Oct. 6th at 3:30pm

Location Dilley Library

Meeting started at 3:34pm

Meeting attendance: Elisa Litwora, Jill Phillips, Kaitlin Bartel, Megan Burns, Deb

Kolb, Kathleen Redure, Dayna Reese, Annie Wolfington, Cidney Greenway, Kris

Wilson, Jackie Fisher, Online Attendees: Mathew Smith, Haley McLean, and

others

I. Officer’s Reports:

A. President – Elisa Litwora – nothing to report.

B. Vice President – Deb Kolb – nothing to report.

C. Secretary – Kaitlin Bartel – nothing to report.

1. September meeting minutes approval – Elisa approved, Deb

second.

D. Treasurer – Megan Burns- Treasurer report passed out to all participants.

Balance in account is $32,974.90. Love seeing people using their

accounts.

E. Communications Coordinator – Jill Phillips – nothing to report.

F. Website Coordinator – Mat Smith – on Zoom, nothing to report.

G. Grant/Fundraising Coordinator – Allie Busby – nothing to report ABSENT

H. Principal- John Allen – Absent, nothing to report.

II. Current Events

A. Disco Dash Run (Megan and Mat) – Happening Thursday. As of yesterday

almost halfway to funds goal of $6,000. Biggest kid led fundraiser during

the year. We are at $3,635.00 now. Volunteer slots filled. Setup tomorrow

after school. Disco ball and black light. Kids can wear light colors if they

want.

B. All School Tie-Dye (Elisa) – Schedule below of when each class will tie-

dye. Showed an example with and without water to see how colors show

up. Once dry, they go in dryer to dry/cure all the way. Amanda will send

out on Parent Square reminder to families to let them know what the

schedule is if kids want to wear certain clothes to do activity. As we get

going may see about adding another color. Could let dry then decide if

need to add more color. Need to hang them to dry or lay them out in

Room 11. We have a clothing rack but not enough space for all 180 shirts.

If weather is nice, will lay out on tarp then transport to Room 11 to finish

drying. Teachers are running volunteer list. Teachers need to put out

memo and get volunteers. Some classes going at once so parents can

help with any and all. Gloves will be provided.

Teacher Grade 26 COLOR Date of Shirt Dye Class #

Cordes K magenta

Monday Oct. 12: 2 shifts 10

till lunch and after lunch till

2:30 20

Wolfington K hot pink

Monday Oct. 12: 2 shifts 10

till lunch and after lunch till

2:30 19

Marshall 1st red

Tuesday Oct. 13: 2 shifts 10

till lunch and after lunch till

2:30 25

Tionquiao 1st/2nd lavender

Tuesday Oct. 13: 2 shifts 10

till lunch and after lunch till

2:30 28

Wilson 2nd green

Thursday Oct 15 10 am till

lunch 27

Lester 3rd aqua

Thursday Oct 15 10 am till

lunch 19

Fisher 3rd yellow

Thursday Oct 15 10 am till

lunch 19

Greenway 4th orange Monday 12 lunch till 3 28

C. Book Fair (Jill and Elisa) – next week, Mon-Thurs. Setup Thursday night so

classes can come look Friday and purchase online. Fair will be setup but

nobody here from PTO on Friday. Teachers can do wishlist on Friday. Will

have wishlist board in Library with everyone’s list. Also have an e-card to

scan and give money to the teacher’s e-wallet account so they can pick

their own books. Volunteer request list went out.

D. Pumpkin Patch (Mrs. Wolfington) – hoping by Monday will have list of kids

and volunteers. Mr. Allen to go purchase tickets. 5 buses, haven’t been

assigned yet. By this Friday, parents should be notified if they are going.

II. Upcoming Events

A. Carnival (Deb) – November 14th from 2pm-5pm. Changed it to earlier in

the day this year (2pm-5pm). Franko’s hotdogs coming, reaching out to

Ochoa as well. Maze not happening this year, doing mad scientist theme

room instead. Maybe a fundraiser as well, still thinking about ideas. Money

could go directly back to Dilley. Right now it is not a fundraiser, it is a

wash. Would teachers want to help out with experiments? Will have better

idea of activities once we get a little closer. Welcome any ideas for things

to do. Will post volunteer needs in the next week.

B. Dine Out with Dilley (Allie Busby, not here) – Nov. 4 Chipotle, 4-8pm. Can

order online and use code. More information coming.

III. New Business

A. Girls who Code – We qualify for program as after school program. PTO

providing 3 rd and 4 th grade students snacks. Mr. Allen provides buses. We

need to vote in stipend for certified assistant who is running it. We came

out to $640.00 and would take out of STEM room line item in budget. Will

vote at the November meeting. Mr. Allen hoping to start in October. For

now, Elisa has volunteered to do class until those funds have been voted

on. Girls Who Code was started by a mom and her kids. Get kids coding,

teach them science. Youngest they do is 3 rd -6 th grade. Goal is if we already

have transportation, we could offer program for Lego or Robotics program

for younger grades. Stacey (PTO recommendation for person to teach the

class) is trained for this class and curriculum. The program provides

curriculum, very easy to follow and teach. If we have more kids, we can

offer to more kids, hoping to get more kids to Dilley. Program is 3:15pm-

4:30pm. Even have set break times during the class. Strictly girls. Hoping

to get other programs going as well. This is a pilot program to see how it

goes. Elisa meeting with person who has a Minecraft program and see if

we qualify for that as well. We have five girls signed up so far. We won’t

max out class (not saying no to anyone). Mr. Allen brought this idea to

PTO. Have flyer we can send out and will post on socials too. Next

meeting we will vote to approve it.

1. PTO will provide snacks

2. Bus transportation for students

3. Need to Vote – use stem line item to offer a stipend

a) 8 week program $640

b) Vote on November general meeting

B. Book Vending Machine question from teachers – Allie is working on it.

BookWorms provides a vending machine with 210 books. To purchase

outright it is about $10,000. Allie applying for grants for that. Still on PTO

radar. Idea is that every child gets coin on first day of class and they get to

pick a book. Or right before winter break. Or congrats on something, go

get a book. Everyone gets books each time.

Meeting adjourned at 4:04pm