Band Booster Meeting Minutes - 11/8/10

Band booster president, Frank Mason, began the meeting at 7:00pm by asking for a motion to approve the minutes of the 10/11/10 meeting. Motion was made and was seconded, all approved.

Band Director Update

• Mr. Pirzer thanked all for their efforts with competitions to date. However, he has seen a complacency with the students and needs everyone to step up. He reminded us that there are only 5 more full rehearsal before state.
• 1^st football game of last year – 2009 season – was the last time the band had perfect attendance. Closest we have come this year – down 3 at Showcase.
• Students need to be practicing at home. Today’s practice was sloppy.

North Marion Competition, Saturday, November 13

• Students will load instruments into trailer after practice on Friday. Parents, please delay pickup a few extra minutes.
• 13 bands competing. Santa Fe, Buchholz, Middleburg are among them. Preliminary performance time is 1:45pm. Finals should be wrapped up by 8/8:30

STATE Competition, Saturday, November 20

• All students and parents riding the bus need to be here at 8am Friday morning. Will search bags Fri AM. Goal is to leave by 9am (after GHS busses leave).
• 11-11:30 – Anticipated arrival at King High School, Tampa for practice. Will pack up and leave by 4pm to go to hotel, which is a couple of miles from the high school. After clean up, will take to West Shore Mall for food court and other activities. Will be back to hotel by 10pm. Hotel is Days Inn Tampa North, 701 E. Fletcher Ave, Tampa, 813-977-1550
• For preliminaries (Chamberlain HS – admission $14), we are 2^nd to last in our class. 16 bands in 3A. Taking top 5 to finals (Tropicana Field - $20). Mr. Pirzer will finish and distribute itinerary once official times have been posted, which should be by the end of this week (11/12).

Parent Bus to State

• Currently have 17 bus seats remaining and 15 rooms left. Will hold off until Friday to offer extra rooms to those who aren’t taking the bus. Want to make sure those who are on the busses are taking care of first. Will check with administration as to where parents can leave their cars on Friday.
• If you are riding the parent bus, you are also considered a chaperone, which means you will be assigned a few specific duties at the hotel. This is not a big deal (basically involves making sure your assigned room of students leaves the hotel room in good condition prior to check out), and being around to help out, if necessary. Chaperone assignments will be made within the next week.

Week after Thanksgiving, band shifts right into concert season with the Holiday Band (combine concert and symphonic). The Holiday Concert is Dec 13^th.

Mr. Pirzer also reminded us that Pictures, Wreaths, and SCRIP are all due Wednesday.

Treasurers Report

• Suzanne has paid every bill except for State-related expenses. We need more fair share payments to come in order to be able to cover these expenses.
• Fair share – each band student should have paid $350 in at this point. Less than 25% are at that level. In light of this, if people can pay ahead on fair share rather than in the scheduled installments, that would be appreciated. Better yet, if everyone who is behind could catch up, that would be even better.
• Gator Concessions, Barbeque, and SCRIP all added to the treasury this past month
• Susan Weinstein – made a thermometer to show where we are with fair share (compared to our goal). It will be posted in the band room.

Fundraising

• Gator Concessions – last opportunity is the game this week (same day as North Marion competition). Ruth Dean is looking for 5 more volunteers.
• Again, Wreaths and SCRIP due this week
• Proposed Fundraiser - Mr. Netardus
• Decorated ornaments and gift baskets to be sold/raffled at Holiday concert. Ideas or contributions (items) to baskets should be sent to Laura Netardus or Susan Weinstein - Contribute items or create a complete basket for yourself. Ideas: Coffee, Chocolate, Free meal coupons. This was a good money raising venture last year. Mr. Pirzer suggested Laura Netardus assign themes to sections. Mr. Netardus indicated he would let Laura know and she would get back to us.

Volunteer Coordinator – Mike Grantham

• Mike thanked all volunteers for past events and reported that we have enough volunteers for No. Marion, but may need to recruit some of the bus parents to help out at State, at least for the practice session on Friday. He won’t know until he sees who shows up on Friday.

Uniforms

• Susie Hummel thanked everyone for their participation over the last month. It has made the job much easier.
• For this week, any available parent to help lay the uniforms out Saturday night after returning from the competition would most appreciated.
• The assigned section for the Sunday afternoon inspection and rebagging process is the PIT – so Pit parents, please let us know if you can help out on Sunday afternoon (11/14), 2pm, by sending an email to ghsbandnews@gmail.com.

Meeting adjourned 7:53pm.