HSA April General Meeting – Harbordale HSA

Harbordale School Association
2025-2026 School Year
General Meeting
April 16th, 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: 5/21 – Elections
www.harbordalehsa.com

HSA General Meeting

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Welcome & Determine a Quorum of 10
Approve Minutes from Previous Meeting
Playground Presentation – City of FTL & Harbordale Civic Association
President’s Report – Stephanie Streicher
- Nominating Committee – Mary Kah, Stacey Fitzgerald & Midge Royer
- HSA Awareness Video / Slideshow
Fundraising and Volunteer Updates – Kerri Kibler & Pam Godfrey
- 4/13 – 4/17 Book Fair – Wislande Hilaire
- 4/16 – Math Night & Book Fair – Karri Kibler
- 5/2 Dine out to Donate – Stacey Fitzgerald
- 5/21 – Parent Social – Arielle Peters / Alison Calvert
- 5/28 School Supplies – Nicki Pierson
Communications Update – Midge Royer
- What is SAC/SAF (below)
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
Administration Update – Ms. Kashdin
For the Good of the Group
Adjournment
- Upcoming General Meeting Dates: 5/21 (IN PERSON ONLY / NO ZOOM)
  Voting: 2026-2027 Officers & Budget

What is SAC / SAF? School Advisory Council (SAC) and School Advisory Forum (SAF) meet together once a month and not only work on making the school better, but they also work making sure families and the community have a voice. We encourage any community member that wants to have a part in shaping school policies to participate in SAC/SAF

SAC focuses on helping the school improve. This group looks at things like student achievement, school goals, and ways to make the school stronger for all students. If a school wants to improve reading scores, that would usually be a SAC discussion.

SAF focuses on parent/community voice. This group gives families and community members a place to share concerns, ask questions, and help make sure important issues are heard. If parents want to raise concerns about communication, safety, or school policies, that would usually be a SAF discussion.

HSA General Meeting Minutes- March 26, 2025
Start 8:15am
Welcome (Stephanie, President)
Art Week (Mary Kah)- Meet the Masters is under way. Set up supplies and get
materials. Ready for Monday. Pleased with the volunteers signing up. Still a # of spots
left to fill. Goal is to get at least 4 volunteers for each class. Intricate piece of art for
materials, clean up. assemble their projects. 3/30- 4/10. Each class has two art periods
to complete. All done in school. HSA is funding this. Encourage creative minds.
Adopt a Class- generated in beginning of the year. Reached out to teachers of any
outstanding balances. To use by the end of the school year. We have a surplus of funds
from leftover balances from previous years. We decide to allocate those funds to get
some teachers up to $200 for each of them. Encourage to use them this year. They can
use the money to purchase supplies, student incentives, etc. Teachers are pleased and
appreciative.
Nominating Committees- (Stacy and Mary)- fill all of the positions opened for next
year. Asking people to throw their hat into the ring to see. Board members are voted on.
Review and make recommendations. It is a vote. Vote will be done in our May meeting.
If anyone is interested in becoming a board member please let us know. Committee
chair members are pointed positions. Co-chair of Pumpkin Pizzazz, Walkathon, etc.
How do you put your name in for a nomination? Mary- you can reach out to Stephanie,
Midge, Mary or Stacy. President@harbordalehsa.com. Voting meeting in May you must
be here in person. We are not offering zoom at all in May. Only in person. We do need
butts in chairs and people to show up. None of the positions are set in stone. You can
see the positions on the HSA website. Even if there is a chairperson there is a team
working with them.
Parent social (Ariel)- we are locked in for 5/21 15 th St Fisheries. Donate one beverage
per parent and appetizers. Accepting silent auction items. Expect 40- 50 people. Spring
social is not well attended as fall. Seminole room, south side of the building upstairs.
Email or message me if anyone collects any silent auction donations. You can drop it off
in the turtle box as well.
Stephanie- We have a quorum of 10 now. Approve the minutes from February meeting.
Posted on website. Also, on Link Tree. Kerri makes a motion, Stacy seconds. All in
favor? I. None opposed.
Presidents Report (Stephanie)- bingo night was amazing. Thank you to Mckenzie who
worked her butt off. It was awesome. She’s one of those that doesn’t like a co-chair. She
single handily organized the entire event. Thank you to those that donated drinks,

