7:00 PM Library
1. Athletic Director report
2. Asst. Principal report
3. President report
a. Financial report
4. Approval of meeting minutes
a. November 2011
5. Notice of bylaw amendments
6. Discussion – Organizing for Spring Fund Raising
7. Board of Directors – approval of David Lazarus CPA engagement.
Happy New Year! Please join us for our January members meeting on Monday, 1/23,at 7:00pm in the CCHS Library.
Come find out the latest announcements from our Athletic Director, Assistant Principal and coaches. Winter Sports are in full swing!
Ideas for a new spring fundraiser are welcome!
Join us Monday, Dec 19 from 6-8 at BottleRock on Main St. to celebrate the holidays. We will provide appetizers and BottleRock has assembled a special discounted drink roster.
There is a Board and Executive meeting Monday, Dec. 12 @7pm in the faculty lounge. Members welcome to attend.
CCHS Booster Club voted to subsidize the student rooter buses up to Arroyo Grande on Friday. We hope by making it affordable that a large, energetic Centaur student booster section goes to to support!
Monday November 21 7:00PM in Library. Monthly meeting + Sports training & injury prevention round-table led by CCHS trainer Marcos White. Come learn how to keep your athlete at peak performance – for both the field and the classroon.
Monday Dec 19 7:00PM. Place TBD. Booster Club Holiday social (in lieu of monthy meeting). Come have a sip and snack with fellow Booster Club members and celebrate our accomplishments and the holiday season.
Finally – congrats to Girls Volleyball for getting into the playoffs! And job well done to all the fall 2011 sports teams.
There is a community meeting regarding Robert Frost Auditorium will be held on Monday, October 24 from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Board Room at the District Office
moved from last week so as to not conflict with school board meeting
7:00PM in Faculty Lounge. Members are welcome to attend.
Need at least one parent from each team (frosh/soph, jv, var) that is working with your coach to achieve the team fundraising goals. We will discuss fundraising successes, use of school facilities, snack bars, money-handling, etc. Coaches want and need to focus on training our student athletes and preparing their teams. They need our help to organize the parents and raise the resources.
I know that many of you have a local business. Please consider reaching your Culver audience by advertising in the District’s newspaper “Culver Currents in Print”. Contact Nancy Gerloff-Burne at 310/985-1997 or nancyburne@sbcglobal.net to get into the first issue of the year, a special edition. She has extended the deadline for a few days.
It’s the first day of a great school year at CCHS and your CCHS Booster Club has much going on. The first day of the school year should remind you that it is also a new membership year for the Club and that all membership renewals should be completed by October 1. Visit http://cchsboosters.com/index.php?page=membership , learn about our incentives for membership and come aboard to help us provide resources for our students in athletics and extra curricular programs.
We have a great volunteer leadership team for the Club – Diana Aceves, Carla Crowder, Mike Eskridge, Lloyd Dixon, Doug Stanger, Marc Shimmerman, Phil Rothenburg, Ian Drummond and Jerry Chabola. Thank you all for your willingness to commit your time to the club’s efforts this year.
Block off Sunday Oct. 16 to participate in our Fall Fundraising Event – Mission Impossible Golf at Dominguez Hills Golf Course. Parent Craig Singer has volunteered to chair this event and in addition to playing, we are going to need a team to handle registration, sponsorship, food, etc. Email to volunteer and watch for registration coming soon!
This Friday is the first home football game. We need a set of parents to help collect parking $$ before the game (and every home game) from say 5:45 – 7:30. AD Chabola has offered to let these parking volunteers get into the game for free! email info@cchsboosters.com if you are willing to help out.
Our first members meeting of the year is Monday, Sept 19 7:00PM in the library. This is our Team Parent fund-raising roundtable and process training. As you all know, our coaches work extremely hard on their programs with our kids. They should not be lone rangers when planning and executing the team fundraising that needs to get done for things like additional tournaments, off-season programs, and spirit packs. Each coach deserves to have, at minimum, one key parent that they can work with to organize the other families on the team and make this all happen.
If you are one of these key parents or plan to be, we need you at the Sept. 19 meeting. We’ll cover financial issues, facilities permits, and communications. We’ll round-table on the ideas that work and share our experience.
All of this Booster Club activity drives from our awareness of the precarious financial position of the district and the potential negative impact on our kids’ teams and clubs. Again this year, our school board was not able to fully fund the athletic program and EVERY team is at risk of having games canceled during their season or having teams combined. The ONLY way to avoid this situation is for us to resource the athletic department with enough raised money to close this gap. The two key efforts that we have to achieve this are for:
1) Every family with a kid on a team respond to the request for donation to cover the gaps in the athletic department budgets for transportation, referees, tournaments, equipment, supplies, etc. The ask last year for this contribution was solely focused on transportation because that was the largest gap at the time. This year the ask is more general because multiple budget lines are short of what is required.
2) Every family with a kid on a team participate in the Booster Club fundraising efforts including membership and our major events such as this Golf Tournament, Casino Night, and Bowling Night.
These two sources – individual donation and collective effort – worked last year to ensure that every kid that wanted to play sports was able to do so, and that every game for every team was able to be played. The budget gap and the urgent need to fill it are with us again this year. Together we can again surmount this challenge.
Regards,
Steve
Steve Stautzenbach
CCHS Booster Club President