Welcome from Mrs. Hart

• • Things are going great this year!
  • Thankful for all staff and new kindergarten families
  • Shared new district policy changes
    • Won’t offer chocolate milk at breakfast but will at lunch 
    • Have to offer lunch time during early release days
    • Can no longer have events with outside food 
    • Take effect during school day, not sure it applies to outside of school hours
      • Food services can work with us for events
      • Allergy friendly 
    • Doesn’t affect the food we provide for teachers, it is regarding the food we provide for students
    • Snacks that are donated by outside families 
      • If we have students who do not have snacks, food services have provided snacks

• No more snack donations going forward for students and classrooms

• • There will be a share fridge in the cafeteria
    • This could be used for snacks 
  • Field day popsicles- can we have them? We previously got them donated by Stop & Shop.
    • Ms. Hart will look to procure an item that is similar

Walk a Thon

• Great success

• Raised just under $12,000 total 
• Thanks to Meg and Kyle for stepping up 

Enrichment

• Update from Meg C
• Nov 13th- Ashley Woods
  • Personal story in history from Dominican Culture
  • Highlights speaking Spanish
• Acrobat- Li Liu
  • Demonstrates Chinese culture
  • Early January
• Mark Rothstein- Jump rope artist
  • May
• Whale Mobile
• Historic Beverly 
  • Women’s history in March 
• Internet Safety
  • A bit pricey
  • Can be broken up across schools
  • Seeing if other PTO’s want to coordinate
  • Sarah Simmons knows about someone coming to BMS, she will reach out 
• Create & Play after school enrichment
  • October 22nd

Budget Update

• Update from Joanna
  • Reviewed what we have brought in 
  • Reviewed what we have to spend and projections
  • Reviewed expenses
• Is there a way to get a wish list for larger items
  • Have to loop the right people in for tech stuff etc because it will have to be serviced over time
  • Make a list and then will prioritize based on how  many students will be effected and it will serve
  • Mrs. Hart will work on brainstorming a wish list

Bev Ed Foundation

• Has to be programming and not materials
• Looking for the next Bev Ed Rep
• Thinking about and brainstorming ideas

Calendar of upcoming events

Date	Event	Discussion Notes
October 11	Fall Frolic	-still need 1 more volunteer in order to qualify for the money
October 30	Trunk or Treat	-Next meeting October 14th (6:30) and 21st -Zoom on the 14th and in person on the 21st -flyers went home in mailboxes -launch ticketing on Friday
November 3rd	Election Day Bake Sale	-Share and get on peoples radar -Bake sale items needed for early November -Will need volunteers day of -Ally will be in touch with Health department and file the paperwork
November 4	PTO Meeting #3
December 9-11	Book Fair
March 27th	Adult Night Out	-“Bring Back Summer” indoor cornhole tournament planned by Carmen & Jesse -Location is the Beverly Elks -Summer themed get together -not as many raffles as the past few years -more of a community event and less than a fundraiser -It is the night before Easter- Meri will reach out to Carmen

Follow Up from last meeting

• Mrs. Hart will look into taking the school supply vendor off that sent erroneous school supplies
• Lacrosse equipment for Mr. B
  • Sent Meri a statement to read (read full statement here)
  • It is $1,315 to include 26 sticks, 4 goalie sticks, 4 goal, 18 balls
  • Access and exposure to all different sports and activities
  • Hesitancy is it equitable, can we do the same for all specialists?
  • Gives the opportunity for others to come forward and ask for items as well too
  • Welcome any other teacher to come 
  • Brought to a vote- and there were no oppositions
• Red Sox
  • May 2nd 
  • Better seats under the overhang
  • Online option where people book it themselves- easier for everyone to pick the tickets but will be a few dollars more per ticket
• Massachusetts PTA Membership
  • Some of the grant applications the grant doesn’t close until the following school year
  • Different regulations with each type of grant
  • $250 membership fee
    • Access to a grant search engine for the entire US
    • Only caveat is we need to have 25 teachers or parents to sign that they support the PTO or have supported the PTO in the last year
    • Paulette would then apply for the grants as they come 
  • Everyone agrees to move forward with the MA PTA membership
• Talent Show
  • Judeth brought it up as a new event
  • Could this replace family Bingo 
  • Who is eligible for the show? 
    • Students and families
    • Teachers and families
    • Public?
  • What would people be doing for the show?
    • Music? 
    • Comedy set?
    • Acts would need to be screened for the entire talent show
    • This would take a team of 2 people 
  • Who would we be open to attending it?
    • Would it include them in attendance, would we be open to opening it up to Ayers community extended family members/general public?
  • How long would the show be?
    • Recommend # of acts
      • Judeth will share with us
      • 45-60 min (8-12 acts about 3-5 min)
        • If more than that is there an intermission 
        • Is there concessions
        • Raffle tickets
  • Would we use the school facility?
    • Ms. Hart suggested the HS or MS
  • How much the ticket would cost?