This years parents association Annual General Meeting will take place in the junior school hall on Tuesday September 29th at 7.30pm. All parents will receive a note home from the school with this information also. As a parent of a child attending St Colmcilles you are automatically a member of the parents association.
Agenda
- Chairpersons Report – Louise Burke
- Treasurers Report – Sharon McAllister
- Your Ideas – This year instead of a guest speaker at the agm the aim is the parents will become the speakers. Its your parents association so what would you like to see from it? Have you ideas about what you would like from your parents association? Please come along on the 29th and share them.
- Proposed Changes to Constitiution
- Election of New Committee
Proposed Amendment to Parents Association Committee
Current Rule
5.6 All committee members who have served on the committee for two consecutive years must step down but may offer themselves for re-election any year their child remains in the school.
Amended Rule
5.6 All members of the committee may automatically stay on the committee for four years. After four years each member must step down from the committee, they cannot offer themselves for re-election to the PAC for one year after their four years is complete. If they wish to re-join the PAC they may do so after this one year break.
The proposal to change the time frame from two years to four years is essential to en-sure that there is continuity and balance on the committee. The situation at present is:
20 members
9 – New Members
1 – Member going into their second year
6 – Members currently offering themselves for re-election (Existing members)
4 – BOM members (These are the Parent Representatives of the Board of Management – will be new to the PAC in 2015)
If on the night of the AGM the 6 current members who are offering themselves up for re-election don’t get re-elected to the PAC, there will not be enough members to continue because there will only be 1 existing member which is not enough to hold the three key roles, as stated below. In order to ensure that this situation does not arise again we need to extend the 2 years to 4 years to en-sure that there is continuity and balance on the committee.
If there is any questions that you would like addressed before the AGM, please don’t hesitant to contact us.
Would you like to join the Parents Association Committee?
The election of the new parents association committee will take place on the night. This year there are nine new places available. The committee meets once a month and organises various activities for children and parents throughout the year. All parents are members of the Parents Association, but if you would like to be more involved and join our Committee, please email us with your details at [email protected] by Tues 22nd September 2015.
You can read more about the parents association and the events run throughout the year here.
For more information including please contact any member of the committee and we can go through with you what’s involved in being a member of the PA committee, our mobile number is 0868656829.
Please note if you wish to join the parents association committee you must be available to attend the meeting on September 29th.
We look forward to seeing you on the 29th.