VIS/PTA Representative
Job Description
Need to find someone interested in the “big picture”. Think of passing the levies as the ultimate “fundraiser”. This fundraiser affects every child in the entire school district.
VIS/PTA rep should have:
· Good communication skills
· Know lots of people in the school community
· This is a great job for a past or current legislation chair, past president, past fundraising chair
There are two parts to the job:
- Communicate the benefits of the bond/levy package to your community
- Recruit volunteers to help with the campaign
What will be expected?
· One Meeting in early October
· Although there may be a social gathering in August
· Give 2-5 minute talk at every PTA meeting
· Forward emails to PTA
· Submit already prepared newsletter articles
· Recruit people for phone-banking in November
· Recruit people for Get Out the Vote Calls in February
· Recruit people for honk & wave in February
· Do mailing in January (VIS will make this very easy for each PTA to do)
· Distribute yard signs and magnets to PTA
· We’ll need a list of about 20 people from your school that for fundraising (we will do all of the rest)
Communicate the benefits of the bond/levy package to your community
We will give you all of the materials you will need to effectively communicate the bond/levy package. We will provide emails you can send, brochures you can hand out and a website for even more information.
Recruit volunteers to help with the campaign
This is crucial. It is against the law for the school district to have anything do with a levy/bond campaign. The school district can give presentations on the pros/cons of the package and they can produce ONE piece of literature and mail it out. That is it. The rest of the campaign is done by volunteers, by us. So we need your help to recruit volunteers for:
Phone banking – We call people and ask whether they support the bond/levy package. The calling will be done in November at the Costco offices. We are NOT asking for money.
Get out the Vote Calls – When we get close to the election we will reconvene at Costco and call people to remind them to vote, we will do this as the absentee ballots go out, and again right before the election.
Fundraising – We’ll ask you for a list of 20-30 people from your school that you think might donate money. You will provide their name, phone and address, we’ll do the rest.
Yard Signs – We will create the signs and give them to you, but we need them speak across the entire school district. You will find people who are interested in putting up yard signs for us.
Honk & Wave – The day the absentee ballots go out, and the day of the election we will stand at selected intersections across the district waving signs.
You might be feeling a bit overwhelmed at this point. Please don’t be, put as much or as little time into this as you can afford. Every bit that you contribute helps this campaign. Your role is significant because you build the grassroots organization. You DO NOT have to personally do everything that is listed, just help us find people who are willing to give some time to the campaign.
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