These are draft minutes to be approved at the next Band Booster meeting - September 2006.

GENERAL MEETING NOTES

April 18, 2006

Music Booster Meeting:

Luann Van Haren welcomed everyone to the Meeting.

Orchestra director Andrew Pool met with one other person in attendance in the director’s office.

Choir was not present.

BAND BOOSTER MEETING NOTES

April 18, 2006

Presidents Report (LuAnn Van Haren) A discussion ensued concerning whether we could vote for elected officers since there were only 3 voting members present at the meeting. There was no mention of this in the by-laws so Julie Dunakin presented the slate for election.

Julie made a motion to accept the slate of officers and they were voted in by a majority vote.

Secretary’s Report (Sue Perry) Minutes from the last meeting on March 7, 2006 were available to review. The minutes were approved and will be available on the FHC band website (March minutes).

VP Fundraising Report (Kathy Oberlin) All flower sale orders are due tomorrow. Help is still needed for distribution on May 12th and 13th. The e-mail blast did not provide any responses.

Treasurer's Report Tom Cisler announced we are well ahead of our projected budget and our expenses are down. New uniforms will be needed in 4-5 years and will cost about ¼ million dollars. We felt that was a high estimate. However we are boosting our savings account to provide for new uniforms and instruments. The plan is to approach the Board of Education with our plan and ask for money. We currently have approximately $40,000.00 put away.

There is a budget meeting planned for the new/old board May 16th, 7:00 in the band room.

Director's Report Mr. Engelsman reported the Jazz lab received a one rating at the MSBOA jazz festival. The students also did well in the Solo Ensembles.

The Geezer Bash was a huge success and fun.

There is a band concert 5/9 and a jazz and percussion concert 5/11. It will be a heavily charged program.

Awards night is May 18th 6:30 dessert and 7:00 program. All nominations and ballots have been filled out and tallied.

The “FOB” Friends of Band list is being updated and saved.

Band Camp is still being planned.

The Visual Unit had over 45 students try out. Amy Cova is the leader of the group. Auditions are tomorrow. Only 35 will be accepted.

Leadership clinics are 4/24-27th; Auditions for this is 5/1 and 5/3.

The band camp/ Disney mailing will go out next week. Costs for band will be consolidated into one price.

May 8th is a meeting for all 8th grade parents and first time band camp parents.

Chaperones are needed for Band Camp.

Mr. DeStefano said the travel agent is still working on a price for Disney. It looks like the students will take the day off from school the Friday before winter break and return the Wednesday of winter break. $1,100.00 is the approximate price of the trip. The first deposit due date is June 1st. A late fee will be charged for payments received after this date. We can hold grades if payments are not received in full.

Next years marching band practices will be Monday and Tuesday Nights for 2 hours. Drum line will meet on Tuesdays before the general band practice. A study hall will be held on Wednesdays during class time. The theme is the “80’s”.

Desserts will be served after the band concerts. Call Karen Ross 676-0634 if you would like to donate cookies.

Next Meeting will be in September.

Web site: www.fhcbands.com

Hotline: 493-8963

Talk to a director: 493-8717.

Respectfully submitted,

Sue Perry, Secretary