American High School Band Parents Organization
                                    April 7th 2009

Attendance:
Kathy Burgardt, Allie Kagel, Bill Kagel, Jasper Tran, Kiara Smith, Cameron Robinson, May Cachero, Charles Cachero, Fred Crosby

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- present
Membership Sridevi Ganti- not present
Publicity Sylvia Sanders-present
Fundraising Brandon Snyder (student) - present
Fundraising Ruth Diehn-  not present
Director Richard F. Wong- present

Meeting called to order at 7:48 pm.

Corrections to Agenda: The date should read February 7th 2009, not February 10th 2009
Motion to approve minutes from previous meeting made by Laurie and seconded by Judy.

Treasurer's Report- Judy Caballeros
Checking Balance as of February 2nd: $ 8, 347.14 Checking Balance as of February 28th : $9,176.11 Savings $5,518.11 Our Total is $14,744.22

Reimbursement
Mr. Wong- $420.00 for Easter See's
$408.15- for WP Truck Rental

Judy- $209.32- Pops food
$73.91- Oakland Snacks
$35.40- for AAA water
$5.25- Pep band water

Isela- $188.47 for Fairfield food

We need to transfer $4,809.15 from the BPO account to the school account to cover fall transportation costs.
Fred made a motion to accept the Treasurer's report, seconded by Allie .
Sylvia made a motion to accept the bills, seconded by Renuka. Motion passed to pay the bills.
Fred made a motion to amend to move funds from the BPO account to the School account, seconded by Cameron.  

Membership report- Diana/Renuka/Sridevi
We did get a Pop's Concert ad in the Tri-city Voice.

Publicity Report- Sylvia
Nothing to report


Fundraising report- Jennie/ Brandon/ Ruth/Diana
We will be selling water and chips at the AAA concert for $1.00.
We will also put three left over silent auction items out and split the profits between the 3 schools.

Action Item1: Diana will continue to look into the BJ's fundraiser.

Directors Report- See other report
Upcoming:
April 8th AAA Concert
April 14-17th Hawaii Trip
April 25th CMEA Band Festival
April 30th School Musical
May 1-2 School Musical
May 2nd CMEA Choir
May 7-9 School Musical

Action Item2:
Judy will look on the United website to see if they will provide snacks/drinks for the Hawaii trip.

AHS Administration Liason- Kathy Burgardt
Kathy presented the volunteer recognition month awards to helpers of the band.

Old Business
Pops concert- It went very well.
We made $1,168 for Pops admission, and $ 1,793.00 for the silent auction. We were $200 short of the minimum bid.

We will be able to use the school phone tree for getting concert information out to the school population.

New Business
AAA- the set up of the concert will be slightly different and we will also set up tables for the concert.

Board elections will be next month. We will email inviting people who are interested in a position for the new board.

Action Item3:
Diana will email to invite people to do the new positions for the board.

Student Forum
Charles mentioned a Panda Express fundraiser where we could get 20% profit without using a flyer.

Action Item4:
Charles will look into dates/times for the best way to do the Panda Express location.

Fred moved to adjourn the meeting Cameron seconded. Motion passed by those in attendance. Meeting adjourned at 9:29 pm. The next meeting is May 12th, 2009 at 7:30pm.