Harbordale School Association
2025-2026 School Year
General Meeting
Elections
May 21st 2026 8:05am
at the School’s cafeteria & zoom
There is no zoom option at this meeting
All members are encouraged to attend and vote to select next year’s board members
Slate of candidates below
Nominations will also be accepted from the floor during the meeting
President: Alison Calvert or Kerri Kibler
Vice President of Fundraising: Stephanie Streicher
Vice President of Communications: Julie Loughery
Vice President of Membership: McKenzie Dewitt
Vice President of Public Relations (Yearbook): Talia Garcia
Volunteer Coordinator: Pamela Godfrey
Treasurer: Maryanne Cockerille
Assistant Treasurer: Mindy Runyan
Secretary: Wislande Hilaire
Parliamentarian: Heather Kaminsky or Midge Royer
www.harbordalehsa.com
HSA General Meeting
Thursday, May 21, 2026
(IN PERSON ONLY / NO ZOOM)
- Welcome & Determine a Quorum of 10
- Approve Minutes from Previous Meeting (below)
- President’s Report – Stephanie Streicher
- Elections – Mary Kah, Stacey Fitzgerald & Midge Royer
- Fundraising and Volunteer Updates – Kerri Kibler & Pam Godfrey
- 5/21 – Parent Social – Arielle Peters / Alison Calvert
- 5/28 School Supplies – Nicki Pierson
- Communications Update – Midge Royer
- What is SAC/SAF (below)
- Public Relations Update – Talia Garcia
- Yearbook
- Treasurer’s Report – Maryann Cockerille
- Budget Update
- Approval of 2026/2027 Budget
- Administration Update – Ms. Kashdin
- For the Good of the Group
- Adjournment
| 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.
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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.
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HSA General Meeting Minutes- April 16, 2026
Start 8:15am
Welcome (Stephanie, President) We have at least 10 for quorum. Approve minutes
from previous meeting. Heather approves and Nicki seconds. All in favor? I. None
opposed.
Playground Presentation (on our new projector). Kashdin- Mark from the City of Ft
Lauderdale. He has Kevin who created the renderings. Marilyn is also here (President
of the Harbordale Civic Association. Work closely with city and police dept. Major
meeting traffic control by convention center, ongoing traffic problem. Go on
harbordale.org. Sign up for Harbordale news. Goes out twice a month. $15 to join
Harbordale Civic Association. Mark- senior project manager. Update on design. Minor
changes from parents’ feedback. Schools permitting chain structure. Change it. Rope
structure also changing. More appropriate component. Climbing aspect. What’s the
bottom? It’s cushion type surface. Speaking with schools permitting office with the
shade. Separate shade structure, more $. Delay the project? No, part of the permitting
process. Age range 5-12. 1 tree removal. Tripling the size of the space. Rubber will be
triple the size. Additional seating? No. On schedule for the summer? Yes. There will be
gating. City will do clean ups. Park ranger’s responsibility. Bring it up to them if there are
concerns. Community has requested access to the playground. Something we will have
to work closely with the city. I will vouch for Marylyn. She is our biggest advocate with
the city. Never put any student in jeopardy. Concerns are valid. Not able to attend
meetings, we do on zoom. We will continue to work with school and community. You
can contact. Fix It Fort Lauderdale. You report it, they will come. Outreach program city
of Ft Lauderdale has. Fix it Ft Laud is pretty effective. Place to bring issues is your civic
association. Safety issue. What happens on the weekend at the playground? We want it
to be safe. When we get to building stage. Come up with a plan. What does the park
ranger do? Coming in next morning. Playground is ready to go. No parking. Supposed
to be able to walk. Keep it neat. Get fix it phone number posted on Link Tree.
Presidents Report- Nominating Committee (Stacy and Midge)- used by laws to help us
with process. Reaching out to people. Accepting nominations until 5/13. Post at least
two weeks before the May meeting. 5/21. QR code if interested in a position. Scan it
and sends us your request. We have a list that we will post to website. We have multiple
interest for President and VP of Membership. Still need a few members. Campus
beautification. Pumpkin Pizzazz co-chair. Pumpkin Pizzazz basket chair. Board
positions we have to vote on. Chair positions they are appointed. Helpful to have more
than one person in position. You can work together and pick up the slack. Room parents
are very much involved in the Pumpkin Pizzazz basket process. Pushing it to room
parent responsibility instead of a chair? Leaving it to room parents, could get chaotic.
Need a chair cohesive. Recess equipment, Kerri will keep. Nicki and Heather will do
Pumpkin Pizzazz baskets. Parent social coord. Ariel? Yes she will do it again. Kim
Carney will be co-chair. (Ariel) 5/21 15 th St Fisheries in the Seminole room. Appetizers
and one drink per adult. Ariel and Alison will connect about silent auction items. Multiple
people running? We will post the slate publicly 2 weeks before meeting, 5/7. Stop taking
nominations on the 7 th but on the floor we will open it up. Come to the meeting and put
up the nomination. Can’t nominate anyone without permission. We have a lot of active
4 th grade parents. Always good to shadow a position. Add third person for book fair
chair? Got someone for the yearbook. Holding this vote by ballot, not show of hands.
