Crescent Valley Parent Organization
Meeting and Parent Coffee
November 13, 2008
CVPO Business
Minutes: The minutes of the 10/09/08 meeting were approved with the
addition of this paragraph:
Teacher Grants: The grant committee proposed funding all nine
requests that were submitted for a total of $2,682. Of this total, $1000 will
come from a donation made through the Foundation, and the remainder of the
funding ($1682) will come from the CVPO account; this is
$318 less than the group was willing to authorize for this first grant period,
but no other requests were received. The attached spreadsheet has detailed
information about the grants. The low number of requests may be due to timing.
Grant proposals to the Corvallis Public Schools Foundation were due at the same
time and these are generally larger. The grant committee’s proposal was
approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Available funds of $3,306.13 were reported today,
which reflects income of $45.98 from dues and E-Scrip, and disbursements of $20
for Staff Breakfast and $2,182.00 for Teacher Grants. In regard to the
Teacher Grants, it was discovered after the October CVPO meeting that
only $500 in donations received by the Foundation/CV Excellence was designated
for the teacher grants. (Not $1000, as previously reported.) In
order to make the full amount of money available to the teachers as voted by
the membership, the Executive Committee voted to increase CVPO funding for this
grant period from $1682 to $2182, to make up the difference.
CVPO Office openings: Volunteers needed for the following positions
–, Corresponding Secretary, Volunteer Coordinator Assistant. If you are
interested in volunteering or have questions regarding these positions, please
contact Nanette Armstrong by e-mail at: nyarmstrong@comcast.net
Conference Dinner: Everything went well at the Conference Dinner.
Plenty of salads and desserts were provided by parent volunteers. The main
course for the dinner was a very generous donation from Susan McDonald and her
husband Kurt Black and was catered by Evergreen Restaurant. Conference Dinner
Coordinator Lynn Entrikin said everything went smoothly the food was great and
set up/clean up was easy.
CV Excellence Campaign: The campaign was started on October 27 and
will end on November 26. Brochures are available at the front desk in the main
office lobby as well as online at:
http://cvexcellence.org/
CVPO meeting times, evenings: Thursday, November 13 was the first
CVPO evening meeting/Principals Coffee. (Read attached minutes from that
meeting).
Site Council: The Site Council had their first meeting in October.
The Site Council is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The purpose of the
site council is to go over current school issues. Meeting for the Site Council
are conducted on the third Tuesday each month at 3:30 PM in the CVHS library.
The next meeting will be on November 18 at 3:30 PM.
Daytime Parent Coffee Topics
Budget: Due to the current fiscal climate, there are proposed
cuts in State funding to the school district as follows:
4.7 million (10%) general fund
1.4 million school improvement fund
There are other (rainy day/emergency) funds which can be tapped to help ease
these cuts, and each school in the district is looking for ways to cut back
without resorting to layoffs or cuts in school days. We will know further how
much the final cuts will be in January 2009.
Diversity Survey: The first CV Diversity Survey results will be
available before Winter Break.
District Wide Steering Committee volunteer opening: The purpose of
the District Wide Steering Committee is to determine what is needed at our
schools to meet graduation requirements. A CV parent volunteer is needed for
this committee. The time requirement is 2 hours on one afternoon and a full day
– dates to be determined. If interested, contact Principal Cherie Stroud by
e-mail at cherie.stroud@corvallis.k12.
Upcoming Events:
No School: Monday, Nov. 10
Thanksgiving Day holiday: Thursday, Nov. 27 and Friday Nov. 28.
CVPO mtg. /Parent Coffee: Thursday, Dec. 11, 11 AM
CVHS Website: http://www.csd509j.net/cvhs/
Current Raider News: http://www.csd509j.net/cvhs/
Respectfully submitted,
Patrice Thomas
November 14, 2008
Evening Principal’s Coffee
Thursday Nov. 13, 2008 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Attendance: Principal Cherie Stroud with 5 parents representing 4 families.
Introductions were made. In a casual setting, Cherie invited parents to
discuss what was on their mind. Highlights include: Sports—do we really need so
many sports clothes? The new OSAA sportsmanship rules: "Just how do we
cheer on our students?". Grandstands—getting estimates, then bids. Hope to
have them completed by the fall. They’ll be on the west side of the field with
a cover to be added in the future. Cherie said teacher conferences were well
attended but one parent thought a timer might be helpful to alert parents of
the 10- minute time limit. On the subject of class bells, Cherie has talked to
many students about the large number of tardies, especially after lunch. Bells
will begin after lunch next week to announce students to go to class. Alcohol a
problem on campus?—no. Budget—the school budget runs on a biannual cycle. A new
budget will begin in the fall ’09 with another forecast in January on expected
budget cuts. Enrollment is down. We expected 1078 students and we have 1040.
Cherie says she is happy with the students and the good environment at CV.
She is thrilled with her assistant principals. She feels each department works
well as a whole and collaboratively with other departments. Veteran teachers
help new teachers.
The session ended with the questions: what do you like about CV? And what
would you change if you could? A variety of answers: We like Cherie Stroud and
her availability to students and parents! We like the teachers, our students
have graduated and done well in college. On the flip side: we’d take away all
money problems if possible, equality in sports teams, both Corvallis schools
being truly equal.
Future requests: Parents would like to see these evening principal meetings
on a quarterly basis and would like all sports meetings to be posted on the CV
list-serve. No date posted on the next evening meeting. Stay tuned.
Minutes submitted by Nanette Armstrong