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all members meeting

1/27/2026

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club All Member Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 1/27/26
Time: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Location: IRHS High School, Library lecture Hall

Meeting Type: Regular- All Member Meeting
1. Roll Call
  • List of Executive Member attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Angel Young, Tina Carrasco 
  • Board Members Present: President, Secretary, Vice President, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
  • All Members who were present (signed in):Mike Young, Brian Wilson, John Utterback, Alisa Bolling, Jorge Lopez, Luke Baer, Daniel Klodzinski, Jeff Onan, Dana Alstrom, Micala Baer, Monica Aguilar, Cristen Peters, Rob Peters, Claudia Diaz, Manny Carrasco, April Palmer, Felicia Mendoza, Vanessa Cate, Rosemary Encinas, Brittney Mendez, Lindsey Enriquez, Debbie Chop and Kristin McQuay
2. Review of Program Expectations by Coach Julian Encinas:
  • Program Expectations for the season, both player and parent
  • Roster Sizes
  • Tryout Schedule
  • Reminder:  all parents make sure player registration is complete for the athletes, who can not play without it. Attend District meeting Thursday February 5th at 5:30pm
3. Booster Final Fundraising Update for 2025-26 season
A. Calendar Fundraiser
  • Sales ran 10/6 – 10/19
  • Team goal: $7,500
  • Total contributions: $10,123
  • Net contributions: $9,761.36
  • Booster keep: $8,785.22
  • Player keep: $976.14

B. Golf Tournament Fundraiser
  • Sponsorships: $13,350
  • Golf Registration: 10,500
  • Raffle/Mulligan Sales: $3010
  • Hole Fundraisers: $408
  • Total Revenue: $27,260
  • Total Expense: $12,945.86
  • Total Profit: $14, 322.14.14
  • Booster keep: $14,015.14
  • Player keep: $307.00

C. The Orange Guy
  • Team Goal: 400 boxes
  • Total Sales: 337 boxes
  • Total raised: $8,166.99
  • Booster Keep: $7,166.99
  • Player Keep: $1000.00

D. Nighthawk Classic Youth Baseball Tournament Fundraiser
  • Total raised: $7991.19
  • Booster Keep: $7,275.19
  • Player Keep: $716.00

4. Reviewed Current Items to be Purchased for Program
  • List of items to be purchased: dirt, turf conditioner, hill topper, balls, tarps, tanner tees, full size hack attack, lineup cards, dugout charts, hitters mats, player hats and speaker. This list is not final.
  • Total estimated cost: $11,755.00
9. Adjournment (7:38pm)

Executive Members meeting

1/26/2026

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club Executive Officer’s Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 1/26/26
Time: 7:30pm
Location: via Zoom
Meeting Type: Regular- Executive Officers Meeting

1. Call to Order
  • 7:32 pm
  • Art Cuaron
2. Roll Call
  • List of attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Tina Carasco, Angel Young, Board Members Present: President, Secretary, Vice President, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
3. Review of Presentation and Discussion Topics for the All‑Members Meeting (1/27/26)
The committee reviewed and discussed adjustments to the total amount allocated to athletes from the fundraising proceeds generated through the Orange Guy sales and the Youth Baseball Tournament.
Due to the ability to secure improved pricing and faster delivery for essential equipment and team swag, the group considered revising the previously approved athlete allocation from the Orange Guy fundraiser.
A motion was made and approved to adjust the Orange Guy fundraising distribution as follows:
  • Boosters: $7,166.99
  • Athletes: $1,000.00
  • Total Raised: $8,166.99
The committee also reviewed the distribution of funds from the Youth Baseball Tournament fundraiser. The agreed‑upon allocation is as follows:
  • Boosters: $7,275.19
  • Athletes: $716.00
  • Total Raised: $7,991.19
These allocations were approved by unanimous vote at 7:43 p.m.


