Introductions

Announcements (continued)

Mike Quilling and Chris Richmond have accepted to run for the KMEA Presidency for 2009-2011.

John shared MENC and State MEA’s communication issues. He commended David Circle and the work and progress he made on the relationship between MENC board/employees and state MEA’s. 

ii. MENC

National Anthem Project: September 14, 2006. Dee encouraged everyone to get involved in this project in their school and community.

iii. Communications

Upcoming Publication Deadlines

The KMR sidebar information needs to be correct. Deadlines must be met for the KMR: Fall issue - August 1; Winter issue - October 1; Convention issue - January 1; Spring issue - March 15. The October 1^st deadline is very important for the district presidents as this is the issue that shared information about their mini conventions or any other noteworthy information regarding their district.

Remember Troy Johnson, Harold Popp and Bob Lee (side bar information) in your communications.

iv. On-going Activities:

The next KCOMTEP (Kansas Conference Of Music Teaching Education Professors) Meeting will be held September 24-25 in Wichita. Nathan shared a tentative schedule for the meeting.

Guest: John Harrison and Mary Kelly, both from Wichita State University explained Strings, Kansas! The Strings, Kansas!/Communities LinkUP! Initiative is collaboration between Wichita State University’s School of Music (WSU), KanEd, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. This program is to introduce strings instruments and orchestra to communities underserved. The project is structured around four interactive videoconferences between WSU’s Orchestra and 4^th and 5^th graders in the public school of ten participating rural communities. John explained how the project will progress through the final concert which students will participate in a concert. Criteria for community – needs to be 35 minutes away or further from Wichita and does not have a string program in their school. Project kickoff is slated for September 11^th. It was stated that many communities wants programs but cannot attract teachers or there is no budget for teachers.

John Taylor invited John/Mary to submit an article for the KMR. Updates on the Website. Rick suggested they present a clinic at ISW. 

Reports (cont.)

President, Dee Hansen noted her report stands as written. Read report in full on page 17 of the Board Book.

President-Elect, Jean Ney reported her report stands as written. Report on page 18. Jean shared highlights from the Southwest Division Convention, which was held July 22 & 23, 2006 in Kansas City, Missouri. The common concern for MENC members nationally is ADVOCACY. In June 2007 she will attend a Small School Symposium in Dallas. The MENC Centennial will be celebrated at the Walt Disney Resort June 24-29, 2007. 

Vice-President, Rick Ives gave a brief verbal report, noting he has not had to deal with many vice presidency issues other than the normal emails. He has accepted two Hall of Fame nominations. Bob Lee and Jacqueline Dillon-Krass.

Executive Director, John Taylor reported his report stands as written. Full report on pages 22-23. 

On Friday evening John Taylor shared the details of the Financial Report for FY 2005/2006. During Saturday’s meeting, Dennis Brooks moved to approve 2005/2006 Financial Report as presented by the KMEA Executive Director. JoNell seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Also during Friday evening’s discussion a new level of Hall of Fame membership for contributors should be investigated.

Jean brought a concern about categories for listening to performing groups for the ISW. She stated a need for this to be a policy and not a procedure.

b. District Presidents

Northeast District - Avian Bear announced her report stands as written. Page 27. 

Southeast District – Jo Nell Delacour stated her report stands as written. Pages 28-29. 

North Central District – Dennis Brooks reported his report stands as written. Pages 30-32. Need to move convention to another event scheduled same day. Dennis asked for clarification concerning teacher MENC Membership and student participation in state honor ensembles. Jean and Randy will look into this matter for clarification. 

South Central District - Todd Hollis stated his report stands as written. Page 33. 

Northwest District - Johnny Matlock handed out his report. He noted it stands as written.

Southwest District – Shawn Martin stated his report stands as submitted. Page 34.

c. CMENC President, Nathan Dame

Nathan shared his report stands as written. Board Book pages 19-21. 

d. Webmaster, Troy Johnson – Troy gave a verbal report. Presidents can now email information just to their constituents in their district. He reported he is working on the Sidebar utility project. 

e. Festival Ensembles Manager Report, Randy Filmore – Middle Level choir will students grades 7-9. There will be a hard deadline for live audition applications, which will be Wednesday prior to live auditions. Randy has a committee working on Philosophy of Festival groups. Issue for discussion – 9^th grade participation at ISW. KMEA is still utilizing the progressive deadlines, which will be enforced.

f. KSHSAA Festival Committee Report, Dana Hamant - New adjudication forms were approved in June. There are some changes that will be made by KSHSAA, i.e., wording\ formatting. Memory requirement statewide have been very positive.

At the KBA mini convention it was discussed to require tapes for judges for large state ensemble. The issue of novelty tunes /trash can tunes was discussed asking, how do we handle this concern? Vocal teachers want to change the accompanist rules that instrumentalists can be adults not just students. Complaints were stated about the conflict with music festivals and athletic events for state large groups.

Some of the festival managers are not requiring adjudicators to adhere to the standard that a 3 is average and are still judging on potential not performance. Presidents are to take back to their districts the question asking what the possibilities for having smaller plaques for 2 ratings, or silver medals for 2 rating. This means that it will make the entry fee increase a little. 

KBA – Dana developed a survey about athletic bands. Dana encouraged KMEA to invite Bob Morrison to come to ISW for an advocacy clinic. As KBA President he was very surprised KBA was not included in the 1234A small school decision. 

g. Affiliate Organizations:  Johnny reported the ACDA summer convention was great. KASTA hosted their first ever summer convention. Their next convention will be June 20-23, 2007 at Kansas University.

Seconded the motion. Communication on this matter is imperative from all constituents. John feels that he needs a policy about reading sessions to be able to run a successful convention. Johnny stated the need for the affiliate organizations to have buy-in for any future proposal.

A motion was made by Adrian Bear, stating in order to have a more representative State Wide Festival Orchestra, I move that at least one string representative from each KSMEA District should be a member of the State Festival Orchestra. If at the end of the audition process, a District does not have at least one string student selected for the orchestra, one will be chosen and added to the group to represent that District from the students auditioning. That student would be the highest scoring student from that District unless it creates an imbalance in instrumentation. In that case, the second highest score may be chosen. Adrian moved to accept the proposal. JoNell Delacour seconded the motion.

John shared his concerns, recommending backing off and researching this. KMEA needs more control over this venture.

The Board encouraged Bob to work quickly to resolve some of the issues discussed. 

Executive board would like to have the program be a stand alone one hour program not a pledge drive. We need a point person from each of the three affiliates.