About the Kempner PTO

Kempner PTO Goals for 2024-2025

1) As always, appreciate the staff and teachers

2) Increase communication within the KHS community

3) Increase interactions with students

Kempner PTO 2024-2025 Board of Directors

The Kempner Parent's Organization supports Kempner High School students, faculty and staff.  

While anyone is welcome to become a member of the KPO, board members are required to have a student currently attending Kempner High School. 

Membership

Available to any KHS Cougar community member: membership application

KEMPNER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION

Mission: The KEMPNER PTO is a non-profit volunteer organization that originated in 1988 upon the opening of Kempner High School.  The mission and goal of this organization is to fully support with our time and talent the faculty, staff, and students at Kempner High School in accordance with the FBISD Guidelines for Volunteers in Public Schools, or similar guidelines, as they may be issued and amended from time to time.

Kempner PTO Executive Board

President:          Set agenda & preside over all meetings

                          Signer on bank account

                          Communicate with committee chairs, KHS parents & campus administration

Vice-President:  Preside in absence of President

                       Maintain official records & histories

                       Preside over committees as necessary

2nd VP-VIPS:   Act as liaison between Kempner PTO & other campus volunteer organizations

                       Maintain approved volunteer list, record & submit volunteer hours

                       Arrange volunteers as needed & recognize the volunteer of the month

                       Attend FBISD VIPS monthly meetings

Secretary:      Record minutes at all meetings of the organization

                       Maintain bylaws & correspondence

Treasurer:      Keep books & records of all financial transactions

                       Make disbursements as needed

                       Signer on bank account

                       Present financial statement at meetings

                       Prepare & submit books to audit committee

                       Prepare budget and all tax documents

Additional Organization Roles

Historian: Takes pictures and prepares yearly scrapbook recording all KPO events. Submits suitable items to FBISD newsletter.

Technology: Maintains and updates www.kempnerparents.org website. Manages KPO's social media presence, which is currently limited to Facebook, Instagram and X.

Hospitality: Coordinates faculty/staff breakfast in August/September and February. Coordinates one faculty/staff luncheon each year, typically in November. Assists with Appreciation Events for staff.  May coordinate 8th Grade Parents Coffee in February.

  On Campus Sales Fundraising: Schedules volunteers to make and sell cookies at weekly cookie sales. Responsible for the purchase of supplies needed for sales. Responsible for submitting cookie/pizza fundraiser for approval by the district for the following year's cookie/pizza sale.

Fundraising: Solicits donations from local businesses to supply Kempner PTO events. Organizes and advertises spirit nights. Identifies and makes recommendations for other fundraisers to be voted upon by the Executive Board.

Student/Faculty Services: Assists counselors with special projects. Provides simple luncheon for the FBISD crisis counselor team in the event of a tragedy at KHS. Assists with Senior Breakfast in May.

School Board Liaison: Attends FBISD school board meetings and reports items of interest and concern to the KPO.

Shared Dreams/Cougar Cove Coordinator: Schedules volunteers to assist Shared Dreams in our assigned week at the Shared Dreams HQ. Conducts and advertises annual drive benefitting SD. For more info on Shared Dreams/Cougar Cove see the link at top of this page

Social Coordinator: Responsible for Kempner PTO Christmas and End of Year luncheons or snack bars. Coordinates refreshments at Kempner PTO meetings. Responsible for decoration and removal of the KHS Christmas tr

KHS Grants Coordinator: Distributes application forms to staff department heads, reviews requests and makes recommendations to the Executive Board for disbursement of allocated Kempner PTO funds.

Accountability