AIBU to be the only person concerned that the PTA treasurer seems to have gone missing....

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With all the PTA money?

She's been treasurer for years, no children at the school anymore.

She usually attends roughly 1 of every 4 meetings. She hasn't been to one for 6 months. She won't answer the phone or the door, doesn't reply to emails or texts. Chair went to her house and she didn't answer the door although it looked like she was in. We have no access to the money or accounts and the school is lending us money to get back off her at some indeterminate time in the future.

We have the school fate soon and she has all the info on stalls etc not to mention the money we need to buy things! She owes one of the parents about £50 for things they bought from their company for the PTA xmas fate.

Nobody else seems concerned! I really got angry about it at the last meeting and said this is ridiculous, we have no idea how much is in the account, we can't get hold of her, we have no working float. Apparently she has family drama at the moment and thats why she's unavailable but she still wants to be treasurer. I raised the possibility that there could be something dodgy going on and got shut down by the chair who said its not possible as there are two signatories on the account (because she couldn't just forge a signature???)

AIBU to think they should be taking this a bit more seriously given there is over £7000 (at the last count) of money that has been donated by the parents fgs, not to just sit in an account that nobody can get into?!

While they could get a statement from the bank, it would only show what was currently in there. There's no way of knowing how much cash was truly made at each event versus how much was paid in. We lock our cash in the school safe overnight after major events so that two of us can count and verify before trundling it along to the bank. I may be the secretary, but I adore the coin counting machine

Is the fair still going ahead or has it been cancelled?

I repeat my comment of several days ago that if, as it should be, the PTA committee contained an equal number of men as women the presumed level of embezzlement would never have happened. If, as we are told, men and women deal with things differently and we need to work for 50% representation of women in Parliament, we need to work for 50% representation of men on PTA committees.

Maybe we should work on parliament first eh? That way there'll be enough men flying around to join in with PTA activities

Any update on the situation OP? Will the fun fair be going ahead do you think?

What's happening OP? please come back!
I hope it was all above board and kiddies still get their fete

If things have gone legal, OP may not really be able to post.

Prob best to stop bumping this, alas.

Any update, OP? I'm really curious.

Any update?