FOGS MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
7:30pm
Meeting start: 7:34pm
Board members present:
Angie Yarusso
Lindsay Semph
Jamie Militello
Derek Becker
Andy Distel
Hillary Scharmann
Mary Nisi
Joanna Miner
Amanda Bull
Genevra Knight
Intro & welcome and cheers to the holidays
Follow Up On Actions from last meeting
Website updates
Quick tour of the site www.fogschool.org
Looks amazing! Thanks to Lori Hammer for helping get this together. We’ll be able to include volunteer opportunities directly onto our page
Survey & parent outreach
BAC & PAC Intro call with Angie; the groups agreed to more intentionally collaborate
Survey will have parents rank investment priorities -- can even ask the kids to rank priorities, too, and we can publish results publicly to help add to transparency.
Finance Update - Genevra
LSC report update to help solve transparency issue; it’s already been sent to LSC Chair Rick Cruz -- we’ll do this moving forward before every LSC meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ln9uRHbcLzZNJ24R7nuISp7uG_ktFehP6lk3SclZRO4/edit?usp=sharing
Fundraising Goal for this year: $50,000
Giving Tuesday -- made ~$8400; Facebook will be matching a portion of that TBD
Raised $12,010.26 YTD so far; does not account for an outstanding LBOTS check
Initiatives Status /Updates:
New Annex Building - Amanda
Just sent letter out this week; could be a great blog to post on the website once we start to get responses
Jamie and Angie will work on a blog post
Recruitment - Joanna
Start planning after the holidays; elementary school application deadline has been extended
Angie to share Goethe logo with Joanna
STEAM - Angie
At a standstill -- staff didn’t like the STEAM curriculum group
Teachers are more interested in PD and equipment for staff to organically build rather than have a company to plug in
Cookbook Committee - Mary
Very close to getting onto Facebook; waiting on Spanish translation
Classrooms are already amping this up!
Deadline for recipes: 2/1/2021
Walk Bike Run A-Thon - Omari
Omari has to take a step back, FOGS looking for someone to lead this effort; will regroup after the holidays
Goethe’s Got Talent - Angie
Sign up has begun - deadline 12/18 - 20 students have signed up already!
To reserve your ticket (and donate if you would like!): https://www.fogschool.org/post/goethe-s-got-talent
$10,000 snack pack fundraiser with Fresh Marketplace; we’ll need to package up these snack packs, Fresh Market Place will take care of the rest; if we sell 400 snack packs, they’ll donate $10k to us! We’ll be the testers for them to see if this will work
Volunteers Needed - will keep to a very small group to do this for the sake of safety
Mon Jan 4th - pack the snack packs
Tues Jan 5th - pack the snack packs
Wed Jan 6th - Set up snack pack back display at FMP
Joanna will reach out to Girl Scouts troop leader about volunteering
Goethe Game Night
Next Step - Angie to schedule a call with the team to plan, post holiday.
Goethe Fest - Rick & Derek
Sound & lights quote - will wait until after the holidays
Apparel Design & Merch Shop - Hillary - will have outline after the holidays
Solidarity Fund - $1,561.21
Waiting on Barb and Nader to figure out what to do with the funds.
FOGS Funding Requests:
Goethe’s Got Talent - Execution Costs $2,540
Snack Pack Merchandising: $2000 (boxes & signs)
Zoom Webinar Software: $140
T-Shirts for performers $400 (30-40 t shirts)
Vote: Angie motions to approve GGT execution costs
Mary seconds
10-0 - vote passes
Heath Davis - Science Lab Kits for next year - we will wait until we know when we will go back but it will be $8000
Teacher Strike Contingency Idea -- will think through how to best support our kids if this happens once we have more information re: strike
Need Help With:
Translation
We need someone who can take a copy of the website and translate it -- blogs and everything
Would prefer to have someone volunteer rather than pay; maybe there’s a group of people we could ask to volunteer for this
Another option for the time being: stick into Google Translate and ask someone to proof it
Jamie, Araceli, and Andy offered to help with smaller things as a second set of eyes
Angie will talk to Admin
Social Media engagement
Facebook will not promote posts throughout entire followers unless paid for OR were more active
Looking for people to post 2x/week
Need all to like/comment/share posts
Collect list of things FOGS has contributed to Goethe over the years
Genevra will compile this and work with Nicole to fill in gaps
Research cost of a digital marquee for the school - Jamie will investigate this
Work with Barb to come up with specific items they want for the office and security desk set ups
Meeting close - 8:47pm
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