Dear Members of the Grady Elementary Community,
Based upon the tremendous success of Tiger Trek and our receipt of sponsorship funds all year long, Grady Elementary PTA plans to expend funds to replace the chain link fence on the all of the northern border and part of the eastern border of the school with a metal, wrought iron-style fence. In addition to beautifying the school, the fence, which will have spire-topped posts and a new keypad opening system, will provide enhanced security to the school. We estimate that we will spend approximately $15,000 on this project. We will sell commemorative plaques that will be displayed on each section of fence that allow a family to sponsor a portion of the fence, and we will use the money from those sponsorships to fund the second phase of the project. This project comes in addition of the $9,000 spent on curriculum enhancing materials, $6,000 pledged or paid for teacher grants (books, iPads, instructional supplies, author fees, etc.), $3,000 for musical instruments and other monies that we have spent on educational enhancements this year.
With such a large expense now anticipated, the PTA general membership must meet and vote as to whether to apportion money from our budget to this project. Thus, the PTA has set a general meeting to vote on the apportionment of monies from our budget toward the perimeter fence for Monday, March 24, 2014 at 7:30 am in the Teacher’s Lounge. The meeting will only take a few minutes. You can attend while your child attends Tiger Trot or eats breakfast at school. We hope that you can join us for the meeting. If you plan to attend, please email me, Ellen Lyons, by return email (email: GradyPTACommunications@gmail.
Sincerely,
Grady Elementary PTA
Grady Elementary PTA 2013-2014 Board – every Child. one Voice.
Damaris Allen, President ([email protected])Debbie Bresnahan, VP of Membership ([email protected])
Kris House, VP of Sponsorships (GradyPTASponsorships@gmail.
Jennifer Narvaes, VP of Events ([email protected])
Ellen Lyons, VP of Communications (GradyPTACommun
Jessica Schentrup, VP of Fundraising ([email protected])
Melissa Azevedo, Secretary ([email protected])
Julie Cuevas, Treasurer (j[email protected])