SOUTHWEST IOWA BANDMASTER
Winter Meeting
MARCH 6. 2006
The Pines, Atlantic, Iowa

Meeting was called to order by Pam Ryan at 6:25 p.m.
Minutes were read and approved
Treasurers report was read and approved

The following committee reports were given:

• Elementary Affairs: Sue Schneider. They will have a session
  sponsored at IBA.
• Middle School Affairs: Pam Ryan. The commissioned piece will be
  going out soon.
• Concert Band Affairs: Craig Crilly. Nothing new.
• Marching Band Affairs: Mike Peters via email we are currently
  collecting the data from the survey that was sent out
  electronically to the IBA membership last semester to determine
  why we have such a low turnout to State Marching Contest compared to the
  other State events. Once these results are gathered we are going to meet
  to see if some of these problems can be address in a large
  session at the Convention with us and Allan. Currently State
  Marching Contest is by far the lowest (percentage wise) attended of
  all the State Music events. I have not heard how many directors actually
  filled out the survey. The Heartland Colorguard Association is
  trying to get more Iowa groups involved in their contests. They
  hold both winterguard and Indoor marching percussion contests. It
  really is a wonderful organization and a great way to get your kids to work
  on their skills for marching band throughout the winter months. It anybody
  has any questions they can call or e-mail me and I would be
  happy to get them the information they need.
• SW HS Honor Band: Kim Smith. Travis Cross had many good comments
  about the band. 2008 will be Andy Boysen Jr. Thanks to Red
  Oak for hosting. Give Kim recommendations for
  directors. She has archive recordings from 2000 to present if you
  wish to borrow them.
• SW MS Honor Band: Patti Bekkerus. Very successful day this year.
  Thanks to Atlantic for hosting. Patti is looking into using a
  new percussion etude book. String bass auditions will be more
  defined next fall. John Hewitt will be the 7th director. Give her
  suggestions for an 8th grade director.
• SWIHMB:Jeff Schoening. Be sure to get all forms into Jeff. The trip
  price is estimated at $1235. That is without game tickets. He
  will give out the website address where you can go to look up
  the itinerary and such. Thanks to Moore music for again supplying the
  percussion line and also for the new addition of sousaphones for the
  band. If your school is interested in purchasing any of
  these instruments contact Chuck. Rhonda Taggert is working with
  us to see about grant writing for this group to help off set the cost per
  student.
• College Affairs: Christine Hitt. None.
• Mentorship: Lee Nelson. Utilize the website for resources.
  Don’t be afraid to call directors and even composters to get
  answers. There is a $32,000 grant to pay IBAARD directors to go
  out and work with new directors.
• R&D: Desmond Armentrout. Nothing new.
• Jazz Affairs: Steve Britt . IWCC will be next year’s site.
  Thank you to everyone’s patience with this year’s festival.
  Great job to everyone at contest. Steve Lawson festival was a
  good success this year. Look for date information soon for next year’s
  date. Also improv clinnic date information will be coming soon.
• Major Landers: Byron Tinder. None.
• Public Relations: Ruben Newell. Record etudes for honor marching
  band and he’ll post them.
• Student Affairs: Keith Schoening. None.
• Endowment: Chuck Tuetsche. They will look into their
  investments again at IBA.
• Presidents report: If you know of any retiring directors tell Pam.
  None we know of. We have 3 directors with 30 years of teaching,
  Pete, Tracy and Ragene. We’ll pay for their banquet tickets.
  Congratulations guys! New directors contact Tracie to receive the $50
  scholarship to attend IBA conference. The check will be given at the
  district meeting on Friday at IBA.
  

Old Business -- None

New Business

• Start getting next year’s dates to Ruben and he’ll
  put the calendar together online.
  
• Feb. 17 is SWIBA Jazz,
• Feb. 10 is Bluffs Jazz
• Nov. 20 is the
  Jazz Clinic
• Clarinda is the last Sat. in Sept. Shen fest is Sept. 23
• Jeff Schoening shared a proposal to compensate some of the
  committe chairs. He suggested Jazz Chair and HS and JH
  honor Band Chairs get $100-150 each. And that the site
  host schools be given a $50 donation to their school.
  Much discussion shared. Tabled until Spring.
• Be sure to get to IBA convention this year. Make your
  reservations if you haven’t yet. Thanks to Johnny and
  Ruben for working the registration booth for SWIBA.

Other Cocnerns -- Door prizes handed out.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:06 p.m.

Respectfully,

Tracie Hawley
SWIBA secretary/treasurer