Horace Greeley HS Student Council

Elected Board of the Horace Greeley HS Student Council

• President: Matt Danzig
• Educational VP: Emily Rummo
• Publicity VP: Sarah Stern
• Social VP: Dan Vachon
• Secrectary: Richard Tyre
• Treasurer: Mark Quandt
• Rep. Class '97: Rich Ma and Alexis Boneparth
• Rep. Class '98: Jon Zinman and Noelle Schloendorn
• Rep. Class '99: Ali Sacks and Ajay Chaudhary
• Rep. Class '00: Lisa Baldwin and Laura Schecter

Student Council Minutes - recorded by R. Tyre

Sudent Council Calendar

I. First Day of School (Social VP)

-regular school until 12:00pm; 12:10 assembly

-Assembly: short speeches from S.C. members, teachers up to field at this time.

-go to fields after speeches: food ($.50 sodas), entertainment (acapella groups, Barrel of Monkeys?)

-Rainy Day: full day of school with free hot-dogs in cafe A; no food for teachers; teachers cook on free time.

-sound system needs to be put on field for entertainment

II. Homecoming

-Laser Show D.J.?-$1 or $2 charge at door to cover cost.

III. Newsletter/Bulletin Board (Pub. V.P./Secretary)

-contains what is discussed in S.C. meetings; things to be publicized to school (S.C. activities, actions to change current statutes in effect, etc.)

-1 pg. front and back

-Copy of minutes placed on bulletin board outside of cafeteria.

IV. Ideas

-suggestion box on computer: type suggestions and then send to S.C. "mailbox" OR a pop-up screen to inform students of S.C. events and actions.

-S.C. section on Horace Greeley Home Page (Internet)?

V. Clubs

-need to work more with clubs; use clubs to help S.C. in fundraising, events and donations.

VI. Class Representatives

-1 Rep. must always be at his/her own CLASS meeting, and 1 Rep. must always be at the S.C. meeting.

-Reps. need to talk to class governments and secretaries: they need to acquire class gov't minutes as well as give copies of S.C. minutes to Class gov'ts.

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General

-People need to come to the meetings to WORK.

-Activity Fair: Sep. 17th

I. Board of Ed. Reps.

-Position needs to be redefined and taken seriously.

II. Communications

-Publicity VP: newsletter on first day of school?

-Post info. on the Student Council Board.

-Place Student Council updates in the school newspapers.

-Better communications between Treasurer of the S.C. and the District Treasurer (computer?).

-Dr. Smith: copies of minutes to him; new times of meetings (during school, not before); get copies of Student Council member schedules.

III. Class Reps.: need to "step up two notches"

-go to some class meetings.

-class meeting: speak to class (print out a general list of things the reps. should say to their classes on behalf of the Student Council).

Suggestions:

- get a list from classes of things going on in the class (could have it sent to S.C. homeroom).

-send out a sheet to homerooms to see what students want and how they feel about certain things.

IV. $Money$

-approx. $2000 from summer Coke machine sales.

-clubs to keep money? (balances).

-thank you notes: Gary Lanza.

-Model UN-type problems: more rules for loans (failure of clubs to control own balances); paying bills.

V. First Day of School (Dan's job, Social VP)

-food: ice cream, band, acapella groups.

-assistance: members of the S.C. should help out.

-Dan needs a SPECIFIC plan so Mark can give the necessary money.

VI. Activity Fair

-time for each club to speak; tables: (Ed VP).

-Packets: (Publicity VP)

-memo to clubs to get info. into Sarah(Pub. VP) for the packet.

-clubs need to get back to Sarah before a certain date.

VIII. Job of Student Council

-should represent the students; fight for the students

-job is to find things that need to be fixed.

Suggestions:

-suggestion box; sheet to homerooms (above); extended homerooms;

IX. Seminar Day #3

-people from community: various jobs, other cultures.

-Committee to be set up during the year: Emily (Ed VP) needs to set it up.

-possible speaker who will give info. on a charity we will be donating to.

-debate assembly: Reps. to debate or speak.

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Student Council Date Book (Month of October)

1. Homecoming

Pep-rally-October 25: ~7:30-9:30pm

Dance-October 26: 8:00-11:00pm

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