Thanks for the replys, I recently asked another PTO Pres. in our area, and
she says that they do all their PTO business thru the school, they use the
tax id# of the school's. They do have bylaws, which I agree with all of you,
that is very important, it seems there is always at least one in every crowd
that will make trouble if they think they can, but, anyways, they are not
incorporated, filed no paperwork with anyone, and they usually raise between
$2000 up to maybe $10,000 in a year. they recently had a huge fund raising
effort for playground equip. and raised like $17,000, but that is not some
thing they do regularly. she says they have never had a problem with doing
things that way. we have other groups in our school that fund raise on a
regular basis, such as 8th grade, Beta Club, and they just use the school's
tax id#, is PTO that much different? to respond to the last post before this,
we did find out that we had to spend all of our funds we raised as a PTA and
alert PTA of our decision to disband. The former Pres. and I have been doing
that with our summer program and preparing early for our annual fall festival,
we also have started putting together our own bylaws. they are almost done.
we are a very small town(village) and we have no $$$$$ and i was told that
it was expensive to get incorporated and all that. Of course, we want to be
legal, that is our main concern, is not to do something against some law we
dont even know about!! anyone else have anything else for us?? thank you
so much!! angela
