ASSESSMENTS AND PAYMENTS SCHEDULE
Shades Valley band students must pay the following assessment during the 2003-2004 academic year.

SUMMER BAND ASSESSMENT ($75)
This covers the cost of band camp materials and additional personnel as well as certain start-up costs for marching season. Students must pay this in order to attend band camp.

TRANSPORTATION ASSESSMENT ($50)
All students pay this assessment, which allows us to rent the buses needed to transport the band. Students must pay in order to travel with the band and be admitted to off-campus events. The Jefferson County Board of Education charges us a per-mile fee.

UNIFORM ASSESSMENT ($75)
All instrumentalists must pay a uniform rental assessment. (This is not paid by our visual ensemble. Visual ensemble members participating in concert band and requiring a dress uniform will pay a prorated uniform assess of $30 at the time their uniform is issued.

TOTAL: $200* for instrumentalists and $125 for visual ensemble members. If you write a check, be sure to include your child's name on your check.

These assessments are due the first day of band camp, July 28th.Any student who has not paid these assessments by August 1st will not be allowed to continue in band camp or participate in marching band activities.

*NOTICE:At registration, you will have to pay $25 for each semester your child is scheduled to take band. This money is collected by the school system and neither the band nor the band boosters receive this money.  This is in addition to the Summer and Spring assessments collected by the band.

****Concert Band Assessment ($50)****
All students participating in second semester concert band will pay this assessment in January 2004.