September Delegate's Assembly Meeting Notes
1. The MCCPTA
budget for 2009-10 was approved as follows:
$86K income, mostly from dues
$84K
expenses (Principal Dinner, Leadership training, committee budgets, Bluebook
Directory, Payroll for 1 person)
$2.3K
Income
2. The Calendar
Committee gave an update on the draft school year calendar for 2010-11, with a
start date of Monday 8/30/10 and an end date of Thursday
6/16/11.
There will be
no school on Tuesday 9/14 and Tuesday 11/2 for elections, and on Friday 10/15
for MD Teacher Conference. Spring break is scheduled for April
18-25.
Please note
these are not final dates until the BOE approves the calendar.
3. MCPS K-12
Mathematics Work Group wants feedback from parents on how to improve the k-12
math teaching and learning program in MCPS. They gave us a one page handout
with some questions to put forth
to the parent population, but they want each school to compile their results
into a single summary sheet, which I have. FEEDBACK DUE BY 10/23. mathfeedback0001.jpg. The survey can be printed at
http://www.mccpta.com/MCCPTA_news/ptasummarysheet1.pdf. Please turn completed survey into the PTA box in the office.
You can also take the survey online. Click Here to take survey. Note: Responses are limited to the first 100 respondents.
4. Dates for testimony
to Board of Education (at BOE in Rockville):
November 11
and November 12th, regarding CIP. Cluster reps should be
speaking.
January 4,
2010 7:30pm regarding MCPS Operating Budget
5. We will be voting at the October
Delegates assembly on several resolutions:
--Proposed
Resolution on FY2011 Operating Budget priorities (MCCPTA"s advocacy positions
distilled to one page).
--Proposed
MCCPTA FY2011 Operating Budget Compact (MCCPTA's goals they would like to see
reflected in the actual MCPS budget).
--Proposed
Motion on Affordability Guidelines (the County Council is soliciting comment on
basically raising bond fund levels to help fund the CIP). The CIP Committee
wants MCCPTA to submit a
letter to the Council basically saying that it
supports raising bond levels.
--Resolution
on the FY2011 CIP and FY2011-2016 CIP. Main point is that State should
provide at least $40 million for critical school construction funding.