MSBOA District 8 Spring Meeting May 9, 2011
Call to Order 7:02pm
Officer Reports
Secretary Report: Dave Gott
Minutes online from Fall Meeting 2010
Accept Shaner Second Culling
Treasurer Report: Bryan Mangiavellano
Broke even in most festivals. Still lose money in B&O. Decrease in Mileage for judges helped. Thanks to site hosts for finding good housing. Possible changes in contracts for judges. MS Honors Band monies can come in to Bryan.
Accept Dow Second Bickell
B&O Sherri Powers (Sub: Lorri Wittenkeller)
Sight Reading Music in back of Sheri’s van. Lorri is filling in. Question on judge meals expense?? Trying to balance the sites
Accept Shaner Second Mangiavellano
High School S&E Report: Aaron Mykeloff (Sub Lorri Wittenkeller):
Written Report. Question have we thought about having Music Students work at S&E to prevent shortage. Could also contact at MSU and encourage.
Accept Culling Second Sherrill
Middle School S&E: Sandy Atkins (Sub Bryan Mangiavellano)
Highlight the written report.
Accept Shaner Second Kreiger
Orchestra Activities: Amy Marr (Sub:
Written Report Highlighted
Accept Wittenkeller Second Funk
Adjudication Report Jared Throneberry
Contracts went out April 1st. Please send your evaluations to Jared! Another issue discussed was the cassette recorders going bad. Jared and Dave Gott will look into purchase recorders over the summer.
Accept : Bickell Second Bickell
President’s Report: Stacie Detgen
Go to the spring meeting at MSU!! Slate of officers listed for STATE. Proposed officers for our District 8. Proposed Calendar also.
Accept Culling Second Shaner
Committee Reports
Music Education: Dave Gott
Written Report will be online
Marching Band: Bill Murray
Middle School Honors Band Report: Carolyn Sherrill and Patty Kroth
Discuss how to acquire/distribute music. Possibility of having group of members to purchase one of the pieces. Another possibility would be to provide library lists to the conductors.
Jazz Report: Kevin Krieger
17 ensembles performed at Mason HS. 20 minutes may not be enough time, so possible to toy around the idea of doing 40 minute spots. Anyone interested in hosting let Kevin know.
MYAF: This weekend at WMU
Festival Improvements: Lorri Wittenkeller
Lots of language adjustments made. Discussion to have 1 band piece for Sight Reading. Voice your opinion June 4th Spring Meeting.
Medals Report: Jason Cunningham
Question regarding the quality of medals? Could go back to the copper medals but it could cost more for shipping. Receiving many last minute requests…maybe next year end of April would help.
Motion made to go back to the original type of medal and pay the additional
cost. Motion made by Jared Throneberry Second Mangiavellano
Motion: Raise our medal fees to $2.25. Shaner Second Culling
Member Emeritus: Joel Shaner
Keep your eyes open for Members Emeritus.
District Website: Kevin Culling
If you would like your report on the web send it to Dave Gott
All-State Ensembles: David Larzelere
Okemos Chippewa MS and Jackson are the audition sites for next fall.
Old Business
Calendar…accepted with minutes
New Business
By-Laws
Time to create these. Asked other districts for their copy. Whose willing to be on By-Laws committee (Stacie Detgen, Kevin Kivel, Tonya Hicks, Chris Blackmer, Dave Gott)
Slate of Officers
Move to accept slate as printed Blackmer Second Throneberry
Teacher of the Year nominations
Band Teacher of the Year Nomination: Tavia Zerman (Accepted)
Orchestra Teacher of the Year Nomination : Tom Jones (Accepted)
Communication Policy to be discussed. Difficult to communicate with members. Communicate ideas to Garrett Ernst and Stacie will be happy to take it to E-Board.
Recording Equipment: Joel Shaner Oympus was one recommendation. Ederol are even better for All-State recording too. The State might be purchasing All-State, so may wish to hold off until the fall district meeting. In the mean while we can brainstorm the equipment.
Adjournment: Throneberry Moved Second Shaner