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2018-2019 SCHOOL YEAR PAWS Board Meeting

Meeting Purpose: PAWS Board Meeting

Location: Horizon High School Media Center

Date of Meeting: May 1, 2019

Time of Meeting: 6:30 pm

Meeting Called By: Judy Kirk President

All members and attendees listed below, attendance noted by an "X" by the name:

Co-President

Co-President

Judy Kirk

Polly Maloich

X

x

Accents George Gonzales X

Advisor Open Position Badminton Deb Coloma-Roessle x

Treasurer Jen Buehler X Band Monica Snyder -

CFO Tim Abraham - Baseball Lyn White x

Vice President Open Position Boys Basketball Jean Chawki X

Recording Secretary Janet Richards X Boys Soccer Cara Hughes (Paul Tran) -

Membership Judy Kirk X Boys Tennis Amy Klaubunde -

Prevention Monica Snyder - Cross Country Nicole Blaha x

Grad Nite Chairperson Open Position Dance John Bauer X

Scholarship Chair George Gonzalez X Drama Spotlights Jennifer Brown(Deb C.) x

Grants Chair Kris Hardison X Girls Basketball Tara Cabardo, X

Public Relations/Email Blast Open Position Girls Soccer Tracey Leebrook -

Website Open Position Girls Tennis Robin Kenny X

Consumer Incentives Open Position Gridiron Jean Chawki X

School Council Kellie Parten X Lacrosse (Girls) Christie Kane X

UPC George Gonzalez X Softball Debby Tutrone x

Teacher Appreciation Open Position Spiritline Carol Leninger X

Administration Linda Ihnat - Swim and Dive -

Volleyball Debby Tutrone x

Wrestling Conni Oliviero

Lyn White

-

x

Parent – Spiritline Traci Gellman x

Parent – Girls’ Basketball Stephanie Sebastiani x

Parent – Dance Steve Millstein x

Meeting called to order at 6:34 by Judy Kirk.

Dates to Remember/ Action Items /Announcements:

May 6-10 = Teacher Appreciation

May 14 = Yearbook Signing Party

May 16 & 17 = Senior Final Exams

May 22 – 23 = Final Exams

May 23 = Graduation

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EXECUTIVE BOARD REPORTS Title Representative

Name

Report

Co-President Judy Kirk • Judy reviewed the dates to remember listed on the agenda.

• The slate of nominees was discussed. Vicki Best and Monica Snyder (both

nominees) were not present at the meeting. The following motions were

made in regard to each nominee. o Judy made a motion to nominate Tara Cabardo for President and Lyn

White seconded it. Judy made a motion to nominate Polly Maloich for Advisor and John Millstein seconded it. Judy made a motion to

nominate Kris Hardison as Grants Chair and Jen Buehler seconded it.

Judy made a motion to nominate Vicki Best as School Council rep and Kellie seconded it. Judy nominated George Gonzalez for UPC and

Scholarship Chair and Kris Hardison seconded it. Judy nominated Monica Snyder as Prevention Chair and Janet seconded it. All

nominees were voted in.

• Teacher Appreciation lunch will be Tuesday, May 7 from 11-1, and a breakfast

will be on Thursday from 6:30 – 9:30. We are also collecting gift cards for the teachers. Gift cards can be dropped off in the PAWS mailbox or given to

Nichole.

• Grad seat auction. One bid for 4 seats starts at $100. The deadline for the first round is May 6. This is a fundraiser for PAWS. If there are more bids

than seats then second round begins. 56 seats are auctioned off, which amounts to 18 families. The auction closes Monday at 6 p.m.

Co-President Polly Maloich • Polly will be training Tara over the summer.

• Polly asked club reps to have their treasurers contact Polly about their bank accounts. Anyone not on the board shouldn’t have bank access. PAWS reps

need to resign if they are done this year. The president and treasurers need to complete a formal resignation. Polly asked club reps to remind their club

board to turn over debit cards to the active president. If they do not yet have

a president, then they should turn cards over to Tara. Let Tara know if the treasurer is leaving and then Polly and Tara will contact you.

• There will be a mandatory operations meeting in September. This meeting is

mandatory for club presidents and treasurers. The district requires this and therefore we take attendance. We don’t want to jeopardize our 5013C status.

• Office Depot cards – we can’t get new ones so please make sure they are

passed along to new club presidents.

• If your club is short the required people, let Polly and Tara know this summer

so they can help you out. To be active and in good standing, each club needs a president, treasurer and PAWS rep. The president and treasurer can’t be

married to one another.

Advisor Open Position

Treasurer Jen Buehler • Jen distributed the April report and said it is preliminary.

• We received over $1500 in membership funds and over $1000 for consumer incentives. Grants were recently paid and these are not reflected on the

report. We spent $597 in grants and are now at our budget for grants. We spent $500 on the vaping/opioid presentation. We have a balance of over

$18000.

• Polly mentioned that clubs waiting for a check should email Tara so she can check our mailbox before the school closes.

CFO Tim Abraham • Absent – no report sent in.

