March 2nd, 2026 meeting minutes.xlsx

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1		Jane Manning, Julie Kaplan, Susan Kalil, Karen Curran, Dawn Press, Jessica Sharpe, Janessa Murphy, Alma Turriza, Denise Cioffi, Amy Hennessy, Jessie White	Meeting Started at: 6:30 pm
2	Topic		Vote
3	Last Month's Minutes	Review and accept last months minutes with confirmation date of Blue and Gold night as June 3rd. Julie accepted minutes with changes and Alma 2nd. Minutes acceptance 7-0	7-0
4	President's Updates	Introductions. Gratitude for those that showed up for events this past month, February was relatively calm. Gratitude to Karen for distributing the raffle checks and sending out the emails regarding the blances for the NYC trip. Squadlocker Merch has already been set up and the store is coming out soon. It has been set up as the Music Department, by Blake. The show Post Its will be going on to the NHETG festival. Blake was requesting that 17 students be given a $15 meal budget. Jane had approved up to $300 for meals, and had already been voted into the theater budget. Amy and Ellie reached out regarding the adjudicators for the middle school music festival in June. The $600 is already in the middle school budget.
5	Director Updates	Mean Girls is coming up. The trip for next year was going to be going to the school board on March 3rd. Due to inclement weather, that meeting was postponed. Interviewing for Nancy Fothergill's position. Her last concert will be May 7th.
6	Fundraiser	Craft Fair is tentatively October 3rd, waiting for SAU approval. John has cleared the gym use for October 31st and November 2nd. Janessa was going to help with the Incident IQ forms when the dates are confirmed. Diane Gagnon is going to do vendor reviews. Once the date is confirmed, a letter will be sent to returning venders that booth rentals will be increasing to $65 for this year and next year will be $70. The Craft Fair Committee thus far is as follows: Chris and Erin Roach on raffles, Ines Smith on concessions, and Jen Daley will volunteer. We still need a program/project manager and advertising. Mattress Sale waiting to hear from Drew on November 1st, he couldn't do November 8th. We will make a faculty request for Drew to speak with the students, once the date is confirmed. The raffle calendar is done. Last year, someone did not cash the check. Karen called and eft a message and she will email to try and speak with the winner about reissuing the check. The WMAA does payout for the calendar raffle. Which means that if the money that is awarded for the calendar raffle is not covered in student sales, the money comes out of the WMAA funds. Donated gift cards has been suggested as an alternative.
7	Membership	117 families There was discussion regarding grandfathering people that registered in April, as done last year. Nothing was determined, with several board members missing.
8	Social Media	The WMAA website has been updated. The minutes have also been updated on the website. The track vote is in support of the Boosters. We are featureing the You Can Do Both track/musical students in order to help support the vote "Yes" on the track. Email Becky, Blake, and Allison regarding You Can Do Both for spring sports. Have parents send in the pictures, as the middle school parents did. To increase awareness regarding the WMAA, we could write an article for the Windy Indy spotlighting how we help support the musical arts students.
9	Finance	If we buy a Square, we will need a docking station. There needs to be a device that has the Square App. Wifi in the high school is a problem. The WMAA could purchase a refurbished IPad. Then we would require the IPad, Square, and cash box at WMAA events. The Square is $59.00 and the refurbished IPads were over $100. Dawn made the motion to buy the Ipad and Square for up to $250. Alma second the motion. Motion passed 7-0. Outdated balances. Money Minder does not allow budgetted money to be spent. How do we get the balance back on outdated accounts? The By Laws should include how unspent funds are transferred. Membership is given 30 days notice on By Laws changes. Also, if the outdated families still have students in the district, we can see if people want to attend trips, they need to restart their membership in order to use their balances. It was discussed about during the membership drive in Septmeber, asking families of Seniors if their are younger siblings, or not. We are underbudge for the year. $10,000 in the bank ($7,600 in student funds and income waa $2,500 from concessions). Upcoming concessions for Mean Girls and Golden Brook. PayPal: $ Rockland Trust: $	IPad and Square purchase up to $250 7-0
10	Updates from board members and attendees	Opening postions on the Board are: Tresure, Band/Orchestra, and Operations. Scholarship Committee met with Julie to go over protocol. The members include Dawn, Jessica, Susan, Kendall, and Denise. The committee will plan on giving Janessa our responses by May 1st. May 8th the latest depending on the number of applicants. Jessica Sharpe will give the list to Karen regaring which student is awarded which amoutn. Blue and Gold night is Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:30 and as it is closer we will finalize which member will present the scholarships. Jessica needs everything for Mean Girls, for concessions. She will create a Sign Up Genius and Dawn will send it out to memebership. Julie suggested authorizing up to $500 to purchase concessions. Janessa made a motion to purchase up to $500 in concessions, Dawn second the motion. Motion passed 7-0. We do have some little candy for candy grams. Jane mentioned that the Tri-M showcase asked to donate concessions that go to the Manchester School Community Music.	Up to $500 for concessions. 7-0
11	Meeting Schedule	April 6th, May 4th, June 1st
12	Meeting adjourned	Jane moved to adjourn. Julie and Jessica second.	Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm
13	Additional Board Activity
14	Tailgate 2026	September 19th vs Alvirne @ 1pm; September 26th vs Salem @ 7pm (This is the Blackout Game); October 10th vs Merrimack @ 1pm; October 17th vs Nashua South @ 1pm; October 24th vs Pinkerton @ 1pm
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