4. Review of Current Equipment, Field, and Swag Needs
The committee reviewed the list of requested items submitted by Coach Julian. Items discussed included, but were not limited to: turf conditioner, hill topper, Tanner tees, lineup cards, and player hats.
The group approved the purchase of the identified items at an estimated total cost of $11,755.00.
This decision was approved unanimously at 7:56 p.m.
5. Discussed Next Agenda Items and Upcoming Events:
  • Varsity Media Day 2/14 8:30am-11am
  • Senior Gifts
  • Planning EOY Banquet
5. Adjournment (8:10pm)

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executive members meeting

12/9/2025

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club Executive Officer’s Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 12/9/25/25
Time: 6:00pm
Location: 5072 N. Wild Life Dr.
Meeting Type: Regular- Executive Officers Meeting

1. Call to Order
  • 6:02 pm
  • Art Cuaron
2. Roll Call
  • List of attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Tina Carrasco, Angel Young, Board Members Present: President, Secretary, Vice President, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
3. Approval of Agenda
  • Reviewed agenda, approval to review all items on agenda
4. Discussed Financials (6:07pm)
  • Reviewed budget with adopted budget numbers, spent YTD and available balance.
5. Orange Guy Delivery Logistics (6:18pm)
  • ICS drop off first at 7:15am- all donation boxes first
  • 8:30am at Walmart on La Cholla- all pickups for players
  • Discussed efficiencies and that last year it was a cluster and it took to long. Art is to follow-up to create a better plan with Kristin Rizzo, The Orange Guy rep, to have a better plan to make the pick up more efficient.
6. Baseball Fundraiser Planning & Logistics (6:50PM)
  • We now have 5- 10u teams paid and 6- 14u teams confirmed (need to pay)
  • For now, we will keep one location at Joaquin Murietta
  • Umpires are being coordinated with Bill Leaf
  • Looked a map of the park, we will have to entrance fee stations, we will take cash and Zelle
  • Boys responsibilities will be: field maintenance (if needed, help with a parent at entrance stations and anything else that will be needed. We want them to be present and there to support the teams
  • We will need parent volunteers to help with snack bar, grilling and entrance stations. 7am-7pm snack bar coverage, 10am-7pm grilling coverage, and 6:45am-6pm entrance station coverage needed. Tina Carrasco if working on schedule and shits. We will ask for parent volunteers first and the we will fill with NJHS & Key Club student volunteers
  • We will need food/snacks and dry good donations. We will ask for donations from parents first and then supplement with Amazon and Walmart gift cards. Tina to send out sign-up/donation requests through sign-up genius
  • We will purchase rings for each winning team. We will do generic rings that do not have IRHS on them, just champions etc. Need to find a vendor
7. Discussed Portion of Golf and Orange Sales to the Athletes versus Boosters (7:00pm)
  • By unanimous vote:
    • Golf 98% profit will be kept by Boosters, 2% to the athletes account
    • Orange Sales 95 % profit will go to the athletes account, 5% will be kept by the Boosters
8. Discussed “Appreciation” Idea for Sponsors (7:5pm)
  • Creating a “plaque” with a Thank you from the athletes and a photo
  • Discussed golf pictures and what have we done with them
    • Sent out social media post 12/1/25 with golf photos and thanked sponsors
    • Will use in future promotion
  • Adriane to send Angel good group photo so we can get an appreciation plaque priced out
9. Future Discussion Items (7:25pm)
  • Field Day- need to schedule with Coach Julian- paint, repairs etc for preparation of first home game
  • Media Day- need to schedule, need to coordinate with Coach Julian
  • Senior Gifts
  • Year-end Banquet
  • Next Executive Board Meeting: 12/30/25- Baseball Tournament Preparation 6:00pm
10. Adjournment (7:25pm)

all members meeting

12/2/2025

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club All Member Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 12/2/25
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: IRHS High School, Library lecture Hall

