I may word this badly, but here goes:
What are your views on parents (i.e. general membership) being given the 'right' to see everything that comes in to the PTO mailbox. For example: during any given week, our PTVO school mailbox receives no less than 15-20 requests from Santa Shop vendors. No less than 30 vendor requests from Fall Fundraising companies. Not less than 50-60 various vendors, including playground equiptment, Oriental Trading, suckers, chocolates, pen and pencil sets, well you get the idea. Should ALL of these things be taken to the monthly membership meetings to be sorted out by the entire membership?
I personally don't see how it could be done, but it is one of the main reasons, apparently, that I lost the election back in April
. I would go through everything, narrow it down to 5-7 choices, present it to the other officers. We would then narrow it down to 2 or 3 choices to take to the general membership for a vote. My opponent won by saying that she would bring everything to the general membership for decisions
. Sounds good in theory, but my God :eek: ! With an average of 100 pieces of mail a week, that rounds out to 400 items to look over during a meeting, in addition to the regular business :confused: .
I know a lot of you don't have regular monthly membership meetings, so you won't need to answer on that level ...lol...
- I'm just curious what everyone else thinks of this, bringing it ALL to ALL the parents. I kid you not, I'm not sure I could get them all to say it was daylight at noon :cool: ...lol!
Let me know what you think!