{"id":7515,"date":"2021-11-29T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:09:21","slug":"11-15-21-pta-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/?p=7515","title":{"rendered":"11\/15\/21 PTA Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The meeting was called to order by Janet Giron, President, at 7:34 pm on Monday, Novmber 15, 2021.<br>The minutes from the October 11, 2021 General PTA Meeting were approved as read.<br>Attendance:<br>Mary Tarango, Janet Giron, Angela Lerner, Mikel Wagner, Lani McCarson, Jeremy Peckens,<br>Josh Guzman<br>Principal&#8217;s Report by Mary Tarango:<br>\uf0b7 Title I money for last year has not been received yet. SR2 funds will be awarded by January<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\"><li>These funds will be used for more HEPA filters in the cafeteria and upgrades in some<br>offices. The HVAC\/Solar project is now budgeted for and we are requesting quotes from<br>vendors. There will be a 6 th month window to start the project. We are upgrading to fiber<br>optic internet for the school.<br>\uf0b7 The school now has a new organizational chart. Ms. Tarango will take over Mrs. B&#8217;s duties<br>and we will hire a new CFO.<br>\uf0b7 MAP testing will be coming up in December (starting the second week and ending on the<br>the 10 th ). Our MAP testing will become the interim testing that the PED now requires of all<br>schools.<br>\uf0b7 The new Test to Stay Program for Covid has to be implemented by January. We have<br>received a grant for $80,000 to implement it. Under the program, if a person has two covid<br>symptons, they can test on day 1, 3 and 5 and remain in school, or do a 10 day quarantine.<br>\uf0b7 We are hiring two new middle school EA&#8217;s to help with study lab and to help Mr. Flores, our<br>new speial education teacher for the 6 th grade. We now have a special education teacher for<br>each middle grade and one for the elementary grades.<br>\uf0b7 The next Governance Council meeting is Thursday, November 18.<br>President&#8217;s Report by Janet Giron:<br>\uf0b7 Pictures for the yearbook can be sent to yearbook@21stcenturypa.com<br>\uf0b7 Thank you to all who volunteered to help at the Fall Festival.<br>\uf0b7 Snack bar is getting into a good routine. Snack bar will be available weather permitting<br>during the winter months.<br>\uf0b7 Student Council will start selling donuts and sodas on Fridays after school in place of snack<br>bar.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice-President&#8217;s Report by Lani McCarson:<br>\uf0b7 There will now be a US flag on display outside the school every day. Student Council is<br>doing training and will take care of raising and lowering it each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary&#8217;s Report by Mikel Wagner:<br>\uf0b7 Nothing to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treasurer&#8217;s Report by Angela Lerner:<br>\uf0b7 The bank balance was $15,198.08 as of November 8.<br>\uf0b7 Recent disbursements were $200 for pumpkins and $900 for the jumpers for Fall Festival.<br>\uf0b7 There will be a reimbursement to Janet Giron for over $5,000 for snack supplies year to<br>date, items for the school supplies bundles fundraiser, teacher lunch and breakfast supplies<br>and Balloons Aloft.<br>\uf0b7 The 990 has been filed.<br>Social:<br>\uf0b7 Our canned food drive will be starting on November 29 and ending December 10. There<br>will be a competiton to see which class contributes the most canned food. The reward will<br>be a hot chocolate party on December 15. This will also be a Christmas dress up day.<br>\uf0b7 We will be asking for donations of gift cards for staff gifts.<br>New Business:<br>\uf0b7 There is no new business.<br>The next PTA General Meeting will be Monday, December 13 at 7:00 pm.<br>The meeting was adjourned at 8:41 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting was called to order by Janet Giron, President, at 7:34 pm on Monday, Novmber 15, 2021.The minutes from the October 11, 2021 General PTA Meeting were approved as read.Attendance:Mary Tarango, Janet Giron, Angela Lerner, Mikel Wagner, Lani McCarson, Jeremy Peckens,Josh GuzmanPrincipal&#8217;s Report by Mary Tarango:\uf0b7 Title I money for last year has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}