22-23 Meeting MINUTES

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 General Meeting

Call to order: 7:01 pm

• Board Updates:

  • • President

      • • Introduction of Board:

          • • • President:  Leslie Young

              • VP Arts & Academics: Doty Hoffman

              • VP Athletics: Andy Zink

              • VP Membership: Scot Bell

              • Secretary: Brett Jensen

              • Treasurer: Cheyenne Tavares

              • Funding/Concessions Chairperson: Mike Young

              • Financial Secretary: Carrie Babbitt

              • Concessions Leader - Field House: Rebecca Kimmerle

              • Concessions Leader - The Yard: Leeann Randall 

        • Reminder to sign in

        • Parent Reps - Please make sure that you sign in on the attendance sheets in back

    • Principle Updates (Dr. Kurth)

      • New School activities/businesses:

        • New addition to football games;  Student ran Food Truck

          • Culinary class has been working on for 2 years

          • Students come up with menu, prepare and sell the food

          • Mark Clue: Liberty North teacher made the food truck

        • Laundry Station: North Nation Laundry

          • Student ran business that does school and community laundry

        • North Nation Alteration

          • Student ran business to fix clothes

        • Sneaker Shop

          • Student ran business to clean shoes

      • Homecoming 2022

        • Homecoming activities begin the week of Sept 26

        • Football game Friday Night against Blue Springs

        • Homecoming dance Saturday at 8:30 in the Fieldhouse

      • Liberty North's first dance: Black Light Blow out was in September

        • Well attended and everyone had fun

      • North's Trunk or Treat October 27th

        • If you have a group or car that wants to participate reach out to the administration office.

      • Liberty continues to focus on Security for our students

        • Added 2 additional security associates

          • 1 armed security guard

          • 1 guard will monitor doors to ensure they are locked and safe

    • Athletics/Activates Update

      • Softball:

        • Defending district champions

        • Hosting September slam with Liberty at Capital Federal Field

      • Girls Tennis

        • 27 Seniors on the team

        • 4/3 in Match play

      • Volleyball

        • Girls are 7/0 in the season

        • Just returned from tournament in Columbia where they did extremely well

      • Boys Soccer

        • Boys are 5/2 in the season

        • Home Opener is September 15

        • Have been busy with a couple tournaments and a few away games

      • Football

        • Boys are 3/0 in the season

          • Ranked #1 in the state!

      • Men's Swimming

        • Took 4th in Lees Summit meet

        • A couple boys are making state considerations

      • Girls Golf

        • Won every tournament except the first one of the season

        • Lots of depth on the team

      • Cross Country

        • Ran the Olathe Twilight Meet

          • Sage Wilde finished 1st, broke school record at 5k

            • 2nd best time in the state of Missouri

        • Lots of depth

      • Speech and Debate

        • Debate starts in October

          • New debate coach this year

        • Scholar Bowl starts in October

      • Band and Orchestra

        • Selected to perform at Missouri Educator's conference

        • Concerts and competitions start in October

• • • Board Updates:

      • President

        • Staff Conference Dinner for staff on October 17th

          • Eagle Club provides dinner on Monday night

          • Can provide a main dish, paper goods

            • Ask parents to contribute sides dishes, desserts, or money

              • Sign up Genius will be sent out for volunteers

              • Looking for a parent volunteer to help coordinate

      • VP of Membership

        • Membership update:

          • Way up from last year, up 75% since last year

            • Target 700 members

            • One last push to get to 700

              • $100 gift certificate raffle at North Nation

        • As first push of membership winds down is now looking a head towards 2023/2024 school year

        • Membership punch cards and banners can be retrieved after the meeting

          • Unclaimed punch cards and banners can be retrieved from the school office

      • VP of Athletics

        • Lots of things going on, answering lots of questions about Athletics and Eagle Club

        • Working with Lane to help get parent and organizations questions answered

          • Realize that Liberty North has  a lot going on and it takes time to respond to everyone

        • Track & Field

          • Kick off an All Weather Javelin Runway Project

            • Private Fundraiser: Needs to raise $35,000

              • Go Fund Me account setup

              • Coach Perk is working on communicating the fundraiser

        • Women's Swim and Dive

          • Team is using old warm ups and are looking for something more modern

            • Has worked with Lane to get funding.  Lane announced Funding was approved and order going out this week.

        • Football games are a huge draw for Liberty North

          • Huge shoutout to Liberty North's Staff and Administration for working all day and then through the night to cover Football.

          • Custodians continue to work after everyone has left to clean up the stadium.

        • Please reach out to Andy if your athletic organization has any questions or would like to engage with Eagle Club on future projects

      • Concessions and Fundraising

        • Winter Concession sign-ups will occur at October meeting

        • Helpful reminders for clubs working concessions:

          • At end of the week there will be a Closing Procedures book at the Yard  and Fieldhouse

          • Encourage group to pay attention to the emails that are going out to parent reps.  Double check arrival times

            • A few events people looked at the Event start time, not the arrival time.  Concessions need to be open at start of the event.