Meeting Type: Regular- All Member Meeting
  1. Call to Order
President Cuaron called the meeting to order at 6:36pm.
2. Roll Call
  • List of Executive Member attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron,, Angel Young 
  • Board Members Present: President, Secretary, Vice President, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
  • All Members who were present (signed in):Martha Graves, Donnie Gandolf, Courtney Carson, Dana Alstrom, Robert Santiago, Kristin Rizzo
3. Review of October & November 2025 Financials (6:55pm):
  • Reviewed budget with adopted budget numbers, spent YTD and available balance.
4. Reviewed Calendar Fundraiser Final Numbers (7:02pm)
  • Sales ran 10/6 – 10/19
  • Team goal: $7,500
  • Total contributions: $10,123
  • Net contributions: $9,761.36
  • Booster keep: $8,785.22
  • Player keep: $976.14
  • Top seller: Jacob Taijeron
6. Reviewed Estimated Golf Financials (7:12pm)
  • Sponsorships: $13,350
  • Golf Registration: 10,500
  • Raffle/Mulligan Sales: $3010
  • Hole Fundraisers: $408
  • Total Revenue: $27,260
  • Total Expense: $12,915
  • Estimated Profit: $14, 344.14
  • We anticipate the profit number to go up as we have not received the final invoice from the Golf Course
7. Discussed Orange Sales Fundraiser (7:17pm)
  • Discussed importance of hitting last years number 330 boxes
  • Need participation from the boys to hit this goal
  • Profit maybe slightly less on the same number of boxes due to inflation on gas, delivery and inspection costs. We will not know the final profit number until the delivery information is provided to The Orange Guy.
8 . Discussed Upcoming Baseball Tournament Fundraiser (7:24pm)
  • January 10/11, 2026
  • Joaquin Murrieta Park
  • 10U/12U/14U age groups
  • $600/$650/$700
  • 2 teams signed up so far
  • 6 teams max per division
  • Volunteers needed for snack bar, grilling, entrance fee 
  • Discussed  when we will make the call to cancel the tournament or go forward with the tournament. 
  • It was voted by present members 1/1/2026 will be that decision date. This will allow time to finalize all the details etc.​
9. Adjournment (7:25pm)

All members meeting

10/21/2025

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club All Member Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 10/21/25
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: IRHS High School, Library lecture Hall

Meeting Type: Regular- All Member Meeting
  1. Call to Order
President Cuaron called the meeting to order at 6:38pm.
2. Roll Call
  • List of Executive Member attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Andrea Wilson, Angel Young 
  • Board Members Present: President, Secretary, 1- Vice President. Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: Vice President
  • All Members who were present (signed in):Kristine Hoey, Malindy Maldonado, Courtney Carson, Dana Alstrom, Claudia Diaz, Robert Santiago, Daniel Klodziniski
  • Coach Julian Encinas
4. Review of September 2025 Financials (6:50pm):
  • Reviewed budget with adopted budget numbers,  spent YTD and available balance.
5. Reviewed Calendar Fundraiser Final Numbers
  • Sales ran 10/6 – 10/19
  • Team goal: $7,500
  • Total contributions: $10,123
  • Net contributions: $9,761.36
  • Booster keep: $8,785.22
  • Player keep: $976.14
  • Top seller: Jacob Taijeron
6. Reviewed Golf Tournament Needs for Player/Parent Volunteers:
  • All players present signed up for a volunteer spots
  • All parents present signed up for volunteer spots
  • Parents present also signed up for raffle donation items
7. Discussed Upcoming Orange Sales Fundraiser
  • Sales 11/15 – 12/5
  • Delivery week of 12/8
  • Box of oranges: $40
  • Box of grapefruits: $40
  • Program keeps 100% of proceeds (after transit and inspection fees)
8 . Discussed Upcoming Baseball Tournament Fundraiser
  • January 10/11, 2026
  • Joaquin Murrieta Park
  • 10U/12U/14U age groups
  • $600/$650/$700
  • 3 teams signed up so far
  • 6 teams max per division
  • Volunteers needed for snack bar
9. Adjournment (7:45pm)

executive board meeting

10/14/2025

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club Executive Officer’s Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 10/14/25
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 5072 N. Wild Life Dr.
Meeting Type: Regular- Executive Officers Meeting

