The School Site Council, though meetings are open to all, has a voting membership of 10 (5 parents, 5 Cherry Chase staff). Members are elected by the parent and staff communities and serve a two-year term. The role of the School Site Council is to implement the school site plan.

The School Site Council creates objectives for the school yearly and sponsors teams to develop programs such as FAME, Band, In-class Music, String Orchestra, reading and computer labs which will move us toward meeting these objectives. All school spending of "Site Improvement Funds" and program funds from PTA are reviewed and approved by the School Site Council.

2007-2008 Nomination Form 

School Site Council Members:

• Diane Hemmes
• Barbara Haering
• Maureen Biggar
• Shuquing Jing
• Lori Larson
• Val Freytag
• Glenn Hendricks
• Maria Matteis
• CJ Evenhuis
• Shirin Dodson
• Martha Lampert (alternate)

SSC meetings are monthly in the staff room. Agendas are posted at least one week prior to the meeting in the school office. All interested parties are welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion. You can click on the [bold+underline] dates below to see the minutes that were taken at the meeting.

The 2007-2008 meeting schedule is:

September 18, 2007 - 4pm
October 16, 2007 - 4pm
November 13, 2007 - 4pm
January 15, 2008 - 4pm
February 12, 2008 - 4pm
March 18, 2008 - 4pm
April 22, 2008 - 4pm
May 20, 2008 - 4pm

*The tactical teams are made up of volunteers from the parent and staff community and have their own meeting schedule (some meet mostly in e-mail).

If you would like to be involved in this way, contact any of the SSC members (or Terri Goddard, our Volunteer Coordinator, at goddardterri@hotmail.com).