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September 2014 MPC MEETING NOTEs

9/19/2014

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Mather Parent Council Minute Notes
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Sherman: Stand if you... 
          What do we have in common? What Do we share?

Sierra (co-chair MPC): Welcome
  • 375th birthday year: everyone needs to pull together for the October celebration,
  • Sign Petition to create a square in Marie Connolly’s name at corner of Parish/Winter Streets (part of 375 celebration)
  • Transition year: need to elect new parent committee heads, MPC positions  
  • Ways to connect with the MPC: emails, fill out your parent info form,connect with your child’s teacher, closed facebook page(?), MPC blog on Mather website, other ways?
  • Choose themes you want to know more about (top 5) for future meeting topics
  • Moto: “Together for our children”
  • Zahra: Family liaison, free developmental screening for 3 and 4 yr-olds, other family resources through BPS.

Marie: Mather 375: What is it?
  • Poster by Corey and Peter
  • Sun. Oct 19th Opening convocation, in 1st Parish: Pastor, dignitaries, children’s performance, everyone welcome, 5pm community dinner, birthday entertainers, kids activities w/ (City sprouts, etc.), ½ price dinner for all Mather families and K. Stranberg has complimentary tix
  • Mon. Oct. 20th: Statehouse ceremony to declare Mather Day
  • Weds: Oct. 22: commemoration in auditorium, children performing, Mayor Walsh and VIPs, open to public but ticketed. Begins at 9. Cake and tea reception in tent on Meeting House Hill following the ceremony
  • Thursday: Mather birthday field day (teachers will run this)
  • Friday Oct. 24: Benefit fundraiser at Phillips House

How do people get involved?  
  • Attend!
  • Tickets online
  • Facebook, Twitter
  • Donate: items from your business, any items for raffles/auction
  • Solicit donations from other businesses, community, etc.
  • Volunteer at any of the birthday week events: set up, serving food, etc.
  • Need help figuring out parking, get quotes for printing, find a DJ for Phillips House event, share listings w/ community calendars, data entry
  • Need to translate poster into Vietnamese, Spanish, Creole

Fundraising
  • Looked outside of Dorchester (so as to not exhaust local funding), 5 out of 100 donated.
  • Fundraising letter to solicit donations from local business: looking for gift cards (375 gift cards?), bigger items for auction
  • Sign up on the poster to solicit specific businesses (to avoiding repetition)
  • Need to translate solicitation letter into Vietnamese, Spanish, Creole
  • Translation issues: Vietnamese parents in attendance are not able to understand. Should be a topic for a future MPC meeting on communication

Alicia (Site Council Co-chair)
  • We need more parent representation on the Site Council
  • Meetings every 2nd Thursday/month, 5:30, daycare and pizza
  • Need for diversity of membership
  • Site council advocates for school budget (specialists, etc.), hiring decisions, school resources
  • Next site council meeting will focus on beginning of school transition issues

Katie Lee (Chair of Environmental Committee)
  • Wellness day on Saturday at Mather, 10-2

Break up into Committees (find out more about the Main MPC groups)
  • Executive
  • Appreciation/Support
  • Environmental/Wellness
  • Social/Event
  • Programming
  • Outreach/Communications
  • Fundraising
  • Classroom Volunteers

Chat, ask questions and mingle.





  






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