The purpose of the CLUB shall be to aid in the general promotion and development of the various school sanctioned athletic activities engaged in by the students of North Royalton High School and Middle School.
Our goal is to provide uniforms and equipment to Bears teams in the MS and HS.
We ask that you become involved and support all of our student athletes.
Is there any way we can improve our fundraising? NRAB welcomes any ideas to help improve fundraising from parents or coaches. Please email Meeting started at 7:00.
Coach Updates Jamie Leonard Coach of girls BB Varsity record was 5/16 team is doing better they beat 2 teams that they lost to beginning of the season, JV13/7, 9th 10/01, 8th 16/1, 7th 16/0 and they won the championship. All teams and coaches are looking forward to next season. Thank you to the boosters for everything we provide for the teams.
Athletic Director’s Report/Brad Klingbeil.www.ohsaa.org, www.nrab.net - There was a tour of the weight room after the meeting. 7th ,8th grade cross country boys championship . Andrea Gans and Dan Foldesy sent a thank you card thanking NRAB for our support. Coach Vadini sent a thank you letter to NRAB thanking us for our donation for the wrestling tournament and all of our support. He also thanked for Donna Sadowski and Monica Becker for their time and support during the wrestling tournament.
Swimmers at state Troy Richert finished 3rd in the state, scored the highest score on one of his dives at state. Mike Craig (Junior)finished 18th in state, Gymnastics 2 girls went to state. Wrestlers, 6 went to Mentor tournament, 2 Frank Gilarco and Matt Y. go to states. Boys BB play Midview at Brecksville for their tournament game, if the win they play again on Friday against Parma. 3/15 6:30 Spring Sports Parent Night was rescheduled. 3/18 Winter Sports Recognition Night
New Trustee position (s) – suggested by Elaine Gatins, have team liason(s) contact, establish a contact by sport for fundraising. Personal communication can go a long way. Motion was passed to create the new position. May be able to model after the car raffle organization of using team parent contacts. Elaine Gatins will present her ideas at the next Booster meeting. The responsibilities of this position will probably require more than one person.
Car Raffle – Band member’s grandmother won the car. Middle School student sold the most tickets. Athletic boosters may have around $10,000, but final breakdown will be presented at the next meeting.
Treasurer’s report – Mark Shaw - treasurer’s report was distributed.
Finance Committee – Brian Lebo – $6500 uniform request (60-60) warm ups for Swim Team. Football uniform request is $16000. Tops and bottoms of whites, purple pants are being used again (100 uniforms home and away). More than one bid had been provided to the finance committee for both requests. All Varsity uniforms are on a 4 year rotation.
Stadium Foundation Group – Ed Vitardi put together a group for a makeover of the stadium from football only to a multi purpose multi sport complex for use by everyone in the community. Larry Vassil is leading the committee the estimate is 3-3.5 million dollars for the renovation which would include new stands, new restrooms, new turfs, new track, new press box. Next fall we will see new visitors’ stands. The estimate is 1.3 million for turf and track. Different groups have been included in the foundation group such as Southern Hills Football and the Band, etc. The goal is to get the entire city involved. There is a request of $600 to pay for filing fees, to get charter, EIN, and 503 c approved. The group is on a tight time frame therefore, NRAB agreed to vote tonight and passed the $600 request. There was a request for the Middle School 7th and 8th grade wrestling and 7th and 8th grade basketball. $10.00 allocation per athlete for recognition was passed.
Night at the Races – no news
Nautica Charity – 3/25,3/26,3/27,3/28 –John Vasil – Thank you everyone for the phone calls, John has openings – please contact him for your slot. Approximately 35 people were obtained from the phone call list. Wear purple and gold – Poker shirts not required anymore. Wear purple so you are easily identified as a volunteer and not a player. Thank you to everyone for making the calls and the amount of time that it took. Dealer training will be offered – John will send an email.
Scoreboard – no news
Membership – 336 members $21,095 - membership trustee position is up this year. Email out to all boosters regarding all trustee positions that are opening up
Web page – Bill Thomas (leave of absence)- web site – several people have offered assistance. Stan Altizer is updating the site now until someone takes it over. John Vasil has volunteered to take over web site and he sent out email to review the redesigned web site (very nice – great job John). We will still need input from coaches and parents for scores and pictures. We can sell sponsorships for the web site, which will be allow us to make profit on the site. The site will allow us to recognize athletes and add Athletic hall of Fame. We would like link from the main school site, it is difficult to find now. The expense if $550-$600 per year, but would be ale to offset this cost with sponsorships. We can add online forms, paypal, allow online booster sign up. We have a 30 day free trial until 3/28/10, normally we wait until next month to vote, but we need to move domain name and there is paperwork to be filled out. Also, John has spent 10 hours updating the site already and we don’t want to lose the time he has spent. Motion was passed for new web site. John Vasil will be new web site trustee John’s term runs through 2012.
Gold Card – no news
Programs – Kraft - no news
Advertising and newsletter –send all Advertising and items for the newsletter to . One more ad for wine tasting in The Post. We will revisit cost of advertising. The new website with scrolling marquee was excellent
Purple and gold – no news
Concessions – no news
Wine Tasting – Michelle Adams – Saturday March 13th Tony Maloney’s (9387 Sprague Rd). The wine tasting is from 7:30 to 8:30 pm The theme is to support Ohio Business. A local Ohio Winery from Avon will be featured. A local band will be playing at Tony Maloney’s . The cost is $25 per ticket which will include well drinks, beer and wine. (contacts Michelle Adams 440-552-9388, Sandi Burger 440-410-610-3412, Donna Sadowski (NRMS) 440=237-4125, Sharon Matovich(NRHS) 440-582-2888. Tony Maloney’s has closed the event to us only until 9:30 when the band starts.
Additional Topics that were discussed:
The NRAB activity books are sold NRAB makes about $1000-$2000 yearly from this, at no cost to NRAB.
Pete Ragone – parent contacts did a lot of work selling the tickets and rounding them up. NRAB extends a THANK YOU for all of their efforts.
Trustee positions treasurer, memberships, programs, gold card, concessions, car raffle, Nautica Charity Poker. Email will be sent out with the positions that are available starting May 2010.
