General Meeting Agenda – Feb 2023

March 7, 2023
Parents

Julie McClary called the Meeting to Order
Reviewed Dec Meeting Minutes, Approved: 1st Kathy Maxson, 2nd Lora Littrell, All approved
Financial Reports
1. Treasurer Update – Only a few transactions such as Band Trailer Maintenance (Tires, Bearings etc), plume tote replacement, outstanding check from last semester. Approved 1st Chrisanne, 2nd Lora Littrel, all in favor.
Committee Reports
1. Uniforms / Roadies First round is back from cleaners, sent 2nd wave to cleaners and submitted payment.
2. Concessions – Signup genius is out there. They fill up pretty quickly.
3. Band Banquet Chair: Abe Smith looking for a few more volunteers 2-3 more. Still discussing what this will look like for the banquet.
4. Big Band Dance: Lora Littrell – Looking for helpers to assist on the dance, theme is Havana nights. Looking for someone to do games or contests. $10 entrance fee is making money. Would like to maybe get more money made on concessions. Would like to get more community involvement. Discussed offering some kind of dance lesson.
Volunteers Needed:
1. Concessions: continue to look for sign up genius through the spring
2. Social Media Chair – still looking at having an appointed chair.
3. Band Banquet-need volunteers
4. Big Band Dance-need volunteers
5. Scholarship Committee: in place – This has been turned in. Applications are all run through the guidance office.
6. Officer recruitment: need officers for next year: president-elect and treasurer elect and Secretary
7. Managing Sponsorships – Looking for someone to fill this role. Reach out to the community and individuals to sponsor band.
Fundraising
1. Soup and Pie Supper Update – Penny reached out and we have not heard back on how much we made yet.
2. Senior Graduation Seats – May 1st for this fundraiser which is $10 for up to 10 reserved seats at graduation.
3. March/April Raffle – We settled on a raffle for beef, band family has offered to donate 2 ¼ beefs and Amherst butcher is donating processing. $1000 value. Due to NE revenue laws we have to be below $5000 a month. Only going to create 1000 tickets for each drawing. Then also doing 2 ribeye rolls each month as a 2nd prize. 100% profit goes to the kids since everything is donated.
4. Scrip – Looking at promoting this more since Amazon Smile is going away.
5. Amazon Smile (Funds donated to Overall Band Program) – Being discontinued by Amazon
Old Business
1. Trip Update – Sitting at 78 students signed up. Need to have 90 students for the trip.
New Business
1. NA
Directors Comments
1. Traveling with all the honor bands
2. Student lead is doing a winter color guard and winter drum line. They are both on 2/14 BB Game and want to perform for Soccer.
3. March concert, several universities have reached out to come perform for the kids. We have several that are stopping for perform
4. Doing a Star Wars music day on May 4th.
5. Picked our show for next year. Arena on a speech that Teddy Roosevelt speech about trying things. Plan on changing some things around.
6. Explained the strange calendar for next year with the NSAA calendar is really early next year.
  1. Sept Columbus
  2. Oct Harvest of Harmony, Looking at some other contest, LINKS, OMI, and other out of state opportunities, Then NSBA
7. Tentative Band Camp Dates
  1. June 26th – 30th
  2. July 31st – Aug 4th
  3. Aug 7th photos
8. Discussed Masonic Camp Students, how many they send depends on how many want to do. They try to send all that apply. May 30th – June 3rd
Motion to adjourn: 1st Bodie Fuqua, 2nd Chrisanne Wickham, all approved.

Upcoming dates Fundraising Concession Dates

02/04 Diving 9:30am

02/04 BBall 2pm

02/11 BBall 6pm

02/18 BBall 5:15pm

03/16 Soccer (time?)

Other possible dates: 02/16, 02/18, 02/25, 04/29

Julie Fuqua

Hello Beautiful Bridal & Formal Wear

KW Elite Keller Williams

Yanda’s Music

Stonebridge Insurance & Wealth Management

Trius Federal Credit Union

Kearney Massage & Day Spa

Kearney Bearcat Boosters

Town & Country Bank

Baer Studios

Stelling Brass & Winds

When I hear people asking how do we fix the education system, I tell them we need to do the opposite of what is happening, cutting budgets by cutting music programs… Nothing could be stupider than removing the ability for the left and right brains to function. Ask a CEO what they are looking for in an employee and they say they need people who understand teamwork, people who are disciplined, people who understand the big picture. You know what they need? They need musicians.

Mike Huckabee

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough – it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.

Steve Jobs

In my own philanthropy and business endeavors, I have seen the critical role that the arts play in stimulating creativity and in developing vital communities… the arts have a crucial impact on our economy and are an important catalyst for learning, discovery, and achievement in our country.

Paul G. Allen

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation’s purpose – and is a test to the quality of a nation’s civilization.

President John F. Kennedy

In every successful business…there is one budget line that never gets cut. It’s called ‘Product Development’ – and it’s the key to any company’s future growth. Music education is critical to the product development of this nation’s most important resource – our children.

John Sykes

During the Gulf War, the few opportunities I had for relaxation I always listened to music, and it brought me great peace of mind. I have shared my love of music with people throughout this world, while listening to the drums and special instruments of the Far East, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Far North, and all of this started with the music appreciation course that I was taught in a third-grade elementary class in Princeton, New Jersey. What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where music was not taught to children.

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Music is exciting. It is thrilling to be sitting in a group of musicians playing the same piece of music. You are part of a great, powerful, vibrant entity. And nothing beats the feeling you get when you’ve practiced a difficult section over and over and finally get it right. Music is important. It says things your heart can’t say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they’re doing – and don’t take music for granted.

Dan Rather

The things I learned from my experience in music in school are discipline, perseverance, dependability, composure, courage and pride in results… Not a bad preparation for the workforce!

Gregory Anrig

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

Jim Henson

Should we not be putting all our emphasis on reading, writing and math? The ‘back-to-basics curricula,’ while it has merit, ignores the most urgent void in our present system – absence of self-discipline. The arts, inspiring – indeed requiring – self-discipline, may be more ‘basic’ to our nation’s survival than traditional credit courses. Presently, we are spending 29 times more on science than on the arts, and the result so far is worldwide intellectual embarrassment.

Paul Harvey

It [music education] is terribly important, extremely important — because when you are a child, you are in a receptive age… In high schools, public schools — that’s where they must have the best influence, the first influence, which will go through their whole life.

Eugene Ormandy

It is our job, as parents, educators, and friends, to see that our young people have the opportunity to attain the thorough education that will prepare them for the future. Much of that education takes place in the classroom. We must encourage our youngsters in such pursuits as music education. In addition to learning the valuable lesson that it takes hard work to achieve success, no matter what the arena, music education can provide students with a strong sense of determination, improved communication skills, and a host of other qualities essential for successful living.

Edward H. Rensi

A grounding in the arts will help our children to see; to bring a uniquely human perspective to science and technology. In short, it will help them as they grow smarter to also grow wiser.

Robert E. Allen

Some people think music education is a privilege, but I think it’s essential to being human.

Jewel

Arts Education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate; the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence.

Joseph M. Calahan

Julie Fuqua

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