We just started creating a "Manual" this year. Like most PTO's this year's chairperson would hand down the information to next year's chairperson if you were lucky. I am a new co-chair this year and was not willing to rely on luck! At the beginning of the year I outlined to each of the committee chairs what I would like from them: Name of Committee, 1 or 2 sentence description of committee, very detailed explaination of how to run their committee - include names, emails, phone numbers, dates, etc. I also asked for a copy of any documents their commmittee uses (flyers, letters, etc). I only started this project a few months ago and I did tell the committee chairs they could document their committee this year as they go along, so I do not expect I will have it all compiled until the end of the year. We will make folders for each of the committee chairs next year. We are also adding all of this information to our website. You can view what we have done at
www.BrooklinePTO.org
, click on Contact Board Members then click on a position (we have their manual if their position is blue), you can then click on Available Documents to see and print the documents used for that committee. This is where we keep our Treasurer's forms as well, so any of our members can print them as needed.
I do develop websites professionally, if you are interested in a database driven website that you can update yourself through administrative access, please contact me directly at
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