AFM Minutes
All about recent meetings of the Amador Friends of Music, the parent organization for our Band and Color Guard.

General Membership Meeting, March 16, 2005

Cindy Gehl called the meeting to order at 7:40 p.m.

President’s Report – Cindy Gehl:
Ingram and Brauns has donated $1000 in return for putting one of their decals on the trailer.

The 2005/2006 AFM Board nominating committee includes: Jeannette Ford (chairman), Lilia Knight, and Carol Ghinazzi. Jeanette announced the nominations as follow: President-Thom Kato; Transportation-Open; Secretary-Linda Ethier; Fundraising-Angela Adkins; Treasurer-Paulette Callahan. As soon as there is a full slate, it will be published in the AFM Band Newsletter and posted on the Website. Once that is done, the General Membership can vote.

Next year’s Fall budget will be presented at the May meeting. Fees for Marching Band will include $550 plus travel costs associated with the Championships in Southern California. This year, the total amount will be posted in June, so that those with who have money in their student accounts can have it go towards the Fall fees at that time, and others can plan ahead and budget for the amount due in the Fall. We will still hold Registration as usual.

On Monday (3/18) or Tuesday (3/29), during their 4:00 broadcast , Channel 30 will be showing the Amador Marching Band in the London New Years Day Parade.

We are on target with our budget. We currently have $4138 in past due fees as compared to $9300 last year.

Fundraising Report - Angela Adkins:

Angela has met with the event planner at the Hilton and things are going well. The hotel offered to have a martini bar open for one hour free of charge.

Donations are coming in, but she would like to see more. Also smaller items are needed, and she would like to see more involvement in donations from the students. She reminded everyone that the first 20 students who submit a donation form will be eligible to win a drawing for a pizza party. The deadline for the students to submit their forms and be eligible to win is Monday, March 21. However, donations will be accepted up until April 1, 2005.


Other

Winter Percussion – Jeannette Ford
Jeanette shared that the Winter Percussion has participated in 4 competitions to date and that they are doing extremely well. They are headed to Las Vegas this weekend to compete in the WGI. There will be 8 chaperones on the trip. She also wanted to thank AFM for purchasing a brake controller that can be used on the truck they are taking to Las Vegas.

Marching Band Videos – Mark Voegele
Mark is in the process of editing the videos, which he will offer for sale for $5.00. His aim is to have them ready by the Spring Banquet in June.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:40.

Updated: March 18, 2005