Harbordale School Association
2025-2026 School Year
General Meeting
March 26th, 2026 8:05am
at the School’s cafeteria & zoom
Zoom link will be posted on dojo and sent via email
Everyone is welcome!
Future HSA Meetings: 4/16, & 5/21
www.harbordalehsa.com
HSA General Meeting
Agenda
Thursday, March 25, 2026
- Welcome & Determine a Quorum of 10
- Approve Minutes from Previous Meeting
- President’s Report – Stephanie Streicher
- Nominating Committee – Mary Kah, Stacey Fitzgerald & Midge Royer
- 4/16 General Meeting (share slate)
- 5/21 General Meeting (vote) IN PERSON ONLY
- The HSA Effect (awareness campaign)
- Nominating Committee – Mary Kah, Stacey Fitzgerald & Midge Royer
- Fundraising and Volunteer Updates – Kerri Kibler & Pam Godfrey
- 3/30 – 4/2 Autism Awareness Week – Nicki Pierson
- 3/30 – 4/10 Meet the Masters – Mary Kah
- 4/13 – 4/17 Book Fair – Wislande Hilaire
- 5/1 Dine out to Donate – Stacey Fitzgerald
- 5/21 – Parent Social – Arielle Peters
- 5/28 School Supplies – Nicki Pierson
- Communications Update – Midge Royer
- SAC/SAF – OPEN (What is SAC/SAF)
- Membership Update – Nicki Pierson
- Public Relations Update – Talia Garcia
- Yearbook
- Room Parent Update – Julie Loughrey
- 4/27 – 5/1 Staff Appreciation Week – Julie Loughrey
- 4/29 – Staff Appreciation Lunch – Mindy Runyan
- Treasurer’s Report – Maryann Cockerille
- Budget Update
- Adopt a Class – Mary Kah
- Parliamentarian’s Report – Wislande Hilaire
- Administration Update – Ms. Kashdin
- For the Good of the Group
- Adjournment
- Upcoming General Meeting Dates: 4/16, 5/21
HSA General Meeting Minutes – February 19, 2025
Start 8:13am
Welcome (Stephanie, President)- Good morning. We have a quorum of at least 10.
Nikki makes a motion to approve the January general minutes, Talia seconds, all in
favor, I. Any opposed? No
Presidents Report (Stephanie) We have had an eventful month. Walkathon. Amber
and Aja did amazing. Met our goal. $23,600 when dust settled. Thank you to all of our
donors. Kerri for providing back up. Amazing event, went so smoothly. Thank you to the
volunteers. First event that we did not have to struggle getting volunteers. Pam is doing
an amazing job with What’s App and growing the volunteer community. Walkathon
parties went off without a hitch. Career day. Mindy put together breakfast for volunteers.
Parents spoke. Kids loved career day. Next month. We will need to create a nominating
committee for next year’s positions. Put together nominees for April meeting. Vote in
May meeting. We do not offer zoom for May meeting. Need people in person to vote. If
interested in taking a step forward we would welcome you.
Bingo Night (Mckenzie)- Friday, 2/27. Ticket sales/volunteer sign ups are live. Most fun
event to volunteer for. We will have pizza. Super important to pre order. Sold out last
year at the door. Ready to go by the office on Friday. You can get a whole cheese pizza.
Option now $20. Papa Johns. Candy, chips, soda, water. First game is at 6:15pm. At
least 8 rounds. Great prizes. 2-night stay at the Conrad. Low on the gift cards. Take a
look at the Amazon wish list. Ships directly to me.
Art Week (Mary Kah)- formerly known as Meet the Masters. Ms. Haridson works with
each class. Research and learn about an artist. Create a work of art. End of March.
3/30-4/10. We will be looking for volunteers. No art skills required.
Book Fair (Midge, on behalf of Wislande) who is the chair of book fair. It’s in planning
stages. 4/13- 4/17. We will need a lot of volunteers. You will be given more details as
the time gets near.
SAC (Midge)- would be great for someone to step in for SAC the following year. HSA
raises funds, but you find out about SAC when you have a problem. Maybe a K or 1 st
grade parent. Midge Royer. Come find me. Sit with me at the meeting. Our next meeting
is next Tues at 2:15 in the media center.
