Watertown Athletic Booster Club

December 14, 2015 - Meeting Minutes

STATEMENT OF MISSION: The Watertown Athletic Booster Club is a nonprofit organization. The purpose of the Booster Club is to help provide financial and moral support to the Watertown Public Athletic Program. The Booster Club helps to maintain a wholesome athletic program based upon the needs of our student body. The Booster Club is involved in assisting the school with attendance at games, pride, unity, sportsmanship and finances not covered by the school system.

BOARD MEMBERS: PRESIDENT CHARLES STARCK VICE PRESIDENT URSULA YAEGGI TREASURER LEAH WUCHTERL SECRETARY JENNIFER HARRIS MEMBERSHIP SUE PUTRA CONCESSIONS KAREN QUINN SPECIAL PROJECTS JODY NAATZ PUBLIC RELATIONS KATHIE BERGEN

Present: Jennifer Harris, Karen Quinn, Sue Putra, Elissa Meltesen, Jody Naatz, Kathie Bergen, Brent Yaeggi.

Meeting called to order at 7:04pm by Secretary, Jennifer Harris.

PREVIOUS MONTH’S MINUTES A motion was made by Jody Naatz and seconded by Karen Quinn to approve the minutes from the November 9, 2015 meeting. The minutes were unanimously approved.

TREASURER’S REPORT – No report given Starting Balance: $66,106.00 Withdrawals: $4,763.94 Deposits: $8,638.85 Ending Balance: $69,980.91

Outstanding Commitments: Girls Varsity Golf- $885.00 (2015-2016 school year) Scholarships - $1,750.00 (2014-2015 school year) Total Outstanding Commitments - $2,635.00

We will ask Leah to list the scholarship recipients that haven’t claimed their rewards yet so we can be in touch with them.

A motion was made by Jody Naatz and seconded by Sue Putra to approve the Treasurer’s report. The Treasurer’s report was unanimously approved.

CONCESSIONS: Karen Quinn – gave report.  There will be an adult volleyball tournament held at WHS on February 6, 2016. The WABC has been asked to run the concessions stand. Karen Quinn has agreed to assist. Sadie Brown in the contact person. Mike Daniels will touch base with Sadie to see if we can do a pre-order menu.

VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT Ursula Yaeggi – no report .

MEMBERSHIP Sue Putra – gave report.  Sue will provide a copy of the letter for the athletes and membership form to Kathie Bergen so she can post it on the website and facebook page.

PUBLIC RELATIONS Kathie Bergen – gave report.  Kathie would like Trivia Night sponsorship information so she can post it to all social media.

SPECIAL PROJECTS Jody Naatz – gave report.  Working hard on sponsorships.  Sending out the brochure and forms this week.  Raffle tickets will begin to sell before the next meeting, hopefully.  The sign will be hung in the gym.  Dawn Miller has agreed to be the chairperson of the basket raffle.  Still looking for someone to coordinate the student/athlete runners & servers.  Skills USA will donate a basket this year.  Wisconsin Sign Design will make the banners.  The budget for table decorations is $300.00.  Wepco prints posters to use for decoration.

ATHLETICS DIRECTOR’S REPORT Mike Daniels - gave report.  Mike reported he is working on getting the PMC/WABC proposal approved by the WHS Principal and the Superintendent so we can present to the PMC again.  Kari Lutter resigned her position at WHS so they are in the process of hiring a new assistant principal.  The Conference realignment has been postponed by the WIAA for another month.

COACHES REQUESTS  Rusty Tiedemann requested $4,194.00 for a new pitching machine and feeder for the Boys baseball team. The present pitching machine has been there for more than 25 years. Sue Putra made a motion to pay for the new machine for baseball and Jody Naatz seconded it. The motion passed unanimously.  Sue Putra requested $791.50 to purchase 6 additional Varsity jackets to be loaned to the Shining Stars dance team members for events such as; homecoming, competitions, etc. Jody Naatz motioned that WABC pay the additional monies for the extra jackets, Kathie Bergen seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

OLD BUSINESS  None

NEW BUSINESS  There was discussion again regarding the WABC’s annual financial reporting. No decision has been made about an accounting firm that we will hire. Karen Quinn suggested that she talk to Holly Triplett to see if she would be interested in handling this for the WABC.

A motion was made by Jody Naatz to adjourn at 7:52 p.m., seconded by Mike Daniels and passed with unanimous approval by the Booster Club.

NOTE: The next Booster Club meeting will be held on Monday, January 11,2016 @ 7:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at WHS.

Respectfully submitted, Jennifer Harris, Secretary