You don't need an intervention - you need a mutiny. Realize that is my REaction to what I have just read, and also realize that every story has three sides, yours, hers, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. The money thing scares the bejeebers out of me. Find someone to handle the money, always have two signatures on a check, always have a set of checks and balances, and always have expenses pre-approved as per your bylaws. ALWAYS. If the school needs something that badly, then the school can pay for it and seek reimbursement after you have had the ability to go through proper channels to have the funds approved by your membership. Do not let your good name get dragged through the mud. Do not sign one more check that you are uncomfortable signing. If it walks like a duck and smells like a duck, usually it's a duck.

If you think you need to get "higher ups" within PTA involved - go a step above where her friends are. Don't go to the district level if that's where she pals around - go a step up, tell them of your concerns, and mention that she is chummy with people at the district level and you don't think that your situation would be rectified going in that direction.

However - if you have the patience, try internally first. Start talking with parents outside of the PTA meeting forum, meet for coffee, at the bus stop, whatever. DO NOT GOSSIP, just listen for concerns and when they are voiced, ask if others would be willing to express their concerns publicly and/or take on a board position. You need someone with an iron stomach, it sounds like, to take on the treasurer's role, someone with skin that is thick enough to not be pierced by nails, jet slick enough to let things just roll off, and someone who is not at all afraid to say NO to a president.

Good luck to you, my friend. Regardless of the alphabet soup we belong to, we are all in this for the kids.

I know this forum is geared more toward PTO's, but I've gotten SO much info from here and I really don't know what to do.
Last year our prez (same one as this year) ended up losing almost everyone on the board except me; if they didn't actually quit they at least stopped participating until it was basically her and I doing most of the work. One of the first people to go was the Treasurer so the Prez handled all the money and etc., but to be a legal board we finally had to get someone who would at least lend their name to the position, and that's exactly what happened-she let us use her name but Prez still did all the Treasurer work. This made me increasingly uncomfortable but we were so busy and I was new at all this, so as the other cosigner on the checks I just went along with what the Prez said.
Now we have a new board-everyone on it but me and the Prez are new-and initially there was a lot of enthusiasm and willingness to do things, but we didn't even have our first meeting until after school started and by now things have deteriorated to where the Treasurer has told me he will be quitting b/c she keeps telling him he's too "anal" for questioning where the checks she wants are going and wanting documentation for the money she's spending. She spent over $500 on a program the board knew nothing about for Red Ribbon Week-she sent out an e-mail stating we had been asked for one program but we wound up paying for something completely different b/c the first program was already booked, but didn't tell anyone until after the fact. She considers this an "emergency request" for funds; I say, we've paid for Red Ribbon Week programs in the past, so it should have been in our budget, which it wasn't. (Also, you would think the school would be looking at programs for something that happens every year before the Friday before they need the money.)
We requested a board meeting at our last General meeting-none had been scheduled-and she basically gave us the go ahead to ask whatever we wanted right then and there, then when things started to get ugly we were told it should have been kept private and raised in a board meeting-pretty hard when you refuse to have one.
My biggest concerns are the Treasurer's position, especially since she managed to convince everyone we didn't need an audit this year even though she pretty much had full, unrestricted control of the money most of the year (and didn't have time to produce Treasurer's reports), and the fact that she, the past Prez-added to our board since our election and a close friend of Prez, and a previous Prez who works at the school, also a close friend of Prez, and has a lot of input unofficially, keep telling everyone the Prez has the final say in everything, everything has to go through her, etc., so the newer people are reluctant to question her to her face even though they do have questions. I'm fairly sure she is going to end up doing the money again this year, whether we have a name in that position or not, and she will run everyone off who dares question her.
Btw, she knows everyone, from the Mayor to people on the County PTA board, so calling them would be more likely to end in her getting a friendly phone call alerting her to any complaints rather than action being taken. Help!