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PTOs urge changes to facility-staffing rules after cafeteria, custodial fees cut into fundraising
Summary
PTO leaders told the school committee that cafeteria-staffing and custodial requirements for after-hours events are reducing net fundraising. Committee members discussed Department of Revenue limits on municipal support for private fundraising and directed staff to explore options including Board of Health permits and contract changes.
PTO leaders from Pine Glen and Memorial schools told the April 1 Burlington School Committee that facility-staffing rules — particularly the requirement to have cafeteria staff and custodians present for some after-hours events — are reducing the net proceeds of their fundraisers.
Margo Bunker, Pine Glen PTO president, and Colleen Shannon, Memorial PTO events chair, said recent events such as carnivals and pancake breakfasts yielded little or no profit once required staffing fees were paid. "The profit we would have gained, which would have been almost a thousand dollars from the pancake breakfast, we had to use to pay the bill that the cafeteria workers gave us," Shannon said. Bunker and other PTO representatives urged the committee to consider ways to allow community…
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