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* = co-office-holders are allowed

President *
The President position offers opportunities to influence the direction and priorities of the Parents Association. The President presides at PA meetings and Executive Board meetings, is the Board member usually in the closest contact with the principal and vice principal, and when necessary delegates projects among other Board members.

Vice President *
The role of Vice-President is both necessary and flexible. It has been recent practice that VPs, in cooperation with the President, shape their roles to suit their interests and talents. Sometimes a VP may take ownership of a large and important project or event.

Recording Secretary
The RS keeps minutes of the general PA meetings and at the Executive Board meetings. He or she is responsible for presenting the general PA minutes publicly in time for them to be voted for approval at the meeting following that at which they were recorded.

Corresponding Secretary
The CS is the voice of the Executive Board most frequently in touch with the larger Muscota community. Traditionally, the CS has delivered a weekly-or-so communication containing anything the Board needs/wants to share with everyone else.

The CS also monitors the Muscota.org email inbox (not alone by any means) to take note of incoming messages from parents or outside organizations that may need the attention of the Board.

Webmaster
The basic responsibilities are keeping the muscota.org content up to date, adding new pages and buttons for fundraising as needed (working with the Treasurer in this regard), and removing outdated content. That’s the basics. If you have something more ambitious in mind, and have time, that’s fantastic; there is plenty of room for you to do great things.

We use Squarespace. And that interacts with our G-suite. If you know how to, or can learn to, work with that setup, you should be OK.

Treasurer
The Treasurer is responsible for the maintenance of the financial records of the PA; jointly with the President to see that taxes are filed; to address any 501c3 status issues that may arise (not expected); for monitoring reimbursements of teacher and parent expenses (this has been mostly automated); and for preparing, with the assistance of the President and the Assistant Treasurer, the Budget.

Assistant Treasurer
In addition to assisting the Treasurer as needed in the above responsibilities, the AT is primarily responsible for organization and oversight of large-scale purchasing on behalf of the PA. A good example, and probably the most important, is school supplies. The AT sometimes works closely with Camille to coordinate on necessary school expenditures.

The Treasurer and AT work together to share work in a way that makes sense for both of them.

Translation Secretary
The TS is a key position on the Board. Only the attention of a sensitive, dual-language, human being can provide parents an appropriately-nuanced, Spanish-language version of an English original. The TS role is practically important because our community is stronger when more of us are involved. It is ethically important because the PA represents and serves all parents.