FOGS December 2022 Meeting Minutes

Welcome

Update of conversation with Mr. Elmasri and Joanna

• School appreciates the Urban Initiatives funding. This was voted and approved last year.

Committee updates

• Giving tree – Nicole

  • ~18K pledged or received

• Merch – Nicole

  • Trying to sell through current merch we have at the Holiday Bazaar

  • COMING SOON: New logo by end of year, updated merch in the Spring

• Dine and Donate – Cait

  • First event is 08Dec at Portillo’s

    • Best option is to walk in or drive through vs online ordering

• Fun Run – Joanna

  • Fun Run on 27 and 28 Apr (Pre-K and K on 27Apr, rest of school on 28Apr)

  • Color Run will be tabled until next year, once we see how the Fun Run turns out

  • ACTION for Kim and Joanna to create a sponsorship letter by next meeting

  • ACTION for everyone to come up with a list of businesses to reach out to by next meeting. Use the working list here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qGWsi7cfMHh7ZjwAMU1dwKhJlSg0ztkqYQ7Xv2ocag0/edit?usp=sharing

  • Overall goal: 40K

• Recruitment – Gabby

  • Emailing local early childcare areas to spread word about Goethe

  • March 2023 – Coffee with Mr. Elmarsi

  • This is to make people who are new enrolling are the target demographic here

  • All FOGS members should log on to Great Schools and leave review

  • Stuff mailboxes with postcards beginning of April

  • FOGS members to join LS Parent’s Network

  • Full day pre-k is pending with CPS

• Field of Dreams – Cassie

  • Cassie has been chatting with civil engineer, qualified vendor with CPS

  • Tour has been completed

  • They are putting together plans together for us in Q1 (good, better, best)

  • Ask is to survey community, teachers, etc to see what the wishlist is

  • Probably a 3-5 year project

• Grants – Joanna

  • Progress is expected in new year

• Parents Night Out- Nicole

  • A few potential dates are being thrown around along with events (karaoke, shuffleboard, bowling, etc)

Other updates

• Play - shop and support event – Amanda

  • In progress

• New Furniture – Nicole

  • Amazing! Done!

• Holiday Bazaar –

  • Joanna is going to sell cookbooks

• Holiday Concert –

  • FOGS will set up 2 tables

  • Sara, Amanda B will meet at 8am on 14Dec to set up

  • Amanda E will make a poster

  • Sara will buy some labels and will print for the event (“I support FOGS!”)

• Orientation Handout

  • ACTION: Sara to send Amanda B a list of To Dos (join FOGS, change to AmazonSmile, download Snap! Connect, etc)

Funding Requests

• Young Engineers

  • Kit-based, instructor-led

  • Demo is this week, immediately filled with students

  • Can FOGS pay for a second demo? Owner is hoping to be a CPS vendor, which means we could open it up for tuition-based after school program

    • Cost is $320

    • VOTE: 12 YES, 0 NAY

• Coming down the line - Forklorico

  • New stage is covered by OST

  • Can we fund a second semester?

    • Cost is $1200

    • VOTE: 12 YES, 0 NAY

• New funding request form for teachers

  • Natalie needs some help to explain directly to teachers, Joanna can support

  • ACTION for a quick powerpoint or notification of what FOGS does, what they have funded (Joanna and Ashlee)