October 29, 2002

          President Gayle French called the meeting to order and the minutes were approved as read. 

TREASURER’S REPORT:  Janis Dymacek, treasurer, reported a balance of $1717.86 in the checking account and $2894.15 in the savings account.  The report was approved as presented.

STAFF REPORT:  Annette Mitchell said the Eastern Midlands Conference will be November 19^th at Nebraska City.  Six singers and three alternates will attend All-State.  Our holiday concerts will be December 16 and 17.  Mr. Boldt was nominated as an Outstanding Administrator at the Nebraska Music Educators Association convention and he won.  The audition for Singing Youth of Nebraska is Thursday, October 31.  It is for grades 7 through 9 and 10 students can go.  It will be in February and Music Boosters will pay $30 per participant.

Evan Lee said the marching band had a great season and really matured.  The band ended up with three Division I’s and one Division II.  At NSBA the band was 3^rd place overall.  Evan thanked Gene Trauernicht for his contribution to the bus renovation.  Titan Express will play December 7^th at the basketball game and Jazz band auditions will be this week.  The Christmas concerts will be December 16^th and 17^th.  The band had 3 members qualify for All-State; Scott Dymacek, Rayla French, and Jaime Tyser.  Concert band is starting and they are trying new seating.

Old Business:  All advertisers have paid for the calendar ads.  The Boosters made about $150 on the sale of buttons.  Gayle thanked the people who donated to the bake sale, worked at the concession stand and especially Becky Brunkow for the Sloppy Joes and Robin Keralis for the cookies.  We discussed if teachers preferred hot or cold food.  Those who called suggested we might want to do it earlier to give people more notice.  Another suggestion was trying shaved ham and cheese sandwiches.  The extra cookies were used for the band kids before NSBA.  $100 was earned from the conference meals, $385 for the first week conference concessions, and $140 from the 2^nd week for a total of $625.

This will be the last meeting until February 24^th.  The Band Banquet is on Friday at the elementary school at 6:30pm.  130 people have signed up and we will see videos of the band performances.  NSBA medals will be purchased by the Music Boosters.

The meeting was adjourned.

Secretary Joyce Kubicek