Music

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

December 2, 2013 Member meeting


Orting Performing Arts Booster Club                                                                                                        Member Meeting

December 2, 2013

Monday, 7:00 pm

OHS Band room

Facilitator:  Brenda Lunden, President

I.                    Call to Order 7:05 pm

II.            Attendance:  Please sign in on attendance sheet; provide all requested information if we do not yet have it. (we will not share your info and we send e-mails via Blind Courtesy Copy – BCC so as to keep info private) - attached

III.           Reading and approval of minutes from September’s meeting (passed around). 

                Motion to approve by Brett L., seconded by Melanie E.  All in favor.

IV.          Treasurer’s Report (Bret)

Pay pal is up and running.  Please see attached for all financials.  Ending balance is $5,887.56


V.            Unfinished/Open Business

                A.            Director’s Report            
1.       Band,  Aaron Ruff

·         Dec. 5th is beginning band concert.  We need to sale MS gear here.  HS can come to earn extra credit by helping with set up and clean up and watching the band students.  7pm at the MS and call time is 6pm

·         Dec. 7th is the Craft Fair. – Jazz will play.  We will have holiday music playing during the gap times of the band playing.  Kids need to come and help with set up and clean up. Brett will be there to help set up.

·         11th Jazz band plays @ Cascade Christian school.  They invited us to come and play for about an hour.

·         Basketball season starts in December for pep band.  First games 13th and 14th.  Where there is more than one game a week then the kids do not have to turn in practice logs.  There is also a game on the 20th, which is the last day of school for Winter Break.  No pep band over Christmas break.

·         Dec 19th Winter Concert.  Dress rehearsal Wednesday December 18th from 5-8 pm.

·         Soul Crushing Christmas music will be coming out the last week of school.

·         Jan. 11th PLU honor band will be playing.  3 of our kids have been nominated to play with the band and Mr. Ruff has been asked to be a Conductor on that Friday performance.
                                   

                B.            Craft Fair (Trina, absent, Noelle W. was there)

                                                Saturday, Dec 7th at PTR.  We do have vendors signed up, just not as many as Noelle would have liked.  We have 10 vendors so far plus our booth.  We will be having people come and pay the day of.  Noelle is getting the pies on Wednesday and if they do not have enough she will go to Costco and buy more.  She has the coffee and hot chocolate and the creamier.  Suzanne may be able to get pies too.  We still need artificial trees.

Mike will do sandwich boards the day of on 162, 410 and 200th street.  Mike has a banner and Noelle and Melanie have vinyl that they can make letters for a sign to go out front of PTR.  Noelle has poles to put the sign in the ground with.  Friday night we can set up in the gym.  Aaron will get the PA set up.  Bring extra power cords, lighting and rugs to cover cords.

                                                Each vendor brings their own table.  A 6x8 space is $20.00 and a 10x10 is $40.00

 
C.            Glow-ball Golf . . . update on pursing this fundraiser for spring . . . (Mike McCoy)

                Aaron has 3 calls in but has not heard anything back yet.

D.            Brett would like to do a Roady training, but no response.  Aaron will put it in the morning announcements.  Brett will send him dates and times.  Aaron and Brett need to put up more jells and the school needs to buy more bulbs.  We need to get them a price.  Brett took back the things we did not need last time but bought more pictures for this concert.

VI.          New Business

A.      Tacoma Dome:  Monster Truck show in Jan.  We need help with Friday Jan. 3rd, Jan. 4th and Jan 5th shows.

B.      Pasta Feed:

a.       Date: (chocolate stroll is Saturday Feb. 8th)  We would like to do the same day

b.      Time: ? we are looking at doing a lunch and dinner.

c.       Location: Pastor of River’s Edge approached us to see if we might be interested in holding it there.  We think this is a good idea or using the commons at OHS.  Aaron and Melanie will go and look at the kitchen and talk to the pastor at River’s Edge and get back to us.  We need to make sure we can use their building for both times.  We don’t want to use the Eagles again. 

d.      Cost:  to be decided.  We would not charge as much for lunch if we do this.

e.      We need to contact the Daffodil Chocolate stroll committee to see if we can be a part of this.

C.      Other new Business?

a.       We need to sell more OMS gear.  Brenda and Tanya will go to the 6th grade concert to sell items and Aaron will go to their basketball games and see if we can sell there too.

b.      Suzanne proposed that we make and sell necklaces with a big “O” on them.  She handed out a paper with the cost for a kit.  We asked her to find out more information and get back to us; we may want to sell them next year at the football games.

c.       We would like to start meeting at the OMS and OHS band rooms.  We will switch every month

VII.         Next Meeting:                  Monday- January 6, 7:00 pm OMS Band room

VIII.        Adjournment:   Motion to adjourn the meeting by Brett L., seconded by Deb T.  All in favor.

                                                Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm