The Community Council met for the first time for 2020 on Tuesday 11^th February. We would like to take this opportunity to advise of the elected positions and recap our Council members:

Chair –Renee Lindley renee_lindley@yahoo.com.au

Vice-Chair – Craig Hargreaves craig@diggeranddrill.com.au

Secretary – Kim Paton kimpaton22@yahoo.com

Treasurer – Jackie Tozer tozercj1@gmail.com

Members are Emma Peterson emmaandmark1@bigpond.com, John Morgan john@jandamorgan.com , Michael Leane michael.leane@lls.nsw.gov.au and Michelle McDonnell hillcrest4@active8.net.au Principle Chris Baron and a Staff Representative. Please do not hesitate to contact any one of the members as your Parent body advocates if you wish to discuss any ideas or issues. If any new members of our school are interested in knowing more about the Community Council or if interested in joining, please contact Renee Lindley on 0416 285 262 or Chris Baron on 69441 085 chris.baron@cg.catholic.edu.au   

We would like to also thank Gemma Crowe who has stepped down from the Community Council this year. Gemma has been a great asset to the team and we will miss her a great deal. Thanks Gemma for all your work over your time with the Community Council.

Fundraising

At the meeting it was agreed that we would continue with our projected fundraising amount of $45,000 over a 3 year cycle. This is in line with the previous 3 year cycle that was met. With this in mind, we are now interested in fundraising ideas that our school community may have in order to achieve our goal. We currently have the following fundraising events scheduled in:

• St Patrick's Primary School Variety Night
• St Patrick's Primary School Trivia Night
• St Patrick's Primary School Street Stall
• Our Major Raffle
• An ‘All Schools Disco’
• Meat Raffles at Lotts on Friday Nights over the Winter period
• Canteen

Can we encourage you to make contact with one of the members in order to suggest any further fundraising ideas and how you would like to run the event. The Meat Raffle roster will be coming around soon, please consider putting your name down for a fun Friday night at Lotts. If you have never done this before and feel a little nervous about it, please let us know, all new parents will always be paired with a ‘well skilled’ parent to ensure you have a great night!

Our Major Raffle is nearing closer to being drawn at our St Patrick's Variety Night on Saturday 14^th March. We were very happy with the outcome of our stall set up at the Gundagai Show and we appreciate all the helpers who were able to allocate some time to sell tickets. Thanks also goes to the committee for giving us such a great spot at the Show with lots of foot traffic.

Finally, our first of two Community Council Open Meetings has been scheduled for 18^th May, we encourage all parents and carers to attend this meeting. Further details will be available closer to the date.

Once again, we thankyou for your support over the previous year and we look forward to a great year ahead.

Regards 

Community Council