Parent Resources
Pay Band Fees With PayPal
Band fee payments can be made online using PayPal. You don’t need a PayPal Account to pay with a credit or debit card. During the payment process, you will have a chance to enter your credit or debit card information.
Because Paypal deducts a fee for each online payment, the Band Boosters prefers payments by check or cash. e.g., For a $300 payment, Paypal deducts $7 and the Band Boosters receive $293.
Paypal forbids adding a surcharge for its use so if you would be willing to add an additional amount to your fee payment to cover the Paypal cost, that would be appreciated. You can voluntarily offset the Paypal cost by using this schedule:
Marching Band fees and Winter Guard fees are both $300 and can be paid below. Marching Guard allows fee payments in installments. Examples of voluntary fee payments:
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Fee $100 + Paypal charge $3 = $103 payment
Fee $200 + Paypal charge $5 = $205 payment
Fee $300 + Paypal charge $7= $307 payment
After you press the Pay Now button, you will be taken to a Paypal page where you can enter your payment amount.
Band fee payments can be made online using PayPal. You don’t need a PayPal Account to pay with a credit or debit card. During the payment process, you will have a chance to enter your credit or debit card information.
Because Paypal deducts a fee for each online payment, the Band Boosters prefers payments by check or cash. e.g., For a $300 payment, Paypal deducts $7 and the Band Boosters receive $293.
Paypal forbids adding a surcharge for its use so if you would be willing to add an additional amount to your fee payment to cover the Paypal cost, that would be appreciated. You can voluntarily offset the Paypal cost by using this schedule:
Marching Band fees and Winter Guard fees are both $300 and can be paid below. Marching Guard allows fee payments in installments. Examples of voluntary fee payments:
.
Fee $100 + Paypal charge $3 = $103 payment
Fee $200 + Paypal charge $5 = $205 payment
Fee $300 + Paypal charge $7= $307 payment
After you press the Pay Now button, you will be taken to a Paypal page where you can enter your payment amount.
The rest of this page is intended to serve as a helpful guide for parents who are new to bands, marching bands, or the Green Devil Bands program.
Web site highlights
Here are perhaps the most important pages on this website for parents to be familiar with.
These pages have the latest information updates:
These pages change infrequently:
Here are perhaps the most important pages on this website for parents to be familiar with.
These pages have the latest information updates:
- Home - Summary of announcements, usually updated weekly during marching band season and concerts
- Announcements - Special posts
- Calendar - Band events, practices, etc,, updated as needed
These pages change infrequently:
- Band Forms - All downloadable forms and information. Includes documents that explain the band program to new families, and forms for sign-up, expense reimbursement requests, etc.
- Band Boosters - The role and purpose of the Band Boosters organization
- Volunteers - A description of just some of the many ways to be involved and help year round
- Donor Support - Outlines some of the ways that potential donors can help the band.
- Galleries - Some incredible parent volunteers do a great job of documenting band activities. You might enjoy photos and videos of past performances from as early as 2007.
How to stay informed
- Check the Home and Announcements web site pages for announcements (see list above).
- Receive frequent email announcements from the Band Booster board, if your band sign-up information included an email address
- Sign up for "last minute" event text messages from the band director.
- Ms. Aucremann would like all parents to be on the band's text blast list. (Remind for teachers). She sends event information, schedule changes and similar timely updates. When the band travels to competitions or another school, she also provides an ETA for returning to the school.
- To add yourself to the list, text 81010 and type message: @sphsmomdad
- Read and join discussions on the band's Facebook page. Asks questions! Experienced band parents are always glad to help. The Facebook group is for all band parents, alumni, and friends of the band.
Miscellaneous "need to know"
- With every nearly purchase you make through Amazon, Amazon will donate a percentage of the sale to the band program!
- Register the Band Boosters as your Amazon Smile charity. Amazon will donate 0.5% of eligible purchases.
- For the band program to receive credit, you need to start your shopping experience at smile.amazon.com.
- Follow this link to get started. There is a prompt below the search bar that says “supporting:” Search for "St. Petersburg High School Band Booster Association" and select it.
- This is the SAME website as the regular amazon webpage. It just allows for a supporting donations.
- Football game tickets: If you are not chaperoning or working the concession stand during football games, you will need to purchase a ticket to enter the stadium.
