Lorrie Schleg called the meeting to order at 9:40am with the Flag Salute. A sign-in sheet is attached to these minutes. A quorum was present.

ISF Representatives will be canvassing PTSA meetings this month to speak about “Calling for Kids” – now a Fall Giving Campaign, and “Nourish Every Mind” – now a Spring fundraising event for ISF. More information is available at www.issaquahschoolsfoundation.org. Leigh is providing information to educated parents on the importance of the programs funded by ISF that are not funded within District budget, such as Mentor programs, National Board of Certification Scholarships, library grants and technology grants.

Lorrie attended the School District meeting and reports that all District school construction is on or ahead of schedule for the boundary transition in Fall of 2010. The District does not expect that construction at the High Schools will be complete by September 2010, but this will not impact freshman transition to campus.

Mission and Goals: Lorrie described the process of how the Mission and Goals statement was revised for the new school year. The Mission and Goals statement was presented and reviewed by the General Membership. Time was allotted for discussion and questions.
Standing Rules: Lorrie outlined the process through which the Standing Rules were changed from last year. The Standing Rules were presented and reviewed by the General Membership. Time was allotted for discussion and questions.

• MOTION #1 Mission and Goals-Ina Ghangurde moved to accept the Mission and Goals Statement as presented. Motion seconded, discussion, approved by General Membership.
• MOTION#2: Standing Rules: Stacy Heller moved to accept the Standing Rules as presented. Motion seconded, discussion, approved by General Membership.

WASL: Roy Adler presented information on the WASL scores and how the data is interpreted. Individual student scores are available online through Family Access. Statewide, reading and writing scores were down for all seventh graders. PLMS was the only middle school in the District to reach Adequate Yearly Progress goals as required under the “No Child Left Behind” Act.

New “WASL” – Measurement of Student Progress/MSP: The new “Measure of Student Progess Test”, or MSP will replace WASL this year. The test will feature shorter testing segments (90 minutes for the MSP vs. 120 minutes for WASL). Roy also announced that the All School Write would be administered to the sixth and seventh graders this year. The All School Read will be introduced and taken by all three grades.

Roy also spoke about preparations for the District Boundary change for next school year. It is anticipated that PLMS enrollment will fall from 909 (current students) to approximately 714 for the 2010/11 school year. It is also anticipated that there will be teacher movement among the schools. This process will begin in March 2010.

Monica DeRaspe-Bolles presented the financial statement and budget, which was reviewed by the General Membership. Line items were discussed in detail, including the reallocation of Homework Club Funds to a new “After School Library Grant” fund. ISF is taking over the funding of the Homework Club, but funds do not exist to keep the library open and available for this purpose without reallocation.

Gail Oseran also has made a budget request to fund the “After School Cooking Club”. She has asked that the PTSA fund $500 annual cost of supplies to provide this after school enrichment for approximately 16 students.

• MOTION #3: Debbie Alden made a motion that the budget be approved with the following modification: That $5,000 be removed from the Homework Club Grant in order to make a new budgeted item of an “After School Library Grant” for $4,800. Motion seconded, discussed, voted upon and approved by the General Membership.
• MOTION #4: Ina Ghangurde made a motion that the budget line item of Curriculum Grants be charged $500 to provide funding for the After School Cooking Club. Motion seconded, discussed, voted upon and approved by the General Membership.

Bags from TCB are still available for purchase. Please email Francis Clairmont at fclairmont@hotmail.com or Lorrie Schleg (lorrieschleg@comcast.net) to purchase. Fran still plans to sell the bags at another school event, perhaps Bingo Night, in the near future.

Please remember to sign your Safeway Club card up to benefit Pine Lake PTSA.

Stacy Heller called for submissions for the newsletter. The deadline for submitting updates to Stacy is the Wednesday before the Friday newsletter is distributed.

Julie Siefkes reported that a fund has been established to pay for student needs that otherwise cannot be funded by the District. This fund is meant to be need-based. Julie will work with the school counselors to find out what items can/need to be included in this fund. Stacy Heller will detail this offering in the newsletter and e-news. All requests for this scholarship money will be handled in confidence.

Tami DeVita and Tera Johnston to co-Chair this event. We are hoping to schedule this “cheep and cheerful” event the week before or after Halloween on a Friday. It is our goal to keep this event as a simple “Fun Raising “ event.

2009/2010 General Membership Meeting Schedule:
Meetings to be held at 9:30am, PLMS Library

• November 17, 2009
• January 19, 2010
• March 16, 2010
• May 18,2010

2009/2010 Board of Director Meeting Schedule:
Meetings to be held at 9:30am, 23970 SE 40th PL, Issaquah, WA

• October 6, 2009
• November 3, 2009
• December 1, 2009
• January 5, 2010
• February 2, 2010
• March 2, 2010
• April 6, 2010
• May 4, 2010
• June 1, 2010

Meeting Adjourned: 11:15 am
Respectfully submitted by,
Diane Laucius, Secretary