Duffster,
I can tell you what our school did when we went through similar circumstances.
Our PTA was virtually non-exsistant--there was one board member left & she worked at another school, so we never could get a hold of her. We( 3 concerned moms) met with the principal who was excited to have some enthusiastic people WANT to be involved with the school. She appointed us to be the first PTO board. We set up bylaws stating that the first board was appointed, but that subsequent boards would be nominated/voted on by the membership of the current PTO. As far as dissolving the PTA, we called the state office and told them it was dissolved. I might add that we got a rude chewing out over the phone, but it was worth it---PTA wasn't performing for our school--PTO did and continues to thrive. The last contact we had with the PTA woman( who should've taken care of notifying PTA) was when she wrote a check to the principal for the last money in the PTA checkbook. This went to the school--not PTO. PTO ran a carnival before the school year ended to raise money to start the PTO officially for the next school year.We raised $1500, so we got off to a good start.It is now 3 years later and we're glad we made the switch--so are our teachers & students.
Good luck.
Our school has voted to begin the process of setting up a PTO. We have our
EIN and are working on getting the 501(c)(3). Based on input from this
forum, we have not formally dissolved the PTA and do not plan to do so
until the PTO is fully up and running - which should be sometime in
September. Since we don't plan to have a PTA in September, we have not
nominated and voted on a PTA Board (although we have decided on Board
members for the new PTO). We also don't intend to go through the motions
of soliciting membership in the PTA in September - as we plan to have PTO
memberships (with all the money collected from PTO membership staying at
our school). So the question is -- how do we have a formal meeting to
dissolve the PTA if we don't have any PTA members or PTA Board? Can we
simply tell our State PTA that our school PTA ceases to exist? I hate the
idea of having to set up a mock PTA Board and ask people to double pay
membership dues (to PTO and PTA) just so we can dissolve the PTA in
September. Any advice would be appreciated.
