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Franklin SEPAC Meeting Minutes – June 06, 2007
Attendees John Chickering John Forte Mary Lou Costello Pam Donelan Terri Morgan Sharon Miller Jon Ross Linda Zicko Margaret Chickering Carol Cohen Jill Smith Meeting opened by John Chickering at 7:05 pm Minutes • Reviewed and approved last meeting minutes from May 16, 2007 General Business Discussions/Actions • July 4th fund raising booth discussion. Shifts will be three hour shifts with at least one adult in the booth. A wagon on parade day selling gatoraide (16 oz bottles for $1.00). • Pediatrician’s outreach. Only 9 Pediatrician’s are listed in Franklin. Should we expand to Psychiatrists, Orthodontists, and Neurologists? What about the library, the town hall, YMCA, preschools, other clubs in town, and supermarkets? • Mass PAC Membership – How do we become a member? Action: John F. to take care of this. • Transition Plan – John C. will organize records and he will forward to John F. John F. stated he would like the emails directly sent to him and not through John C. Treasurer transitioning: Action – Sharon to meet with the previous treasurer and to remove John Chickering off of the account and to verify Sharon is now on the account. No other officers will need to take transitioning actions. • John Chickering suggested an article on SEPAC. He is acquainted with Michael Morton. A suggestion could be made to write an article on the SEPAC and at the bottom of the article list the programs. • Terri stated parents are still not receiving the pamphlets for SEPAC. • Suggestion was made to speak at the individual schools open houses. • A suggestion was made to hold a Children’s Participatory Theatre (Once Upon A Time Boston). Action: John Chickering knows someone who does these events. The SEPAC officers are discussing options outside of our normal programs to schedule this event. This would take a lot of preparation and advertisement. Programs Discussion: • The programs are done for the year. Pam asked if we could send a survey out in the students backpack on topic of interests for next year’s programs. • Discussion on contacting The Federation for Children of Special Needs which has a list of presenters on their website. It was suggested we start with Rebecca (Sudbury) as a contact but we must first decide on the topic before we contact a presenter. The Federation requires a 5 month lead time for presenter requests. • How many of the dates do we want speakers/presentations? It was agreed upon to have 6 speakers/presenters out of 8 meetings. The other two remaining meetings could be a business meeting and a question of a social parental meeting. A suggestion was made to have the social meeting in September for the first meeting so that parents can get to know each other. • The flyer containing the meeting dates does not go out until October 1st. We will need to create a September flyer for the September meeting. A question was raised if we could send out 1 flyer that will cover two months. The consensus was 1 flyer a month as opposed to one every two months. • Some suggestions for topics were: 1. How to help your child with social skills or how to arrange a play date, 2. ADHD topic, 3. Bullying, 4.Question of inviting Wayne Ogden for another presentation, 5. Speaker on the Do’s and Don’ts for social integration. • An idea was presented for an interactive Children’s Participant Theatre for one of the programs. • A suggestion was made to have a social period from 7-7:30pm prior to the speaker/presentation. The presenters at booking time would be told that they would present at 7:30 pm but go no later than 8:30 pm so that parents can get home. • A discussion was held on how to make the meetings more accessible to parents who can’t attend the evening meetings. Could we provide babysitters? Meet on weekends? Meet at one of the schools at 11 am during the lunch hour? Have a webex session? Does the town have a webex account? Special Thank you We all thank John Chickering for his dedicated and hard work this past year as President. A standing ovation to you John. Motion to adjourn meeting. Motion seconded and voted to adjoin. Meeting adjoined at 8:30 pm on June 06, 2007 |
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