20th District Annual Dinner - Rescheduled

You Are Invited!

Please, plan to attend our annual District Dinner, held this year at Jose's Mexican Bar & Grill.

Details are below and please RSVP by June 5th to:
Tami Baloy - beijingchows@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, June 10th
Time: 6:30 PM

Location: Jose's Mexican Bar & Grill
638 Wave St., Monterey, Ca

Cost: $15.00 per person (adult or child)

Please send your checks to:

Michael Silver
3040 Sunset #9
Marina CA, 93933
(email: michael-silver@sbcglobal.net)

Phone: 831-277-3317

If you have already sent a check for the first dinner that was postponed and there are no changes, no action is required. If you have a change of numbers, please contact Michael to correct it.

Menu includes: Beef Tacos, Cheese enchilladas, Chicken Fajitas, Cheese Quesadillas, Spanish rice and beans, chips and salsa, beverage. Dessert will be provided by the 20th District.

Day of Education Rally Salinas

California's schools are facing the largest round of education cuts ever proposed in the state -- a staggering $4.8 billion, equal to nearly $800 per student and $24,000 per classroom.

On May 14th, education groups around the state including parents, teachers, support personnel, school administrators, and school board members will be joining forces to demand adequate funding for California Schools.

This is your chance to make your voice heard.

New Changes in the 20th District Board

At the last executive board meeting, the 20th District Board made some important changes to its members.

We are very sorry to lose Robin Martinez as our Treasurer and Katia Stornetta as our membership chair. They will be greatly missed as they both did excellent jobs in their positions.

We would like to welcome Kevin Singley to the board as our Auditor, a postion that has been sorely needed. Thank you, Kevin!

To accommodate the loss of our Treasurer and Membership Chair, other changes were made on the board. Following is a new and updated list of the 20th District Board.

Thank you very much to Stephanie Bloom, our new Treasurer, Melanie Gibson, our new Secretary, Mark Baloy, our new Historian and Tami Baloy, our new Membership Chair for taking on new positions and challenges to help keep our district successful!

In other announcements, our annual District Dinner will be held on April 25th. Please, mark your calendars now and plan to attend!

20th District Officers:
President Tom Jennings
VP Santa Cruz Mary Marasco
VP Mtry Penin Michael Silver
VP South District Karen Gibbs
Secretary Melanie Gibson
Treasurer Stephanie Bloom
Auditor Kevin Singley
Parliamentarian Michael Silver
VP Membership Tami Baloy
Historian Mark Baloy II
VP of Salinas Sherrie Payne
Convention Chair Rene Keehn
Dir. of Comm. Jenny Wood
Hospitality Chair Tami Baloy
Consultant Jane Mitchel
Reflections Chair Bettina McBee
High School Rep Marylyn Silver
Middle School Rep Theresa (Tess) Bloom

Happy New Year - January Happenings in PTA

From the 20th District Executive Board, we would like to wish you all a great New Year! It's a fabulous time to renew your commitments and start fresh on all those PTA projects! Don't forget that this is also a great time for another membership drive - keep sending in those membership dues every month and help the California PTA reach 1 Million members!

We want to let you know about 2 very important events this month.

1. The 20th District General Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 17th at 7:00 pm - place TBD. We need at least one member of your board to attend. Look for details on the location.

2. The 20th District Annual Training will be held on Saturday, January 26th from 9:00 am until 1:00 pm at Marina High in Marina, CA. We will have classes on the subjects, below and encourage as many from your board to attend as possible. This training will be extremely valuable and worth your time. We'll even give you lunch so please, come! Communicate this date to your board ASAP and let me (Jenny Wood) know who from your board can attend. Here's a map to Marina High: http://www.mpusd.k12.ca.us/MarinaHS/Directions%20to%20campus.pdf. NOTE: The street address has changed to 298 Patton Parkway.

Classes will be:

President Basics
Parliamentarian and Bylaws basics
Financial/Treasurer Basics
Secretary Basics
Ways and Means
Membership Basics
Advocacy
OMDR
Communications

Also, don't forget upcoming deadlines:
Insurance premiums and Workers Comp forms are due by Jan 17. Bring them to the meeting with you to save on postage! See the earlier blog entry for details.

Reflections entries are due by January 9th. See earlier blog entry for details.

From Tom Jennings, New District President

As you all know Amy Gibson the 20th District President had to resign for personal reasons. As of December 6, 2007 I have had the pleasure of being elected as your new 20th District President. I welcome the challenge with the utmost respect for those that I follow and hope to meet all of your and their expectations.

Please remember that I and the other officers of the 20th District are here to help your PTA’s succeed in all of your endeavors so anything you need or questions you have please don’t hesitate to ask. Training for units will be held soon so plan on attending and watch you’re E-mail for updates.

There are four Vice Presidents on the District Board that cover the following geographical areas of our District. For Monterey, Michael Silver, michael-silver@sbcglobal.net. For Santa Cruz, Mary Marasco, marymarasco@yahoo.com. For Salinas, Sherrie Payne, sherripayne@sbcglobal.net. For South Monterey County, Karen Gibbs, kareng1971@yahool.com. Please use your VP as your first point of contact on the District Board.

District General Meetings will be January 17, 2008, and April 17, 2008. Each unit should have at least one representative at each of these meetings. Please add these dates to your calendar now and plan to attend or send a representative from your school’s PTA.

Please feel free to contact me via email (tjenni@sbcglobal.net) or by phone @ 831-241-8128 at anytime for questions or problems that you might have. I make every effort to answer e-mails daily in the evening, and I answer my phone as long as I’m not in a meeting if I don’t answer just leave a message and I will get back to you ASAP.

I look forward to working with all of you and remember you are among the elite citizens in our community that have cared enough to be involved and help when help is needed. Let this serve as a reminder that there can never be any better reward than to know you helped contribute to the education of a child.

Thanks for all you do
Tom Jennings
831-241-8128
tjenni@sbcglobal.net