Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
June 1, 2021

6:30pm

Still looking for a PTA President for next year.
Treasurer’s Report: Expenses – JOT Forms, ZOOM Account, Teacher Appreciation, Artful learning $4,700. Check was dropped off at the school. +1,800 from Amazon Smile.
Needs to be closed out.
Membership Dues still need to be paid. Kelly will re run the membership list and Kevin will contact the Oregon PTA to see if additional dues are due.
March meetings approved
Board: President and Treasurer positions are still open. Keep looking and asking. Treasurer is the most needed position. High priority. Email Even Smith, Stephanie will be the contact for
positions. Susan Locey is the new Admin Assistant. Contact Susan Kosmala to see if she can mention it in Fridays IG live.

Next Year Board Members Updated 8/4:

• Stephanie von Ahlefeld – President
• Shannon Kandel – Vice President
• Treasurer – UNFILLED
• Secretary – Michelle Hickman (Williams),
• Allison McGillivray- Membership
• Kristen Beauchamp Volunteer Coordinator

Funding Letter: General Expenses, ½ Berstein at a time, fall and spring. Need to vote over email once we get a total from Ms. Kosmala at the end of the year. Cookie dough and popcorn
fundraising. Chromebook cart – still needs to be purchased. Hang on to the money for next year. Library funding is all paid. Ice cream social is still available. Rename to Welcome event.
Rolling the lockers – Has it happened? Staffing is staying similar – Staff and teacher allocation.
Girls night account 2019/2020 $644 raised, being held. Software needs to be purchased. Not voting tonight.
When does the board meet in the summer? Kevin and Heather be available to transfer info to the new.
Bash planning, start talking now. Finding location. Deposit will be needed. November is normally when it is held.
Alison sending Heather her email. Kelly will work on transition details and will give to Allison.
Adjourned: 7:01pm

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
March 2, 2021

6:30pm

Attendees: Heather Miller, Allison McGillivray, Amy DeBolt, Jessica Christensen, Kevin Wagoner, Susan Kosmala

Susan Kosmala
-Picture day went will and will offer to other feeders
-MAPS Testing done
-2 proposed schedules
-Case counts continue to go down
-Survey coming soon
-Simulcast when they are not in person
-Go to all 6 period and the classes would be simulcasted

Next Board meeting next tuesday night

Treasurer’s report:
97K funds available
Sun Budget ($2550) ($2500 raised – Matched – Check going to Ellie Cannon

4/5 – 4/18 Virtual Book Fair

Teacher appreciation – Video, Thank yous
Point Person needed for the water bottle fundraiser after the book fair, possibly launching afterEarth Day

New Business – RAT Race – Cancelled

2021-2022 Board Elections
Nominations – for all positions for next month’s meeting. Heather, Kevin, and Kelly are all out for next year.

Adjourned: 7:12pm

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
February 2, 2021

6:30pm
Attendees:
Susan Kosmala, Heather Miller, Kelly Skelton, Kevin Wagoner, Kristen Beauchamp, Heather Rawlins, Stephanie von Ahlefeld, Anne Marquand, Jessica Christensen

$1075 up to match
$785 raised for teacher to the beach

Boosting Sun School up to $2,500

Book fair Date in April

Teacher Appreciation – Starbucks for January, pictures, videos, sign hold up, can be teacher specific.

Ms. Kosmala – ODE puts out state testing – Map Testing was put on pause. ODE request through federal government. District wants to do map testing, shut down @ 2 hours. Measure above and below grade level.

Successful Schools Survey – last year 50% participation want 80% this year. Math next week after then Language Arts, week after next.

Physical Cohort for grade levels. Teachers classrooms will be all over the building. Different entrances, transportation routes. A symptom screener at entry. Hand washing video, cough into elbow, & distancing.

Electives may stay in remote learning. Families who do not want to come back, distance learning will be provided. May not be with original teachers. The district will be sending out surveys. 2-3 Cohorts per grade level.

There will be track opportunities

LIPI – Limited In person instruction
Plenty teachers have volunteered

Forecasting for next year coming soon.

8th graders will be returning as well.

School pictures – Lifetouch. 2/19

Events: No Place for Hate

Anne Marquard former Jackson teacher for 23 years- Water Bottle fundraiser presented to the PTA. PTA would earn ½ of what the price of the bottles are. Wave Hydration.

