CHS Music Boosters Meeting Minutes

January 8, 2009

Attendees

Tony Caracciolo, John and Judy Bushey, Scott and Maureen Stewart, Dawn Anuszkiewicz-Lundgren, Mary Laulis, Joe Fallon, Lori Cady, Jim Kelley, and Heather Caporaso

Call to Order

• The Music Boosters meeting was called to order at 7:30p.m. by Tony Caracciolo.

Secretary’s Report

• Sharron Antolick was not present at the meeting so no meeting minutes from Dec 2008
• John Bushey was nominated to take meeting minutes for January 2008 meeting

Treasurer’s Report

Scott Stewart presented the budget. The original budget projects are continually being updated to accommodate the year’s actual expenditures.

• Money is still due from the USSBA show on October 2008, Jim Kelley will continue to follow up with USSBA on this matter
• Income for past month mostly from Scrip sales at the holiday and clothing sales at holiday music shows
• Income appears ahead of expenses for now
• Still looking into long term investments for new uniforms and there is a deadline of 2/28/09 for rollover of our existing CD that will need to be addressed next month. At this point most likely will rollover funds into existing CD because of issues with setup of brokerage accounts
• In December we entered into a contract with FFP for the 2009 Marching Band show, an initial deposit was sent to FFP and the contract with FFP was submitted to the County for management of this contract by CCPS
• Jim Kelley motioned to approve the treasurer’s report and Judy Bushey seconded.

Music Director’s Report/Choral Director’s Report

• Derrick Askew was not present at tonight’s meeting.
• Heather Caporaso reported on the status of the Chorus Singing Telegrams Fundraiser for Valentines Day
• Heather is continuing to pursue with the school best time to do this activity during the school day
• Plan is 5 dollars a song delivered in school around Valentine's Day this price includes a flower
• It was reported that Derrick is looking into the possibility of a one day Music Trip in the Spring more will follow

Ways and Means Committee

• GL Scrip card program POC is Mary Laulis. This fundraiser seems to be doing well. Most of the 1000 dollars of gift cards that were pre-purchased for sales at the holidays were sold. A list of all participating businesses is available at www.glscrip.com. Mary can be reached at mlaulis@verizon.net. The first GL Scrip order was placed and received. Orders will be placed the last Wednesday of every month so that cards may be distributed at the following Thursday Booster meeting. It is very easy to place an online order and use PrestoPay (which deducts the card total from your checking account. There is a $0.39 charge to use PrestoPay.) Otherwise, simply order online using our code: LF7L317611982 and put a check made out to CHS Music Boosters in the band room box for your total.
• Clothing Sales continue to look for a person to take over responsibility for this fundraiser. Also looking into storing clothes offsite.
• Cookbook Deadline for recipe submission is 1/31/09 we need 100 ti0150 recipes so far we have 50 recipes submitted. Cookbooks plan to be delivered by Mothers Day 2009.
• Consignment Sale considered and discussed for books and children clothes. Sell space to vendors and provide tables in addition to sale of donated items
• McCormick Food Testing Fundraiser was discussed and proposed by Jim Kelley and Jim will put together flyer and forward to Sharron Antolick
• 50 Yard Line Movie slated for future timeframe as a recruiting strategy
• Other Movie Fundraisers considered similar to Leo Club showing of Elf Movie in December 2008 will look into copyright aspects of showing films
• Other ideas included a children’s consignment sale and/or used book sale

• Visitourmall.com. Please checkout “visitourmall.com” for convenient online shopping. A percentage of every purchase made through this website is deposited into the Music Boosters account. Simply go to “visitourmall.com”, click “Find Group”, scroll to and click on “Century High School Music Boosters”, and start shopping! Or visit the mall through the Century Knights home webpage at knightsmusic.org.

• GoodSearch.com. This is a Yahoo-based search engine and earns the music boosters .01 for every valid search. Click on “Century High School Music Boosters (Sykesville, MD)” to designate CHS as the organization to receive credit. Keep on searching!
• eScrip. By using loyalty club cards (i.e. Safeway Club Card), credit cards (i.e., Macy’s credit card or Macy’s Visa card), and debit cards that have been registered with eScrip. There is a 6-step process to register any cards you feel comfortable registering with the program. Please register your cards at www.escrip.com. A group ID number or name must be entered in step 1 of the registration. Our information is: GROUP ID # 148958018 or use the group name CENTURY MUSIC BOOSTERS INC. This is a very simple way to raise money for the CHS music program! This fundraiser has the possibility of ongoing success but needs to be better promoted.

Liaison Report

• Choral-Dawn- Nothing to Report
• Band/Orchestra-Jennifer and Marty -not present.
• Marching Band-Jim Kelly- Nothing to report
• Historians- Maureen nothing to report

Indoor Performance Ensemble

• There was a lengthy discussion about the Indoor Performance Ensemble and lots of confusion about the logistics and budget concerns of this new program. Tony, John, and Jim will follow up to find out more and clarify

Elections

Elections for Officers for the Executive Board were held and the following officers were elected

• President - Tony Caracciolo
• Vice President - John Bushey
• Treasurer - Scott Stewart
• Secretary - Sharron Antolick
• Ways and Means - Judy Bushey
• Historian - Maureen Stewart
• Band Liaison - Martin Mankowski
• Marching Band Liaison - Jim Kelley
• Vocal Music Liaison - Dawn Lundgren

We will continue to try to find someone to fill Orchestra Liaison position and a second Vice President position

Spring Musical Concert

• Items for use by Spring Musical Pit Band including Stools, Gaffing Tape, and Lights for Music Stands and Batteries were presented for consideration of funding
• Because of the single use nature of such items Music Boosters deferred funding this and recommended kids possibly bringing their own lights

Vice President Comments

None since he was taking notes and did not feel like writing any longer and wanted to make it home to watch the University of Oklahoma/University of Florida College National Championship Bowl Game

Adjournment

• Jim Kelley motioned to adjourn at 8:30pm and Judy Bushey seconded.

Respectfully submitted,

John Bushey

Vice President

Next Meeting

• Will be held February 4th at 7:30.

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