REPRESENTATIVE
COUNCIL MEETING
DECEMBER 1, 2014
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Attending: T. Mullenax, M. Carr, H. Smith, E. Ruebuesch,
M. Richardson, A. Campa, A. Kuhn, C. Townsend, J. Hunsche, J. Pfeiffer, N.
Carpenter
Blue Text=ideas to keep mulling over, generating
possibility.
I. Dates
A. Board
Meeting on Monday, December 8 will be attended by Vera, Melanie, Alice and Anne.
a. Added
post-meeting: Kim Lewis will be moving
out of President position to Member position at this meeting. All members encouraged to attend to show
gratitude for the extraordinary support from Kim in negotiating our current
contract.
B. Board
Meeting sign-up sheet for 2015 will be circulated.
C. United
Way Presentation on Tuesday, January 27 from 7 – 8:30 pm for parents
United Way Presentation on Wednesday, January 28 during Block B in HS
The IH Foundation is providing and publicizing this.
United Way Presentation on Wednesday, January 28 during Block B in HS
The IH Foundation is providing and publicizing this.
a. Millennial will be the topic
b. Foundation has maney to spend …what are the needs?
II. Financial Report (Janine) - Freking & Betz costs from
Insurance consultation
III. Orange Financial
a.
Brad Cunningham, teacher in Florida;
started a company to educate about finances.
a.
Class offered, 3 one hour courses
b.
Fee:
$50. IHEPO partial subsidy?
c.
Not all about investing, includes
debt, insurance, credit card info
Proceed? Email “are you interested?” if enough interested, we could host a series
Cover cost or a portion of cost?
Include spouses?
Proceed? Email “are you interested?” if enough interested, we could host a series
Cover cost or a portion of cost?
Include spouses?
b.
Anne Kuhn’s brother, also a financial
planner…possible workshop
c. Create a resource (on blog) sharing contacts for financial planning
a. Good path to follow at this point
b.
Send
contacts to Anne to contribute to the master list.
V. Brainstorm ideas on how to promote the successes and strengths of
IHEPO.
We need to think about gaining and retaining membership for next year.
We need to think about gaining and retaining membership for next year.
a. Strong organization provides strong salary
schedule
b. Enhancing professional standing…contributions
to the field
c. Additional communication meetings…state of the
organization address
Feb. PD day Organization
breakfast? Renewed Dot Day?
d. Investigate calendar for additional PD
days. Explore the impact of switch from
days to hours of contact…what does that mean for the contract? Where does that create opportunity?
e.
Include our name on district decision communications in which we have
played a role.
V. Concerns from Buildings
a.
Terry: keeping up with the
political climate of education?
-periodic email alerting to the IHEPO blog for
links to
b.
Homework: what would be the issues on the Dot Day?
-Include
focus on improving the learning environment for students?
-What
would make your work powerful? Efficient?
VI. Social Committee (Cherita)
See addendum…what we’ve done so far…
VII. Other items
