We are in a 'town' with two elementary schools two principals and each school has their own PTO's. Our PTO is Inc. with a 501 (c) 3 and the other is not. Our school is the lower income school and we are doing quite well. We just had a 'spirit wear' sale. T-shirts cost $3.60 we sold them for $5.00, just to get them out. IF there was a need for a family, and we were notified, money appeared for that family. They will be given out for Christmas.
I have never heard of two sets of officers. You need to split, there would be so much more tranquility. I promise.
Having read all of this I'm not sure why you don't just split? Two schools-Two PTOs TA DA...is there a real reason you haven't done that? It's either that or you have one vote for the board to represent both campuses. With email etc there is no reason that cannot be accomplished seemlessly with mixed boards and perhaps 2 delegates from each campus or delegates based on population.
You said you have one school with two campuses because you outgrew the one location. I think you have to look beyond the present to the future. What are the long tern plans of the school board to solve the problem. Is this the long term solution? Are there any plans 2-3 years from now to build another elementary school?... or are there plans to build an addition to the existing elementary school? This may help settle, in the end, if you'd be better off having one or two PTO's.
It sound like you've proven, a plan for two groups of officers for one PTO is not a good idea for your group. Ultimately 1 for 1 or 2 for 2 would be easiest.
After resigning last night, I get a call today from the President for the north campus, and they want to recind their resignations. So basically they went to a corner held their breathe to get their way and when that didnt work now want to just pretend nothing happened. We are supposed to all meet to discuss it. I personally dont think that allowing someone to resign one day and then back the next is what we should do. I'm starting to think she is the singular most immature person I've ever been in contact with.
We had our meeting tonight and 3 of their 4 members didnt show up, they sent a note via a parent saying that unless we split into 2 PTO's the entire board would be resigning. One of their board showed up and she said she's a parent first, ad she's not resigning Which really had to be very hard for her to do, in the face of all the negativity coming from the other members.
One of the biggest problems they had seemed to be that members from our side would speak to the principal about things to get her input and they saw that as "going over their heads" . Things like is this an option, or do you think the teachers would like this, type thing. Nothing ever got decided, just conversation about PTO business. Craziness. But hopefully now its over and we can move on.