4/7 virtual success meetings

Membership Check being cut to the Oregon PTA

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
January 5, 2021

6:30pm
Attendees: Heather Miller, Kelly Skelton, Shannon Kandel, Stephanie von Ahlefeld, Kevin Wagoner, Tessa Tini, Kristen Beauchamp, Heather Rawlins, Susan Kosmala

Treasurer’s Report:
Sun Funding $1000, add $500
Balances: $47K Checking, $45K Savings (Bernstein Reserve)
Made ($9700 income)
$2K unfunded, $5000 unallocated
Matching w/ community idea. For $ to be matched, tax deductible contribution
Jackson matching up to $2500 contribution
Adding a Sun School Support line – Income / expense
Modify Spending – can update budget if needed next year

Teacher to the beach – Donations get nominations and additional opportunities for teachers to be picked. Heather set up and donations will be made online.

Ms. Tini presented about the Virtual book fair: Junior Library Guild. Low Maintenance and high possibility. Book fair will be online and will run for 2 weeks.

Teacher Appreciation ideas – Powells GC, Appreciation notes

Ms. Kosmala – Planning on reopening, vaccines for teachers, matrix to reentry, blueprint for reopening on website. Cohorts, thresholds, students can’t come into contact with more than 100 people. Current changes: increased signage, added plexi-glass, 35 sq. ft. per student, classrooms are taped off. Grade level entrances, 1 bathroom for every 4 classrooms. District would still be obligated to provide distance learning if the #s are still above the metrix.

Yearbook: Picture day is Friday 2/19. Info before the end of the month

8th grader forecasting for Wilson mid Jan.

Jackson: Don’t know if anyone will get laid off due to the budget.

Virtual Outdoor school – Spring

Wilson renaming goes to the board next Tuesday, but not sure when the final result will be revealed.

Jackson renaming: Date TBD, will be doing student interview, equity and review, then to committee, empathy interview – it will be an open ended interview.

Adjourned @ 7:34pm

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
December 1, 2020

Attendees:
Heather Miller, Shannon Kandel, Kevin Wagoner, Stephanie von Ahhlefeld, Jessica Christensen, Kristen Beauchamp

Treasurers Report:
$1179.50 membership, $5705.67 General Appeal, matching gifts
Expenses: licensing, insurance, registering w/ state, email. 2 checks haven’t cleared, technology expense

Volunteer Needs:
Staff Appreciation for Jan. Wreaths of lunch were given for December

Winter Drive:
Ended 12/1. Donations excepted all year through Impact NW’s Website: impactnw.org. Make sure you designate Jackson SUN, since there are 9 sites.

Yearbooks: No updates

PTA Emails:
Send things and ideas to Shannon Kandel. Mental Health / Physical Health Newsletter.

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
November 3, 2020

6:30pm
Attendees: Heather Miller, Kelly Skelton, Shannon Kandel, Susan Kosmala, Jessica Christensen,

Treasurer’s report
Income since last month includes $7,600 in donations, $2,600 in membership dues. No expenses are showing this month, we will see some next month.

Notes from Kevin (not in attendance) were:

Complete
*IRS 990
*Oregon Charity CT12
*Insurance Renewed

To Do
*Upload documents ot PTA UGS
*Complete the Audit
*Still need to fix the posting to Money Minder for the Membership info. I looked at the data and I need to calculate what the transaction was for from each person (how much they gave to membership, donation, etc). I need to sit down and spend a few hours on that. Attached is an income and expense report.

Bank Balances
$54,341 Checking balance
$45,078 Saving balance

Volunteer report:
Coordinators for staff appreciation are needed for months January – May We’ve received enough financial donations to cover staff holiday gifts of wreaths/or gift cards.
Jessica reminded everyone of her Winter Project which collects items for families at Jackson.
Donations are due by December 1st, gift cards or cash donations are welcome. The sign up for donations has been sent via email and is posted in the Facebook group.

Ms. Kosmala’s report:
Conferences are happening November 23 and 24 from 8 am to 8 pm
Sign ups will happen through an application call Sign Up Genius, which will also send follow up emails with reminders and the ability to add to a calendar. Emails will go out this Friday.
Sign ups will be broken up by grade level and then into electives, and counseling/support staff so parents will receive multiple emails. Staff decided it was easier to receive multiple emails than to have parents comb through one long list of 50+ staff members.
Ms. Kosmala highly recommends going into the conference knowing what YOU want to talk about. Don’t be afraid to lead the discussion.

