Meeting Notes – May 8, 2025

Meeting Minutes

Communications High School – PSFA Meeting  May 8, 2025

Executive Board Members Present: 

  • Janet Schneider – President 
  • Patti Riddle – Co-President 
  • Janelle Checkett, Vice President Fundraising
  • MaryAnn Doyle, Treasurer
  • Melissa Skrocki, Recording Secretary
  • Brenda Connolly, Corresponding Secretary

  • Call to Order.   President Janet Schneider called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm and lead the group in the Pledge of Allegiance. 
  • Secretary  – Election of PSFA Board. Melissa Skrocki notified the attendee that the following nominations were received for the PSFA Executive Board: 
  • President – Patti Riddle
  • Vice President – Kat Hernandez 
  • Secretary – Melissa Skrocki 
  • Treasurer – Hope Pressler, Dominic DeMaio and Kendi Thomson.  

The PSFA voted and approved the nominations for President, Vice President and Secretary.  Paper ballots for the Treasurer role were distributed to all members in attendance and were collected.  The votes were tallied by the Secretary with oversight by the current Treasurer and Hope Pressler was elected Treasurer for the 25-26 school year.   

  • Skills USA Stipend Request
    1. Mr. Stengle, the faculty advisor for Skills USA, introduced Sofie Grodman (Sophomore).  Sofie and 3 other students won their district competition and are headed to nationals in Atlanta.   The cost per student is $1,125; the district will pay 1/3; each family will donate $500 each; the club has also fundraised and they are asking the PSFA to provide a donation of at least $1,000 to cover the balance for all 4 students.   The PSFA asked additional questions and it was determined that $1,000 would not cover all of the costs.  The students exited the room and the PSFA discussed the matter and decided that, because our fundraising efforts were so strong this year we could provide additional funds and granted a $2,000 stipend to the club.  Any remaining balance will go into the Skills USA account for next year.   
  • SGA Report: Stella Feinstein 
    1.  The SGA and various student groups have  been busy hosting Spirit Week (congrats Seniors on 6th consecutive win),  Battle of Bands, and Senior Commitment Day.    This Friday is CCC – please come take a culinary tour of the world at CHS.  On May 28 the DV Club is hosting Film Fest, Senior Awards night on May 28.and on May 30 we will have our last school dance of the year.    
    2. The SGA elections will be coming up soon and will be reported at the next meeting. : 
  • Principals Report 
    1. Today two teachers went to visit another district and are excited for all sophomores to be taking the AP Seminar.  The staff are really getting excited for the next schedule and class offerings for next year.  
    2. Kudos the all of the classes for spirit week and all of the great events going on! 
    3. The Summer will be busy and working on improvements to the building. 
    4. Reminder about the school clothing rules – please remind your children to dress appropriately and in line with the school’s guidelines.
  • President’s Report – Janet Schneider 
    1. Teacher Appreciation Week was this week .  The PSFA gave each teacher and staff member a jacket.  We also provided a lunch for staff yesterday. The PSFA Executive Board personally organized and covered most of the expense for a teacher appreciation lunch, Thank you Exec Board!  
    2. On May 12 the PSFA will host a pizza party for the seniors in gratitude for selling the most 50/50 tickets.  
    3. If your child qualified to be an applicant for the PSFA Scholarship they would have received an application from the Guidance Department.  Please check in with your students.   
    4. The PSFA has paid for caps and gowns for each of the seniors and will host a  “Decision Donuts” breakfast for them on June 13.   Each student will have a donut that has their college on it.  It will be the same day as yearbook signing day. 
    5. Senior Award Night will be on May 28.  We will provide 10 scholarships to seniors. 
    6. Color Wars will be held on June 6.  We have to sent a list of parent volunteers to the administration.  Volunteers are selected from those parents that have been active in the PSFA for the year and from that group, senior parents get preference. 
    7. June 5 is the last PSFA meeting of the school year.   
  • Secretary’s Report – Melissa Skrocki 
    1. The April minutes were posted on the PSFA website.  There was a motion to approve the minutes by Janet Schneider which was seconded by Kat Hernandez.  The March minutes were approved unanimously by the PSFA. 

  • Corresponding Secretary  -We received a few thank you notes from teachers for the jackets and lunch.  
  • Treasurer’s Report – MaryAnn Doyle
    1. As previously notes, the PSFA has paid for teacher gifts, senior gifts, cap and gowns and will be booking the profits from the gift auction. 
  • Color Wars – Diane Calabrese
    1. The volunteer list has been submitted to the administration.  
    2. The PSFA will pay for the t-shirts for Color Wars for each of the students and parent volunteers.  
    3. She will be coordinating with Hospitality Committee to organize food and drinks donations.  Please volunteer when the email comes out.  
    4. Nothing Bunt Cakes may be making a dessert contribution for the day. 
  • Fundraising Committee–Patti Riddle
    1. We raised $20,600 at the gift auction.   Thank you to everyone!  
    2. We need someone to step up to run the fundraiser for next year.  If you have interest, please reach out to Patti.    Patti also asked if people would prefer a pocketbook bingo or a traditional gift auction and the attendees voted in favor of a gift auction.   
    3. Thank you to the Scardino Family for your generosity in renting The Breakers to us at a discount and your continued support! 
  • Membership Committee  – Krista Kingsley
    1. Maryann  Doyle will be taking over for next year.   We are looking forward to family members joining for Class of 2029. 
  • Communique Newsletter – Rori Davis
    1. This role next year will take on PR role as well with the social media posts.  Please look at the Communique! 
  • Hospitality Committee – Lisa Lippincott
    1. We have 3 members who will take over for next year including Tara Hughes who was in attendance at the meeting.  
    2. We will host our final bagel breakfasts of the year on June 16 and 17.  We will give priority to Senior parent volunteers for this last breakfast. 
    3. Color Wars – we will send out a sign up genius for food sign ups.  Please pay attention to the details in the sign up genius.  Let us know if you have any issues with drop offs/ delivery. 
    4. Senior Breakfast  – We will host the senior breakfast that was previously discussed. 

 

  • Spirit Wear – Hope Pressler
    1. We are thinking of one last spirit wear store sale for the year – please keep an eye out for our blast.  We will continue to run them through Sneakers Plus and work to deplete our inventory. 

Next PSFA Meeting is on June 5 at 7pm.  It will be in person.

  

Motion to Adjourn at 7:50.