Tuesday June 4th, 7:30pm
Attendees: J.J, Rameka, Joy, Nick, Christian, Shelly, Debbie, Lisa ; Staff: Lee, Jessie, Erin, Ian
Acting Proxy: N/A
Called to order at 7:30 pm.
Committee Reports
Fundraising, Rameka
Up/Down Fundraiser next week. Please share communications, invite your network, and come play! FYI - Ashton will be the point person next week later in the evening (I have to leave around 7 pm for an early flight).
Union Press is “splitting the cost” of the (wrong color) shirts with us. I will cover the other half since it was my mistake. I plan to sell the shirts to members for $5-10 to support the band (unless someone has another idea).
I fulfilled the $100 donation to KC Pet Project - Lisa do you need the receipt?
Gael’s Rockstar Bingo - Can we confirm July 31st? (or is it too close to the BBQ?) I think it could be a good recruitment activity for folks who are interested in joining/volunteering, too.
June Fundraising Committee Note
Rameka will confirm any necessary tasks to “close out” the Up/Down Fundraiser and communicate to the board.
Rameka will confirm July 31st with Gael’s for our MAFB Membership/Fundraising mixer.
Marketing, Joy
Got all of our scheduled concerts on all community calendars - woot!
Coordinating w/ Lee on list of concerts to promote on radio - ALL!
Membership, Nick
Committee Meeting held May 28th - minutes linked here
Second push for survey sent to membership - as of 04Jun2024 44 responses; poll open until 07Jun
Lee - can you push in your rehearsal email for the week?
Committee will review/analyze data and discuss at next committee meeting
Make sure the MAFB calendar is set to public - jjpearse1913@gmail.com
Performance Opportunities, Steven + Debbie
Glowild looking for individual / group performances for the Zoo. Fall performances.
**GloWild @ KCZoo https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YRBX_Xdfo0zaDtaPf0m39wBa7dfNozLQ/view
Director has a BFA in theater
Super enthusiastic about bringing music and arts to zoo
Used to own and operate a theater
He's looking for all kinds of acts. Local schools, individuals, vocal, instumental, dance, acrobatic, twirlers, etc.
Event info:
100K PEOPLE; Lots of PROMOTIONS; FALL FESTIVAL/FANTASY & aDventure" theme
Not "christmas"
80 dates; 6 to 8 pm mid Sept to 12/31; Wed to Sunday
Open to paying a fee; May allow busking for zoo or group
Dan Uptegrove 816-809-1555; Leave a voice mail Or Call guest services
Reports
Secretary, Steven
Nothing to report
Artistic Director, Lee
Royals performance went smashingly well for Pride day on June 1. We got to play from behind home plate which was a big change. Pride parade is this weekend. Thank you to Debbie for repping us at the meeting. Need to pass off the mailbox key to Nick. Grants reports of MAC, Folly, and NTDF coming soon.
Summer tasks
Clean office out and move music library over to the storage unit (keeping one cabinet in the office for the current season)
Doubledecker stand rack construction?
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SMC5000--on-stage-stands-smc5000-music-stand-cart
Assistant Artistic Director, Jessie
I’d like to plan on a sightreading night for current members of MMJO on Thursday, June 13 and 27 from 7-8pm if the pep/concert band is not using the time. Looking at the Church Calendar, we have every Thursday reserved (for the most part).
If OK with board/staff, I would like to announce the two below music reading nights:
Thursday, June 13 from 7-8pm
Thursday, June 27 from 7-8pm
Board Chair, J.J.
Board Retreat! - 6/22 from 9am - 2pm
Ian and Shelly out, Christian calling in
Vice Chair, Christian
Nothing to report.
Treasurer, Lisa
Report available upon request.
Executive Director, Ian
Insurance lapse - getting reinstated
Librarian, Jeanine
Nothing to report.
Webmaster, Erin
There are a couple of URLs that need to be updated for events for next season, but I don’t have access to our godaddy to redirect the current URLs to the updated make sure we don’t break any 3rd party links.
Passwords FOUND.
I plan on moving the website to Squarespace 7.1 in July, once pride is over. This will make the website ‘down’ for a couple days, is there a preference for when I do this?
Early in the month, with contact info on ‘under construction’ page
New Business
Sound Equipment
Proposal for new sound equipment - $5,000. This gets us good-quality self-powered gear that would have several advantages. We may be able to do it for less than that but recommend a going in position of $5k. This would be within the scope of the Duncan donation.
