Patty Battin
Feb 10, 2026
Christina Saribay - President
Winter percussion and winterguard season is going well. Props are going great, students are doing amazing.
Patty's Secretary position and Lisa’s uniform position will be open. We have the nominations in April and we vote in May.
Volunteer Coordinator - Christina McClelland
Calendar
Saturday, Feb 14- Bottle & Can Drive 9 AM- 1 PM Sign ups are posted
Tuesday, Feb. 17- PEP BAND 5:15 PM & 7 PM (2 games)
Thursday, Feb. 19- Red Robin Fundraiser- All Day
Friday, Feb. 20- PEP BAND 5:15 PM & 7 PM (2 games)
Saturday, Feb. 21- Winter Percussion South Albany & Winter Guard Tigard Competition
Sign-ups TBA
Percussion will have food trailer (need driver), prop/equipment crew, food team, chaperones
Percussion A Class performances 10:05 AM, 5:05 PM (draft)
Percussion Open Class performances 2:35 PM, 7:40 PM (draft)
Winter Guard will need a U-haul Driver, food team (Cris+), prop crew (stairs, test tubes, flooring 5-6 people?), chaperones
Century Guard JV performances 10:35 AM, 5:59 PM (draft)
Century Guard Varsity performances 1:30 PM, 7:39 PM (draft)
Props are going well- close to completion
Saturday, Feb. 28- Solo & Ensemble at Mountainside HS
Volunteer Stats:
Total Hours 3837.17 thru 2/10/2026 ~2:30PM
Family Completions to Jason Keezel 56
83 out of 137 students have some family volunteer hours recorded (~61%) at least 4-5 more just need to submit their time.
13 students’ families are over 100+ hours!
Volunteers Approved to date 131
Continuing to Checking status for current volunteers and trip chaperones-
Full Legal names & expiration dates
Volunteer portion of the Website is updated!
Includes link to district volunteer page/application
Link for recording hours
Volunteer tracker form (for keeping track of hours at home)
Thank you Niki Carr!
Questions?
VP Uniform - Lisa Cavanaugh
All winter groups have ordered their costumes.
We have figured out a way to ship our uniforms to Orlando.
We're going to vacuum seal their uniforms and do it by room.
I have about 10 students that I still need to check on a few uniform issues from this last season.
I'm going to be putting on the band app. When I’ll be coming in so keep an eye out and make sure your student meets with me if they're on my list.
We're going to be doing another shoe order because we do have a couple shoes to order. If you have any shoe issues, please let me know ASAP because we're going to do that soon.
Christina Saribay for Heather Buxton - Fundraising
2/19/26 Red Robin, it's all day and is over at the Esplanade.
3/6 - 3/20 The Pie Guy. We are doing only cream pies and only small pies 5”. These pies will come fresh. There are 6 different pies. Chocolate, Key Lime, Banana Cream, Banana Peanut Butter Cream, Chocolate Peanut Butter, and Coconut Cream. Pick up 4/2. This one is a money maker for the students.
3/24 - 4/16 Flower baskets ordering. Pick up 5/4 and 5/5. This one is a money maker for the students. The split is 80 (students) /20 (band).2 sizes as usual small and large.
Our goal is to raise $62,000 this year, and we're at over $40,000 in fund raising. We're having a very good year.
4/25 Bandwidth. Everything has been submitted. The city has got everything.
We're already getting sponsors. This is Jackson Keezel’s senior project. If you want to be a part of this, the running crew meet with Crystal, myself, and Jackson. We've got about 27 vendors that we want to go out and get for this season. The website is up and ready.
It's a 5k run in South Hillsboro. Along with a 1k or 1 mile fun run. Mr. Dunlop's mom actually did that race the last time we did it. You don't have to run. You can skip, hop or just walk.
Elizabeth Martinez- HOPS
Hops is starting again, but it's at the new Hops Stadium. And this only a money maker for your students.
In years past, we've had OSAA stuff after, but with the new stadium, everything's different. My email is concessions@centuryband.org
They are starting in April runs through December.
We'll have the entire baseball season and then concerts as well. There's a whole slew of new opportunities to make money for your students this year and for next year. If you are interested in working, also if you have a 16 plus year old student they can work also. This is a great way to put money into your students account.
Everything is new, you'll have to do paperwork this year. I think we get a training. It's baseball games, selling concessions, you know, selling beer, popcorn, nachos, etc.
Treasurer - Tom Thaxton
Fred Meyer is actually just two checks that we've received so far $1,000.
We are 65% to the goal of $62,000 is including the extra $4,000 that we talked about last time of adding to our fundraising goal for buses.
That's pretty impressive. Can drives are always the biggest fundraiser.
The restaurant nights keep ticking up as we keep getting checks from those. That one is going to continue to grow.
Kristin Keezel - Travel
Orlando trip, we have one month, 28 days, 21 hours, and 11 minutes from today. The majority of the big things, have already been
taken care of. So in this handout, you'll see our flight information. It hasn't changed yet, you know, the airline can change the time.
We're staying at the Disney All-Star Music Resort Hotel.
On the back of that, you'll see an itinerary. It is very bare and basic because Disney has not release our schedule to us. I want to say for Disney it's like four weeks ahead of time, and Universal, I want to say it's six.
We don't know when we're doing the workshops. If you're planning on joining us and you're not a chaperone and want to hang out, I would recommend getting the park hopper pass because I can't tell you and I won't be able to tell you where we will be until probably three weeks before we leave.
That's why this is still bare bones (ish).
