Operations Minutes: January 19, 2005

Members Present – Cindy Sainz, Hareem Park, Don Cataldo, Theresa Hilkey, Dennis Biggerstaff

I. Minutes

Cindy read minutes from 1/10 meeting. Accepted by group. Students of the Month breakfast went will this morning. We will try to invite teachers who nominated as well as parents in the future.

An I.H.S., Sarah Johnson, student proposes “hug day.” Group suggested this is a great idea, but there are students who would be offended. We suggested another theme, such as “Random acts of Kindness Day.”
Key Club wants to have a Valentine’s Day activity; buy a bag of chocolates and they will deliver. Cindy suggested that deliveries will be limited to second period….during a 15 minute period of time. Mr. Cataldo suggested the last 20 minutes of the period. That is February 14.
Monday, March 7, students want to have a Mr. Lancer dodge ball game vs. North. This would be at 7 p.m.

Cindy asked Hareem to take proposal back to Leadership from Geography Club to put on a fundraiser for AIDS education and benefit. This would be to sell root-beer floats during National AIDS week, February 7-11. This is also Winter Fest Week, so we approved. Cindy will approve any information or flyers to be distributed.We discussed making the Student Lounge very nice for that week. Needs more decorations.

Some concern that staff meetings start late and run over. Need to have food delivered late. We need to make a commitment to start at 8:00. Wes did not have enough time to finish his announcements. Dennis and Don vow to start meetings at 8:00 sharp.
Suggestion that last day of school be a white day because we start and end on a red day. The feeling was that this would not work well with our focus on final exams and making certain that we have an orderly end to the school year.
Reminder to teachers who are working on long copy jobs in the office to use the library machines.
Suggestion for new assembly schedule that does not put a pep assembly just before second period.
This disrupts 2nd or 6th period classes. We will discuss options under “Old Business” at next meeting.