach position).

Live Workshop Play: The group voted and approved $500.00 to be the backup for the Live Theater Workshop. The group discussed that Tax Credit monies might be better to use for this event since it was already used to pay the first $500.00. We need to contact the Site Counsel for approval (Mrs. Orantez).

Movie Night: Movie Night is March 26^th from 6pm-8pm children need to be accompanied by a parent. Not all the details have been worked out keep an eye out for flyer.

Maribel Serrano, Jamila Miqbel, Dr. Samuel, Josefina Molina, Robbie Ramirez, Carolyn Hollis, Margaret Watson, Nancy DeFeo, Fidel Molina, Evelyn Gonzales, Naomi Drew, Rene Garcia, William Mark

Sock Hop: Made $605.68 at sock hop including some T-shirt sales plus $140 from See’s candy bars.

Scholastic Book Fair: Total sales were $4,776.45 and our profit from that is $1,125.46.

Box tops: Keep collecting your box tops and turn them in to your child’s teacher. Teachers have set goals for students to reach and have offered incentives when they reach those goals. Tiffany Garcia, the box top coordinator, was thinking of purchasing a collection box to put by office but the teachers say they have their own technique for collecting and counting the box tops. Need to have the upcoming deadline. Ernie will contact Tiffany to get an update.

Food City: Need to get an update from Eileen Gowe, Food City card coordinator. Keep scanning those cards. If you don’t have one yet they are available in the school office.

Fry’s V.I.P.: Thank you to those who have linked their V.I.P. card to our school using the barcode provided in the last school newsletter. We need to have 50,000 credits by 4/24/2010 so that we can receive a reward of $500. Currently we have about 12,444 credits and the links have jumped from 17 to 30 members. We know we can do better so please spread the word.

EScript: Safeway and Macy’s cards must be linked to our school through the eScript website Last update was a balance of almost $100. Dr. Samuel has acquired the pin number and will get more information. http://www.escrip.com/program/about.jsp.

Target: Please visit the Target website to get more information on how you can help our school. Currently we only have 21 links to our school. https://redcard.target.com/redcard/rc_main.jsp

TUSD Title 1: Dr. Samuel informed us that on 2/4/10 the staff and Site Council voted for White to become a full Title One school. This will allow added funding for our school. The application process will take about 2 months. Parents vote is needed to go forward. Dr Samuel will be sending out literature soon regarding the Title One.

Ernie sent out a survey to all teachers asking for items that they would like or need. Key items where buses for field trips and technology. We need to look at using tax credit money for some of these items. Site Council is who decides how this money should be allocated so Dr. Samuel will have Site Council put tax credit money on the next agenda so that we can address these issues.

As far technology goes, our computers are from the late 80’s and it was suggested by the technology department that we should maybe try to purchase hard drives one year and buy monitors the next so that it won’t be such a financial hardship. Dr. Samuel says that she would like to get a “cow” which is laptops from the district that are available for about $10,000.

Dr. Samuel feels that even though everything on the survey is important, the safety of our kids is more and would like us to concentrate on providing additional monitors. Our large number of 712 kids makes it difficult for our current monitors to be at all places that require attention. Especially around the restrooms and prohibited areas. Ernie wants to know if TUSD looks at student numbers when hiring monitors but Dr. Samuels says that they provide some and ask the school to work within their budget to acquire what they can afford. Monitors cost $2,200.00 for a semester. Felipe, who is a monitor and a parent here at White, feels that the 3 monitors we currently have to monitor the lunches are sufficient and would like Dr. Samuel to give them a chance to establish a better routine to monitor the areas the kids get into. Evelyn asked about the lunchtime couch position and feels that it would be wise to start it again. Dr. Samuel will look into the funds that were not used from the last coach position. There should be a balance of about $1,144.00. Ernie asked if parents can volunteer at lunchtime to help monitor and Dr. Samuel says, yes. Mrs. Watson mentioned a “POPS ON PATROL” program that existed in the past and said it was organized very well by a previous parent. The students on patrol that Miss. Slaw wants to organize came up and Dr. Samuel says it is something that she will definitely want to establish next school year. Our lunch times are from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Rodeo Barbeque: 2/24/2010. Dr. Samuel sent a note home to parents asking for donations and hopes to receive responses by Tuesday the 22. Food will be served up in the courtyard where there will be music and root beer floats. Games will be set up on the field. Jamila is organizing the games and Naomi has offered to bring her portable freezer for the ice cream.

Movie Night: 3/26/2010. Student council and parents on email list/list serve will help pick a movie to show on movie night. Popcorn and drinks will be served.

