Patty Battin
Jun 3, 2025
Our meeting began with 2 alumni students coming in to discuss next year's auction and that they want to help make it bigger and better. It was an interesting conversation and they will be meeting with Christina Saribay and Heather Buxton in August to get started.
Christina Saribay
We've got a few more events this year.
6/4/25 We've got graduation. Band members need to be here by 3:45. The buses will leave the school at 4:45. Pizza will be here.This year they're saying don't bring flowers into the event. No balloons, no flowers, no sound makers. They want it all done outside of the car.
6/5/25 Parade practice. 4pm -7pm. No seniors.
New parent meeting (8th graders) from 6pm - 7pm my goal is to talk to as many parents and get them involved, get them excited.
6/7/25 We've got the Rose Parade.
6/14/25 Can Drive 9am - 1pm. I was gonna do a hundred slots for the students and then four for the semi-truck loader.
Fireworks stand. good news to share that Tony Sage can be there every night except July 3rd. 6/27 - 7/4. I'll make four hour slots instead of three on the sign up genius.
7/4/25 4th of July parade.
What is going on with Cans4bands? I picked up 27 bags this week. I stepped in for David and we have been watching it together between him and I.
6/12/25 We have the end of year party at Frances St. Park from 2pm - 5pm.
Treasurer
Going to meet with Mr. Dunlop to finish up the budget and have it ready for the parent meeting next week.
There's a $150 check back from Hillsboro Park and Rec for cleaning of Calipuya Hall.
A good majority of the people paid. Although we still have outstanding balance due.
Century Showcase and Championships
Century Showcase and Championships is at Hillsboro Stadium. And it's covering two weekends. The first one, 10/25 is Century Show Case. And the second 11/1 is Championships.
One choice would be, like last year, he said, I need this many helpers. We provided that many helpers. He wrote us a check.
Maybe we just run the two shows and we split the two shows. It's not much more expensive to do it for two weekends than one because you just put the window of when you're renting them so that it covers both weekends.
Homecoming is also on the calendar the last week of October.
Fair Shares
We still have fair share payments that have not been paid from prior years. As a board we have decided that for the trip to Florida in 2026, if you have a prior balance you will not be allowed to sign up for the trip until your balance is paid.
We're always going to need to take care of some kids. I think that's part of our responsibility, I think we should never not have a kid participate in marching band based on money.
We don't have to help them go on trips. I think they need to fill out a request for a scholarship, and we need to look at it, and there needs to be that process.
Heather Buxton
We want to update the band design and start doing more gear sales, because I think parents want gear. We're going to sell swag. I just want to use Surfa. Mr. Dunlop has a different company to use. It's going to be a fundraiser.
In July, we're going to start planning the bandwidth.
We talked about bringing the sidewalk sale back during band camp. It would be the 22nd and 23rd of August. The first day is the 22nd. At the end of the day, for the last couple hours of the sale and the dinner break for the kids, we would have Kona Ice come, and that would be a fundraiser as well. I'm thinking that it's possible that we can make a nice chunk of cash from that. The next day, in the morning part of the garage sale, the kids obviously won't be here, but we'll have Tom's traveling coffee truck in the morning.
I also think that we should do a fundraiser for a scholarship to give a senior that's graduating
We want to do a calendar fundraiser for the month of September. And so it's where the kids do the fundraising themselves. They put out a calendar and they say sponsor me for a day in the month of September. So like grandma could pick the 30th and she gives them 30 bucks. And like baby sister could pick the first and give them a dollar. And then at the end it's $450 for that specific kid to go on the trip.