The meeting began at 7:05 PM

Attendees:

Joe Monahan opened the meeting with a prayer.

Principal Report:

• Anne Heston received assistance from Joanne Denver with Budgeting Guidelines. This can be used to create the budget for the next school year.
• The textbook bill for next year will be much lower than the current year. The only new books that will be needed are the 7^th and 8^th grade Math series. The remainder of the books are the consumable type and are available.
• The Knights of Columbus will work to replace the ceiling tiles that are damaged. They will need to have the school provide the tiles but they will supply the installation labor.
• Registration is going well. 203 students have registered to date. This is up from 190 a month ago. More are expected. There are 210 students in the 2003/2004 school year.
• There is a Candidacy visit planned for 22 September 2004. This will be a representative from the New England Association of High School and Colleges. The purpose is to start the 2-year process for accreditation. The total cost of this is approximately $5,000.
• Fences are up on the ballfield. The local Unico Chapter donated the $1900. To pay for these fences.
• Richard Forgue, a parishoner, will donate his time toward Marketing/Long Range planning for next school year.
• There will be 16, 8^th grade students graduating this year. There are 27, 7^th grade students moving into 8^th grade.
• Two (2) people came to open House on May 6. This was not the turn out that was hoped for.
• There is one quote for the copier services. The proposal will save the school approximately $3,000 from its' current plan.

The Development Drive will be held next school year. Gene Cassidy volunteered to use the Big E available resources to stuff the development drive envelopes.

Mary Lou Walthouse volunteered for the steering committee for Accreditation.

The next meeting will be Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 7:00 PM

All meetings are planned for the 1^st Wednesday of each month for the next school year.

Ed Paprocki obtained 18 computers and software (from Microsoft) for free and has upgraded these computers. These are planned for use in the computer lab. The computers in the lab can then be distributed to the classrooms.

The meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Kevin J. Hassett