SOMETHING WE ALL CAN AGREE ON:
THE RETURN OF THE OU BIG EVENT TO
ClassenSAS IS GREAT NEWS.
ClassenSAS has been accepted as
a job site for the April 5th, 2008 “Big Event at OU”
- Be a part of the return of the CSAS “Big Help” - NOW
Between 50 and100 OU student
volunteers will arrive on Saturday April 5th to paint rooms
and do some heavy lifting. We are in the process of confirming our the
job specs with OU and need your help to get the job done right.
The goal is 10 rooms plus the the
cafeteria. The number of rooms that can be painted depends on the
number of OU & CSAS volunteers who can be accommodated on painting day.
That number will depend on the degree to which CSAS parents can
supplement the quantity of paint, brushes, rollers, etc that OU can
donate. OU should provide most, but not all of the paint, tools and
supplies needed for their own volunteers.
Like last year, there is no money
in the PTSA budget for this project.
1. To establish the $ budget,
Pledges are needed now.
Whatever amount you are comfortable with is fine: $5, $15, $500 or
$5000. (Newsflash: We have a pledge from the Netherlands! Exchange
student Jonah Gerth's mother called while I was typing this.)
2. To have an idea how many
rooms that can be scraped, patched and taped, we are asking folks to
tell us if you can set aside time the week before the Big Event to
scrape, patch and tape.
Please say Yes!
3. Volunteers also needed to help
organize… minimal meetings!
We would need donations in hand by
the end of March through the week of and after the Big Event (I will
credit card most purchases - please don't leave me swinging in the wind,
friends!) A portion of the pledges will be reserved for "unexpected"
expenses. The remainder will be used to estimate the number of extra
OU volunteers that we will be able to put to work painting classrooms
(and, we hope, the cafeteria) on April 5th.
Please reply to Barbara Rupert
bdew@repairman.com
with a cc to Jacci Rodgers, PTSA treasurer (jrodgers@okcu.edu), and let
us know your name, the first and last name of your student, your
telephone number and the amount of your pledge. (Checks should be made
out to CSAS PTSA with OUBigEvent in memo.)
Answers to OU Big Event/CSAS Big
Help FAQs to follow.
Barbara Rupert, Mr. Scott McAdoo
(vice principal) co-chairs.