Present: Laura Szempruch, Bob Mayer, Chuck Grosser, Beth Mizelle, Dan Howett, Lois Siegle, Patty Vogt, Karen Hesse, Ann Auffrey (scribe).

Excused Absence: Lori Viola, Steve Linder,

I. The meeting was called to order by President Laura Szempruch at 7:10 p.m.

II. There were no minutes from the last Board meeting in June. Ann will try to locate the minutes from that meeting.

III.Athletic Department Report: Chuck Grosser reported that the official first day of high school sports is August 6, 2007. Middle school sports will start the following week.

• Wednesday, August 8, is the Fall Sports Kick-Off Celebration, which will be held in the PAC at 7 pm. Chuck showed the t-shirts for the Kick-Off, and thanked the Boosters and the Foundation for their support. Discussion about having a table in the MP for membership. Steve Linder will be asked to briefly speak during the program about Boosters. Laura volunteered to also sit in the PAC lobby at a Boosters membership table. Bob will sell decals.
• Free sports physicals took place on July 28. There were 101 sports physicals completed. Chuck thanked Lois Siegle for her involvement and for pulling in help for this event.
• The Alumni Soccer Game will take place on Saturday, August 11.
• The volleyball coaches have requested concessions occasionally at their home games. Laura has volunteered to do the first few games to gauge if there is enough business to continue.
• The schedule for team pictures was announced. Ken Wendling will be the photographer.
• We have a new trainer. Her name is Megan Barhorst. She just completed her internship at St. X with Mike Gordon. Megan replaces Jason Moffitt, who took a teaching job in Indiana.

IV. Secretary’s Report: Ann Auffrey passed around two thank you notes. One note was from Tara Banks, who was one of the recipients of a Boosters scholarship this past year. The second thank you note was from the Hockey Club Team. Ann also stated she will send Shawn Maus a thank you note from the Boosters for his help in updating our brochure.

V. Treasurer’s Report: Lois Siegle reported that we took in $12,499 at the Greek Festival parking. After paying out the teams who volunteered, our total profit was $11,278. Lois also reported that the Summer Blast was very successful. We had income of $8,263 from this event. Concessions brought in $29,135 this past year. Our costs were approximately $17,000. Profit was around $12,000, which is close to 50% profit.

• Discussion took place about setting a limit for our grant budget. We paid out less than $4500 last year. We don’t want to award all our grant money early in the year for fall sports in order to have funds available throughout the year for winter and spring sports. Some discussion took place about increasing our grants. A motion was made by Dan Howett, seconded by Patty Vogt, that we award $2500 in grants in the fall, and $2500 the second half of the year. The motion passed.

• Other items that were discussed were the need to push the 300 Club again and to work early to get hold of Karl Novak about the soccer scholarships.

• Ann made a motion to approve the Treasurer’s report, seconded by Dan.

VI. Concession Stand Report: A newly formed Concession Stand Committee met recently to make plans for the upcoming year. Laura read aloud parts of the report. Thanks to Gary Siegle and Clay Mizelle for putting new shelves along the back wall. They also moved the sign with prices more to the front, making it more visible to our customers.

• Greek Festival Parking: As above.
• Springfield Township Summer Blast: As above.
• 300 Club: As above.

8. New Business

• Welcome to Beth Mizelle! Beth is a new Board member who will be in charge of shopping for the concession stand. Beth was unanimously voted in.

• Concession Stand: Ann received an e-mail from Randall Cummings that FAA Football will not be using our concession stand at their games. Randall indicated they are trying to build their program and want to have all the concession stand profits in order to do that.

• Cheerleader Grant Request: The Finneytown High School Cheerleaders applied for a grant for $500. The request was written by Tara Sabato, Volunteer Coach for the cheerleaders. The grant is needed for art supplies and "good luck candy" for the football and basketball players (the teams that the cheerleaders cheer for). Discussion took place. It was decided to award this grant in the amount of no more than $400 for art supplies, but no award for candy.

• Chuck discussed some ideas that are in the works for a new wrestling weight room. Dave Bean, former teacher and wrestling coach at Finneytown, is considering trying to raise private money for a new weight room. There are reportedly lots of plans and ideas, but this is still in the initial stages.

• Dan Howett reported that he is running for School Board. There are going to be two seats open on the Board, and three weeks remain to file for those who are interested in running.

IX. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:15 p.m. The next meeting of the Finneytown Boosters Association will take place on Sunday, September 09, 2007, at 7 pm.