Nikki- autism/ESE fundraiser. Early stages of planning. Week of activities and fun
things to do. End the week 4/2 autism awareness day. Flyer coming out shortly. We
currently have around 242 HSA members.
Stephanie- Most fundraisers go to our general budget. ESE fundraiser raises funds for
ESE budget. Set aside for restricted funds for ESE specialist and their dept. Walkathon
some questions about what are we raising money for? Everything HSA pays for
throughout the year. Friday shirts, AR program, A/V system, etc. If you ever have
questions there is a program impact report that spells out everything we pay for
throughout the year. You can find it on the HSA website. Any questions, find me,
Maryanne, Kerri, etc.
Yearbook (Talia)- $25, yearbookforever.com. Deliver at the end of the school year.
Also, 5 th grade parents the deadline for ads is coming up March 1st. Any photos for the
yearbook please submit. Closes beginning of March. If you want to get involved with
putting the yearbook together I have two years left. It’s all online. Pam- don’t wait to get
your yearbook. Every child should have a yearbook. Working with a third party. If you
have trouble ordering come to HSA, we will figure it out.
Stephanie- some parents are willing to donate for Ms. Bureau to give to kids where
families can’t necessarily afford one. Go on website, buy it and put donation. If buying
for your child put your kid’s name in there.
Budget Update (Maryanne)- $80,861, out of that money restricted funds $ holding for
different organizations. Not really HSA’s money. Carries over every year. Restricted
funds, adopt a class, 3- 5 th graduation, reading program. Student council, sunshine
fund, world down syndrome. $11K in restricted. HSA has $69K. I don’t have Walkathon
$ yet. All the rest went over budget. Expenses. Incentives. Changed manually to $1345.
$63K spent so far this year. Budget was $58K. Gave a check for $25K for sound system
in cafeteria. Still have some money we have to pay out by end of this year.
Admin Update (Kashdin)- thank you for field day. Hardison and Pam for all of the
volunteers. We had to change dates because of rain. Just finished day of service and
love. Bureau coordinated breakfast for the staff that helps us with safety, cleanliness
and healthiness. Thank you for the donations from parents. Each class did a card.
Uplifted their spirits. Thanks to Bureau and parents who donated. Walkathon great
event. Aja and Amber did an amazing job. Celebration activities. Yoga, Stanley cups
were personalized. Top seller was coach of the day. Last night Ciotti took a handful of
students to the all Broward concert. Top vocalists. Elementary, middle and high school.
Ciotti played piano. 6 4 th graders. Staff updates- armed guard, Victor, transferred to
Hollywood. We have two-armed guards now. We have one floater and one permanent.
Started late last week. Brantley and Pinya. Brantley is assigned to Harbordale and
Pinya is a floater. New cafeteria speakers. Called on Monday to start installation. Next
week coming to mount projector. Slowly coming along. See what we can coordinate
over spring break. $25K donation from HSA. Funding majority of this project. We will
reap a lot of benefits from the upgraded system. Social media push. Instragram and X.
Pushing all schools to have active media. Highlight a lot of the great things we are
doing. Set up to tag? You can tag us. @harbordaleelementary. Thank you to Gordon
and Suarez for keeping us updated. Financial realignment plan. District sent out flyers.
Realigned financial resources to help shortfall. How district plans to streamline costs.
Principals meeting this afternoon. Budgets have not come out yet. General outline on
how we will move forward. Hopefully no layoffs. What HSA does as a group allows us to
keep the programs that we have. Read for the record next week. K and 1 st and every
child (K-1 st ) goes home with a book. Thanks to Franklin Templeton for volunteering.
Bingo night, super excited. Packed house. Love the morning announcements. Safety
patrols doing pet drive with humane society. Take it over as a field trip. Ms. Gordon to
come up. Nominations for volunteer of the year. 10 wonderful volunteers were
nominated. 25/26 volunteer of the year. So excited. Staff voted. Recognize someone
special that is backbone of HSA. This person includes the whole family, set up/break
down, communication skills. Stephanie Streicher! Congratulations!
Good of the group- American heart month. Please get heart scans. Heart walk is 3/8.
Next meeting is 3/26.
Adjourned 8:50am