Present: Elizabeth Howe, Jenny Steffie, Dorine Achoki, Christina Crawford, Kim Jenkins, Jill Barton, Karlene Novotny, Chip Minto, Josh Oliver, Chris Blasko, Barb Newell, Susan Pritt, John Mark Niehls

Auction

• Auction invitations are ordered (800)

• 871 on the invite list (may need to order more)

• Invitations mailed next week

• Procurements are anticipated to be low

• Will need baskets and class projects to make up the difference

• Event will be at school in the event center

• Childcare will be spread out throughout the building

• Will probably need more help this year

• New ideas

• Silver spoon

• Gym teacher for the day

5K

• Moved 5K to March 27th

• Pretzel City Sports will do the timing and registration

• Need 29 runners to break even

• Profit of $21 a runner after 29 runner

• Need to blanket promote the races ASAP

• Eagle Express

• Local bulletin boards

• Running Stores

• 5K race, 1 mile fun run, kids obstacle course

• Looking for sponsors for the race (local and CCS businesses)

• T-shirt prom

• Need sponsors for shirts by first or second week of February

• Using same company for t-shirts

• Need final order 2 weeks prior to race

• Banners

• Goody bags

• Consider talking to Tri-County Toyota (Bryan Kreiger)

• Talk with Karlene Novotny about previous sponsor levels

• Need some volunteers to plan, setup, run the kid’s obstacle course

• $10 cost

• Jenny Steffie will help plan (need other volunteers)

• Need race day volunteers

• Jenny will create sign-up

• Need at least 20 race guides

• Easter Egg Hunt coordinator and volunteers (4)

• Easter games???

• Tie in with the pancake breakfast - Katie Nelson, Kia Green, Cheryl Laffey

• Send email addresses to Josh Oliver

• Couch - to - 5k program

• Add weekly reminders to Eagle Express

• Group runs after school on Monday

100th Day of School

• Urban Air - February 11th (need to change to February 18th)

• Emphasize it is a closed event

• No outside friends

• Urban Air can host 375 people

• Consider a sticker system

• Red/Green

• Will we get enough people?

• Send out sign-up with a cut off of a week prior to the date

• Complete paperwork online

• Food

• Tickets for food

• Safe food handling (prepackaged)

• Need a link for sign-up and payment online (Tyler)

Budget

• Chris Blasko gave update

• Christmas Wreath sale brought in about $1,700

• Consider Easter and fall sales

• Clothing sale brought in $1,300

• Looking for spring clothing sale

• February Parent/Teacher conferences

• Holiday shop brought in $350

Sport Boosters

Performing Arts

• Still working toward April filming date

• Issues with students who are in quarantine, struggling to rehearse

• Potential for professional film company to film the show

Future Meetings

• In-person?

• Virtual Option

• Next Meeting February 9th

• Location to be determined

Create a guide for each event to add to the PTO drive.

• Include lists of contacts, timelines, activities

Communication needs:

• Get email list and Slack to reflect the committee level positions

• Clean up PTO email list