            • Check that at least one person signed up has worked concessions previously.  It helps to ensure things go smoothly.

        • Concessions are going really well. Football, Volleyball and Softball

          • Volunteers have been great

          • Clean up after event has been great

      • Treasurer:

        • Has been very busy. Helps to have all the information required for reimbursements submitted at once.

        • Deposits and Financial requests are picked up from the School office Monday/Tuesday  and Friday.

          • Try to check 4 to 5 times a week

        • Plan on 2 week turn around for checks to be cut

        • If using a vendor, stay on top of invoices and turn in on a timely manner

    • New Business

      • Cheer is going to regionals September 24th

      • Band

        • 8th graders are playing with Highschool band at Football game, along with flags

        • September 17th, Drumline is competing in a competition

        • September 24th, Band is marching in Fall Festival Parade

        • September 24th, Liberty and Liberty North Marching Bands will both do field shows at Liberty North for comments from outside judge

        • Band Fundraising:

          • Adults only event: Beer and Bourbon at the Boulevard is coming up

          • Mattress sale October 30th

          • Online silent auction with Travel Pledge

  • Meeting concluded 7:44

OCTOBER 12, 2022 General Meeting

Call to order: 7:01 pm

August/September meeting notes approved

• • Holly Erickson motioned, Doty approved

Principal and Athletic Updates: Dr. Kurth

• • • Parent Teacher conferences next week

    • Bring back diversity festival October 30th, 6pm

      • • If interested reach out to Dr. Kurth

    • LPS is doing a cares campaign for hurricane relief

      • • Flyer was handed out

        • Donating book bags, supplies, etc.

        • Now until October 25th

    • Student Programing

      • • Further updates In Parent Newsletter

        • Beaksquad

          • 1. Spinnoff of Geeksquad. Student center IT help center

            2. Can help staff with their technology issues

            3. Located in Eagle Point

      • Preparing for Suicde Awareness

        • Beaksquad is helping out by providing tech help and guidance on websites and classroom equipment

      • Student ran Food truck made debut Sept 29th

        • After the first game, the next game had a line waiting before the stand was fully setup. 

        • Selling out every week by half time

    • Football:

      • • Football currently undefeated with 2 games left in season

        • If North wins the last 2 games, we'll be #1 seed going into Districts

    •  Women’s golf

      • • Won District and conference title

    • Softball: 

      • • Record is 19 wins and 10 losses

        • Defeated oak park, last round of districts

        • District championship tomorrow, if win can host quarter finale 

    • Swim:

      • • Season is winding down

        • Completed at blue springs.  8 out of 19 firs places

        • Conference meet is at Lee's Summit

    • Tennis:

      • • Season ended October 3rd

        • Good season had

    • Volleyball:

      • • Season winding down with just 2 games left

    • Basketball:

      • • Season starts October 30th with tryouts for both men and women's

    • Wrestling:

      • • Season starts October 30th

    • Athletic Website:

      • • Transitioning to a new web host

          • 1. Can access via School website, Activities->Athletics

        • Comment from the group:

          • 1. Website looks stale, with limited content.

            2. Dr. Kurth to follow up on.

Board Updates:

• President:

  • • • Membership close to 700

        • • Still encourages people to sign in on and create a membership

          • When in front of your groups, plug Eagle Club

      • Parent Teacher Conference meals: 

        • • Eagle Club is providing meal for Tuesday October 18th, Dr. Kurth is providing a meal for the other night.

          • Slots were created for people to donate to the cause

            • • All slots have already been filled! Thank you all

              • Non-perishable donations to be dropped off the Friday before

              • Desserts need to provide servings for 12 people

              • Food donations can be store bought or home made

• VP of Athletics:

  • • • Privat! Coaches reached out to make sure people know that students need to ensure privat accounts are updated.

        • • Make sure that the physical on record hasn't expired.

• VP of Arts:

  • • • Reflections program

        • • National Arts enrichment program is going on locally and for the State

          • 6 different categories such as Visual Arts, Music, etc.

          • The theme is "Show your voice"

          • Local deadline is in December (State of Missouri shortly after)

            • • Visual arts will be collected at school

              • Digital art can be submitted to Doty (mutgrgal@yahoo.com)

              • For more information about the program reach out to Doty

          • This past month the Choir had an amazing concert

          • Marching band competed over the weekend at Lees Summit West and got 2nd overall

            • • Another Marching band competition this coming weekend in Cameron.

          • Orchestra has a concert tomorrow at Liberty North, 7pm.

• Treasurer:

  • • Financial updates are posted on the website

New business:

• Choir had 21 students make it to All District Choir

  • • 11 students eligible for All-State

• Therapy Dog:

  • • Jonnie starts Monday.  Will be available at Liberty North to help provide comfort and help destress by providing free cuddles in exchange for pets.

    • Jonnie is a trained and certified Therapy dog.

    • Eagle Club has voted to approve a staff grant to Mrs. Lindsey of $500 to help cover the expenses that are required to be a certified therapy dog.

Meeting concluded 7:26 pm

Move to Winter Concession signups