prizes, volunteered. 3 rd grade parents did a fabulous job. Thank you to our 5 th grade
mom Ashley Owen. 5 th grade activities are under way. Garden show and flower
arranging has been completed.5 th grade field trip is coming up, end of year graduation
ceremony. Handled by 5 th grade and Ashley. 5 th grade is a lot. Taking peoples names
now to get you acquainted with what is going on for 5 th grade. Thank you to Julie for
collecting $ for denim day. Thank you to all of the parents and camps that took care of
your children over spring break.
Book Fair (Wislande) – book fair is 4/13- 17 th . We are asking to please set up e wallets.
Helpful for kids to have e wallets. Please don’t send credit cards. If you have e wallets
for last year you can use it online. Teachers also set up e-wallets that you can contribute
to. 7:30am every morning. Only open to students. We need a lot of volunteers to help
us. Please sign up to help us out. Reached out to Ft Laud High. Most likely can get
enough high school for 12 stations. Any Harbordale parents if you have high school
students there is a volunteer sign up. Math night you can shop with your kids. Carly- you
have to have an account I will get the excel spreadsheet and send to Kerri. We can get
at least 12 volunteers.
Nikki- autism/ESE fundraiser. Starts next Monday, 3/30. Monday wear hats, Tues
mismatched shoes/socks, Wed sunglasses, Thursday every child is getting a t shirt.
Thank you to parents that have donated and sponsored their classes.
Communications (Midge)- SAC/SAF- one of the things this year is make sure parents
understood what SAC/SAF is. Meet back to back. Essentially same meeting. We talk
about school stuff. In depth of admin report. More in depth about school safety issues,
testing scores, staff updates, school uses the money from those testing scores. On
Tuesday afternoon welcome for anyone to come. Talking about the pic vendors. There
are a lot of interesting things discussed, staff is present, too. Get your name out in the
school. Perfect way to do it. I do SAC/SAF at middle school, too. Highly recommend. So
you can advocate for the students/school. Providing your input for what’s best for the
students. District committee. Talk about things going on in school board level. I’m
leaving next year. Gives me a chance to help them out. Pretty low lift. Attend some
meetings. Attend a central meeting off 595. Great for someone with a flexible schedule
or stay at home mom. Usually attends during school hours. Midge will be 5 th grade mom
next year. Mentor someone during her 5 th grade year.
Dine out to donate (Stacy)- next dine out Quarterdeck. Been generous in years past.
They are happy to do a Saturday, on 5/2. All day. Giving back on all of the sales (food
and alcohol). Good happy hours on weekends. Tell your neighbors. Everyone turn in
their receipt. Red box at host stand. Teachers name on back. Incentive for prize. Access
to game room.

Nicki- no update on membership. Stephanie- getting questions where does our money
go? At the beginning of year I made a program impact report. 0 clicks on the website.
Shows where our money goes. Looking for a savvy mom. Wants to make a video or a
slide show. Make something catchy that we can push out. Use 6 months- to a year. To
showcase what HSA pays for. I want this video to be fun and catchy. HSA Affect.
Yearbook (Stephanie on behalf of Talia)- done with pics this year. Final prints ready
for vendor to print. Please buy your yearbook. Every year we have people looking for
yearbooks and they sell out.
Room parent update (Stephanie on behalf of Julie)- staff appreciation last week of
April. Flyer coming from your room parent to show how you can show appreciation to
staff/teacher.
Mindy- staff appreciation lunch- we give them a gift card. $20. Please sponsor a gift
card. Make sure it says teacher appreciation. Or go on our website and do a targeted
donation. If you want to make a dessert you can do that as well. 4/29.
Treasurer (Maryanne)- made $37.50 for denim day. As of yesterday we have $89,406,
restricted funds $12K class of ’26 $3K, ’27 $2K, ’28 $1K. Leaves HAS with $77,404 in
our account. 1 st column what we have done, 2 nd column what we budgeted and 3 rd
column over or under budget. Had every fundraiser except book fair. I don’t have
Walkathon numbers yet. Raised $41K, budgeted $51K, should go way over with
Walkathon. Expenses total $60K, budget $58, $25K of that is from sound system. Still
have some more expenses to pay out.
No update on parliamentarian report
Administrative Update (Gordon)- Kashdin is at a principal meeting. Bingo night huge
success. Wish list on amazon was great. Read for record. Thank you to Franklin
Templeton. Humane society. Thank you for the donations. Staff update. Facility service
person. Might see him at car line. New to Broward county. We have sound system. Back
of projector. 300 lbs. we need more manpower. SAC meeting on Tues, everyone is
welcome. We will discuss the pic vendor for next school year. City of Ft Lauderdale
about playground update as well. Annual customer survey. Students/parents fill out.
Need 20% of parents to fill out. Anonymous. Sunshine aftercare program. Earned
awards for South FL. Voted for favorite customer service. Big social media push with
Instagram and Ms. Suarez manages X. Keep class dojo active. Capture behind the
scenes. Safety- compliance with all of our drills. PM 3 testing dates. Posted this week
on DOJO. Keep an eye on children’s dates. If they come in more than 30 min late they
will have to test on the makeup day. Be on time. Reflex goal makes math so much
easier. Great weekend tool. Active over the summer. Fractions piece as well. 100% in 3-
5 th . K family round up on 4/10 at 9am. Math night on 4/16 during book fair. 4/23 take

your child to work day. It’s considered a field trip. Report cards pushed out in Focus on
Friday.
Good of the group (Stephanie)- first one is I heard this morning our boys and girls
club aftercare has transportation. Started this past Monday. Very affordable option. $15
for entire year.
I want to make sure everyone feel comfortable in the HSA. Approaching anyone. Share
something about me. I have raging imposter syndrome. Introvert. Please feel free to say
hi to me and to anyone else involved in the HSA. We all want to be friendly.
Next meeting 4/16, 5/21 (no zoom option)
Adjourned 9:01am