April 1, 2025 – 6:30 pm
| 1. | Call Meeting to Order | Jasmin Rivas |
| 2. | Approval of Minutes from last meeting Motion to approve 1st: Alissa Nebbe 2nd: Shawna Knott Motion carries | |
| 3. | Financial Reports General Account: $48,817.23 Student Account: $35,477.00 Online Account: $ 6,496.87 All Winter Concession money has been entered into your students account. Total that went into student accounts was $7,300. Motion to approve 1st: Julie McClary 2nd: Gretchen Sundberg Motion carries | Jennifer Yendra |
| 4. | Committee Reports Uniforms – are back and put away. Concession – State speech went well, bringing in about $5,000. Have two opportunities coming up 04/05 and 04/09 with more possibly in May. Band Banquet Big Band Dance- 1940s USO Theme – Lucas Frye talked to the Fire Department. They paid in full for large reusable banners for this annual event. Banners are 7ft by 5ft and are double sided. Cost was $500. Posters to distribute around town will be available soon. The VA is able to transport veterans from the home that want to come to the event. Will likely need volunteers to escort the VA residents from the bus to their designated area at the event. Lora has a drawing idea for purchasing “war bonds”. Also will have “ration cards” for the concessions. $15 value for $10. She has been working with the National Guard on having a Jeep here for display. Another option would be contacting the Teichmeiers who have the military museum in Lexington. Free admission for enlisted military and first responders. Expected expenses: – Possibly a thank you gift bag for the veterans and see if the National Guard can help. – Photo booth again this year. – Centerpieces – working with Mom and Dad’s BBQ for big tin cans. – Concession stand – Levi’s popcorn, hot dogs, corn dogs, soda, water. – Coffee and Donuts – Working with Dunkin on decaf coffee and donuts. Looking for a dance judge for the dance competition. Will also have the costume competition. Door proceeds go to Jazz Band and event proceeds go to KBPA.NSBA Concert Band Festival 4/3 – Heidi, Alissa, and Gretchen have been helping Shawna. We have some new schools and will be hosting from 8:30am to 6pm. Need more volunteers in the evening. Will start setting up tomorrow night. Scholarship committee- applications from Julie to committee members – the scholarships have been given to Alissa and she will get with the committee on those. | Kimberly ClarkAngela WrightDee McClanahanLora LittrellShawna KnottAlissa Nebbe, Stacey Gibreal, Pam Dickey, Ginny Ganow and Leah Stade. |
| 5. | Volunteers needed: Concessions: Soccer, Replacement for Angela Band Banquet-need volunteers (May 10, 12 pm) Big Band Dance-need volunteers (May 10, 7-10pm) President Elect and Treasurer Elect | Jasmin Rivas |
| 6. | Fundraising Concessions: watch for sign up genius Senior Graduation Seats- please share with any senior parents you know Live April 1- 30, QR code – will put the QR code on the school daily announcements. We have 8 seats to be auctioned off. Update on Beef Raffle – 490 tickets sold. Winners were Tim Miller for the quarter beef and Ginger Velander for rack of ribs. | Jasmin Rivas |
| 7. | Old Business – Timpani covers ordered | Jasmin Rivas |
| 8. | New Business – Slate of Officers presentation: Spread the word! Nominate people you know! – Senior photos for marching band senior night | Jasmin Rivas |
| 9. | Director’s Comments – Rick Mitchell (LeFeber not present) Mr LeFeber took a group of horn players to Horn Day at UNL. NSBA is this week and we need volunteers from 4pm – 6pm. Symphonic Band 8:30am Concert Band 3:30pm Wind Ensemble performs 4:30pm Pancake Feed 8am to 11am on Saturday April 5th here at the high school. Jazz Fest is April 15th. Central NE Youth Jazz Orchestra will be performing and we will have guest artists here as judges. April 26th – District Music Contest at UNK due to musical ongoing. Once the schedule is finalized a sign up genius for volunteers will be sent out. May 8th – end of year concert Percussion recital on May 9th – Tentative. May 10th – Band Banquet and Big Band Dance May 15th – Musicalia – Auditions April 16th and 17th. New uniforms are still in the works. They did sit down with a designer and the possibilities were endless. They came up with a few designs but are not sold on them yet. May go back to the drawing board for some additional options. We have a special uniform account the school has funded over the years so that we have the funds to order new uniforms about every 10 years. Motion to adjourn: 1st: Alissa Nebbe 2nd: Gretchen Sundberg Motion carries Meeting adjourned. | Rick Mitchell/Nathan LeFeber |
Upcoming dates:
4/3 NSBA Concert Band Festival KHS TBD
4/12 Hastings College Percussion Summit HC TBD
4/15 Central Nebraska Jazz Festival Kearney TBD
4/26 District Music Contest KHS TBD
5/8 KHS Band Concert KHS 7:30 pm
5/10 KHS Band Banquet KHS 12:00 pm
5/10 KHS Big Band Dance KHS 7-10 pm
5/15 Musicialia KHS 7:00 pm
