Please find below the Meeting Minutes from the June 2025 AES PAC Meeting.
Meeting Info
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Armstrong Elementary School Library
Call to Order, Welcome, and Acknowledgement
Meeting called to order at 5:34 PM PST.
We respectfully acknowledge that we are grateful to live, work, and play within the beautiful ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan people, Secwepemc Nation, and acknowledge the Métis people who reside here.
Attendance:
Val Edgell, Tammie Turner, MJ Duford, Roxanne Landry, Kim Holt, Lauren Fowler, Michelle, Nicole Shore, Aislinn Harmston, Jamie McDonald, Becky Johnson, Nadine Zakoski, Nanae Phung, Erin Harvey
Approval of Previous Meeting’s Minutes
Approve May’s meeting minutes (all in favour):
1st: Roxanne Landry
2nd: Kim Holt
Additions to Today’s Agenda
Additions to June’s meeting agenda: none
Adopt June’s meeting agenda (approve amendments/ all in favour)
1st: Tammie Turner
2nd: Roxanne Landry
Principal’s Report
Principal – Val Edgell
- Dividing students into classrooms for next year has been completed for stage 1. The classroom placements will be looked at again in the summer when new students are registers and others move away suddenly. This is a big process and is very time consuming.
- Grade 3 swim lessons have been going well. The 1st group has completed their and the last group has now started.
- This month of June will be very busy with field trips, swimming, track & field, graduation celebrations etc.
- We are in need of plastic for the slip & slide. Approx 50’ x 150’
Aislinn will create a Facebook post on the PAC group and community pages. - School district starts painting in September now. Val had them complete additional testing for things like asbestos. There is only 1 painter for the school district.
- The student created stepping stones for the AES garden have been started and are half completed.
Teacher’s Report
Teacher: No teacher present.
President’s Report
President – Chloe Hale (Absent – no report)
Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer – Tammie Turner
Grade three swim lesson paid for.
Balances as of June 2nd 2025:
- Operating account: $26,711.59
- Gaming account: $200.00
Tammie will be submitting our Gaming Report and will apply for the 2025/2026 gaming grant.
Old Business
Grade 5 Graduation: Roxanne Landry
Graduation ceremony is on track; everything on budget. There is a total of 187 people (42 kids) attending (including students, family and volunteers). 35 kids are sleeping over and all students are attending the breakfast in the morning.
Fundraising Update: Jordi Fraser
Freezie Friday has been doing very well. Over $200 in sales each Friday.
Total raised today: $1468.33
Garden Update: MJ Duford
Everything has been planted. Apple tress have been planted. Irrigation lines are going in and will be done soon. We still need to fill in the trenches and pour gravel over. We are also installing a chalkboard for the kids.
There will be a sign up sheet for care over the summer at the Garden Grand Opening (Roxanne is creating). Erin has been sending out invites to everyone.
Garden Grand Opening: Friday June 13th at 1:00-2:00pm
Yearbook Committee: Chloe Hale
Yearbook ordering has been extended to Monday June 9th 2025. Order option is available on Munchalunch again. We don’t have total numbers sold today as Chloe is absent.
New Business
SD cutbacks of supports
LRT is being cut from 1.6 to 1.4
We are losing 2 (1 was a temp) but we are getting 1 back.
We lost our Indigenous support worker Tina from last year, but had Dennis Moore fill in 2 days a week but she was pulled to go to another school. We now have an indigenous support worker 3x a week that went for 4 days a week in January.
Executive positions at upcoming AGM
Discussion to create a position for ‘AES Advocacy Director’ was had. This position will work with our DPAC representative.
Erin Harvey motions to create the position.
1st Roxanne Landry
2nd Nadine Zakoski
All in favor. Motion passed.
SD83
Review discussion on our requests to our school district; request for financial reports/breakdown; currently have not received a response. In 2016 our AES PAC also made a similar request which was not answered.
Our NEW principal will attend our AGM.
Annual Reports
A reminder that all current executive positions and directors need to create an annual report for the AGM. All current positions holders need to notify PAC if they wish to put their name forward for the next school year; send e-mail to PAC account.
Table for September 2025
Changing our bylaws to allow executive voting to occur in September 2026 instead of June 2026; to allow all new parents to participate.
Meeting Closing
Next Meeting:
- AGM: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Motion to adjourn @ 6:39 PM
Respectfully submitted by Aislinn Harmston, Secretary
Meeting minutes taken by Nadine Zakoski (Vice-President) in the absence of Aislinn Harmston