booster club meetings

I know my kid would not like to hang around and wait for the booster club meeting to finish. At that point he would probably get a ride home with someone else. Ergo, I would not have to pick him up, Ergo I will not be at the field anyway.

So due to work schedules I would opt for 7:00 pm.

Why r kids/players at booster club mtgs? At our school each ath team send a parent rep and they meet once month w AD and other parents can attend or read mtg minutes. Our kids r only required to attend a pre-season team mtg w parents and they meet after conditioning/practices w coach if needed. Most of contact is between coach/players. It's the responsibility of players to keep parents informed. 

most mtgs r later at schools due to parents work schedule. Just because some get off at 5 doesn't mean most can make 5:30 mtg. 7:00 usu works better. Some coaches do not work at school so their availibity is diff than teachers.

7:00 during the week.  Preferably at the local VFW or the like where beers are $1.00. 

Our booster club isn't "sport specific"....meaning they work with all the sports....so having a meeting at 5;30 after baseball practice wouldn't affect the rest of the parents...as their kids likely didn't have practice.  We do have a small group of "baseball only" parents...but our kids are in HS so in most cases having it after practice would only help out the parents of the freshman and sophs who can't drive.  My son is a junior....I don't pick him up...so the meeting time makes no difference to me.  The fact that our meeting only has 4 or 5 people...and it's the same every time really leads more to having it later in the evening as all of us work over a half hour from town

If you are talking about a parent meeting in general..

7pm inside somewhere with comfortable seats.  Timing works better - late enough for less excuses for some parents not to make it.  Kid can be home doing homework. 

our baseball booster club meeting at our school is to go over funding for the program, tracking budgets, fundraising efforts, soliciting ideas, and to make sure various functions are on track (golf outings, concessions, fund raising solicitations, etc).  Fairly boring stuff for players.  The school basically covers the cost of baseballs and two coaches.  Uniforms, transportation, field upkeep expenses, and coaches stipens (for JV, Soph, and Freshman) are covered by the booster club.  We hold our meeting once a month on Sunday evenings year around

Our booster meetings (baseball only) were usually once a month at 7 pm.  I believe they were usually at the school.  I use to get e-mails about them - still do occasionally (son has graduated and playing JUCO).

The school handled funding for baseballs, uniforms,  coaches stipends and transportation.  Booster handled fund raisers to buy "optional" equipment such as batting cage netting, T's, storage sheds, etc and other assorted expenses the school couldn't or wouldn't cover.  The booster club generally handled field maintenance as well.

Same at my sons school.

Just went to ours last night!  Second Monday of every month ... 7:00 PM.

I avoided booster club meetings like the plague. Those in charge were the same people who fought to be in charge of things going all the way back to kindergarten home room and youth sports. They weren't the parents of the talented players. They were the parents who thought (mostly wrong) a leadership role would give their kid an advantage. Before each high school sports season for two kids I wrote a check for business ad in the game program and walked away.

A friend who didn't own a business bought an ad to avoid the booster club. Every season he bought a "good luck seniors" ad with their names listed.

I was on the booster sophomore through senior year for my son. Each class had to have a rep. Freshman year their were planty of volunteers so I gladly let them do it. Sophmore year a parent volunteered, then his son dropped baseball. I was asked to step in. Junior year no one wanted it, sons class was down to 5 players. Senior year, son was captain, captains parents are historically on the board. We could not get a Senior partent to step up so I did double duty. I hated every moment of it. I wanted to sit in the corner and take the minutes, email the minutes to my class and be done with it. Asked from input from the class and never got any.

My wife does the wrestling boosters for my youngest, but only because we have known the wrestling coach since my youngest was a kindergartner, and he told her she was going to be on the board. I help at the meets, as a gopher but I want no part of the booster board.