General Meeting Minutes – May 2011

Monday, May 2, 2011 · KHS Media Room

The meeting was called to order by President-elect Ronda Jaeschke. Twenty-three members were in attendance.

A motion to accept the minutes from April was made by Darin Meseure and 2nd by Marci Ochsner with corrections to the spelling of their last names. The motion was carried.

Per Shawna Skaggs-Beginning balance-checking: $26,343.61; savings: $14,273.62. Income: $14,556.45 deposited from Deli International sales; $100.00 was deposited into a student account; $6.00 cat card sales from last fall; $101.93 BB Concession sales; $2.72-Interest-checking; $12.32 interest- savings. Expenses: $9.63 for newsletter copies; $19.92 for check endorsement stamp; $608.75 to Runza for BB concessions; $45.83 for stamps r/t banquet invites. Ending balance: checking $40,456.13; savings $14,285.94.

Band Banquet-per Barbara Bamesberger set up Saturday in KHS south gym at 2:00 pm. Decorations coming along. Placemats are done. Barbara shared the cost savings she discovered through Mail Express. They stamped the mailings at bulk rate due to the association with KPS. Mary Girard will forward the banquet set up in the gym to Barbara. The Uden’s will set up the senior flags for the banquet.
Spirit Parents/Senior Flags-a donation application has been filled out at Builder’s to re-build the stands for the flags but we may need to purchase some of the pieces. No objections voiced. The stands will be stored at UNK.

Fundraisers: Runza Night Out-no check yet; Deli International-deposited $14,556.45 from sales.
Band Ambassador Scholarship applications will be taken through Thursday. Recipients will be shared at banquet.

Senior Funds-families can expect to receive a letter asking for families to indicate what accounts they prefer for any leftover monies to go.
Cruise Nite and Band Camp Sign-up- sheets were passed around. Contacts for Cruise Nite: Matt & Barbara Bamesberger. Band Camp contact: Lynn Cooper.
Band Parent meetings-discussed returning meetings back to Tuesday nights. No objections were voiced.

Cruise Nite Co-chair: Tammy & Justin Madsen volunteered to co-chair with Matt & Barbara Bamesberger.
Pride Button Chair-Robbie Samuelson volunteered.
Concessions Co-chair: Todd Ochsner volunteered.
Apparel chair: Lisa Meseure will continue as apparel chair.
Officers:
President-elect: Lynn Cooper accepted the nomination
Secretary: Becky Michel accepted the nomination
Treasurer-elect: works with Treasurer and is in charge of student accounts the first year then Treasurer the following year (Tammy Madsen volunteered after this meeting).
Todd Ochsner made a motion that the President-elect & Secretary be filled with the above volunteers. Tiffany Young 2nd the motion and all approved.

Mr. Svoboda: the concert this week starts at 7:00 and not the usual 7:30 pm. The Jazz Ensemble will play during the Senior Honors Night. Drum Major tryouts were held with nine students all who were very qualified. Next year Rachel Leigh and Mollie Rozean will join Anna Nelson as Drum Majors. Leadership team interviews are beginning. Mr. Svoboda shared that one of the selling points as a director of this band is the band parent organization and how supportive this organization has been of the band. As we look at possible cuts to the budget at KPS he encouraged as stakeholders in this school district the organization stand up and be vocal about what we see as important for the students.

Mr. Mitchell: district music went well. We had 23 solos or small groups participating. Fifteen students earned Superiors, while seven or eight received an Excellent rating. Shelby Anderson-Holt received Outstanding Performance and Mollie Rozean and Rachael Leigh received Honorable Mention. Next year’s marching band theme will be Cirque Du Soleil, the performance will be professionally written next year. Commitment forms for the May 20-24, 2012 to Washington DC are due but another opportunity will be offered in August.

There being no further comments Ed Uden made a motion to adjourn. Darin Meseure 2nd and all were in agreement.

Respectfully submitted, Mary Girard-Secretary

*May 5th Band Concert (Thursday) *start time 7:00 pm
May 7th Band Banquet (Saturday) 6-8 (set up at 2:00 pm)
May 12th Musicalia (Thursday)
May 23rd Exec board year-end meeting, includes new officers (Monday)
July 16th Cruise Nite (Saturday)
July 23rd-29th Leadership Camp- Drum line, Color Guard and Section Leaders
August 1st-5th Band Camp (8am to 4 pm) includes early evening exhibition on Friday

Rick Mitchell