Booster Membership
and Meeting Attendance; makes a difference for your team!
It is demonstrated that participating in structured
extra-curricular activities make for better students and a more rewarding high
school experience.
Nearly all of the funding for the Oak Ridge Athletics Program
is provided through the support of our generous parents and team fundraising.
Oak Ridge Sports Boosters, a 501-(c)(3) non-profit corporation, is
the volunteer parent club chartered solely
for the charitable purpose of sponsoring functions and raising monies to
support Oak Ridge Athletics. The goal for
the
·
$25 Single membership,
·
$50 Family membership,
·
$100 Gold Card member, which is
appreciated and recognized by the school Administration with complimentary entrance to all
home regular season sports events for the entire (immediate) family!
The
The
·
Booster General Meeting Attendance
·
Booster Match to Team Fundraiser
·
Board Directed Stipend
(IMPORTANT NOTE: - All Monies go into team accounts for
team directed spending, Booster volunteers (e.g., parents and coaches) do not receive any
compensation for attending Booster meetings or working Booster Board Jobs.
Meeting
Attendance This year, $10,500
is ear-marked for redistribution back to the team accounts based upon their respective
attendance at Booster General meetings. Each team can receive as much as $250 per
semester when a team representative (parent or coach) attends the Booster
General meetings (pro-rated per meeting). There are 2 General meetings in the 1st
semester (=$125 per meeting dollar value to team) and 4 in the 2nd
semester (=$62.50 per meeting dollar value to team). The team dollar value is
the same irrespective of the number of parents and coaches that attend the
meeting for any one team. A parent may also represent more than one team at a
meeting, e.g. they have multiple children in different sports or a single student
athlete that participates in more than one sport in different seasons, all their teams receive the same dollar value benefit.
So, regardless if one team had 1 person and another had 10
people attend the last meeting on September 24th, both teams receive
$125. If a single parent represented 3 teams at the meeting, all 3 teams receive
$125.
Clearly, it is very important for parents to identify all of
the teams they represent when they sign the meeting attendance sheet.
I’m sure you are asking “Then why send more than one parent
to the meetings, why not just get 7 parents to represent all the teams”?
The benefit for additional parents from the same team to
attend is for more parents to get firsthand information. It's difficult
for one parent to disseminate everything they take from the meetings to all the
other parents on the team, many with whom they may have little or no contact
outside of the time spent at their student’s sporting event. The more parents
that have good first hand information, the more people
will be able to respond to questions other parents will ask from an informed
perspective.
The
next General meeting is scheduled for
Membership Another $21,000 from
the membership drive is ear-marked for redistribution back to teams as a
Booster match to a qualified team fundraiser. When a team coordinates a
fundraiser through the Athletic Director and deposit’s the monies in the Sports
Booster account, the Head coach can apply for a Booster match up to a maximum
of $1000, given the team roster has 70% of its parents
as Booster members. The match is prorated if the team has less than 70% Booster
Membership participation. The $25 single
membership credits parent membership participation for a single team, the $50
family membership credits parent membership participation to two teams (with a
maximum of a single credit to any one team), and the $100 Gold Card membership
credits parent membership participation to all the teams the family supports
(with a maximum of a single credit to any one team).
More information on Booster membership and a donation form
are posted on the school website: www.orhs.eduhsd.k12.ca.us, see
affiliates / booster groups / sports.
Board
Directed Stipend Finally,
$7750 is ear-marked for redistribution back to teams at the individual
direction of the parents or coaches that volunteer a significant amount of time
to support the day-to-day operations of the Booster Club performing a specific
job of the Booster Board or by providing tax preparation services. As part of the fundraising charter, the Sports
Booster Club is a small volunteer company that provides back-office financial
processing support to the Oak Ridge Athletics Program, i.e., depositing
donations and fundraiser proceeds, maintaining a balanced checkbook registry, cutting
checks for the payment of team expenses, and filing income taxes. All of this is managed by parent volunteers.
In recognition for their timeless efforts in running this company for the
benefit of all 21 teams in the Oak Ridge Athletics Program, each Board Member
directs $1000, and $750 for CPA services, to the team account of their choice;
the stipend can be split across multiple teams.
These three programs account for $39,250 in monies
ear-marked for redistribution directly back to teams based upon 3 very critical
areas of parent participation in the Booster Club. This is roughly equivalent
to supporting the cost of a full-time assistant coach for each team, one of the
best investments that can be made into the operations of a Quality Sports
program and perhaps your student’s HS experience!
Obviously, this is only possible if the funding is
available. Booster Membership is easy, it benefits the whole sports program,
and your donation is tax deductible. Feel free to drop me an email at orsbpres@aol.com if you have any questions.
Make
a difference for your team, get out of the bleachers and into the game, get
involved, Join Sports Boosters!
Bill
President,