YVMEA Meeting minutes from 1/5/05 at El Porton
I. Call to Order 6:00 p.m.
Members present: Roger Stansbury, Megan Goransen, Scott Goransen, Rich Reese, Ron Gerhardtstein, Don May, Dave Walters, Doug Kilgore, Bill Bean, Kathleen Kiesel-Nield, Ed Cunnington, Vivian Wheeler, Bart Roderick, Fanny Buckly, Jeff Chapman, Angela Goude, Tammy Springer, Michael Brant, Mary Duran, John Straehle (i apologize for errors).

II. Reports
a. Treasurer's report: we have a current balance of $6500. Rich reported that a good thing was that every school paid for everything last year.
b. In-service report: there was a Choral Reading in-service on Nov. 17. Six-seven directors brought their 'top 10 hits' to share. The group sight-read and shared. They earned clock hours for their participation.
c. Honor band/choir went well.

III. Old Business
a. Bruce and Jo Caldwell did a presentatio on "WMEA-SEAF". SEAF stands for Student Event Annual Funds and is an organization organized to raise funds to help defray the cost of student participation in events such as ALL-STATE and possibly other regional Festivals. YVMEA voted to donate $500 to this fund (Bart moved, and Bill seconded). The organizations name will be changed to Young Musician's Fund in either June or July.
b. Banners were discussed. The previous plan to get banners through an Ellensburg business proved too expensive. Banners were only ordered for H.S. Choral Contest last year. Scott volunteered to check on students at Davis possibly producing the banners. Bill volunteered to do research to find a cost effective source. Will we do banners this year? We will decide at the Spring meeting.

IV. New Business
a. Eric Ryan of Puyallup sent Megan an email with questions regarding how the new Science requirements might be affecting our school districts' music programs. People working with grades 6-9 who are willing to reply can either contact Megan to have the questions forwarded to them or can contact Eric directly at "eryan@puyallup.k12.wa.us"
b. Bart reported that Solo & Ensemble contest is going ok. He has a new scheduler this year. Contest will be in the new Hertz Building at CWU in Ellensburg. We will be using about 12-13 classrooms. He still needs to check on piano tuning (apparently Harry Whittaker has been doing this for free for the past several years. The judges list is available from Bart. All registrations must be in by Saturday 1/8/05. Please have money to him by Monday. Checks are preferred. Both Bart and Don will appreciate any feedback you may have regarding the website. Bart hopes that we will have an on-line registration for next year.
c. Junior All-State packets should have arrived. If you need one, Megan can forward one to you. Bruce says it should also be on-line at the WMEA site. (There are errors in the Alto Sax audition part: it should be chromatic. Bruce says they will probably accept it both ways.)

V. The meeting was adjourned at 7:00 p.m. The next meeting is April 26, 2005 at Shari's off of 40th Ave. Board meeting is 5:15 and General meeting is 6:00 p.m. Following adjournment we were invited to meet with other instructors to come up with other in-service ideas. Please send these suggestions to Megan.