We hope you can join us for the April PTO meeting, which is this week on Thursday, April 5, at 6:30 in the Media Center/Library. As always, free childcare is provided.

This month the PTO meeting includes a presentation by the Oak Park Education Foundation on what their organization brings to Irving and other Oak Park schools. We will hear more about the formation of a new committee, Different Together, which is a social group offering community and support for LGBTQ Irving families, families with gender diverse children, and friends. We will discuss new wellness initiatives throughout District 97, which may have an impact on room parents and potentially on PTO fundraisers. (Click here to see the District 97 Wellness Council information, including links to guidelines and policy documents.) We will review preliminary proposed changes to the PTO By-Laws. Finally, we will accept nominations for next year’s PTO board officers, as all terms are one year (renewable up to three years in the same position). See all agenda items listed below.

We hope to see you there. If you are unable to attend and would like to discuss anything on the agenda, please contact Laura Crawford at lauracrawford47@gmail.com, Jodie Ackerman at jodiepto@yahoo.com, or any of the other PTO board members (click here for contact info).

Irving School PTO

Agenda for Monthly Meeting

April 5, 2012

6:30-8:30PM

Irving Media Center/Library


1. Welcome

2. Presentation by the Oak Park Education Foundation (OPEF) (15 minutes)

3. Principal’s Report (15 minutes)

4. Treasurer’s Report (10 minutes)
5. Committee Reports: (30 minutes)

a. Announcement of new committee: Different Together

b. Fun Fair & Silent Auction event evaluations

c. Schoolyard Project status update

d. Box Tops update

e. Note updated activity dates on PTO calendar online

f. Other committee reports

6. Votes (30 minutes)

a. Vote to approve/deny budgeted cost of table at OPEF Staszak Dinner as      support to OPEF.

b. Present new cost item for vote at May meeting: Installation of new lettering for an Irving School sign.

c. Present new cost item for vote at May meeting: Audit of PTO finances.

d. Request made by District 97 Wellness Council: Vote to approve/deny limiting PTO fundraisers at restaurants to two per school year.

e. Request made by District 97 Wellness Council: Vote to approve/deny limiting the promotion of all restaurant fundraisers so that they are not directly marketed to students.

f. Vote to approve/deny the creation of an Irving School section on oakpark.com as part of a new presence of District 97 schools.

7. Proposed changes to PTO By-Laws prior to vote at May meeting (10 minutes)

8. Nominations for PTO Officers for the 2012-2013 school year prior to vote at May meeting (5 minutes)

9. Eagle Extras update (5 minutes)

10. Approve minutes from 3/1/12

11. All other business

(Note: Teacher’s Reports will be presented every other month: September, November, January, April, May.)