Meeting commenced at 7:06pm

1. Welcome and Introductions
No items to be added to the agenda.

2. Review of Previous Minutes
Motion to accept - Carried

3. Principal’s Report
Jim Deacon spoke to the Department heads to see if they had anything in particular to add to the budget, he brought the following wish list from the teachers:

English Department - book prizes for a writing competition - $300.00
Counseling Department - Lunch program for needy students (50 lunches per month @$2.00 per lunch - entr?e of the day + beverage - $1,000.00
Home Economics Department - Sauce pans, double boilers - $427.47
Performing Arts - Power amplifier - $1,081.00; wing curtain repairs - $513.00
Library - Digital video camera, digital camera - $1,627.92
Planning 10/Career Program - Career Fair for all grade 10’s - $1,230.50
Languages Departments - Digital Camera - $600.00; Videos of Cirque du Solel - $45.00
Total - $6,824.89

Linda Blais motioned for the PAC to approve $1,230.50 to be spent out of gaming funds for transportation to the Education and Career Fair. Darleen Taylor seconded motion. Motion passed

The 14 International teachers from China are leaving on Friday, February 4th and there is a new group of teachers coming from Korea. The International teachers had a great experience being at Johnston Heights.

There is a school dance on Thursday, February 24th. from 6:30 - 9:30. There will be a need for parent volunteers for coat check and to sell goodies. It will also be an opportunity to sell coffee.

Grade 10’s and 12’s are currently writing exams. There are 2 grades writing exams while classes are going on. Exams are written in the theatre but Mr. Deacon is not happy with the set up and has spoken to the pastor at Johnston Heights Church to see if in the future the school could use their basement to write exams and we would get some partitions made.

So far the grade 10’s have done an excellent job writing exams, have come well prepared, Grade 12’s have been quite as good.

The Grade 8 Math and English teachers are going to be meeting with the Grade 7 teachers from Berkshire Park, and Harold Bishop. This gives the grade 7 teachers a chance to find out what the grade 8 teachers cover and ask any questions. The teachers hope to expand it to Social Studies and Science in the next couple of years.

Course selection has started and will be completed next week.

Principal and Vice Principals will be meeting with the Grade 7 teachers and going to Berkshire Park, Bonacord, W.F. Davidson and Harold Bishop during the month. They will be meeting will the all the grade 7 students.

Sports Report was given regarding the basketball teams, girls rugby (tour spring break), hockey team, girls soccer, badminton, golf, tennis and track will all be starting shortly. Special recognition to Sabrina Netty - she is only in grade 9 and has been nominated as one of the 3 finalists in this year’s BC Female High School Athlete of the Year (Based on last year’s results).

Test busting for parents grades 8-10. There were 60 parents in attendance. Evening was a lot of fun.

Vision Statement for Johnston Heights
"REACH for Excellence"
R Respect for each other, our environment and all
E Excellence to be the best you can
A Attitude to be positive and caring
C Community: working together in a respectful environment
H Honour: trust and honesty

Website is up and running and looking really good. If you haven’t had a chance to look at it go to www.sd36.bc.ca/johnht/

4. Financial Report
Linda Blais provided a Statement of Revenue & Expenditures (attached) for January 2005. The General account has $3,794.93 and the Gaming Account has a balance of $21,722.95. At the next executive meeting the wish list from the teachers will be discussed regarding spending of gaming funds.

5. Committee Reports
DPAC - Emma Dyck attended the DPAC meeting on January 26th. The following was brought up at that meeting:
DPAC is looking for donations from PAC’s. One idea was the money that is received by PAC from the district each year is donated back to DPAC. DPAC runs on donated funds.
Bonaccord Elementary School playground has been deemed unsafe, and the PAC is requesting ideas from other PACs on how to raise large amounts of money for such a project.
Old Yale Elementary School PAC had to pay for replacement teacher and re-certification of first aid. Old Yale PAC does not understand why PAC would have to pay for such a thing.
Jessie Lee Elementary - Vandalism issues continue. Thinking about setting up a parent patrol. RCMP guidelines being looked into.
Discussion on Surrey Traditional and Guildford Park maybe having an "All Girl" Math and English Class.
Discussion on Drugs in Schools.
DPAC to have more open forums in the future.
DPAC executive mentioned that DPAC is thinking about having an office where they would hold advocacy project, resource library and be a meeting place for the board.

Dry Grad Committee - There was a meeting held on January 26th, with 5 parents and 2 Executive members in attendance. Mr. Zanatta is the teacher rep for the grad committee. There is no real committee set up at this point, but Monica Schwabe and Tracey Chan are giving it some serious thought and will report back to the next PAC meeting if they will chair the committee. There has been nothing booked at this time and there isn’t a lot of time left to make these decisions.

Fundraising Committee - There were no orders for the Progressive fund-raiser for Feb 1st. There were some orders in December, but it is going slowly. This will continue for the rest of the year and hopefully there will be more interest. We still have 17 cases of coffee left to be sold. These tins are sold at every opportunity possible. Any one wanting a great tin of coffee for only $5.00 please see one of the PAC members.

6. School Planning Council
Darleen Taylor attended the school planning council meeting and they spent a lot of time discussing the following four questions.
1. Based on the student achievement data provided to you and the district’s goals for improving student achievement, what do you perceive to be the district’s areas of strength, and what areas should receive greater attention?
2. After several years of having to contend with the budget shortfalls, the Board has finally been able to provide restoration in a number of key areas (supplies, textbooks, equipment, and technology). What areas do you believe should be given a high priority for future budget consideration?
3. The District is presently engaged in the development of a strategic plan based on the stated Vision 2008. Given the four major themes and their related recommendations, what actions would you like to see that would address the various recommendations?
4.Do you think the school planning council is necessary, or are PAC’s doing the same type of job? Mr. Deacon also attended a similar meeting and he put together some answers to the above questions that can be accessed if interested.

7. Old Business
There was an additional expense of $17.12 of postage costs for Dry Grad. Linda Blais put forth a motion that this expense be covered by funds in the general account. Emma Dyck seconded the motion. Passed.

No further business
Adjourned at 8:53pm.
Next Meeting: March 2, 2005

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