Band Booster Meeting Minutes - 2/7/11

Band Director Update

Important Dates coming up:

• Solo and Ensemble 2/25 and 2/26
• This Friday Drum Major auditions – 11 people will audition beginning at 3pm. Anyone is welcomed to come watch.
• Next Tuesday evening - 2/15 – 8^th grade orientation, welcome to GHS. It might not hurt to have a parent or two at the table in the library to answer questions from the parent perspective. If you are interested in doing this (5pm-7:30pm is open house), PLEASE CONTACT MR. PIRZER DIRECTLY. Two or three parents will be sufficient. This is a normal drum line rehearsal night – will practice out in the courtyard.
• Before our next booster meeting, Pre-festival concert – Thursday, March 3^rd. Concert band and symphonic band will pay 3 pieces each, and will be judged by volunteer judges. This will take place in the GHS auditorieum
• Districts Thursday, March 17^th – Concert band 5:30, Symphonic band 8:30 – location: Buchholz
• Indoor Percussion and Guard Update – color guard has had 2 performances so far, drum line – came in 2nd at Fleming Island competition.
• Drum line has been put into Scholastic Marching A class, with 7 other bands. This categorization was made after the first competition, and is based on performance (this is the best class).
• Next show –3/5/11 - Jefferson in Tampa. Show will be fully complete at that time.
• State ( is Saturday, 4/2, at Matanzas High School.

• March of Dimes is 3/26 – students get 12 hours of volunteer hours for each year they participate in this. They must be at Westside Park around 7:15am, until 8:30am.

Future Dates:

• Band camp 1 – 6/7 – 6/10 – 4pm-9m
• Band camp 2 – 8/6, and 8/9 - 8/12, 9am-9pm
• Preliminary competition schedule 2011
• First competition will be 10/8 or 10/15
• Southern Showcase 10/29
• FBA districts 10/22
• Marching Band States 11/19
• North Marion 11/12

Band Trailer:

The long, white trailer that was loaned to the band last marching season is being offered to us for $4,000. After discussion, we decided we needed a parent volunteer to lead the “trailer committee” and see if we can raise the $$ rather than taking it out of our current trailer fund. Frank Mason volunteered to be involved. Mr. Pirzer suggested asking Richard Shutterly what he did to raise money for the last trailer we purchased, as he was very successful. A suggestion was made to have a corporate fundraising committee to fundraise for more than just the trailer. The band also needs 20 new jackets at $250 each. Mr. Pirzer wants the uniforms to last for another 7 years or so, which should be easily doable the way we are using them now. If anyone has an interest in participating, contact Frank Mason or Roberta Teller. The group also discussed setting some possible fundraising levels which would allow contributors to have their names sewn in a band jacket, or added to the outside of the trailer. Frank’s committee will discuss this further.

Treasurers Report – Suzanne Clark

• All students need to be paid in full for fair share by end of February in order to go to the end of year Daytona Beach trip. Daytona will be $120 this year. May 6 – May 8.
• There is currently $3,978 in the band booster account.
• Fair share is dribbling in - $19,000 is still due.
• The good news – not many bills this time of the year.

Fundraising – Laura Netardus, Susan Weinstein

The following fundraisers still remain:

• Candy bars
• Cookie Dough (will have the dough delivered before Easter) – when the cookie dough arrives, we will need volunteers.

Note: Please ASK your students for these forms.

• Gator Nationals
• Script
• More details will come as we get closer to the actual dates of the fundraisers.
• Need a volunteer to take over the Script program for next year since Jill will be “graduating” …

Volunteer Coordinator – Mike Grantham (as told by Kathy Grantham)

The big volunteer now is for Gator Nationals weekend, 3/12 and 3/13. We need 40 people each day for both days, more details to follow. Mike will be communicating with us as we get closer.

Other

• If anyone has the technology to convert VHS to DVD, we can transfer the old marching shows and put them on YouTube. This is important to generate interest in alumni giving.
• Mr. Pirzer is going to be getting lists of 8^th graders for parents to call other parents. Have had nearly 60 shadows over the last several weeks. Most students from Lincoln and Fort Clarke. Not many from Westwood. Cambridge program is being scaled way down (accepting much fewer applications), and this impacts the numbers who are interested in coming to GHS.
• Mr. Pirzer is asking for parents (primarily 9^th and 10^th grade parents) to call parents from others schools. Email Mr. Pirzer or Carolyn Lukert if you are interested in doing this.

Wayne Eury – Band pages are done. They look great (as confirmed by Mr. Pirzer.

Next meeting is Monday, March 14th.

Meeting adjourned 8:10 pm.