HHS Academic Booster Club

December 2, 2008

Meeting Minutes Report

Attendees: Carol Roth, Renee Endicott, Sherry Osborn, Julie Neill, Jennie Kusmec, Teresa Elmer and Tamra Burr

Meeting Minutes for November 4, 2008 were read and approved.

Treasurer Reported $2740.16 in funds. Carol received cash for $10 from Mr. Mathew for 30 bracelets. There are currently 189 left at Carol's house. Mr. Quinn does not have anymore.

  • Carol said she would speak with Mr. Quinn about a staff speaker each month.
  • Renee filled out most of the 501c3 paperwork and brought a list of things she would need to submit with the paperwork including a copy of the by-laws, an explanation of why we wish to be 501c3, a default will for funds, a narrative of past, present and future activities, the boards contact information, and a description of our fundraising. It was decided to make the Harrisonville School Foundation the beneficiary in the default will. We will need to pay the annual $10 fee to re-register and change the boards contact information. Renee will continue working on this process.
  • We have 22 Wildcat pins left. Carol checked with All Sport, who will sell us 150 minimum at $3.55. Debbie Glazner told Carol that she could not beat the price. It was decided to purchase these around the first of next year.
  • Carol said that she would make a replacement lettering certificate for the one student who has moved and requested it. We still are not sure where the unclaimed certificates have ended up.
  • Carol left a message at the corporate office regarding a fundraiser at Wendy's. She also contacted Dairy Queen who will give us 15% of the sales between 4-9pm on a predetermined Tues, Wed, or Thur that we have a volunteer on hand. They suggested that we drum up more business by advertising. We determined that we should possibly wait until April when baseball season starts to determine what day. This was tabled until next meeting.
  • The tutoring program is up and running. The first night had no attendees. We had 2-3 the second night and at least 1 the third night. Tomorrow night is our fourth night. We did acquire ABC volunteers for the rest of the nights. They are Dec. 10–Teresa, Dec. 17- Renee, and Jan. 7–Mechelle. We will reassess next meeting.
  • There still has been no news on the Academic Club's fund raiser. Teresa volunteered to contact them to be sure they still need our assistance.
  • We discussed get into the school and recognize students who are improving, but not honor roll students. It was suggested that we speak with the At-Risk Advisory Teachers. We also discussed where the perimeters should be to qualify for this special improvement recognition. A suggestion was made for the teachers to nominate students. Sundaes and movie tickets were considered for rewards. We will need to discuss this further and then present it to the teachers at a faculty meeting to get everyone on board.
  • First quarters Sundaes for Scholars is tentative for January 30 from 10:30-1:15 . We will need to meet with Mr. Quinn and Sonic for approval of this date. Tamra stated that she had made a poster to hang up explaining the Sundaes for Scholars.
  • There were no new teacher funding requests.
  • We will meet at HHS on Dec. 10 th for coffee with the Special Ed students.

The next meeting will be, January 6, 2009 at 7pm .

Academic Booster Club
Mission Statement



to support and reward Harrisonville High School students for outstanding academic achievement,


to create cooperation between parents, educators and students,


to assist the students in efforts toward academic growth, and


to stimulate the interest of the community in the academic growth of all students.