Make one appointment for block teachers, or teachers you child has for more than one class.
Only schedule conferences with teachers you want to to talk to, don’t feel obligated to sign up with every teacher.

Wilson High School name change
Two members of the name change committee came to the meeting to offer an update about the Wilson name change that his happening this year. Martin Osborne, a community member, and Ellen Whatmore, a Wilson teacher.
The committee plans to present their proposed name to Superintendent and the school board by December 15th of this year.
Everyone is encouraged to visit the website at:
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o5PsdYQBIaMjCXad5I4sLUhctnYwhMLrxBI6y8v2U

The form to submit a suggested name is:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScM5DgOQFdHUgS0ePxWY2g_ozWDNaVX7IsLZ0
nKAwW_2Wx_Uw/viewform

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
October 6, 2020

Attendees: Heather Miller, Kevin Wagoner, Kelly Skelton, Stephanie von Ahlefeld, Kristen Beauchamp, Susan Kosmala, Jessica Christensen, Chrstine Stonecliff, Allison McGillivray, Celina Paul, Sanders-St. Claire, Amy Debolt

Treasurer:
Kevin – Hasn’t had to write many checks but will soon for Money Minder. Heather was able to set up a Stripe account instead of PayPal.

Fall Volunteer Needs:
Teacher Staff Appreciation – “Thanks a Latte” – Dutch Brothers / Starbucks Cards. Kudo board – Up on FB and on PTA Email. November – Lunch Gift Cards – During Conferences
Pooling Funds – roll funds for staff for appreciation
42 Teachers $15 each / 23 Staff $10 each
December – Holiday Wreaths
$900 has been collected, hoping for $2,300
Other School Support – Hospitality

Adopting a family for the holidays – Parent donation / Volunteer – Jessica and Heather will connect

Kelly – Updated Membership –

East Coast Trip – Cancelled – Susan Kosmala will follow up

November – Parent Teacher Conferences – Working on a Sign up / Details

Adjourned at 6:50pm.

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
September 8, 2020

Attendees: Heather Miller, Kevin Wagoner, Kelly Skelton, Jessica Christensen, Stephanie von Ahlefeld, Susan Kosmala, and more..

Minutes: 8/18 Approved

Standing Rules: 2020-2021 Approved Meeting Dates to be changed to reflect 1st Tuesday of the month.

Budget: 91K to start the year; income versus expenses. Normally make 60K per year. 28K income, 51 Expenses, reducing 22K – Which Matches tech expense. Cookie sale and Bash not happening
Rat Race, Culture Day, Tech Expense
Jessica – Need to fundraise for this year to recoup what is being spent. 1st Jessica, 2nd Kara to approve. No objections. Passes unanimously.

New Business: Cancelled Bash, Cookie Dough, Rander – Vendor for Popcorn, orders will be online and Vendor will package orders, and drop off at the school. No minimum. Decision was made to delay until spring due to the school not being accessible for distribution.

Committee Reports:

Membership: $20 half to JMS $ half to Oregon/National PTA.
Volunteering: Needs are different, none in building, upcoming supply days.

Ms, Kosmala – 2020 – No binders. There are few technology systems not talking to each other.
Starting to teach online on Monday 9/14. There will be a dramatic increase in work and meetings for the students. Teachers are ready to teach with positivity, success. Schedules teach kids how to be organized, successful, goal setting for assignments, MAPs testing for L/A, Math, narrows curriculum who are high achieving, adaptive testing for high school, college level.
Racial inequity, social justice, teaching tolerance. K12 standards, interpersonal skills, identity & diversity. Anti defamation league – ALO or ADL. “No Place for Hate” It gets students ready for
activism. This is being coordinated through Robert Gray.

Success Classes – Live Classes through counselors. Creating patterns, lessons build off each other.

The feedback from the 6th graders has been positive.

How will the ramp ups go? Ms. Kosmala is confident that kids in Spanish and Math will meet the curriculum. New Spanish teacher Mr. Goldstein will get coaching. There is a scope and sequence community link in the Jackson Jaguar.

Elley Cannon – Sun Site Manager – Schools Uniting Neighborhoods:

Normally there is curriculum running after school, social services, extra lunch clubs. Currently SUN is helping with utilities, food and rent. Elley is looking for a Co -Lead for this – Email her if interested. Donations – money requested for families needs. Currently there are monthly food deliveries being made but there is a request for money / Gift cards due to the storage and distribution taking space in volunteers garages. The current budget of Impact NW, is going to
paying bills since there are currently no after school staff. All individual donations are spent on social services. The requests have increased. Proposal for donations – Redirect funding –
Motion to redirect funding. $ for direct ask $7K

Meeting was adjourned at 7:20pm.

