Band Parents Organization Meeting Minutes
March 10th, 2009

Attendance:
Bill Kagel, Jasper Tran, May Cachero, Allie Kagel, Jonathan Barouch, Kiara Smith, Miranda Lopez, Charles Cachero, Fred Crosby, Ron Leone

President Isela Diaz- present
Vice President Laurie Nogi- present
Secretary/Fundraising Jennie Mitchell-present
Treasurer Judy Caballeros- present
Membership/Fundraising Diana Palmon-present
Membership Renuka Apparao- not present
Membership Sridevi Ganti- not present
Publicity Sylvia Sanders-present
Fundraising Brandon Snyder (student) -not present
Fundraising Ruth Diehn- not present
Fundraising Jennie Mitchell-present
AHS Administration Liason Kathy Burgardt- present
Director Richard F. Wong- present

Meeting called to order at 7:45pm.
Motion to approve minutes from previous meeting made by Laurie and seconded by Sylvia.

Treasurer’s report- Judy Caballeros
Checking Balance as of January 1st: $20,953.62 Checking Balance as of January 31st: $8,347.14 Savings is $5,518.11 Our Total is $13,915.25

Reimbursement
Mr. Wong- $500.00 for Chabot Jazz Festival
May Cachero $ 188.88 for Winter Percussion accessories

Corrections: Fernando Apilado and not Apilada.

Laurie made a motion to accept the treasurer’s report with corrections and pay the bills. Sylvia seconded the motion, and it was approved by those in attendance.

Membership Report – Diana/Renuka/Sridevi
Nothing to report

Publicity Report –Sylvia
Sylvia sent emails out to the AHS group about the Pops Concert.
Sylvia went and posted Pops fliers at various places. Judy will take some to the Fremont Main Library.

Action item 1:
Mr. Wong will look into having the Pops Concert on the marquee and school website.
Diana will post the flyer on the Centerville Library & Jr. High Yahoo group.
Judy will post the flyer at Fremont Main library and THJS Yahoo group.

Fundraising Report – Jennie/Brandon/Ruth/Diana
A parent donated a tuxedo rental for the Pops Concert & to use their company to raise money for the music program by getting people to rent tuxedos for proms.

We made $300 on the Valentines See’s
Isela mentioned that Cold Stone has a cake fundraiser and Isela will look into it.
We will do the Easter’s Sees for our next fundraiser.
BJ’s restaurant does fundraisers and we need to go through the corporate office to see what the percentage of proceeds would go to us.
We will sell water at the Attendance Area Concert.

Action Item 2:
Judy & Diana will buy water and sell that at the AAA concert.
Diana will contact the Junior Class & Senior Class advisor to see if we could promote the tuxedo rental to benefit the music program.
Diana will follow up on the BJ’s Restaurant fundraiser.
Isela will look into the Cold Stone fundraiser.

Director’s Report - See other Report
Upcoming:
Mar. 14th Holy Spirit/ Centerville NLL Parade
Mar. 19th Pops Italian Dinner Concert
Mar. 21st Granada WP Competition
Mar. 28th Foothill WP Competition
April. 7th BPO Meeting

AHS Administration Liaison-
The administration is involved in registration.
There will be fewer counselors next year.
Kathy Burgardt thanked the parents for their support for the students.

Old Business
FUSD budget cuts:
Registration has changed to where students cannot take band and foreign language at the same time unless the student takes marching band which would free up a period in the day.  The registration forms allow only 6 classes in the schedule and marching band will be added in later.
There is a bill going to the State that will reinstate that school districts can decide whether Marching Band will receive P.E credit or not. It will be voted on March 20th.
Pops Concert:
For the concert we need volunteer: ticket sellers, and silent auction monitors, door guards and food helpers.
We will separate the items for a lower price item versus higher price item.
We will split up the lines into 3, for people who won auction items and for the person writing the receipts for the items.
Food items: we have some sauce, noodles and olive oil donated so far.

Action item 3:
Mr. Wong will try to get a sign ups for marching band sheet in the AAA concert, so we have an idea of who will join marching band next year.
Diana will go to THJS to talk to the principal about who will join Marching Band.
Jennie will email the bill going to the State regarding Marching Band and P.E credit.
Diana will forward that we need someone to pick up the Delgado photo auction items.

New Business
none

Student Forum:
Nothing to report

Fred moved to adjourn the meeting seconded by Laurie. Motion passed by those in attendance. Meeting adjourned at 9:46 pm. The next meeting is April 7th, 2009 at 7:30pm.



Submitted by Jennie Mitchell