Dry Grad Parents Meeting

Jan 11th

Minutes

 

Student committee report:  Great turn out for the Christmas Tree pick up.

            $764 raised. Thanks to Alyssa Hooper for organizing the grads.

            Sweatshirts and  sweatpants will be ordered soon. Look out for that.

            $53 for sweatshirts and about $45 for pants. A 1 year membership to BCAA

            was won by graduate  Nikki Anasatsiou in a video contest. It was given to

 Aura and the donations committee.

Committee Reports:

            Fundraising:  Christmas trees made $764

 Info tel will probably be the weekend of Feb 19th. Call

 Dionne Bakalos if you can help drive. Flyers will go with

 each info tel to advertize for our manure sale and dinner

 and auction night.

 Mushroom Fundraiser is April 16th with alternate date of

 April 30th.

 Dinner & silent auction is Mar. 12th. Plan to be there and

 bring friends!! Tickets to be made up cost is $18 and

 only 122 tickets to be sold. Group will need help putting

 baskets together.

Nesters Vouchers have changed forms. They are now the

gift cards that come in  $25, $50 or $100 sizes. They

can be purchased at the store so the transaction time is

1 day once there is $1000.

            Entertainment: see attached report. Group voted down the palm reader.                                            Raj Gupta will approach Jullian Northcott to see if he

                                    would be interested in doing the pictures and flash drives

                                    again. He will have him contact Lisa West.

Lisa will also look into where Sandra Richardson got the lanyards and flash drives 2 years ago.

            Decorations: Nothing to report as of yet. They will be meeting before

                                    the next meeting.

            Food committee: Nothing to report. They also will be meeting before

next meeting to discuss ideas such as different vending areas.

            Finance: Pat sent the financial statement via email. We have $3984.43

                                    plus the $764 for Christmas trees.

           

Next meeting: Wednesday Feb 9th. The group thought maybe a change of days may bring more parents out. Attendance is poor and time is passing quickly.

Entertainment Committee Update:

 

Prom DJ – Dwayne Mollin available June 29th – same service as last year (5 hrs from 8pm to 1am, with games and working with theme).  Quote this year is $1070 – up from $970 last year.  He has had another school express interest in the same night, but we are first in line -  I will need to get back to him tomorrow to confirm, and we will need $500 deposit out to him this week.

 

Hypnotist – Casey Jones booked for June 30th 8:30 to 10pm – 90 minute show for $1000.  Deposit has already been sent out.  This is a discounted rate, as we have booked in conjunction with Pen Hi and Maggie, who are having their Dry Grads within 48 hours of ours.

 

Party Works – booked for June 30th 10pm to 2am – mechanical bull, bungee run, Velcro wall, laser tag.  Total cost is $5,598.21, with deposit of $2,799.10 due Jan 31st.

 

Setting up board games & Wii in Senior Lobby – gives those not wanting to wait in line-ups (or looking for down-time) something else to do.

 

Other ideas still being considered:

 

Photo Booth – possibility of working with Pen-Hi or Maggie to share cost of company that provides this service, or creating/manning a photo booth ourselves (less costly, but definitely more time/energy)

 

Palm Reader – was a hit last year - need to contact her to see if she is available, and whether she would be able to tone it down a bit??

 

Henna Tattoos – individual in Penticton who does tattoos for parties – have not contacted yet to inquire on price.  Also, not sure if there is interest from students.

 

Other ideas?????

 

Committee has not met since November – my fault, lack of time.  Have put the call out to the other committee members if one of them would like to take on chair position, as I am not able to attend parent meetings on Tuesdays, and am not able to commit an appropriate amount of time or resources to  job due to my crazy work/life schedule.