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
April 28, 2020

Attendees
The meeting was called to order at 6:02 pm on April 28, 2020, by President Jessica Christiansen. Board Members present
Kathy Jennings, Michelle Marsden, Heather Kramer, and Annie Lindekugel via Zoom.

Motion to approve minutes from April 14, 2020. Alyssa Maxwell motioned to approve. Kathy Jennings seconded.

There is a surplus of $15,500 this school year. Kathy Jennings covered outstanding reimbursements from Girls Night Out.
A full reimbursement for all GNO will cost about $1,000. We look to have $14,000 to spend this year. The PTA gives the
library $1,000 dollars for books. The 6th grade summer ice cream social has a budget of $500. The PTA pays for rolling the
locker combination forward ($250) gift cards which will be moved to the next years budget.

Preliminary Business
No additions/changes to this meeting agenda were requested.

Treasurer’s Report – Kathy Jennings & Jessica Christiansen
Review budget – 2019-20 financial commitments

• GNO maximum potential expense to be incurred $981.
• Surplus expected to be in excess of $14,000.

2019-2020 Budget
Expenses not yet incurred due to shortened “in building” school year to be carried over to 2020-2021 budget included in
Summer funding letter.

• Library funding ($1,000)
• Ice Cream Social ($500)
• TA Thank You/Rolling Lockers ($250)
• Chromebook Purchase Proposal
  • Ms Parrot’s Cart:
    Ms. Parrott’s cart is full of old Lenovos that are starting to fail. We’d like to purchase a new cart with
    Chromebooks for her classroom. Ms. Parrott’s old Lenovos would go into the office for use by
    Math/Science/Electives. Cost: $11,640.
    Vote to approve the Chromebook Purchase proposal as outlined in Treasurer’s Report. Michelle Marsden
    motioned to approve purchase of Chromebooks. Kelly Skelton seconded. Unanimous consent to purchase Chromebooks.
  • Office Cart:
    There is an empty cart in the office. If we were able to purchase Chromebooks to fill that cart, it would be used for
    Math/Science/Electives. Currently there is a lot of competition for the available cart. Cost for 36 Chromebooks:
    $9,936. (Motion needed to approve with balance of surplus and withdrawal from our reserve funds.) Alyssa
    Alissa Maxwell motioned to purchase the Chromebooks. Kathy Jennings seconded. Unanimous Consent to
    purchase Chromebooks.

New Business

• Vote to approve Kevin Wagoner as PTA Board Treasurer for 2020-21 starting July 1, 2020. Kathy Jennings
  motioned Keven Wagner to replace Kathy Jennings for 20-21 school year. Michelle Marsden seconded.
  Unanimous consent for approval.
• Staff Appreciation fruit boxes. Vote to approve cost remaining after donations (if necessary). The donations were
  privately funded because the PayPal app was not working.
• PTA Board officer transition plan. Typically there would be a summer board meeting, but this year, we are
  handling hand off on an individual basis.
• New Jackson PTA Board Members elected to serve from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021:
  President: Heather Miller
  Vice President: Shannon Kandel
  Secretary: Stephanie von Ahlefeld
  Membership: Kelly Skelton
  Volunteer Coordinator: Kristen Beauchamp
  Treasurer: Vacant*
  *As approved by membership via email vote tallied on April 5, 2020, the Jackson PTA Board met via Zoom on April 6,
  2020 and confirmed Kevin Wagoner as Treasurer, and a membership vote will be taken at this meeting. Further, the
  current Treasurer will be held-harmless for good faith efforts to transition documents and authority to Kevin Wagoner as
  though he has been approved by general membership.

