Meeting was called to order at 6:30PM by President Cheryl Wells.

The February minutes were read and approved.

There was a reminder to use the new emergency response system, not the one from the last week.  A form was sent out.  If you do not receive a letter by the end of this week, let your school building know.  There is a link on the Copley-Fairlawn website for the emergency response system.  If you have received a call, you are in the new system.  Even if you already added additional numbers to the old system, you will need to do this again for the new system.

Treasurers Report:  Leslie Stoyer
We have 29K in magazine sales to date.
We are on budget at this point.

Presidents Report:  Cheryl Wells
Helping Hands award was given to Jodi Vrabec
The Educator of the Year Award was given to Windy Lewis.

The Founders Day lunch was very nice.  Cheryl thanked all who helped.

Junior Achievement opportunities are available.  If you are interested, contact Janet Tektas.

The PTA convention is April 18-20.

The Volunteer Luncheon is May 13, 2008 at 11AM.
Our PTA meeting will be at the Tomahawk Room at 10AM
An email will come out with the time change for the meeting.

A folder was passed with the following information.
Information regarding the Jessica Plute family and how to contact someone to help.
Info from National PTA
A River City Gift Shoppe flyer
A copy of the 3-year district calendar.

Cultural Arts Day:  Suzanne Smaltz
Volunteers were asked to leave their names and numbers.
The date for the program is May 23.

Council Report:
See Link Attached   Council Report March Meeting.htm

New Business:
Belinda Check and Christy Kazubski discussed the 8th grade dance.  The current budget allows less and $4 per student.  After shopping around, a request to increase the budget from $1,000 to $1,300 was requested.
A motion for this increase was made by Belinda Check and seconded by Jodi Vrabec.  It was accepted by the group.  An extra $300 was added to the 8th grade dance budget.

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Mr. Bob Cowie was nominated by Jodi Vrabec.  This was seconded by Belinda Check.  LouAnne Lorzing, a crossing guard was nominated by Suzanne Smaltz.  This was seconded by Karen Martin.  They group approved both candidates.  Paperwork for these awards was filed.

Nominating Committee:
The following slate of candidates was presented for the 2008-2009 CFMS PTA Board:
President:  Barb Varley
First VP:  Julie Shinn
Second VP:  Lynn Louth
Secretary:  Kristine Fonte
Treasurer:  Leslie Stoyer
Delegates:  Sue Gigliotti and Debbie Dugan
Alternate:  Helen Grigson

Spring Breakfast:  There is no chair at this time.  Let Cheryl know if you are interested.

Mr. Kerrigan was introduced.
He talked of the status of the school, the vision and celebrated successes.  He thanked the staff for walking through so many changes.

Scheduling:  Hopefully by the end of April the schedule for next year will be done.  Different options that are being considered were presented.

Winter Sports - 7th Grade Boys were champions of the Wadsworth Tournament.  They had a 17-0 year.

Enrichment:  Mrs. Forchione is working with many students as they prepare for regional competitions.

Mr. Kerrigan then addressed questions from the group.T

The meeting was adjourned by Cheryl Wells at 8:10PM.