Carolyn Adelman Audrey Barchha Chris Binge Michele Benaich-Bloch Marlene Buckler Nick Bulloch Philip Djaferis (Chairman) Anne Pham  Sylvie Drabek Aleid Qaqaya  Karen Egger Gus Ritson Deborah Guebert Alan Roberts Catherine Haccius Brigitte Schmit Bee Hoesli Sally Troup Jackie Huber Victoria Usher Chantal Maillard Chantal de Vries Nancy Peterson Philip Wingate

Michel Chinal had another meeting.  Nina Stanga

The minutes from the 19 September 2000 meeting were approved after correction of the spelling of the names of Mrs Tanimoura and Mr Kzing.

Because of the unusual nature of the meeting (the main focus of discussion will be the nature of the new campus in Grand Saconnex), the Chairman prefers to deal with the other items on the agenda first.

The treasurer:

- announces that last year's account will be closed. Expenditures were greater than revenues by 10,000SFr

- needs to know what floats are needed for Halloween

- assures us that everything is OK for the Ski Swap Sale of 28 October

- asks how much should be allocated to the Student Support Fund (A committee including Gus, Caroline, Michele and Alan Roberts will meet before the next meeting to discuss this)

- announces that the profit from the Kermesse was 38,000SFr, but that 6,356SFr worth of bills a came after the closing.

It was decided, after some discussion that 28,000SFr would go towards the one-on-one donation.

Chris, Chantal and Jackie are taking care of Halloween. They are all set!

Sally Troup is co-ordinating. Victoria and Catherine are taking care of the food. Denise will handle the book corner and Allison, the toys.

Chantal and Chris are the co-ordinators. Jenny is responsible for allocating the tables. Aleid will handle Santa's Grotto. Victoria will do the decoration. We are still looking for Santa (Gus, you would look so good as Santa……).

A request has been forwarded to the Sports Booster Club to help host a rugby tournament.

Chairman participated in a CDG meeting yesterday. It was a special meeting called to review the various options considered by the Board for the Grand Saconnex campus (GS campus). It was an open discussion and a vote took place at the end of the meeting. The majority of the CDG voted against the idea of a 10-13 GS campus. A statement was sent to the Board insisting that there is a need for more openness. The Board said that an e-mail address would be opened.

Chairman suggested that we held a meeting at La Chat prior to the 28 November CGA meeting to channel the questions parents might have. It was decided that it might be counterproductive.

Chris Binge said that the decision regarding the GS campus had been made by the Board with the DG present. He explained that the discussions relating to the new campus had started during the summer holidays. He further explained that, in order to have a campus by September 2003, the architectural concourse had to be launched before the end of October 2000. There has been an initial meeting during the second week of term. Various possibilities were presented as to the form of the new campus. Both DG were asked to write a working document presenting the pros and cons of the various options.

During the Administrative Council meeting, a vote was taken and the majority was in favour of a 1-13 campus for Grand Saconnex.

The issue was then brought to the attention of the Education Committee (4 board members, representatives from the CDG and the principals). Again, the Committee was leaning in favour of the 1-13 campus.

The Board decided to empower its Executive Committee to make the final decision regarding the GS campus (it seems that John Boggs was absent when the decision was taken).

On 11 October (Wednesday before half term) Mr. Binge announced to the staff the decision taken, in principle, by the Board. Mr. Billingsley told the staff that the final decision had not been made. Staff took a vote, and nobody was in favour of a 10-13 campus that would truncate La Chat.

During the week before half term, some Board members suggested a 6-13 campus for GS.

Michele asked if Grand Saconnex was the only option. Mr Binge said that a lot of options had been considered but that Grand Saconnex was now the only one being considered.

A passionate discussion followed regarding the decision to make the GS campus a 10-13 campus and to therefore truncate La Chat. Everybody on the PTA appeared to reject this idea and it was decided that we should meet again the following week to discuss how to best inform the parents of the recent developments and how to address our concerns to the Board.

It was decided that the next regular PTA MEETING would take place on 21 November in the PDC room at 7:30pm, and that a meeting would be held on 1 November at 7:30 to specifically discuss the new campus issue.