Barbara/Mike,
 
I am parent at the Belle Haven School-Age Child Care Program who
attended the "parent meeting" that was held at the Onetta Harris Senior
Center on Tuesday, February 13th.
 
While I appreciate your efforts at putting together a parent's meeting,
I would like you to be aware that the result was far from satisfactory
and I am completely disappointed at the turn out and events that took
place at your meeting. I'm sure you're aware that these parent meetings
are useless unless parents actually show up and give input, so it was
disappointing to see so few parents. I hope that in the future your team
exerts a more genuine effort in organizing successful parent meetings.
 
I have a list of concerns that I would like you to address at your
earliest convenience:
 

1. One of the main issues presented by the parents in attendance
was that there was not sufficient advance notification about the
meeting. After speaking with many of the parents in the program I found
that their reason for not attending was simply because they did not
know. That is unacceptable. Please let me know how plan to ensure that
more parents are aware of future meetings with enough advance notice for
them to attend.
2. The structure of the meeting was not very welcoming for the few
parents who were in attendance. Please let me know how you plan to
restructure the meetings so that the parents who do participate actually
have a voice that counts, rather than being sat around a table an talked
to.
3. On the issue of Vanessa Carlisle, you mentioned that her move
was already set in stone and the tradeoff for her leaving was that the
Belle Haven area would gain more benefits to their Senior Center, a new
Program Coordinator and other things that would benefit the community.
Please let me know exactly what these planned changes are and when they
will come into effect.
4. If you remove Vanessa Carlisle form our Program, who will
replace Natasha Watkins when she is on maternity leave?

 
Thank you in advance,
 
Carmelite

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Received on Fri Feb 16 15:23:09 2007