PCC Board Meeting Minutes

May 24, 2010

The meeting was called to order at 5:10.

Kip Morse, President, welcomed everyone and introduced the new Executive Director, Holly Richard.  He briefly discussed some of the new challenges we were facing:  Many key board members leaving their positions, the economy, and a new executive director who is facing a learning curve. One of the thoughts was that we needed to put together a final list of existing board members and look to see if we should bring on new ones.

Holly Richard gave the Executive Director’s report, which talked about the need for our board to become more of a working board.  She revisited the memo that had previously been sent out delineating the different areas of need and asked that all board members respond with an area of involvement.  There was a lively discussion of some additional areas that were needed- most notably a “Pulse” committee who could work on determining the needs of the community and a committee who could re-energize the Words of the Month.

There were many ideas about both of these new areas.  One suggestion was that the “Pulse” Committee could become the driver for many of our programs.  They could help us determine what the community needs so that we can provide necessary programs- not just the ones we think they need.

The Word of the Month ideas consisted of  revisiting putting a sign up on the village green to celebrate the WOM, making sure all school principals were aware of the program and its’ resources, asking the Superintendant to put some energy behind asking all of the schools to participate in WOM programs, making sure there was a monthly article in the SNP or Worthington News about the WOM, providing curriculum ideas for teachers to reinforce the WOM as part of their daily activities, and, perhaps, revisiting the WOMs to make sure they were still relevant to the community. 

There were no Secretary or Treasurer’s reports at this meeting.

OLD BUSINESS- Pat Kelso discussed the wonderful work that the students involved in CIA have done this year, particularly those students from TWHS.  The TWHS students have really stepped up and filled a void that was left by WKHS students who had conflicts with being able to fulfill all of the requests from their feeder schools.  Pat noted that this program was very well-received by the schools, the students, and was a positive experience for the high school students who participated in it.

All other Old Business was tabled due to the lateness of the hour.

NEW BUSINESS

Debra Stephens talked about the Circle of Grandparents celebration and asked that anyone who could help with set-up and serving would be very much appreciated.

Jim McElligott talked about the desire to create a story time at Children’s Hospital in honor of his granddaughter, Campbell.  It would be called “Campbell’s Story Hour” and contributors could either give money for books or contribute books that the children who were hospitalized could enjoy after the story time.  This would involve no additional cost to PCC, but would make any contributions give eligible for a tax write-off.  The motion was whole-heartedly approved with a motion to approve by George Callandine and a second by Kathy Moore.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:50pm.