Minutes August 12, 2002Present: Lucille Cuttler, Lori Prince, Janet Bates-Wilkins, Don Scarl Lori Prince presented the Coalition financial report for the 2001-2002 year. We have enough in our account to pay for meeting notices and other mailings until our next fund drive in the spring. Joanna and Al Miller have agreed to send meeting notices each month to the sixty Coalition members who do not have email. Joanna suggested that we call members for whom we have no email address since many of them may actually have email .If a member has no email and has not participated in Coalition work for the past two years, we will drop their name from the membership list. Joanna and Al will try to send postcards instead of letters as meeting notices. Instead of sending an agenda with meeting notices we will distribute agendas at each meeting. Lucille Cuttler announced that her preliminary summary to Starbucks was approved by the Glen Cove Starbucks and was now in the New York office. She is asking Starbucks to sponsor book readings for selected elementary school students by authors or community members. The Glen Cove Library has agreed to provide space for the readings. Starbucks would buy the books which would then go to the elementary school libraries. Don Scarl called Bill Boeddener inviting him and his wife to a brunch to recognize him as a retiring school board member. Bill called back saying that he would prefer that we not recognize him at a brunch. We will invite Diane Scricca, the new Assistant Superintendent for Instruction to speak to the Coalition at our October meeting. We will invite Carol Thompson, the school district legal advisor to speak to the Coalition at a public meeting in September about the new “Leave No Child Behind” Federal initiative for public schools. Next year there will be no Coalition meetings in July or August. Submitted by Don Scarl
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