Milford Band Booster Meeting          

January 26, 2010

Handouts:

· Minutes from December meeting

Mona George called the meeting to order

· Minutes were reviewed—no additions or corrections; minutes approved

President’s Report, Mona George

· Band Store—open for the first week, taken in $594 in our first week!

o If anyone wants to volunteer or sub please let Mona know

· Since we’re going to Florida we’ll go to a regional BOA in St. Louis in October 16th

o September 24^th will be the band senior night since the high school senior is October 15^th (the band will be in St. Louis) our band seniors will be recognized at half time on September 24

· Please send in letters to support having Marching Band students receive PE credit for participation

· Please sign-up to help/volunteer for the winter show

o 54 schools signed up

Treasurer’s Report, Joe Haas

· 1099’s sent out to private instructors

· Winter Guard/Drum line budgets need to be validated by directors

· Store will be added to financial system

· Marching band season estimates are being collected;

o Trying to do a cost per child budget

o Will need to review what worked and what didn’t work last year using this system

o Tentatively not in the hole for marching band

· District pays for part of the instructor’s fee and the group covers the rest

Director’s Report, Mr. Schrameck

· The 8^th grade band will be performing at 7:30 am at the OMEA conference on March 20^th at the Millennium Hotel in the grand ballroom

· Low numbers (around 45 – 50) in Jr. High, thus high school band numbers will be low for awhile until we are able to recruit more band students

Committee Reports

Guard, Bonnie

· First competition February 6

o Props almost done

· 23 in elementary, 16 in Jr. High, 11 in High School

· Working on Winter Guard/Drum line show

· One overnight competition at the WGI in Indy in March, other WGI competitions will be local

Drum line, Mona

· Winter show March 20^th

· First competition this week; 5 shows this season

BOA, Scott Tippets

· Looking forward to getting started to next season

Equipment, Tony Brewer

· Finishing construction on bird cage 15 by 20 ft bird cage, painted gold for the high  l

· Will be hauling the 8^th band to the Millennium hotel on March 20th; any and all help would be appreciated

o Practice for loading Wednesday night January 27

· Drum line will need hauling as well that day (March 20^th)

Publicity, Gary Presley

· Will be getting publicity w/ the Advertiser for the Winter Guard and Drum line as soon as the reporter comes out for interviews

New Business

· Need to set dates for mulch sales and get fliers ready (Kris Baker)

o April 24^th delivery date?  Orders would be due March 26^th (Friday before spring break)

o Based on April 24 would need to start selling March 1^st

o Need help/volunteers for mulch;

§ Extra trucks (drivers and hitches)

§ Access to flatbed trailers would be helpful

§ Will not offer pine nuggets this year; double, triple, and cypress

§ Prices should remain the same as last year (0.50/bag to sell, $1.00/bag if you work and sell)

Band Council, Mallory Hellenthal

o Food choice was good

o Popsicles were great during band camp

o C-Notify works well

o Wish there were more band pictures on the web site

o Chaperones weren’t as available and/or approachable as they were in years past

o Would like for food to be kept warm longer

o Baskets for the guard show: would appreciate ideas for baskets and will set a price limit

§ A date not necessary to be on the guard show t-shirt

Meeting Adjourned