1. Welcome/Introductions 25 people present.
1a. All parents in attendance were asked to sign in on the attendance sheet. The attendance list with e-mail addresses helps us communicate/connect with parents who attend PAC meetings.
1b. In future, meetings will be kept to a maximum of 2 hours.
2. Minutes from previous meeting: Minutes of Executive meeting held on June 22, 2006 were already approved in June and posted to the website.
3. Principals Report:
a. Mr. Hignell introduced Brett Raycroft and Tyler Evens (both Vice Principal’s attended the meeting).
Johnston Height’s students and staff were happy to commence a new school year. The school had several successes in the past year. Excellence in all forms of learning is priority at JH. Mr. Hignell stressed that JH students must create a caring, supportive, warm community. We should be proud of the accomplishments of last year.
In the provincial exam JH students scored above provincial averages in 10 out of 14 exams.
The Africa Project raised $10,000 which went to helping children in Tanzania.
The athletic program had JH 7th and 4th in the province.
The theatre group had their own successes with their performances.
To top it all, JH has been recognized as finalist for the Garfield Weston Awards Academic Achievement in Excess of Expectations. Congratulations!!
Word has gotten around about how good JH is and we have 60 new students this year - 1330 in total.
b.School Plan and the School Planning Council
School Plan is completed in draft. This will be fine-tuned and submitted. Mr. Hignell will consult with the School Planning Council.
Issues Raised By PAC Members:
Linda reiterated the need to keep the Super G movie light. Bret Raycroft may be e-mailed suggestions.
Linda is having a problem with voice mail left for teaching staff. Ken Hignell to look into matter.
Ken Hignell is also working on The Gifted Student Program.
4. Financial Report: 20 min.
a. Monthly Report presented complete with year end balances ending August 31, 2006.
b. Status of gaming fund and general accounts: Linda submitted a list of estimated expenses for both General account and Gaming Account. The PAC is in a good fiscal position due to last year’s conservative spending and wise planning. The $10,000 term deposit has proved to be a good idea.
c. The majority of 2006/07 budget decisions pertaining to the gaming account were passed by the PAC in June 2006. However, there is still approximately $4400 that can be spent.
d. All additional funding requests will be assessed as they come in and the PAC will determine whether to support the request, and if so, whether it should be partially or fully funded. Parents were advised to attend the PAC meetings regularly so as to contribute to the decision making.
5. Committee Reports
a. DPAC: Meeting was held on the same day so Mark Adams, DPAC representative was unable to attend.
b. Dance Committee: Christa Kozminski will head the Dance Committee this year. School dances for the coming year will be held on Thursday November 23rd, Thursday February 22nd, and Thursday April 26th, 2007. The dance committee requires at least 4-6 volunteers to help out at each dance. Linda to discuss how much cash is required to begin planning the dances. PAC will run a concession to do fundraising at the events.
The school calendar has the next PAC meeting scheduled for 11 October. It was agreed to move the date from the 4th to the 11th October, to show consistency. Linda seconded Nadene. Motion to change the meeting date passed.
c. Fund Raising Committee: Emma still heads the committee. She is setting up email list for regular buyers of store certificates.
d. Progressive Fundraising update: All fundraising forms can be downloaded from the JH website link. Deadline for forms is PAC meeting evening.
e. School Planning Council: Three positions were up for nomination/election: Darlene Taylor (nominated by Linda), Dianne Swanland (nominated by Nadene) and Emma Dyck were the newly acclaimed representatives.
f. Student Council Report: Ken Hignell will have a student reporting at October PAC meeting.
6. Old business
Steve reported on the June 19th Commencement Ceremony at the Bell Centre.
7. New Business
a. Dry Grad 2006: Dianne Swanlund reviewed the Dry Grad party. The evening, attended by 110 students, was a big success. Both students and volunteers had a blast. Over 35 volunteers helped out. Mr. Hignell and JH administrative staff were a big help too. Supporters/Donors - nearly 121 in all. Darlene to submit list of prizes given out that evening in formal report. It was requested that Mr. Hignell help get GST rebate for monies spent. Linda to see that Ken Hignell gets the bills.
b. Forming a Dry Grad Committee for 2007: Cindy Benes, Margaret Giacomello, Susan Schnitzer, Susan Caley, Emma Dyck and Darlene Taylor will form the new committee. Each will try and recruit more members and will eventually choose a chair-person to report their activities.
This years Grade 12 class was informed by Mr. Hignell that there will be a Dry Grad next June and they seemed excited. It was suggested that the committee try and get a donation of a good used car as one of the prizes.
c. PAC e-mail address: The new PAC address is:jh_pac@hotmail.com. The next newsletter will have this information. Susan Caley will be in charge of checking the e-mail.
d. Letters of Thanks – PAC Scholarships: Four students sent in letters of thanks.
PAC fundraising binder will be kept at the office as usual. Dry Grad committee requested to go through info. Linda will forward co-ordination meeting information to Emma.
8. Mail: Read and distribute as required
Meeting ended at 8:28pm.
Next General Meeting: 11th. October 2006 at 7:00pm.