AWARDS SLIDESHOW (last call) – The slideshow that was shown at the band awards on May 23 is now available for purchase! Each copy will cost $7 and will ship to your home (or shipping address) directly from Tri State Productions. If you want your DVDs shipped to different addresses place separate orders, otherwise all DVDs will ship to the same address. Orders will be taken through Monday, July 1. Thanks to Ed Soldo and Tri State for making this possible! Please CLICK HERE to place your order.
PAYMENTS & TRIPS — The following payments are due 6/30: MB fees #FINAL ($100), Macy’s student/chaperone trip #6 ($100), Macy’s followers payment #3 ($variable). Please check all of your account balances in Charms and make payments promptly so that we can meet our payment schedule with Gateway. You should be completely paid on MB/band camp by the end of June. At the very minimum you should have $250 paid towards a Macy’s student trip, 60 students do not. CLICK HERE for a guide on how to make payments directly in Charms so they will post faster and without requiring human intervention, the treasurer thanks you! There are still seats available on the followers bus. CLICK HERE to sign up.
Due to the large number of travelers and money involved with Macy’s, the Upbeat club will be following Gateway’s cancellation policies concerning any cancelled trips (follower or student). The penalties will be incurred as follows for cancelling after the following dates: 7/22 (25% of total trip cost), 8/15 (50%), 9/19 (75%), 11/3 (100%). Trip insurance is available through Gateway. If you are interested please contact Dave Bubash at parade@lakotawestbands.org
Marching Band News — The district has approved MB to be extracurricular for 2013. On June 10th the board approved the “new district participation fee” for MB to be $365. This fee does not cover band camp. The Upbeat club will be charging a separate MB fee of $185 to cover band camp and a few other ancillary items the district did not include in their budget. The total between the 2 fees remains at $550 as anticipated. This will be a year of transition as Upbeat started collecting the “entire” sum of $550 back in January. The first $185 in your band camp account will be applied to the Upbeat/band camp fee. Any amount in your student’s account over $185 will be credited towards your district fee. We will be changing the Upbeat club payment links to reflect the new $185 fee July 4th. Charms finances and the band camp payment web page will be unavailable July 4-9th while we update, separate into 2 accounts, and take a “final accounting” of payments to date so that records can be sent to the district. After July 4th the Upbeat club will only accept payments up to $185 and any further balance toward the $365 will be due to the district when student fees are applied. Please make any payments you would like to be credited towards your district fee by July 3rd.
We expect district fees to be applied to your “student school fees” some time in late August. Student fees are expected to be paid in full when they are posted to your account. If you are unable to pay your student fees in full when posted, you will need to contact Mr. Snyder and Mr. Elgin Card (principal) to make arrangements for a payment plan. CLICK HERE for a payment plan document. Athletic participation fees follow the same 3 payment plan. Failure to stay current with a payment plan will result in the inability to participate in marching events (being an alternate at games/competitions) until payments are made current.
Uniform Fitting Week help needed — Only a month until pre camp and the highlight of pre camp is uniform fitting! Cindy Schubart will need many volunteers, mostly afternoons 12-4 pm, every day the week of July 29th in the band room. Set up day on Monday is slightly earlier. On these days we (re) fit students for summer uniforms, marching shoes, gloves, etc.; check paypal/charms receipts or collect payment; and issue red bags and any items paid for. Please CLICK HERE to sign up to help or to contact Cindy for more info.