Round up of events (Stephanie)- ESE week. Amazing. Good job Nicki, thank you. Shirts
were awesome. Kids had conversations. What does autism mean?
Kindergarten round up- we had a group of incoming K parents. Really engaged. Great
things from that class.
Meet the Masters- Thank you to Mary. Amazing turn out of volunteers. Book fair this
week. Very good volunteer turn out. Thank you to everyone. Would like to do a video.
Need a volunteer. Post on social media. How we spend our HSA funds? Not sure what
it’s funding. Make a fun video. Fun things HSA does. Promotional video.
Book Fair- Maryanne- book fair is going great. Only hiccup with scheduling. Volunteers
came in. Long block with no classes in the morning. 8:20. After that not until 10:30.
Parents are sitting around. Sales are going great. Math night. Tonight. Mathnasium
comes to cafeteria. Math related games. 20 High school students from Ft Laud High
School. Free to attend. Book fair will be open. Opportunity to shop with your kids. 6pm
Parent Social- Parking at 15 th St Fisheries is not the best. Kashdin said we can park in
Harbordale parking lot until 8:30pm. Gates will lock at 8:30. Silent auction (Alison)-
Pushing hard to do silent auction online. Not going away from in person. Still have a
table to offer items. Be on Galabid. Free, app and web based. Pictured online. It’s a trial.
Visibility. Increments will be automated. You will have the option to buy it out. Regular
silent auction items and online. People who can’t come to parent’s social can bid online.
When we open up parent social. Start the flyer add the QR code. If there are items that
don’t get sold online we will most likely hold them for next year. Where do items come
from? Donations. I ran out of table space at Pumpkin Pizzazz so I wasn’t able to use all
of our auction items. Crayola exp in Orlando, Flamingo Gardens. Gift cards, Contour
Day Spa, City Furniture, etc.
Membership/school supplies (Nicki)- as of now 223 families. School supplies- Link
sent out. School supplies School Tool Box creates individual boxes. You can go in and
delete things that you already have. Add things, too. Free shipping over $85. $9.99 for
shipping. Every box we order HSA gets 10% back. Sold 109 last year. Any box over this
year gets $10 per box. Some boxes $30- $40 some $50. Each grade is different. Order
up to a week before school starts. Convenient service. Least amount of problems with
this company. Customer service is great. Thank you to everyone that sponsored a class
for ESE fundraiser. Raised $1K for ESE program. Got t shirts for every child.
SAC/SAF- not too late to participate. Meet once a month. Work on school improvement
(SAC), families have a voice (SAF). Encourage any community member to have a part
in changes to school policies. Any issues you have. Recommend you come to the next
meeting. School nurses, boundary changes, etc.
Yearbook- buy your yearbook. Yearbookforever.com.
Teacher appreciation (Julie) 4/27- 5/2. You should have received a flyer from your
room parent. Each day offers suggestions on how you can show appreciation to your
teacher/staff at Harbordale. If you have any questions please see your room parent.
Hospitality lunch (Mindy) 4/29. Need volunteers to serve. Giving all staff/teachers a
$20 gift card. In need of 10 more. 10am arrival for volunteers. Adam and Joe catering.
Budget (Maryann)- $80,904.83 in account. Restricted funds $10,593.57. Includes ’26-
‘28 classes, adopt a class, ESE has $1330. Reading program $47. Sunshine $311. HSA
has $70,311. Received Walkathon check. $21K something. Expenses- big items paid,
$25K general fund includes big screen, av system. Principal discretion has $141.
Reading program $625. Everything paid out except staff appreciation. $1500 budget.
Unmet needs has $159.
Administrative Update (Kashdin)- parent survey. If you did take it, ask your spouse or
a friend. Thank you Nicki. Great ESE week. Fun activities. ESE dept came on morning
announcements. Be inclusive. Meet the masters. Thank you to volunteers, Hardison
and Mary Kah. Book fair. Kids love to shop. Thank you to volunteers. Wislande is here
every morning. Mrs. Graham has returned. Thank you to Mrs Smith who took her place.
District pushing out attendance dashboard. Overview how school is doing you will have
access. Tardy and attendance issues. Push out in Dolphin Doings. Cafeteria sound
system update. It is done. 20 ft screen, mounted projector and speakers. Thank you to
the HSA for the $25K. Benefits us on many aspects. Picture vendor. TSS photography.
Presented at SAC. Pricing is more competitive. Harbordale is on Instagram and X.
Please join. Send to relatives. Internet parent safety training. Tues 4/21. Recent activity
outside of school parents had concerns with. Cyber crime unit provide resources, be
proactive. We have fire walls in place. When they go home parents are responsible.
Nice to hear someone that deals with it all the time. Actively engaged as a parent.
Encourage you to attend. We will push out resources. We have testing, so no zoom. PM
3 testing next week with K and 1 st . PM 3 determines promotion. 8:30 testing starts. Have
to wait in office if you’re late. Playground remove two trees on north end. Majority will be
rubber surface. A small portion will remain sand.
Good of the group (Stephanie)- get a lot of flyers. Google AI is called Gemini, free to
use. Snap a pic of flyer or download it, add to my calendar.
Next meeting, 5/21 in person only. No zoom. Need bodies. Election. Voting on budget
and next years officers.
Adjourned 9:35am