The SSC bulletin is a weekly article covering the events at each Monday’s council meeting.
Members of the Student Staff Council (SSC) stepped into room 104 for their weekly meeting and found a shorter agenda than the week before: down from 12 to three items. Unlike the agenda, this week’s snacks were revitalized. Assistant Principal for School Life Quinn Killy dropped last week’s option of carrots in favor of Welch’s fruit snacks and PopCorners chips.
This week the council discussed the upcoming winter raffle countdown and finalized grade-level activities.
When the meeting officially began the council settled on what slide template to use for the winter countdown raffle: they picked a penguin-themed one. The raffle will occur for ten school days in the weeks of Dec. 9 and Dec. 16. Like last year, the prizes will increase in value as the days go on, with the best prize on the last day before winter break, Dec. 20.
This year’s prizes cumulatively cost nearly $200. This is a decrease from the $260 the council spent on prizes last year, according to Killy.
The next 50 minutes of the hour-long meeting were dedicated to finding prizes. Each member of the council researched prizes on their laptops. At one point, SSC President Natalia Freedman had to reprimand the freshmen representatives for using their computers for unrelated activities instead of researching for prizes.
Even though council meetings are open to the entire school, no non-SSC students were present. “We encourage more students to come to the SSC meetings so they can see what we are up to, and so SSC has full transparency,” junior representative Julian Turim said.
“If you want to run for SSC, it is super helpful to know what SSC does by attending meetings,” sophomore representative Matias Sevak said.
In the last ten minutes of the meeting, the council split into grade-level groups to finalize plans for grade-specific events. Each grade is allocated $250 for the entire year for grade-specific events, with all spending requiring approval from their grade dean.
The seniors discussed office hours and finalized plans for gingerbread house making. The juniors discussed hosting a grade-wide scavenger hunt and a Forum clean-up initiative. Turim floated the idea of providing service hours to those who participate in the cleanup process.
The sophomores discussed their plan for a grade-wide Secret Santa under the moniker “Holiday Hopper.” There was deliberation about the price range, but they settled on a range of $5-$15. The freshmen discussed their plans for a grade-wide activity, a low-energy event in which the grade plays games such as Jenga and Spikeball.
Turim noted that while students often think SSC does not do anything substantial, he believes attending SSC meetings will disprove that, even if they may not be very interesting.