The food is all worked in as far as they're getting a card it'll be loaded they'll eat breakfast at the Disney Hotel and then when they're in the park they'll have so much money on that card that they'll be able to buy a billion churos or whatever they want to buy for lunch or they can actually go and get a meal and then the card just continues to load money as the trip goes on.
For example if it's like $15, (I think is their allotment for lunch) and if they only spend $10, then they have an extra five for dinner. So by that last day, you know, we'll encourage them to use up what's on the card.
They can't come back and spend it here. It's a special card that only would work at the theme parks. It's only good for food.
The next page you'll see the airline groups. We're divided into two flights. Flight A is on an Alaska flight and flight B is on a United flight.
In each box you'll see the chaperone and you will see the students that are in that airplane group. They're not sitting by them. We don't know where the kids are sitting. I've got so many requests of can I please sit next to this person on the plane. No, I don't make those decisions. We just buy tickets and they they assign us a seat.
So as far as the groupings go. That's the group that they go with to get through security. The group that they are getting food at the airport, if they want to go to the bathroom, like that's the group that they have to stick with at the airport to get on and off the flight. Once we are in Orlando, they are in with a different group.
I cannot stress this enough because I just have this nightmare, that somebody is going to be 18 and not have a real ID.
I think we have a student turning 18 on the trip. Please make sure that they have an ID, a proper ID. Don't send them with something that's not because we can't get them home from Orlando.
You can get a new school ID if you have lost yours
We'll bus them to the airport, but you need to pick your student up at the airport when we return. Either at 8pm (Alaska) or 11:02pm (United).
The next part is the hotel.
Students are four into a room. The
adults are two to a room. There's a couple that are rooming with their student. We have a couple that have requested a single.
There will be an adult attached or assigned to the rooms, the checker room and the checker person to make sure that they're up and they're moving and they're in their room at night and that they're not coming out.
The last thing is the mandatory parent meeting for the trip, March 13th at 6:30pm. I would love for the students to be at that meeting also.
They give us a 24-hour on-call doctor service. They're wonderful. I've used them many times myself. And so they will come to the hotel. They will assess them. They'll give them anti-nausea medicine.
We all paid for insurance, as part of your trip. If they break their leg, World Strides pays for it, for them to go to the hospital and put them in a cast and then get them home to you.
We'll send out a packing list when it's a little bit closer. Tennis shoes and marching shoes should be the main shoes. You don't really need flip-flops walking through the theme parks for miles, unless you're more comfortable in them.
Or flip-flops for the pool.
You know, it's going to be warm in Florida , it's probably going to be 80s and 90’s.
They get a carry-on and a personal item. Like a backpack.
Remember they changed the carry-on sizes. So if you're on Alaska, look at Alaska because every plane's a little bit different. The same for United. Check the web site.
Mr. Dunlop
One fundraiser we don't talk about a lot is your Fred Meyer's points. If your card is not linked to us, please link it to us.
The way the band operates with trips is that we take a big trip, which this year is a big trip. Next year, we will take trips with the winter groups. That would be the Jazz Band that's going to go to the Boise Competition, which is in St. Louis.
The Color Guard wants to go to WGI in Dayton, Ohio.
The drumline wants to go to Southern California for a big WGI event down there.
Those groups have an incentive for you to just keep going, especially with the hops, that has helped a lot of families take care of the financial costs.
The year after that, we'll take another big band trip.
I've taken probably 60 trips with high school students.
I like to take young adults. I just want to stress this.I'm not taking kids on a big trip. If they act like kids, they'll stay home or they'll have an adult chaperone with them every minute because we're not interested in that. We're taking young adults. The other side of that is that we'll treat them like young adults.
You know, as a young adult, I don't need someone to tell me I shouldn't drink pop. I should get some water in. Because if I drink pop, I'm going to get sick. Well, guess what? They'll either make good choices or they'll get sick and they'll learn. So if they come back and say, hey, we didn't make it to our dinner stop on time and we didn't get dinner, for example. And that has happened. I'm not going to hold up 140 kids because your group decided to be here late. And I'm not going to get you dinner and bring it back because you chose to be late.
But I just want to make sure, you know that. If that sounds cruel, then you should come on these trips because then you can baby your student all you want. But we won't.
The next thing I want to tell you, a little bit of excitement. I have talked to so many students who have never been anywhere like this. And I think that this is going to be pretty amazing. And for those students, it's going to be really amazing.
They ask why do we have to take our uniforms? Because you will not perform at Disneyworld if you're not in uniform. We had to send pictures, audition tapes, all kinds of stuff because their standard is very high.
I want to make sure that for the guard this season we need at least three adults that will commit to driving the props and setting the props up. I don't think that the way we built them and stuff, this be done only by kids. We need at least three strong adults that can help with that. And it'd be nice if they were the three same ones so they know where things go. It doesn't have to be, but it would be nice.
We will need somebody who'll drive a big E-Haul. I'm the only one that can drive the district truck, and I can't commit to being at the Drumline one and the Guard one at the same time.
Members Present
Christina McClelland
Cris Travis
Marlicia Thaxton
Tom Thaxton
Mike Curl
Jaime Hoxsey
Frank Hoxsey
Marcel Gose
Elizabeth Martinez
Karen Williams
Kimberly Smith
Christina Saribay
Alicia Koehn
Cynthia Bates
David Dobson
Layton Nicholes
Kalena Lorrain-Chavez
Elizabeth Acosta
Lisa Cavanaugh
Jim Dunlop
Kristin Keezel
Daisy Lopez
Aaron Augustus
Christine Carpenter
Guadalupe Martinez-Luna
Jose Flores
Andrea Flores
Sheryl Hughes
Ginger Price
Jaydee Brown
Charlene Bradotich
Maribel Rodriguez
Tiffany Wilson