May Fiesta: Projected date is 5/7/2010. It was suggested that we form a special committee for Fiesta because of the need for frequent meetings to better organize. Ernie will ask Sandy Monzingo if she would like to head this committee. We purchased booths from a carnival supply company for $250 that will be used for fiesta to make it more festive. Jamila and Sandy also purchased various games that they will allow the school to use.

5^TH Grade Banquet: 5/25/2010. 5^th graders will celebrate with a Beatles theme party in the multipurpose room during lunch. They will also have their promotion ceremony that day. Would like to get a theme-based cake for the banquet. Parent volunteers are needed to help organize. Details for that day will be finalized in a meeting by the 5^th grade team.

Pop Corn Machine: Jamila is shopping for a good popcorn machine for the BPTC to purchase and has found that they range from $700-$1000 for a brand new one with warranty. The group feels that a standard size machine is fine as long as we start popping early. Evelyn will find out what size machine we used for movie night last year and will ask what brand would be the best for our school. It was suggested that we can even sell popcorn to students at dismissal time but Mrs. Hollis brought up a legislative law that prohibits schools from providing junk food to students during school. We would have to look into that to see if popcorn is considered junk food. Another concern is that it would be a distraction for kids and they wouldn’t get to the buses on time. Evelyn would like to know where we would store the machine and Dr. Samuel says she is working on getting us a room to store BPTC items.

Ecology Club: Mrs. Defeo and Mrs. Watson are here to solicit funds for the turtle habitat that they are building with the help of Mrs. Hollis’s 5^th grade class. They were able to acquire grants from Lowe’s and the Department of Game and Fish and also donations from Young Block totaling $17,000 to form the habitat and to pay for tile work, tables in the patio and in the outdoor classroom by the new building. They have even put up some of their own money to help with this project. Since their funds are depleted they would like the BPTC to help by providing some funds to purchase plants for the habitat. Can probably use tax credit money for this project but is a longer process to acquire the funds. The students involved have written letters to nurseries in hopes of donations. Other projects in mind are the “Three Sisters Heritage Garden” in the kinder area with the help of a Fiskars grant. These awesome teachers are also involved in getting a grant to bring the “Odyssey of the Mind” program to our school.

Great American Fundraiser: Evelyn will let Doug know that we will use him again next year. He has invited a few members of our school to attend a luncheon at Desert Diamond on Old Nogales highway on 3/3/2010 from 10:30-1:30. There will be giveaways and a bonus for our school to buy balls. Ernie and Dr. Samuel will attend.

1. Robbie motioned that we give ecology club $150 to buy plants for habitat, Evelyn second the motion and the motion passed by unanimous voice.

2. Evelyn motioned to use Great American for our fall fundraiser, motion was second and the motion passed by unanimous voice.

Next meeting is set for Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 6pm. Meetings are open to all staff and parents.

Thanks to all who helped with the fundraiser. We made over $8000. The fundraiser was delivered last Thursday. We voted to go with Great American again next year.

We will need volunteers for Math/science/salsa night. Set up will start at 5PM. We need people to put chips into bowls, label salsa, put out napkins, etc. Maribel Serrano will get the supplies. Everyone needs to get a map from Mrs. Harper at the door and then go to the cafeteria before we start the rotations. Teachers will provide activities for math down the primary hallway and science activities and science experiments by Mrs. Hollis’s class will be in the multipurpose room. Math Science Salsa night is from 6-8PM.

MS Keane got Olive Garden to donate dinners for a fundraising spaghetti night for Love of Reading, February 9. The Book Fair will be open that night, before and after the dinner. Jamilla Mqbel may be able to get some teen volunteers to serve. We will discuss it more in January.

The club voted to give all teachers $100 since the fundraiser was successful. If teachers turn in receipts for supplies by Dec. 11, they will be paid before Christmas break. Otherwise, receipts are due by Dec. 17 and will be paid in January. Make sure receipts are legible, clearly dated for this school year and if the receipt includes items NOT bought for school, please highlight the school items. No food may be bought with the funds…this is simply for school supplies like paper, scissors, tape, books, pencils, poster board, kleenix, paint, markers, etc. There is a form in each teacher’s box to fill out and attach to the receipt.

We will discuss the new facilitator or co-facilitators at the January 12 6PM meeting, as there is just an executive board meeting in December.

Eileen Gow gave Maribel the Food City form to run. We’ll have cards to swipe to earn points with which to order supplies.

Signing as present at the meeting were: Murielle Coste, Gail Dent, Naomi Drew, Janette Dominguez, Leah Gomez, Maribel Serrano, Sandy Mozingo, Russ Mozingo, Eileen Gow, and Jamila Miqbel.

Reminder to Students…Show your school spirit by wearing your school shirt every Friday. If you don’t have one you may purchase one from the Parent/Teacher Club.

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