B. Business

     1. Approval of Minutes- minutes approved

     2. Treasurer's report - Heather Shield's reported a balance of $17,158.10 . This balance includes the check from QSP for $515.14 and the $1000.00 check from SCC for the Big Red Award. There are several more items to pay for, such as, 8th grade dance, 2 Big Red Awards, teacher appreciation luncheon, etc. PTO's checking account needs to leave $1500.00 reserve for track expenses that was approved by PTO earlier in 2004. Plato was given $470.00. Mrs. Davis suggested PTO table funding anymore Plato products until next year.

C. Unfinished Business

     1. Staff Appreciation, May 5th, catered by Wayne Cumberland - Jane Mayo has confirmed with Wayne Cumberland about catering luncheon. PTO will pay for 4 substitute teachers to be available during lunch, this allows the staff to eat together upstairs away from students. PTO does need an accurate count of staff.

     2. Big Red Award - April 20th - need volunteers for Big Red. Terri Stenger is working on providing volunteers. The 3rd Big Red Award is the most expensive at $3020.00 approximately.  The next Big Red Award will be much less. Christina Sapp reported that there will be some changes going on next year concerning the Big Red Award. It will be more focused on positive reinforcement and training teachers will be involved. A motion was made to hold back $2000.00 in the PTO budget for next year, to get them started until after the magazine sales profit could help with finances. Christina also mentioned that the teachers working on Big Red Award have done tons of work coordinating and researching, she motioned that the PTO do something nice for all their extra time. It was approved that Elizabeth Shaller will get a $50.00 gift certificate from Cafe RELwith a thank you note for each teacher, they are, Terri Hunter, Karen Wiggins, and Kaye Rickman.

     3. Newsletter - Newsletter went out to students.

     4. Boxtops

        a. Robison class winner with a total of 191 - PTO originally said that top seller in each grade would get donuts & juice, however, it was quickly realized that PTO was not earning enough in boxtops, therefore we gave the top seller, Robison's class, donuts & juice. Mrs. Wiggins didn't think that was fair because they worked hard to win. Her class was the only other class that even came close to Robison's. Jane Mayo suggested that we give Wiggins's class Resses cups for a treat. It was approved by PTO and Jane will take care of getting the candy to Mrs. Wiggins

        b. Total money earned on boxtops was $114.80 - MMS PTO will no longer participate in the Boxtop program.

        c. Total spent for breakfast approximately $29.00

     5. 8th grade dance - On May 5th the committee will need to meet to fold invitations to 8th grade dance,  address the envelopes, seal, and put stamps on them to be mailed. We will meet at 8:00am.

        a. set date for next meeting - Elizabeth Shaller will email Sherry Brewer, Theresa Trammel, and Jane Mayo to set up meeting.

     6. Officers for the 2005-06 school year - Jane announced slate of officers for the MMS PTO, it was motioned and approved, they are: Lynn Talley - president, Michelle Maslin - treasurer, Christina Sapp - vice-president. Mrs. Maslin suggested that maybe having meetings right after school more teachers might attend.

D. New Business

     1. EOG testing, proctors needed - Terri will work on volunteers.

     2. Critical Thinking lecture by Chuck Oberst - Jane Mayo emailed members of PTO asking for a reply as to whether we were interested in having Chuck Oberst give us a lecture. It was determined that since this is our next to last meeting, it was not a good idea, we need to wrap up a lot of PTO business to hand off to next year's PTO.

E. Funding Requests

     1. Mr. Brooks - Thanked PTO for money for DVD players for teachers. PTO 's checking account balance will need to deduct $700.00 fot DVD players.Requested $1140.00 for new radios for office. It was approved.

     2. Ad for evening meeting with the high school PTO - Jane asked that the MMS PTO pay for an ad in the Franklin Press thanking participants in the drug meeting and assemblies last month at the high school. It was approved.

     3. Overhangs for outdoor classrooms - A motion was made to pay for overhangs ($6000.00) to be purchased for walkways to Ms. H. Shield's and Mr. Haley's trailers. It was approved.

     4. Plato - Plato has been tabled until next year.

F. Pat Davis - not in attendance

The last meeting for MMS PTO is May 12th in the Gear Up trailer at noon!

Minutes submitted by Elizabeth Shaller