Ecole Mountainview Pac


October 19, 2011, 7:00 PM

In Attendance: Terri Bowles, Tara Salavich, Maxine Champion, Kathleen Simms, Rebecca Onstein, Keri Giesbrecht, Crystal MacKenzie, Shelley Carpino, Tracey Fell

Minutes by Tara and Tracey

Adoption of AGM meeting minutes, motioned and accepted

President’s Report:

-Previously open positions have been filled

Secretary - Tracey Fell

Fundraising Co-ordinator - Shelley Carpino

School Planning Rep - Rebecca Onstien

DPAC Rep - position remains open

-Constitution and By-law change : three members required to reach quorum. Motion carried.

-Meetings will be held the third Wednesday of the month, excluding December (Christmas break) and March (Spring Break). Dates as follows:
November 16
January 18
February 15
April 18
May 16
June 20

-Council member biographies to be done for bulletin board and blog. Please submit to Terri by next week, photo and short write up.

-Motion for purchase of laptop, Simply Accounting and MSWord carried. To be used for all PAC business.

-We have gaming funds we need to spend or we run the risk of losing the money as the 3 year limit has been reached. Maxine will look into costs of benches for the playground area. We are awaiting costing on the outside reader board.

Scholastic Rep Report:

-Tara will run again, with help. The program was very successful last year . The format is different this year regarding how the book credits are allocated but the earning potential is similar.

Discussion regarding other fundraising programs run last year, lunch program, Crop, coffee/tea sales, and the raffle.

-The October Crop was cancelled, the first Crop will be: November 19th.

Principal’s Report:

-159 students are enrolled.

-First fire drill held recently.

-First earthquake drill to be held Thursday.

-We are a Peanut Aware school. Discussion ensued regarding seriousness of this issue in our school as we have a student with a life threatening allergy. We will work with our Health Nurse, Kathryn Chapman to do everything we can to increase awareness with both students and parents/caregivers.

-Code of conduct reviewed.

-RCMP to be contacted to see if we can participate in the DARE program.

-Bet Shopper software discussed, 6/7 class had presentation last year.

-Teacher appreciation discussed. May be CPF/PAC joint venture.

-Signing authorities: President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary for both General and Gaming accounts. Motion carried.



Next Meeting: November 16