1. Call to Order
  • 7:06 pm
  • Art Cuaron
2. Roll Call
  • List of attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Tina Carasco, Angel Young, Andrea Wilson, Julian Encinas
  • Board Members Present: President, Secretary, 2- Vice Presidents, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
3. Approval of Agenda
  • Reviewed agenda, approval to review all items on agenda
4. Review of September 2025 Financials (7:26pm)
  • All members approved and made verbal acknowledgement of the current financials, bank statement, monthly and annual summary.
5.Update on Calendar Fundraiser Progress (7:35pm)
  • Reviewed total money fundraised up to 10/14/2. Fundraiser closes 10/19/25
6. Update on Sponsorship Progress (7:45pm)
  • Reviewed annual and single hole sponsors who have been confirmed, paid.
  • Discussed ideas to reach out to other sponsors who may want to sponsor the team- realtor, La Hacienda in OV.
7. Golf Tournament Planning and Logistics 
  • Raffle Ticket Sales & Distribution- 
    • Discussed logistics for how we will have a winner per raffle item. It was decided each raffle prize will be assigned it’s own basket for collection and we will pick a winner per prize
    • This will happen after the golfers have teed off and winners will be announced/displayed at the lunch
    • It was discussed what if there are not raffle tickets for a prize?- per the previous board members, should not be an issue as in the past all raffle items have had tickets.
    • It was decided that winners must be present to win
    • Approved pricing for raffle tickets:
      • $5- 1 ticket, $20- 5 tickets, $30- 10 tickets, $40- 20 tickets, $50- 50 tickets
    • All raffle labels will be created by Tina and Andrea
  • Golf Tournament Winners
    • Discussed what prizes and winners we had last time
    • Decided we would do the winning foursome, prize IR Baseball coffee tumbler and $50.00 gift card to American Eat (donated)- per player
    • We also will have a winner for Longest Yard and Closest ot the Hole
      • Each player receives IR Baseball coffee tumbler
  • Golf Tournament Photography
    • Discussed the need for photos as we do not have access to any from last year. Will help with post tournament and future tournament promotion. 
    • Current media vendor: $80.00 per hour, plus extra time for photo editing
    • Decided at 8:19pm to hire Joel Encinas (student) at $40.00 an hour with 3 hour max $120.00 total. No post editing fee.
    • It was also discussed to hire Joel for season and potentially pay $20.00 per game, it was decided to table this conversation for a later time.
  • Golf Tournament Golf Bag Purchase
    • Decided at 8:25pm to purchase the golf bags from Dixon golf, for each player who pays and attends the tournament.
8. Next All Members Meeting Date/Agenda (8:30pm)
  • Discussed next All Members date, it was decided to have it on 10/21 at 6:30pm
  • Agenda items to be reviewed: boys roles sign-up for golf tournament, parent volunteer roles and discussed what we need athlete and parent volunteers to help with:
    • Registration desk
    • Set-up 
    • Raffle Sales
    • Mulligan Ball Sales
    • Welcome Players
    • Breakfast pick-up
9. Miscellaneous Items Discussed (8:45pm)
  • Website Issues on Mobile
    • Brought to our attention on a mobile device the website looks funky (half of it is blacked out, it is still navigable but we will need to resolve in the future
    • Need to explore options to optimize site for mobile
  • Tax Donation Options
    • Launch 2025 Tax donations again to boys and their families, easy way for people to get a tax break and help the program
    • Secretary Cuaron to reactivate the page on the website for instructions
  • Fry’s/Kroger VIP Card Proceeds
    • Have families add IRHS Baseball to their VIP proceeds, IRHS baseball gets a small fraction. However, this helps the program, we receive about on average $75 a quarter
    • Secretary Cuaron to reactivate the page on the website for instructions
11. Adjournment (8:50pm)

​

all members meeting: September 2025

9/30/2025

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club All Members Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 9/30/25
Time: 6:30pm
Location: IRHS Library Lecture Hall
Meeting Type: Monthly All Members Meeting

