Hudson Prairie Parent Group Minutes

 May 19^th, 2009

 Meeting called to order at 6:35pm

 Old Business:

                        April Minutes –  Pam Ploeger & Bev Marion

                        Approved:  Jill Schmidt

                        2^nd:  Colleen Gustafson

 New Business:

             Treasurer’s Report – Pam Ploeger

                        Approved:  Jill Schmidt

                        2^nd:  Angie Zehm 

            Principals Report – Susie Prather

                        * Plant Sale ($1044 towards a SMART Board), Garage Sale

                        (raised $330), Technology Day, & Schwan’s Truckload Sale

                        (amount raised will be announced later) were a huge success!

                        * Thanks to all who went to the “Ellen Hosts the Oscars”

                        Shows on Saturday night.  Fun was had by all and the

                        following money was raised:

                                        $1925.50 Kim Warneke Dream Fund

                                        $1925.50 Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk

                                        $66.00 Kim’s Corner in the Library

                                        $550 raised from the Silent Auction

                        * WKCE & NWEA Testing Results are in and they look great!

                        * Hopes & dreams for Hudson Prairie – please let Susie know your thoughts on how HP can be the best school!

                        *Kindergarten Farewell program is scheduled for Friday, May 29^th

                        At 1:30pm

            Fundraisers – Colleen Gustafson

                        * Discussed possible fundraisers for next year.  One possibility

                           is the sale of Gift Cards.  Gift cards would be sold for face value

                           HPPG would receive a portion of the sales.  Will research more.

                        * Another possible fundraiser:  Green Mill night or brunch (similar to Wendy’s night or Culver’s night, but we would NOT need

                           volunteers to help out . . . Green Mill would take care of

                            everything.)  Delivery sales would also count towards the

                            fundraiser.

            Box Tops, Milk Moola, Campbells Labels, etc. – Jennifer Bates

                        *Final numbers for 2008-2009 School Year:

                                    Box Tops raised $2894.10

                                    Milk Moola raised $319.60

                                    Kemps Nickels raised $453.10

                                    Campbells labels – accumulated 9549 points to use

                                                on items for school next year (options include

                                                camcorders, etc.)

            All School Event – Angie Zehm

                        *Friday May 29^th 5-8pm

                        *“Halls of Magic” will perform, games available, food will be

                           be served, and there will be two bounce houses

                        * Still in need of parent volunteers to help at event.  Contact

                           Angie at #715-381-6517 to volunteer for a shift (either 5 – 6:30pm

                           Or 6:30 – 8pm.  We could also use fifth grade volunteers to help

                            run the games area.

            HPPG Website for next year

                        * Susie Prather will post the minutes, agenda, etc. on the district

                           website next year. 

                        * Thank you to Angie Bendt for taking care of this in the past!

            HPPG Board – Current & New will meet over the summer to work on

            transition, Fundraisers for next year, etc.

            Next HPPG Meeting will be in September.

            Meeting was adjourned at 7:35pm