B. Business
     1. Approval of minutes - minutes from February 10th were approved      2. Treasurer's report - Heather Shields could not attend meeting, therefore, Jane Mayo gave report. $16,846.51 is the PTO balance with an additional $400.00 check just received from QSP, making the current balance of $17,246.51.

C. Unfinished Business
     1. Staff Appreciation for March 10th - Jane reported that the person who was to clean up today at 3:00pm would be unable to do it. She would come and clean up instead.
     2. Big Red - Pat Davis reported the committee needed to make an adjustment  because of the amount of sickness going around the school. All students who have otherwise qualified for the Big Red award would be allowed to go even if they had missed more days than allowed, but only is they were excused absences. Mrs. Davis also, said this Big Red Award would be more expensive than the last two. She didn't have any numbers to give right now. The date is set for April 20th with a back up date of April 27th.
     3. Newsletter - Amber has been put on bed rest until the birth of her baby, therefore, she will not be able to do the newsletter. Tammy Dills said she would as long as all info was emailed to her. Her email address is tdills@angelmed.org . The newsletter will need to go out with report cards on March 16th.
     4. Evening Meeting - March 22nd with High School PTO - Elizabeth will make copies and distribute to teachers, the flyer, announcing the evening meeting. These flyers are to be sent home to parents.            a. petitions - If anyone wants another petition, please take one.
     5. 8th grade dance           a. committee meeting - changed committee meeting from March 15th at 4:00pm to March 14th at 4:00pm. We will meet at the Party Zone.           b. Date of the dance - May 20th, 7:00pm until 10:00pm.
      6. Box Tops           a. Final collection April 4th - To date box tops has collected $67.00 with Mrs. Wiggins class coming into first place with 155 collected. The PTO discussed whether MMS should continue collecting or just allow the elementary schools to do so. A motion was made and passed for the MMS to stop competing with the other schools and allow them to collect box tops.           b. Volunteers needed to help count and bundle - we will still need to complete this year with the counting of box tops.

D. New Business
          1. Staff Appreciation for April 14th - The PTO decided to serve the staff appetizers. Volunteers needed.
          2. Staff Appreciation for May - Wayne Cumberland email a menu for the PTO to choose from, our choice was the assorted salad buffet for $9.00 per person.

E. Committee Reports
     1. Newsletter - Amber Golebiewski - see above under newsletter.
     2. Volunteer Coordinator - Terri Stenger -  Terri reported that there are many upcoming events that will require volunteers.  If you are interested in volunteering, please, contact her.   SAS/ Big Red - Christina Sapp - Mrs Davis reported that the committee had come up with a way to reward the students in the last quarter. Since grades are not given out until after school is out, the committee will see which students who had qualified for the previous Big Red Awards, and those students will get to participate in the last quarter Big Red Award.

F. Funding Requests
     1. Plato - Mrs. Davis reported that since the MMS has had 3 principals, that Plato has been put on the back burner. This was discussed and PTO agreed with her. Plato will be tabled until next year.
     2. Thank you from Mrs. Wiggins - Mrs. Wiggins sent the PTO a thank you note, thanking PTO for the $45.00 for her trading store.

G. Pat Davis
Mrs. Davis told the PTO she would like MMS to do a parent/teacher orientation for all grades, separately , next year, before school starts. Hopefully this would help parents feel comfortable getting involved with MMS PTO. The PTO discussed the it's dilemma with getting PTO positions filled. Mrs. Davis will work on this problem. A PTO president and secretary are needed. Mrs. Maslin has agreed to be the PTO treasurer.

H. Officer Seagle - did not attend

I. New Century Scholars
The PTO discussed whether we should continue to support New Century Scholars. PTO felt that now they have gotten more community support that we have fulfilled our purpose by helping NCS get off the ground. PTO concluded that using money raised by MMS students to support NCS was not in MMS students best interest. A motion was presented and passed, not to give NCS The $500.00 requested.

Next meeting will be April 14th, 2005 at noon, in the Gear Up trailer!

Minutes submitted by Elizabeth Shaller