In Attendance:
Amy Leahy, Karen Woodruff,
Julie Vogel, Steve Michaels, Mike Marquard, Nancy Bolton, Kim Wisniewski,
Kieley Malueg.
Meeting called to order by
A.
Routine Matters
1. September and October minutes approved.
2
Agenda accepted.
B.
Old Business
1. Adopt
a student was a success. We will receive a report next month on the total
raised.
2. Parish subsidy is $100,000 with a $5,000 gift, a total
of $105,000.
3.
Continue the process of exploring future funding of catholic Schools. What are other catholic schools doing? The finance committee will explore realistic
ideas for future funding of catholic schools.
4. Decision
making – The policy committee will formally request of all committees/councils that
they arrive at an efficient decision-making process that is both collaborative
and allows for quick implementation of decisions. Decision making between the various councils needs to be
more efficient.
Julie
is working on this Policy. Responses to
issues should come through the chair or designated spokes person. The goal is not to let issues get lost
amongst committees.
C. New Business
1. Executive
Committee review:
a. Endowment
- Chris Cline from the Endowment committee provided information on the
endowment for the school. The big question is: Is it a good time to go forward
with fundraising for the school? If it
is should it be specific fundraising for operating expenses or should it be for
the endowment fund? Fundraising for
specific school expenses or operating expenses might be the way to go. Long term fundraising (Endowment Fund) is still
under the cloud of bankruptcy. Money in
an endowment fund is most likely safe but you still can’t guarantee it.
At
this time the endowment is at $220,000, with about $25,000-$30,000 outstanding
pledges. It might be a good tome to
contact these outstanding pledges and ask for them to fulfill these pledges.
The
SAC will ask the Executive committee if
we can pursue raising funds for our endowment beginning next school year with a
Children in Our Lives event.
b. Auction
percentages - The 2008 auction percentages will be 71%for the school
24% for
the parish and 4% for the preschool.
This will be reevaluated for the 2009 auction.
c. Auction
paddle bids - There will be two paddle bids.
One paddle bid will be for general landscaping (phases will be included)
and the other will be for preschool tuition assistance.
2. Survey
results - Sister Moe was very pleased with the number (close to 80) of surveys
returned, mostly very positive. Julie
has spent much time compiling the information.
Two important areas of interest from the surveys are landscaping and
foreign language. The Policy committee
will research the issue of foreign language in a k-8 school, and we will
address landscaping in this years auction.
3. Preschool
proposed policy statements - The SAC policy committee will work with the preschool
to address issues related to registration priorities.
Information/communications/reports
a.
Pastors report:
b.
Principals report: Sr. Moe’s focus is on the ongoing accreditation
process. A progress report will be
presented at the next SAC meeting.
c.
PTC report: No report at this time.
d. SAC
committee reports.
i. Finance
committee:
The
sac will review the 2007-2008 budget in December.
ii. Marketing:
iii.
Process and Policy committee: The P&P committee is continuing to
work on the accreditation process.
iv. Development/Facilities
Committee: Continued discussion on
Children in our lives. This committee
will begin this year to plan a Children in Our Lives event for next year. The topic of using this fund raising event
for long term endowment or for operating expenses will be researched.
The
development committee should meet with the preschool to collaborate on school
and preschool fundraising events.
Future Business/Events: The
2007-2008 budget will be presented at the December meeting. Continue preparation for the Open house
January 17th.
Thursday,
December 14th
Meeting Adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted, Amy
Leahy