July 2020 Meeting Minutes

The July Booster Club Board meeting was held on Thursday, July 9, 2020.

Attendees:

Anne Epperson

Carla Meyer

Addison Wright

Antoinette Pennington

Mary Lewis

Kristi Whitney

Agenda:

News

  • COVID-19 questions/answers

  • Changes for the upcoming Choreography camps

Fall Picnic

  • Antoinette will be leading the planning and execution of this event

  • Brainstorming ideas will be discussed at the August Board meeting

  • Anne to check on budget to support an outdoor activity for each team

Corporate Sponsorships

  • Informational letter/form sent out to team members

  • Anne to print flyers for gym doors

  • Information to be posted in the BAND app

  • Anne to send reminder that deadline is September 8th

  • Two sponsors have already responded for individual athletes

BC Apparel

  • Brainstorming for ideas.

  • Group decided all will look for t-shirt design inspiration and share at August meeting.

Contracts

  • Mary provided information on the number of paid vs unpaid dues

  • A second round of invoices will be sent out in the coming days

  • A note regarding Venmo - for future fundraisers we cannot allow members to place orders via the Venmo notes.

  • No orders will be accepted through Venmo in the future.

Fundraising

  • Summer Trash Bag sales - Complete.

  • We sold 364 cases (3100 rolls and 540 paper packs)

  • Doubled our order from last year!

  • Lessons learned

    • Liked having the sale over the summer

    • for pick up - have people come pack their own order with volunteers at each station to verify count

    • Think about not offering the yard sacks - not a good price and profit is small.

  • Gift Card Fundraiser - August

  • Fundraising Favorites - October

  • Post information for a volunteer group

  • Possibility of running a fundraiser with “Once Upon A Child” was discussed. Antoinette will look into this.

Charity Events

  • Kristin Drussel will look into some of the brainstorming ideas

  • ?Providing meals for children at home

  • ?First responders

Team Parents

  • Currently being nominated