Principal’s Report
Grading, Online Learning, Staffing Budget, Building

• Building – the school is mapping out how they can open up the school for the kids to pick up locker items safely.
  It will be soon and a very strict/ safe process.
• Online Learning – up and running, scheduling predictability is in place, on track for a common understanding
• Grades – We are now moving into new content, so students need to make sure they continue their work and
  have solid foundation of concepts. The teachers will spend more time on fewer standards. Third quarter grades
  are due this Friday. Grading for fourth quarter will be pass or fail. Grade up through March 13, counts. You can
  improve your grade with the work that you do until June 5th 2020. Big feature of state plan was the District is to run
  the show.
• Staffing Budget – This pandemic will have an impact on school budgets. Mitigating factors include federal money
  to come to PPS. Looking at major budget cuts. School budgets have frozen. We may not hire for any future
  positions until July. There is still so much is undecided and more federal funding to come.
• 8th Grade Graduation – Working on putting together a plan for 8th graders to celebrate the students.
• Ice Cream Social – Projected save the date for incoming 5th graders.

Jackson Middle School PTA
General Meeting
March 3, 2020

The general meeting was called to order at 6:35PM on March 3, 2020 by President Jessica Christiansen. Board members Jessica Christiansen, Michelle Marsden, Kathy Jennings, and Kristen Beauchamp were present.

Introductions of the people present were done.

Preliminary Business
The February meeting minutes were not available, so they will be approved at the April 7^th meeting.

Only one addition/change to the Meeting Agenda – One additional announcement by Michelle Marsden.

Guest Patty McMahon came to update us on the SWNI grant for SUN for which the PTA wrote a letter of support in January. A $2,000 grant was given for “Code Squad” computer class. It will start for Spring term.

Treasurer’s Report
We received our Amazon Smile check for about $120.
Checking balance – $44,783.49
Savings balance – $45,075.27

New Business
President Jessica Christiansen reported that SUN funding was reviewed by Elley Cannon, and their revised budget is fine for now. No ask from the PTA at this time.

Volunteer Coordinator Kristen Beauchamp reported that the March Staff Appreciation event will be led by Julie Worley and the date is TBD. 

Vice President Michelle Marsden reported that we will be donating a basket to the Oregon PTA Conference in April for their raffle that benefits teacher scholarships. A theme of “Berstein Artful Learning” was suggested. In addition to a student-made birdhouse and notecards, she will be asking for donations of art supplies. 

Old Business
Jessica reported that a RAT Race Lead has been found. Kendra Rothert volunteered for the job. It will be a scaled back event this year with no lap count and fewer prizes. Volunteers needed that day to keep things moving. The event will be Thursday, April 30, 2020. Fundraising objective(s) still being clarified by Ms. Kosmala. The monies may be used for new tech for the re-done auditorium. Also, Chromebooks are still needed. PTA is waiting for final numbers and prices.

Kristen reported that our Pizzicato Dough for Dollars earnings are $579.00. Going forward, we can only schedule one event next year due to low turn-out at our two events this year. 

Michelle reported on updates to the PTA Board for 2020-2021. We have a Secretary! Need for President, Treasurer and Bash Lead are still urgent.

Committee Reports

Volunteer needs – End of the year needs to be discussed next time.

Boys’ Night Out – Not sure where things stand with the CUB the PTA offered to pay for. ($192.00) Event is on the school calendar for Saturday, May 9th. 

Principal’s Report
Ms. Kosmala was unable to attend. 

Announcements

• • The JMS Peer Helper-sponsored food drive will be March 16-20. Grades compete for the most pounds donated. The winning grade gets a patio popsicle party at lunch! Last year we collected 4,444 pounds of food, and this year our goal is 5,000 pounds! The food donated will benefit both the Jackson SUN pantry AND the Neighborhood House in Multnomah Village. Most needed items:
    • Pasta sauce
    • Easy mac
    • Soup packets (not cans)
    • Canned chicken and beef (not tuna)
    • Peanut butter
    • Jelly
    • Cereal
    • Oatmeal packets
    • Deodorant
    • Shampoo and conditioner
    • Pasta
    • Rice

• The Watershed Resource Center has another community project planned for the Jackson walking path on Saturday, March 14.  They will be planting native plants and removing ivy at the west end of the trail. Anyone interested in helping out meet on the trail at 9am that morning.

Schedule of Upcoming Events
3/6 – Parent Coffee with Ms. Kosmala- 9:30AM in the Community Room
3/12 – Choir & Band Spring Concert at 7PM
3/14 – Girls’ Night Out for 7^th & 8^th grade girls from 6:30-10PM
3/16-20 – Jackson Food Drive (See Announcements above.)
3/3-27 – NO SCHOOL – Spring Break
4/7 – April PTA Meeting

Meeting adjourned at 7PM. Guest Presentation on Vaping followed the General Meeting.