NVPAC Treasurer's Annual Report

North Vancouver Parent Advisory Council

Treasurer’s Report to the Annual General Meeting:  20 May, 2010

Income:

The North Vancouver Parent Advisory Council is very grateful for its two main sources of funding:

School District #44 funding:  $ 7,500

Community Gaming Grant:   $ 1,250

Expenses:

BCCPAC Memberships and Conferences:

NVPAC paid $1,885 in membership fees to BCCPAC, its own membership, plus the membership of 28 North Vancouver school PACs.  In past years, NVPAC has usually sent three or more representatives to both the Fall and Spring Conferences of BCCPAC.  This year, only one NVPAC representative attended each conference.

NVPAC Grants:

North Vancouver Parent Advisory Council offers three types of grants to school PACs in North Vancouver.

  The $200 Family of Schools Grant is intended to foster cooperation between the seven secondary schools and their respective feeder schools, and can be used to help fund any event in which all schools in the FOS participate.

 Ten, $150 Speaker Grants are offered each year on a first-come, first-served basis.  The Speaker Grants are intended to help school PACs offset the cost of bringing in a speaker for parent education purposes.  Topics and speakers this year included Homework, Internet Safety, Terry Small and Saleema Noon.

  Twenty, $50 Food Safe Grants were offered to school PACs, with a maximum of two grants per school, per year.  Health regulations require school PACs to have one Food Safe certified individual on site while food is being sold or distributed to students.  The Food Safe grants are intended to help offset the cost of the Food Safe training courses.

The grants were not as fully-subscribed as we would have liked this year.  Next year, we need to do a better job of advertising and explaining the grants and their purposes to school PACs.

NVPAC has a substantial financial surplus.  The NVPAC Executive has prepared a budget for 2010/2011 which we hope will reduce that surplus.

In addition to my duties as Treasurer, I attended all General and Executive meetings, as well as many of the School Board meetings and Standing Committees on Finance and Facilities and Education and Programs, and the Budget Challenge 2010 series.  I served as an NVPAC alternate to the Restructuring 2010 Seymour Area Schools Working Group.

Submitted by Jane Lagden Holborne