General Meeting: Principal Updates and Winter Planning

In-person meeting in the cafeteria.

Updates from Principal Bogan

- Teachers are tired of the big dark and the flood rains, and looking forward to break
- Excitement about hot chocolate event before break for kids to spend their cougar claws.

• A safety awareness guide was shared.
  • Best Practices for keeping each other safe

After School Clubs

- Next session set for March 9th, ends May 21st.
- Registration will go out after break.
- Most clubs will carryover and there will be some new ones. Some days may change.

Budget, Fundraising

- We passed a negative budget last year and will be working to make up that deficit.
- There is a year end appeal going out now–please get those employer matches in and ask grandparents and neighbors and anyone else who may give.
- Reminder that PTSA pays for field trips, recess staffing, teacher appreciation, 5th grade grad, multicultural night, lunar new year, pride, mathnasium, school supplies, classroom supplies, after school programs, etc.

Events and Volunteer Opportunities

- Upcoming Mathnasium event - January 29th, 1 hour
    - 5th graders will be trained to lead
    - PTSA ask is to provide food. Will discuss offline.

Garden

    - 4th grade is doing lessons in the garden
    - Volunteers needed for spring.

Officers needed

    - Secretary for next year
    - VP for now
    - Co-President

Cocoa Cart - December 18th.

    - Volunteers needed to help distribute cocoa - this is a fun way to see classrooms and reward kids for their excellent work.

Lunar New Year - February 12th.

- Multicultural Night - date not set, spring

Moveathon - mid-April,

    - All families participate in fundraising.
    - Kimball doesn’t do auctions or fundraising events, so this is the one time of the year we need families to reach out to neighbors and family.
    - Reach out to businesses like restaurants, dentists, any small business you encounter in south seattle since this benefits the wider community.

Baked from the Heart

    - Volunteers needed day of to encourage kids to participate.

Questions for PTSA or Principal Bogan?

- Lunch switch - same amount of time, 20 minutes,
    - Used to be 3 grades at a time, now 2, so lines are shorter and it’s meant to give kids more time to eat.
- Question about fifth-grade staffing and specials.
    - Class-size concerns in specials were discussed.
    - Union reps will be filing a grievance with the district to try to get some movement to support breaking those up.
- Is music shorter than last year?
    - Yes, she’s halftime. We were at 18 classrooms last year, they reduced to 16, then up to 17, so we would need 1 more to get fulltime music added back.
- Question about kids with IEP and also counseling services.
    - They get support and are sometimes in their own classroom and sometimes with their grade’s classroom.
    - Counselor is in the building once a week and kids are signed up ahead of time to meet with them.
- How’s the street closure going?
    - Well! Feels less dangerous now.
- Lockdown drills. Are they happening? Has communication changed?
    - They don’t get put in the bulletin.
    - Sometimes teachers give a heads up.
    - There is a script that teachers follow and read.
    - Events include lockdown, evacuation, reverse evacuation.
    - Reverse evacuation was described as bringing students inside from outdoor areas when needed.

Archive date note: The source heading says “December 10th” without a year. The surrounding November 2025 and January 2026 entries place it in December 2025.