WFPA MAY MEETING MINUTES
5/12/2016
ATTENDANCE
CINDY-PRESIDENT, KELLY-VICE-PRESIDENT, KRISTA-TREASURER, ASHLEY-SECRETARY
WFPA MEMBERS= MICHELLE MOHART, ANITA GABRIEL, KATHY PALMER, KATY LOWERY, BOB STEPHAN, JIM PALMER, DENISE FUNSTON, NICOLE PICARELLA, AND KATE DETERS
7:00- MEETING CALLED TO BEGIN BY CINDY
7:05-8:00- DISCUSSION BEGAN ON THE POSSIBLE DISSOULTION OF WFPA BEGINNING 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR, AND TRANSFORMING INTO INDIVIDUAL PTO’S AT EACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. MANY DISAGREEMENTS ON WHETHER THERE SHOULD STILL BE ONE OVERHEAD WFPA SINCE THE IC AND FREER PRINCIPALS HAD EXPRESSED THAT THEY WOULD NOT LIKE TO START THEIR OWN WITH ALL READY HAVING A LOT ON THEIR PLATES. THE MAJORTIY, INCLUDING THE CURRENT OFFICERS, AGREE IT WOULD BE NICE FOR EACH SCHOOL TO HAVE THEIR OWN PARENT GROUP, TO RAISE FUNDS AND PLAN EVENTS FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL, THE QUESTION IS, WILL THEY HAVE THE VOLUNTEERS TO START A GROUP AND KEEP IT RUNNING, AND WITH PRINCIPAL SUPPORT. (TO POINT OUT, WINDSOR ELEMENTARY HAS STARTED THEIR OWN PTO.) CINDY AND KELLY WOULD LIKE THE IC AND FREER PRINCIPALS TO SUPPORT AND START THEIR OWN PTO BY THE 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR. THEY WOULD LIKE THE 2016-2017 SCHOOL YEAR TO BE A TRANSITION YEAR INTO HELPING EACH SCHOOL STARTS A PTO. CINDY HAS SAID THAT SHE WOULD DONATE, WITH EVERYONE’S AGGREENACE, $500 TO AN ACCOUNT DEDICATED TO A PTO AT EACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FROM THE CURRENT WFPA ACCOUNT. SHE ALSO STATED THAT SHE DIDN’T THINK IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO DO AN ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS FOR THE WFPA FOR THE 2016-2017 SCHOOL YEAR SINCE THEY UNAWARE OF HOW THINGS WORK AND ARE RUN, AND SHE DIDN’T WANT TO THROW ANYBODY INTO A SITUATION THAT CAN BE OVERWHELMING. SHE SUGGESTED THE CURRENT OFFICERS STAY ON TO FINISH OUT THE TRANSITION YEAR AND CONCENTRATE ON THE IC AND FREER GETTING THEIR OWN PTO STARTED AND ALSO THAT ANY VOLUNTEERS WHO WERE WANTING TO RUN FOR AN OFFICER POSITION, NEED TO RUN FOR EACH SCHOOL’S SOON TO BE PTO AND HELP GET THEM STARTED. THERE WAS STILL MANY QUESTIONS FROM THE WFPA MEMBERS, WONDERING WHY THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO RUN FOR OFFICE AND BRING NEW IDEAS TO THE WFPA. SOME FELT THE DECISION TO CLOSE THE WFPA AND START INDIVIDUAL PTO’S WAS MADE WITHOUT ANY VOTE AND MAJORITEY AGREEANCE AND THAT THE PRINCIPALS OF THE IC AND FREER SHOULDN’T BE FORCED TO SUPPORT A PTO AT EACH BUILDING IF THEY FEEL IT IS TOO MUCH TO HANDLE AT THIS TIME AND THAT IF THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS AT THOSE SCHOOLS THAT THE PTO WOULD FALL BEFORE IT EVEN GETS STARTED.
8:05-8:25- CINDY ASKED ALL MEMBERS TO HAVE AN OPEN MIND AND SEE WHAT THE NEXT YEAR CAN BRING. IF THERE IS MUCH RESISTANCE AND LACKLUST OF VOLUNTEERS AT THE IC AND FREER, THERE MIGHT BE THE OPTION TO KEEP THE WFPA OPEN AND HAVE NEW OFFICERS COME IN. THERE ARE STILL LEFTOVER QUESTIONS IT MIGHT SEEM, BUT A MEEING FOR AUGUST 4TH,2016 AT 630PM AT FRANKIE G’S IN IMPERIAL WAS SET AND AGREED ON BY ALL FOR EVERYONE TO ATTEND TO DISCUSS FURTHER THE PLANS FOR THE 2016-2017 SCHOOL YEAR. KRISTA HAS AGREED TO STAY ON AS TREASURER TO HELP THE TRANSITION. CINDY AND KELLY HAVE ALREADY STATED THEY WOULD TO STAY ON AS OFFICERS TO HELP THE TRANSITION. ASHLEY HAS STATED THAT THIS 3RD TERM AS SECRETARY WOULD BE HER LAST, AND THOUGH ABSENT, YET REGULAR ATTENDEE SHERRY CARTER HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST TO TAKE OVER AS SECRETARY OF THE WFPA, AND WAS NOMINATED BY SEVERAL PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE WFPA AND WAS AGREED UPON, WITH HER ACCEPTANCE, BY THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.
8:30- MEETING ADJOURNED BY CINDY, NEXT MEETING AUGUST 4TH AT 630PM AT FRANKIE G’S. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR ATTENDING.