This week, the PTA is holding its 2010/2011 PTA Officer Elections. Each spring the PTA accepts nominations to fill the following PTA officer positions: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Corresponding Secretary and Recording Secretary. Presently there are two openings on the board: President and Recording Secretary.
Three members who have expressed interest in returning: Vice-President Cathy Cardosa, Treasurer Sue Cleland and Corresponding Secretary Amanda Wilkinson-Brown. You must be a current PTA member to nominate or be nominated as an officer.
Contact any current PTA Officer to nominate a PTA member for a position. Nominations must be in writing and must include your name, who you are nominating, for what position and why. You may submit a nomination via email or paper to any current PTA Officer.
PTA Committee Coordinators
If one of the PTA officer positions listed above is not for you, there are other ways to help support the PTA and all the activities that the PTA does for our students, teachers and community. Throughout the year the PTA needs help from parents in many areas. This year we have had great success with Kim Crawford as our volunteer coordinator.
We want to build on that success by creating four support roles around the key components of the National PTA mission: advocacy for excellent education, communicate to the community about our great school, host social events to build a sense of community, and fundraise to support all of these activities. These are non-elected positions, but they are sorely needed to help the board more effectively share the wealth of opportunities to support our kids and teachers succeed. Responsibility for these roles can be shared as well.
Education Coordinator
Work with our faculty and Principal to identify classroom and campus needs specific to education that the PTA can support, organize support for parents helping out in the classroom keep our classroom magazines subscriptions current, facilitate any software upgrade and purchases, etc.
Communications Coordinator
Help produce our fliers, signs, website, Facebook content, public calendar, PTA Welcome Packs, materials for parents, local media, realtors as needed, work with GRPS PR, keep the PTA bulletin board up to date, etc.
Social Coordinator
Make sure our events through out the year are pulled off with out a hitch such as the fall social, sledding party, holiday movie, etc. Organize meals and PTA table at conferences, Liaise with neighborhood groups and churches on schools’ behalf.
Finance Coordinator
Work with the PTA Treasurer to manage fundraising efforts, funds dispersal requests, collection center upkeep, grant writing, and any other finance related actions.