Vice-President Open Position

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Membership Judy Kirk • Judy stressed the importance of PAWS attending the club Parent meetings. We need to tell parents what PAWS does. It’s a big fundraiser for us and

funds a lot of our scholarships and grants.

• Judy asked clubs that have received a grant to talk up PAWS.

• Additionally, Judy said to let parents know the difference between club booster club and the PAWS booster club.

Prevention Monica Snyder

• Vaping and Opioid presentation was very well attended. We estimated around

250-300 in attendance. There is discussion of bringing Stephanie Siete

(presenter) back in the fall.

• Horizon has set the date to provide Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training all of their certified staff on July 31st from 7-3. CRN will provide two

trainers to assist with this event to co – train along Nurse Muth and Jennifer

Crowley (both YMHFA trainers). This places HHS in an incredible position to be considered as a pilot school for Teen MHFA.

• Teen Mental Health First aid is a great way to bring mental health first aid into

the classroom. Mental Health USA and Born This Way foundation are piloting a teen MHFA (tMHFA) program here in the US. The program has been

successful in Australia and is now being adapted for the US. Ms. Ihnat is very

excited about this opportunity as well. There is no guarantee HHS will be selected but this is an exciting opportunity. The cost for the implementation is

roughly $3200 not including transportation and lodging for each instructor being trained. Each instructor can train 100-150 students. I wanted to give

you a heads up as we are going to try and get support through our site council. We may want to consider allocating funding from our prevention

budget if needed.

Grad Nite 2018

Open Position • Since we will not be having grad nite, we discussed how to spend this money.

Last month we talked about purchasing a cold water fountain for water bottles for students. Apparently PAWS Bylaws prohibits the board from being able to

write a check for this. Instead it has to come from an outside group or club at

school, in the form of a Grant request. There is also an issue with the plumbing for the water fountain. It costs money for plumbing and electrical

work. It was decided to add the water fountain issue as a topic for next year. The Board will vote on using the funds over the summer.

• Polly talked to Linda about getting a drone to take video and pictures at

graduation. Linda is thinking about it and Polly will ask her about it again

Thursday night. The group was discussing other options if Linda does not approve the drone. We would want to do something at the senior breakfast,

like taking a panoramic picture, forming an H on the field. Deb offered to take pictures since she’s a photographer. She will contact Polly.

Scholarship

Chair

George Gonzalez • We received 149 essays. This is a 39% increase over last year. Breakdown of essays for categories is: Academic – 19, Comeback – 37, Fine Arts – 29,

Athletics – 30, Community Service – 23, Pride - 11

• Volunteer judges need to submit their top 3 choices to George by Friday May 3rd.

• Senior Awards ceremony is on Monday, May 20th when the scholarship

recipients will be recognized.

School Council Kelli Parten • Admin reviewed the master schedule and the new 5th hour. Next year will

probably be a successful trial year.

• Admin gave a Prom recap. There was an issue with the music and we got half of our money back.

• Graduation seats – see above.

• For next year the in-hour teacher training will focus on mental health first aid

training – anxiety and depression.

• There may also be a suicide prevention training.

• Kellie will remain on the site council but as not as a parent since her daughter is graduating.

Public Relations

/ Email Newsletter

Open Position

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Website Open Position

Consumer Incentives

Open Position • Please connect your Fry’s card to HHSBoosters and get the word out to your

groups.

Teacher Appreciation

Open Position • Judy said the teachers enjoyed the pizza and the bagels this year.

• This position is important and is open for next year.

Grants Kris Hardison • Volleyball presented a grant. It passed 15-2.

• No report for the rest of the year.

UPC George Gonzalez

• A 6% increase in salary was passed by board for next year. #1 in state 2

years in a row. Highest rate of increased salary.

• Kim Gurlin, Asst Superintendent for Elementary will be leaving for a position with Scottsdale Unified School District. Position will be back filled.

• North Ranch Elementary - Principal accepted a position in Indiana.

• Sky Crossing Development – up by reach 11. Architect has been chosen and

hired for preliminary school plans. No date set for construction to start - at

least 2 years away. New Superintendent and cabinet will make decision.

• Latest demographics for district - Birthrate is down 25%, District has a 80% capture rate. We capture 80percent kids. There are 51 Charter school within

1 mile of district boundaries. District enrollment predicted to go down next year – impact at the elementary school level mostly.

• UPC Teacher Appreciation – 650 nominations with 39 schools participating.

Horizon had 19 teacher recognitions. Highest number we had.

• More information on UPC can be found at: http://www.pvupc.org/info.cfm

• Facebook – facebook.com//UPCPVUSD

Admin • Judy pointed out that we got some admin representation at some of this

year’s meetings and we hope to get more participation next year.

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CLUB REPORTS Title Representative

Name

Report

ACCENTS

George Gonzales • Spring Concert is Wednesday, May 8th at 7:00. Tickets on sale on Choir website

• Choir Awards Night - Monday, May 13th

• Broadway Under the Stars theme for next fall is Once Upon a Time.

