Minutes of SEPAC
General Meeting
Town Hall Meeting
Room
Attendees from Steering Committee: Barbara Closs, Ellen Cavanagh, Wendy Feddersen, Maria Kaufmann, Sue Tokay, Janet Zimmerman
Lunch was served. Several guests were present from Framingham, Dracut and the Pentucket Regional schools were present as well as Suzanne Gervais, President of MASSPAC.
Original
balance: $547.11
Lions
Donation being held: $ 1,000
Guess-timate
of the fundraiser results: $814.00 net, including donations
Which
means we will have Approximately $ 1, 360 in our account once I finish
paying out the fundraiser expenses.
This
PAC training project, which is jointly sponsored by the Federation for Children
with Special Needs, UMASS and Children’s Hospital, was discussed. Several individuals have expressed an
interest in being involved in the project.
The major commitment is a three-day training that most likely will take
place in May, 2007. Information was
passed out about the program
The
format of the upcoming focus groups “Chats with Charles” was discussed. Maria Kaufmann and Janet Zimmerman are the
organizers of the HES Chat on 10/11; Debbie MacKenzie, Becky Gordon and Jayne
Rowe are the organizers of the Bromfield Chat on 10/17.
The
idea of having ongoing conversation over the course of the year was also
discussed, in addition to the chats being done initially closer to the
beginning of the year. The Steering
Committee was in favor of this idea.
The
status of this training was not known.
Sue Tokay will look into it.
$1,000 currently sits in the SEPAC account, donated by the Lions, for
this training.
Barbara
Closs read a letter to the editor she had written about the Harvard Post’s
coverage of budget discussion at a recent joint boards meeting. The gist of the letter was that Harvard
should learn not to blame all special ed woes on the out-of-district tuitions
of a couple of kids. The Steering
Committee had some suggestions and was supportive of the letter.