General Meeting Minutes – May 2024

September 3, 2024
Parents

Kearney Band Parent Association
The mission of the Kearney Band Parent Association is to support the KHS band program, the directors and Students. We offer a source of parent volunteers and organize fundraising activities, which allow band members to help defray the cost of band trips as well as provide necessary funds for the operation of the Association.

Call Meeting to Order (Julie McClary)
Approval of Minutes from last meeting
1. Motion to approve: Julie McClary
2. First Approval: Gretchen
3. Second Approval: Alissa
Financial Reports (Jeff Hasenauer)
1. Treasurer Update – bank move is complete. All accounts at Farmers are closed. Account balance $27,381.15. $24,530.70 in student accounts. Does not reflect beef raffle money or spring concession funds. We do have some funds that were leftover from last years graduation seat raffle that were found and will be deposited.
2. Beef raffle funds raised $3819.50.
3. Brad Goode concert cost us $3,050.64 but students really learned a lot from him so still worth the cost considering.
4. Spring concessions raised $4,042.99
5. Raise right $92.28
6. Walmart $52.61
7. Big band dance $1574.75
8. Order placed for the foreign funds. Over 50 request and almost $20,000 conversion requested. Exchange rate is locked. Statement will be worked up and delivered so parents know what they will owe on the 28th. Hopes to have statements out in the next 10 to 14 days.
9. Motion to approve
  1. First Approval: Alissa
  2. Second Approval: Pam
Committee Reports
1. Uniforms/Roadies (Kimberly Clark): updates coming – all pants organized, jackets will be organized by band camp 1.
2. Band Banquet (Kimberly Clark) – was a success
3. Big Band Dance (Lora Littrel) – $1575.42 proceeds go to jazz band
Volunteers needed (Julie McClary):
1. Volunteers for next year: watch for emails and sign up genius for the various positions needed – looking for another water person.
Fundraising (Julie McClary)
1. Senior Graduation Seats – Lauren Harbols won! brought in $191.98 – significantly less than last year
2. Beef Raffle $3,819.50 – to student accounts
3. Papa Murphy’s online-until May 20-25% profit donated; Code for online ordering: Pizza
4. RaiseRight
5. Spark (Walmart)
6. Alter metal has ended – $1460 raised from metal donations
Old Business (Nathan LeFeber)
1. Trip Update
2. Big Band Dance
3. Band Banquet
New Business (Julie McClary)
1. Election of new Executive Committee Members:
  1. President-Elect: Jennifer Petzet
  2. Secretary: Mattie Webben
  3. Treasurer-Elect: Lisa Meseure
2. Motion to approve: Julie
  1. First Approval: Steven
  2. Second Approval: Jasmin
Director’s Comments
1. Mr. LeFeber: Lots going on this last month. Doane College Wind Band Invite. Switching to My Music Office (MMO). Taking everything off Charms and moving it to MMO. Look for communications on the transition. Uncertain if it will still be one login for student/parent. Papa Murphys fundraiser going on right now. A little disappointed on the turnout for the Brad Goode concert but kids greatly benefited from his knowledge and expertise. Looking into grant funds for something similar next year. We will start a Central Jazz Festival organization next year. 2 hour rehearsal 3 times a month.
2. Germany trip – need to update emails in WeTravel so students get those communications as well and not just the parents. All the rooming, flight, and bus lists are set. Next big thing is the mandatory rehearsals starting the 20th. Around 65 students and 35 adults going. Luggage needs to be in the band room on the 28th so it can be inspected and weighed.
3. Musicalia is happening on the 9th at 7pm. Great fundraiser for supporting the music department.
4. Show for 2024 is called Dragons. Been talking with design team. 4 movements. Each movement will be about a different dragon. There has been talk about a smoke machine and flying kites. UNK band day 9/21. 9/28 columbus, 10/5 harvest of harmony, week of the 12th off. 19th back to SD, then NSBA
10. Motion to close the meeting
1. First Approval: Steven
2. Second Approval: Jasmin

Upcoming dates:

5/9 Musicalia

5/20-5/23 Trip Rehearsal (6:30 pm-8 pm)

5/28 Germany/Czech trip meeting 5:00 pm

5/29-6/6 Germany/Czech Republic Band Trip

6/27-6/28 Band Camp Week 1 (8-4) (Freshman, leadership, drumline, color quard and new students)

7/1-7/3 Band Camp Week 1 (8-4) (Everyone)

8/5-8/9 Band Camp Week 2 (8-4)

Mattie Webben

Yanda’s Music

Kearney Massage & Day Spa

Town & Country Bank

Baer Studios

Stelling Brass & Winds

Eaton Corporation

Heartland Oral Surgery

Qdoba Mexican Eats

Platte Valley Auto

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

Mattie Webben

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