Pickerington Panthers Athletic Boosters Meeting Minutes
February 3, 2003

Panthers Officers, Committee Chairs and Sport Club Officers & Representatives Present:
Mark Uher, President
Geno Persichetti, Vice President
Hope Boren, Secretary
Bob McFadyen & Phil Jablonka (football)
Dick Shultz & Jackie Thomas (softball)
Greg Boone (baseball)
Greg Vaughn (track)
Lynne Neike (dance)
Scott Meyerrose (cheerleading)
Jim Marn & Brenda Flask (cross country)
Tammy Corriveau (girls volleyball)
Joel Melin (wrestling)
Kathi Combs, Mitch Wilson, Rick Favret and Jim Langenderfer (track and cross country)
Robin Nichols (cross country, wrestling, track and swimming)

At 7:30pm Mark Uher convened the meeting; introductions by those present.

DRAFT BY-LAWS handed out in writing. They will have to be discussed, revised and finally approved by the joint Boosters Club, hopefully by May. Booster Club will remain one legal entity, with an Executive Board over the general club, and individual clubs for each school. Mark generally explained draft by-laws, section by section. Meeting the third Wednesday of the month to discuss these.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Goal is to operate as much as possible through membership dues and minimize other fundraising. We currently have about 300 members out of 1400 athletes. Currently levels are:

Benefit Level/ # of families/ this year Income
$250/ 14/ $3500
$100/ 74/ $7400
$50/ 43/ $2150
$20/ 192/ $3840
Proposal from membership committee:
$50 membership to sports club
$75 membership to 2 sports club
$125 unlimited sports club membership
$200 membership to both High School Booster Clubs (next year only)
$500 Founding Member
Suggestions from those present:
- Set up payment plan
- Acknowledge people by sport in programs
- Will individual sport clubs get incentive?
- Communicate to athlete’s parents why they should join
- Committee is just beginning to work out benefits, incentives, etc.
- What if pay-to-play is initiated? Can we ask for this additional money? Many people answered: yes- we have no choice.
- What about a friends category- when someone doesn’t have athletes in the school, but wants to join
- This may sell if coaches sell it to their teams; however coaches can’t be expected to put extra time into it

CONCESSIONS COMMITTEE (Geno and Dick)
- Equipment has been put into concession stand at gym, however nothing is in football concession stands
- Tour scheduled for this Wednesday to look at concessions
- School district is not buying equipment for football concessions
- $15,000-$20,000 for minimal commercial equipment
- Commercial range is another $15,000 to vent, etc., so this is probably not an option
- Fall sport schedule needed for concession worker sign-ups
- Organizing, obtaining and setting up equipment will be major job
- Committee is meeting right after this meeting- anyone is welcome
- There are no baseball/softball concessions presently- it will be up to Boosters to build them
Ideas from group:
- Get more involved with junior high parents
- Concessions income goes back to general club? Some clubs report this is their main source of income for trips, etc.
- Suggestion for junior high/freshman parents to work varsity games and varsity parents work freshman/junior high games for football; need to remember we’re one group- Pickerington Athletics; maybe each sport work their own concessions, sports without concessions can pitch in on busier events
- Draft two concessions schedules- one the traditional way and one the way suggested above

PROGRAMS COMMITTEE (Hope and Tammy)
- Joint committee with Central to coordinate businesses to advertise
- Need to make a profit
- Going after more participation: all sports and jr. high- high school
- Need to organize distribution and make people accountable
- Need to start going after businesses soon
- Will provide opportunity for personal ads
- Will use Tracy Beckman as he has indicated he is willing to help with coordination, but we will need a fixed price to ensure profits

LEGACY
- Draft resolution for legacy, waiting for feedback
- Meeting Feb. 24th to work on spirit

FINANCE COMMITTEE
- March 1st will submit policy and procedures relating to finances

OTHER CONCERNS/IDEAS
- How is equipment storage being handled? Facilities are built and pretty sufficient by report
- Who is providing uniforms, equipment, etc.? Supposedly it is part of Athletic Director’s budget
- Participation fee may be initiated by board for next year
- First home football game Aug. 22nd, soccer Aug. 21st
- Need to sell tickets to get people in gates - good money