Badminton Deb Coloma-

Roessle • No report.

• Get physicals in the summer if you have a fall sport.

• New coach – Forensics teacher, Coach Q. She’s the Boys Tennis coach also.

• 3rd in state for team.

• 1st in state for doubles.

Band Monica Snyder • New Band Parent meeting was April 30.

• This year all incoming freshman will be required to participate in marching band, therefore we should have a good group heading into the fall season.

• Final concert and band banquet scheduled for end of this month.

Baseball Lyn White

presented • 2019 State Playoff Results: Apr 27th Victory v Gilbert 5-2; Apr 29th Victory v

Cactus Shadows 6-5

• Semi-Finals May 2nd HHS v Millennium @ 6:30 pm Hohokam Stadium

• May 19th End of season Banquet

• Season Stats: Varsity 21-7, JV 15-3 and Freshman 19-0 (*New school record)

Boys Basketball Jean Chawki • Boys are in spring practice mode. Summer camps 5/27-6/28

• Coach Ramirez is leaving as head coach for the freshman team. He accepted a

position as an assistant coach at a Texas university.

Boys Soccer Cara Hughes

Paul Tran • Not present – no report sent in.

Boys Tennis Amy Klaubunde • The boy’s tennis team season is over. They did not win a match, but played a

lot of very tough teams with almost every boy winning at least one match.

• Last weekend we had our end of the season banquet. It was a fun season.

Cross Country Track

Nicole Blaha

• Off season

• Kids will start summer running the first week of June or so.

• SoCal Running Camp is July 14-19.

Dance John Bauer

• The Dancers will be performing their fabulous Spring Concert this week. Shows

start at 7:00 in the HHS auditorium Thursday and Friday nights – tickets are

$10.

Drama

Spotlights

Jennifer Brown

Can’t attend • The kids are wrapping up another great year for Drama.

• Drama Awards and Thespian Induction is May 17 at 6:30

• The seniors will perform the My Dream Role show on May 21 at 7pm in the PAC. This is a truly a one-of-a-kind performance and a wonderful way to send

our seniors off into their promising futures. Join us to say a fond farewell and

break a leg as they share their talents on the Horizon stage for the last time.

Girls

Basketball

Tara Cabardo • Summer Basketball Leagues and Tournaments will start at the end of May.

• The girls will also participate in ASU Team Camp.

• Girls basketball will also offer a summer camp program for elementary through middle school girls through Community Educ.

Girls Soccer Tracey Leebrook • Not present - no report sent in.

Girls Tennis Robin Kenny

• Ranked 7th and qualified for state.

• Lost to Xavier.

• 8 returning players. 4 seniors

Lacrosse

(Girls)

Christie Kane

• Girls Lacrosse finished with 2 wins with the majority of brand-new players.

• Banquet is May 9th.

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CLUB REPORTS Title Representative

Name

Report

Gridiron Jean Chawki • June is busy with 7 on 7 and competitions. Camps are in July.

• Fundraising at Raising Canes May 7. Just mention HHS football.

Softball Debby Tutrone • Girls won the first game of post season play and will be playing in Tucson on

Thursday, 5/2/19.

Spiritline Carol Leninger • New Spiritline season is starting. Recently held tryouts for current Horizon students, 34 on the team currently.

• Planning to hold tryouts in July for incoming students. Have over 25 incoming

students already interested in trying out.

• August 14, 2019 or September 11, 2019 would be good meetings for a PAWS

membership rep to attend since we will have all the team on board then.

• New Board was elected: President: Rhonda Parga

Vice President: Peggy Lang Treasurer: Shelly Jurek

Secretary: Stephanie Mahrer

PAWS Rep: Traci Gellman (she came to the meeting) ** Names and email addresses were emailed to Judy Kirk on 4/24/19

• Sponsorship Drive is starting. Funds will be used for new game day uniforms. Haven’t had new uniforms in over 6 years, current ones are falling apart and

the fabric is very hot. New uniform material will be much better for Arizona heat. If anyone knows someone who may be interested in being a sponsor,

information is on our website, HorizonSpiritline.com $250 – $300 per uniform.

Swim and Dive • Not present.

• New president contacted Judy and Judy will send me the contact information.

Volleyball Debby Tutrone • Not in season.

• They thanked PAWS for the grant money.

Wrestling Conni Oliverio

Lyn White present • May 18th Free Style Wrestling State Championships, we will have several kids

participating

• June 15th we have our first annual Husky Duals wrestling tournament in the

gym

• Congratulations to Husky Wrestler Scott Kellenberger, Jr for making the top 30

“Nations Best 2018/2019 High School Senior Wrestlers” … appears in May 31 issue of Wrestling USA Magazine

• First Husky Wrestling Invitational December 13 and 14, 2019 at Horizon High

Open topics:

Open discussion topics:

Meeting adjourned at 8:05 p.m. Minutes taken by Janet Richards

**Judy distributed the PAWS General Meeting schedule for 2019-2020.