BAND BOOSTER MINUTES
September 9, 2008
Meeting called to order: 7:02 p.m. by President Robert Martin
Present: Mark Terry; J. Gibbons; P. Parrish; G. Ashton; Ben delaPaz; Amy delaPaz; Leanne Terry; Robert Martin; Martha Tuski, Lorie Ann Bosetti, Kelly Estrada, Karen Smith; Ann O’Brien; Sandra Walendzik; Jan Matsumoto; Maryann Schiehse; Kathleen Penley; Karen Schodowski; Karen Logan; Nancy Pritchett; Sue Rizzo; Bonnie L.
Minutes approved from July meeting.
Treasurer's Report
Kathleen Penley, Treasurer
--Concessions--~$1400 ready to go in students' accounts
--Golf outing—raised about $8,131 with a profit of about $5,500
--Wojo’s--~$94
--$900 from the 4H funding, all for student accounts
--$250/day for County Fair cleanup; should be able to do in the future
Band Booster Account Totals: 7/15/08-9/09/08
Starting Balance: $22,752.22
Current Income: $33,324.59
Current Expenses: $39,363.59
*Monies from many of the expenses, especially Band Camp ($28,126.89) and Uniforms ($2,797.01) and the Golf Outing Expenses ($3,383.09) are still coming in.
Fundraiser Reports:
NTP = Nothing To Report
TBA = To Be Announced
• Meijer Rewards—www.meijer.com/rewards Oxford Band Booster Rewards account #725130—received $106 to-date. Requested more sign-ups, but still working on problems with the e-checks. (Debit card/cash still works with the card, but the Meijer credit card has some issues that haven’t been resolved yet). They have upped the price for use of the gas card, instead of 5 cents it's 10 cents off the gas.--FYI, this doesn't go to the band, it just saves you money.
• Scrip Program—online orders log onto www.shopwithscrip.com and use id #711E5L7F13162. Can pay online or through Mr. Gibbons or Mr. Parrish. Order on Monday September 15 get them on Friday. Student gets [100%-($1 surcharge for each shipment)]. For example, $100 gift card w/12% kickback, student gets $11, plus you save on your purchase.
• Good Search—www.goodsearch.com. Works like Google or Yahoo. Type in Oxford Wildcat Band Boosters. Once you click on verify and you see our name, then perform the search. For every search that you do we receive one penny. Can also do shopping, up to 40%. Already earned $113 in money back to us.
• Pampered Chef—NTP
• Bowl-a-thon—tabled until fall/winter (made about $2,000 last time, may do it in January or December)--working on it, more details pending, tentative January.
• Little Caesar’s—Currently targeted for January.
• Seymour Lake Park Concession Stand—continuing on into flag football season, so there will be more dates available, contact Laurie Wroblewski, mrw9@ameritech.net for more information. There will be a meeting & sign-up, so stay tuned for more information!
*bulbs--$2.50/package for child and the band will get 50 cents. Need forms and money back by September 16. Contact Sandra Walendzik at walens01@oxford.k12.mi.us for more information.
• Tag Day--Sandra, Martha & Nancy are organizing this, more information to come. Marching band kids go in uniforms to spots around town and ask for donations. More information to come. Dates: November 7 (Friday), 3:00-9:00 @ various locations TBA; Nov 8 (Saturday) from 9:00-2:00, locations TBA. Sign-up will come.
Directors’ Report:
J. Gibbons: Thanks re. band uniform assistance. Pleased with band performance and is receiving positive feedback from the community. Next big event, September 27, Brandon Marching Band Invitational--new thing, competition. (Scholastic competition). Warm-up 5:15. Meet after lunch (~1:00-1:30, TBA, take bus over to Brandon, ready to perform at 6:00. Ends at 7:15, scores announced afterward, come home. Expect to be home 8:00-8:30.) Official start is 4:00. More info to come.
October 3--MSU Homecoming Parade in East Lansing. MSU Alumni Association is going to pay for the buses. More details to come.
Field trip: Wicked at Detroit Opera House, tickets, Fri or Sat, $33/$48/upward, December 13, dinner at Hard Rock Cafe, ~$18. TBA, first come, first serve.
P. Parrish: The middle school bands are getting new music stands; received anonymous donation to pay for them. The middle school no longer has a 7th or 8th grade band—there are now 3 bands: Symphonic, Concert and Varsity, based on difficulty. 1st scheduled concert is 28th of October, probably going to change--stay tuned! Symphonic Band concert is October 30. (Concert and Varsity band concerts are pending).
G. Ashton: Jazz Band, numbers for 0 hour--60 kids, give or take. The Jazz Combo has already played for teachers opening day on Aug 27, and are also playing Saturday, September 13, 4:30-5:30, Emmanuel Congregational Church, everyone invited. There are 32 kids in music theory & composition. (This is currently a 1-trimester class, but he is working on building it into a full year, etc). There are 6 sections of guitar, 150 kids spread over the year. Numbers are great. Goals: some plans for Music Theory Advanced Placement (AP) in the future (independent study) for college credit. Hoping to have Jazz Combo as a regular class, but nothing settled on it. Jazz Combo has been invited to play at the Detroit Hard Rock Café, date pending.
A. O’Brien: 19 students in the color guard, going good. Received a lot of compliments. New uniforms haven't shown up yet, but soon with any luck. Late delivery for next week at latest. Locks for the storage performance room are needed because some of the flags seem to be missing--2 blue, 1 white (new). Anybody who has found a blue or white flag, please return to the band room!
New & Old Business:
All members of the Marching Band who have not yet signed up for the Orland Disney World Trip in April 2009 are strongly encouraged to sign up.
Register at www.traveladventures.com/register Username: 25284 Password: oxford *Cost—Students $1,161.00 Chaperones $1,295.00 DATES: April 2nd to April 6th, 2009.
New Biz
∆ We are working on finding sweatshirts to sell for the band, potentially selling and marketing to the parents.
∆ We would like to recognize the marching band in the football program. Martha Tuski is working on it.
∆ Mark Terry is working on placing band photos on Flicker, which would also include all bands including Middle School Bands and the Jazz Bands.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordbandboosters/
∆ The Band Booster blog link is: http://ohsbandboosters.blogspot.com/
Meeting adjourned: 8:49
(And don’t get freaked out, folks! Most Booster meetings don’t last this long. You’re still welcome and encouraged to attend!)
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