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Governor Thomas Johnson High School Band Booster General Meeting Minutes

General Band Booster Meeting --- May 13, 2008

Meeting convened 7:05

Minutes e-mailed and posted… Minutes approved as read.

Mike Hillman not here yet. Ok, Mike Hillman here now.

Treasurer’s report
Income 2,0485.52, Outgoing 7,453.55

Fundraising
Many Keys Game opportunities still exist
Five Guys coming up
2 Car Washes coming up
Bruce Baker
Golf Tournament, September, Glade Valley, Sponsorship Letter going out soon
June 4th March-a-thon kicking off, June 9th packages due back
Thursday of Kill-Drill for March-a-Thon

Uniform Committee

Sewing and putting stuff on hangers

Eighth Grade Move up Night
Low turnout, only a few questions since.

Keys Games are going fairly well.
Largest Stand
Need to schedule correct mix of students/adults
Student can’t substitute for adult for the most part
First few checks have shown up
Flow, busy before game starts to about the 2nd inning
Funnel Cakes start around 4th or 5th inning
Beer runs on and off all evening
Recognizable trends depending on the day of the week
Recap of the way we’re allocating the funds generated by the Keys games.

Tips

Would like to get a few more people involved and trained to be able to rotate more knowledgeable people through the schedule.

Special Thanks
8th Grade Move up Night, and dealing with the liaison stuff, Me
The Ropers for the Ballots

Banquet 22nd

Ovations has been informed about our immovable date, trying to come up with substitute crew.

Spaghetti Dinner this Saturday plus Keys home game.

Charlie… hand out the ballots.
Charlie & Mike are to collect and tally the ballots

Andy bought Nick a Tractor T-Shirt “Friends don’t let friends drive little red tractors”

3 Equipment trailers were available from Andy’s company, but it was decided that we can’t afford to purchase one with other significant expenses looming.

Around end of 2009 calendar year, deposit due for new uniforms $65,000
Miss Hopkins working on wish list… including accessories, rain gear, hat boxes, etc…

Starting to do a little more planning with regards to capitol expenses.

Estimate is $350,000 to put a competitive marching band program on the road… starting with zero. Charlie put together a significant spreadsheet with much of this estimating.

Charlie claps for the current board
President Dennis Spencer
2nd Doug Brown
Secretary Carrie Kurdt
1st Mike Hillman
Treasurer Amelia Ecker
Nominating committee rests

Need more people for the second car-wash day June 21st

Need more servers for Spaghetti Dinner this Saturday.