1. Call to Order
  • 6:30 pm
  • Art Cuaron
2. List
  • List of attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Tina Carrasco, Angel Young, Andrea Wilson
  • Board Members Present: President, Secretary, 2- Vice Presidents, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
  • ​All members: Christina Lopez, Jonathan & Stephanie Vegas, Martha Coralles, Monica Aguilar, John Utterback, Dana Alstrom, Felicia Mendoza, Scott VanPatten, Jeff Onan, Cristen & Rob Peters, Robert Santiago, Claudia Diaz, Fernando, Les  Graves
  • Coach Encinas & Coach Rodriguez
3. Reviewed August 2025 Financials (6:36pm)
  • Reviewed August's season summary
4. Reviewed 2025-26 Fundraisings Efforts and Statuses (6:45pm)
  • Calendar Fundraiser: starts 10/6/25. Team goal: $7,400 (See PPT)
  • ​Annual Golf Tournament- still need volunteer, need to sell foursomes/single players and secure sponsors (see PPT and flyers for more details)
  • The Orange Guy Sales- will kick off 11/15/25 and run until 12/5/25
  • Annual Youth Baseball Tournament- January 10th/11th 2026 at Joaquin Murrieta Park. Working on marketing materials and getting website up an running.
5. Coach Encinas & Coach Rodriguez (7:15pm)
  • reviewed backgrounds/experience
  • reviewed player grade expectations, rules for missing practices, expectations for playing time and overall expectations for the program
  • reviewed the rest of the Fall Schedule and plan going in to December & January
6. Adjournment (8:05pm)



Minutes Prepared by: Adriane Cuaron, Secretary 10/01/25
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executive officers meeting: September 2025

9/11/2025

 
Organization Name: IRHS Baseball Booster Club Executive Officer’s Meeting
Board Meeting Date: 9/11/25
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 5072 N. Wild Life Dr.
Meeting Type: Regular- Executive Officers Meeting

1. Call to Order
  • 7:06 pm
  • Art Cuaron
2. Roll Call
  • List of attendees: Art Cuaron, Adriane Cuaron, Tina Carasco, Angel Young, Andrea Wilson, Julian Encinas
  • Board Members Present: President, Secretary, 2- Vice Presidents, Treasurer
  • Executive Members Absent: none
3. Approval of Agenda
  • Reviewed agenda, approval to review all items on agenda
4. Review of August 2025 Financials (7:08pm)
  • All members approved and made verbal acknowledgement of the current financials, bank statement, monthly and annual summary.
5. Review of Fundraising Calendar Dates (7:25pm)
  • Dates for the 4 main fundraisers were reviewed and approved by all the present board members.
6. Update on Baseball Tournament Fundraiser (7:43pm)
  • Dates and location secured:
    • Joaquin Murrieta Park, fields 4,5 &6 
    • January 10th & 11th
    • Discussed competition with other tournament at Kino on the same weekend but this tournament is for older age brackets
7. Finalise and Approve Golf Contract (7:55pm)
  • All board members reviewed and approved for, Art Cuaron,President to sign the Golf Contract
    • Follow-up: confirm with venue what food is served after the tournament and what those services include
    • Adriane Cuaron will update the site to allow for Sponsorship and player registrations including payment. She will also create trackers for the Sponsorships and Silent Raffle Donations.
8. Volunteer Survey/Link (8:02pm)    
  • Discussed creating a link that we will distribute on ParentSquare for all board members to help volunteer for the golf tournament and baseball tournament.
  • Tiana Carrasco agreed to create the links for distribution that will be shared
9. Sponsorship Packet Distribution(8:08pm)
  • Team agreed that we need to distribute the Sponsorship packages on ParentSquare and on our social media platforms
10. Coach Julian Encinas - Updates (8:15pm)
  • Varsity field will be closed from 10/1/25 through 12/1/25 for overseeding
  • Looking at other varsity tournaments before the season starts: January 24-25th or January 31st & 1st (possibly in Nevada)
11. Adjournment (8:25pm)

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