General Meeting Minutes 1-8-26 5:30 pm
Board Members Present: Jennalee Garcia Montero, Skyla Boivin, Nicole Hryciw, Julie Bowman, Jenny Grimaldi
Logger report from Principal Graham (via Jennalee):
The longterm sub (Ms. B) in 4th grade is remaining until the end of the year.
We qualified and received a grant for social/emotional learning. Each of the lower classrooms will receive a slumberkins stuffie & book on an emotional subject. The little buddy-big buddy program can expand with this program. Jennalee shared how it went with the kinder & 3rd, 1st & 4th, and 2nd & 5th grades.The lower grades have access to a video that pairs with the slumberkins and can enhance the learning.
This week all of the students went through an Expectations Fair for the school and the staff received a spreadsheet of student behaviors that have been happening. The equity team and site based team looked over this to make new disciplinary flow charts to define problems specific to our school.
Families Helping Families:
In November we did a Facebook post when families were losing their food benefits. Our FCRC (run by Judit) was able to receive $245 and she allocated Winco gift cards to families who reached out for support. It was asked at our meeting if that can continue, and we said yes the link is still up and Judit can continue to facilitate. We shared that there are families in need of community support.
We did a hat, coat, and mitten drive as well the leftover fruit/veggie snacks are sent home. Jennalee shared that we go through a significant amount of hats & mittens. We have a really great partnership with All Saints and their diaper bank is growing and supporting 50-70 families a week.
Holiday Market:
The annual Holiday Market was a huge success. We had large donors which helped to raise the scholarship to $5 a kid. We profited $750.01. We only used $460 for scholarships so the rest can roll over to next year. A man approached Jennalee and Mona to ask what they were doing while shopping the sales for next year, and then gave a donation to support the scholarships.
Bike Bus follow up:
Jenny met with the bike bus organizers and transportation planner of the city. The team wants Lincoln to reach out to the families to get data of who is interested and what cross streets they live near. That will be sent out to families in February. They will take the data and work on making a route map for us.
The bike bus would need 4 adult leads; one to ride in front, one in back, and two on the sides.
They have 6 bicycles and 6 helmets available for students who need one. If interested, a student would need to do a safety training to receive the bike.
The city is working on getting signs for the neighborhood route for cars to be on the lookout.
They are rolling out the program at Hough, and we discussed how Lincoln’s boundaries are a little more complex.
Treasurer’s Report:
Bank Account: $ 15,709.02 Checking
$ 10,045.49 Savings
November - 23 Transactions, $2,908.07 deposits, $1,168.56 expenses Reconciled
December - 25 Transactions, $5,775.50 deposits, $6,206.89 expenses Reconciled
Recent Expenses Since Last meeting; Pizza with the Principal, Fish Tank, Makers Space, Holiday Market 26/27, Volleyball Stipends
Recent Income since Last Meeting; Chuck E Cheese, Logger Laps, Holiday Market Scholarships, FCRC donations
Upcoming Expenses or Events; Pizza with the Principal, Fish tank, Basketball Stipends
Misc News:
Basketball is happening for 4th & 5th graders starting on Feb 3rd each Tues/Thurs morning from 7-7:50 am and will run through the end of March. Lpsg is funding the basketball.
Last meeting we had a request for a crochet/crafting club. The flyers are going out tomorrow in Friday folders. All grades are welcome, but we are limiting it to the first 20 kids who return their form. The first one is Jan 22, and will run to spring break. Alice Cummings initiated this and is the lead for the club.
We discussed restaurants to add to our fundraising night (along with Chuck E Cheese). We debated Red Robin, Panda Express, and Mod Pizza but did not land on a consensus. We were more in agreement of reaching out to a local business. The funds raised go directly to teacher reimbursement, then rolls over into holiday market scholarship fund, then after that it will roll into the outdoor improvement.
We are about to roll out the outdoor playground fun cart with lots of equipment and toys.
We asked for volunteers for Maker Space on Tues/Wed/Thurs, Read NW, and lunch buddies.
We asked if there is a student who might be interested in helping delivery Logger Mail.
A parent asked if there is a special meeting coming up for 5th grade graduates, Nicole said that it is coming.
Meeting adjourned at 7 pm.