ICB Minutes 14th May 2008

ISLAMIC COLLEGE OF BRISBANE
COLLEGE PARENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Meeting Minutes: 14th May 2008

Minutes of the third meeting of the College Parents Advisory Committee held at the Islamic College of Brisbane on Wednesday 14th May at 7pm.

Present: Osman Rane, Domenic Bof, Shameem Rane, Dr Noor, Zaffar Iqubal Khan, Fenti Forsyth
Apologies: Muhsin Ally, Leila Nur Riskiyandi, Amron Shamshir, Anwar Benjamin, Nuraan Pandie, Shirhan Ibrahim
Absent:
Quasir Nasir

1. Meeting opened at 7:05 pm with a recitation of the Holy Quran.

2. Secretary's Report Secretary moved to have the minutes of the last meeting passed. Seconded by Br Osman. Carried.

Correspondance In : Went through all feedback provided by parents as an agenda item

Correspondance Out :
None

3. Treasurers ReportIncome: $0Expenditure: $0Current Bank Balance: $41828.54 (Feb 29th)

4. Business arising from the last meeting
Approach Breakfast cereal companies for sponsorship

Brother Osman has made some changes to the sponsorship letter. These changes need to be looked at.

Provide Year Planner

Sister Shameen to pick up from Admin. One of the delays in getting out a yearly planner is the setting of the Quran competition. Usually wait on ICQ to set a date. In future will look at setting a date independent of ICQ.

Draft Letter to Member for Stretton

Awaiting Brother Anwar’s return for status
Look at having Bunnings style sausage sizzles

Carried over to next meeting

Meet with Board to see issues with complying with government requirements

Awaiting Brother Anwar’s return for status

Meet with other schools to explore grants

Awaiting Brother Anwar’s return for status

$300 cheque to be sent overseas to cover bank riba

Brother Osman to send cheque

Apply for blue card

It was stressed that this is a serious issue by Dr Noor and the committee should apply for a blue card.

Investigate what is involved in setting up a voting station

Carried over to next meeting

Investigate what is required to get access to parent email database

Sister Leila has the parents email. CPAC secretary needs to organise a time to pick up.

Investigate Calamvale Community Tuck shop and fund raising

With sister Nuraan to follow this up. The school board has approved a canteen/tuckshop.Agenda Items

Review Minutes from Board meeting
Board meeting minutes will be available to the parents. Reading through the unofficial minutes it looks like feedback from the parent has been actioned by the board. There will be increased number of cleaning staff. There also is an approval for a canteen/tuckshop.

Feedback from parents received over month

· Wasp Nest in the toilet
Need to find out which toilet had the wasp nest. It may have been an empty one since the toilets are sprayed.

· School Staff parking in pram only parking

Memo sent out to staff not to park in the pram and handicapped parking spots. When handing out the newsletter on the 20th, I saw all these parking spots were clear.

· Buses used on excursions

Comment indicating bus with seatbelts used to take students to school but without coming home. The school needs to accept the bus that is available from the charter company. Seatbelts at this time is not compulsory on a bus.

· Dust from the top car park goes down to Prep

The new prep building will be complete in August/September. Students will be moved from existing car park.

· Muslim Soccer training at school

Currently with Brother Chown.

· Curry Day

Curries are brought into school and bought by students for lunch. Seen to be a good idea. Look to incorporate this into CPAC fund raising events.

Update on Sportathon

Sportathon date set for the 24th June inshallah.




Newsletter

Newsletter has been written and was distributed on May 20th. Feedback received, need to remember that some teachers are also parents and could be missed in the distribution. To effectively hand out newsletter need at least four people.

Vending Machine

This agenda item rolled over to following meeting

Dinner

Brother Zaffar to look at date, pricing, venue, advertising and numbers.

Spring Fete

Concerns that the spring fete has been allocated the same day as the Indian Bazaar. A lot of the resources and stalls required are committed to the Indian Bazaar. Need to decide what to do going forward.

Volunteer for fire works display

Unfortunately the initial CPAC meeting was held on a public holiday and had poor attendance. There was no one available to take up this offer.


6. General Business

Alhamdulliah a $20,000 donation toward the multipurpose sports complex by some business groups now means we can look to get started.

7. The next meeting is set for Monday, 2nd June at 7pm inshallah.

8. The meeting closed at 8.00 pm with a dua.


Action Items
➔ Review amended sponsor letter (Br Domenic)
➔ Draft letter to member for Stretton concerning road markings (Br Anwar)
➔ Email Yearly planner to Sister Shameen (Sr Shameen)
➔ Get feedback from teachers on cutting down sausage sizzles for excursions and look to a monthly CPAC fund raiser (Dr Noor)
➔ Look at having a Bunnings style sausage sizzle at an external venue (Br Osman Br Anwar)
➔ Meet with other schools to explore what is involved in getting grants (BR Anwar, Sister Nuraan)
➔ Send out a $300 cheque overseas to cover interest (Br Osman)
➔ Investigate what is involved in setting up a voting station (Sister Nuraan)
➔ Get parent email database from Sister Leila (Br Domenic)
➔ Investigate Calamvale Community Tuck shop and fund raising (Sister Nuraan)