Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community.   I hope everyone managed well through the toxic smoke last week and are now making the most of the clean air around us.   As…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community.   Although there is a lot going on, we would like to focus our comments on the budget and where we are today. Much like last…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. Congratulations on the $75,000 award for playground upgrades – great to hear that it alleviates some of the taxpayer burden by offsetting the costs associated with…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community.   We start with wonderful news tonight about – Reflections! As you may recall PTAC conducted this program for the very first time in Montclair last…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. Let’s start with some good news tonight. The National PTA has selected the Montclair PTA Council as the winner of the 2023 Local PTA Outstanding Advocacy…

Good evening! My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community.   Tonight we decided to do things slightly differently. Given that there are a few new faces on the Board and with the new leadership, we…

Happy New Year! My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community.   We are going to hold off on comments and updates till the next meeting. In the meantime though, I would like to extend a…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community.   What a year it has been – 2022 has its ups and downs and I am glad to observe that we have had more ups…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. Tonight, I would like to start with the passage of the bond referendum! It is clear that the bond referendum passed with overwhelming support from the…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. Tonight, I would like to start with the administrative lapses around the Montclair High School football program resulting in the decision by the NJ State Interscholastic…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. We have a lot going on and the PTAs have been working doubly hard continuing the ongoing programs in schools, while supporting the Community Investment Bond…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. I would like to start tonight with a Trivia Question. As you think about the answer, you will see it is related to some of the…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. I have a few updates that we at PTAC are excited to share tonight. First – we reached out to the community asking for volunteers to…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. On September 30, 2021, almost a year back, PTAC made a strong plea to the then Board of School Estimate to approve the capital plan. Here…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. I would like to start with the Budget tonight. When we last spoke about the budget at this Board meeting, we highlighted the deficiencies in the…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. I would like to cover two topics tonight – the Reflections Arts Program and the Budget. As you know, we celebrated the Reflections participants on Thursday,…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. Thank you, Justin Comini for your comments. We believe that schools should be a safe, supportive and respectful environment for all students. I would like to…

My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC), an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. As always, there is a lot going on this month. PTAC and PTA volunteers have been working hard in an eventful month. As you are aware, the in-person…

Good evening. Congratulations, Phaedra Dunn and Melanie Deysher. We look forward to your added wisdom, counsel and contributions to our community. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. The first topic I would like to…

Good evening. My name is Tessie Thomas and I am the President of the Montclair Council of PTAs (PTAC) an elected body that represents and supports the whole community. Thank you for presenting the Capital Investment plan. Clearly, hours and hours of time has gone into the meticulous work done to identifying all the infrastructure…