By the end of the first quarter of 2024, there will be 50 part-time Music Supervisor positions created, 40 in 40 small towns across BC and 10 in Metro Vancouver. Their day job will be as sales reps for METRO Magazine in each town. The position will mostly be symbolic but this first quarter their job will be to identify 10 public school music programs high schools and elementary in their area, identify the music directors get email contacts, and pass everything on to the foundation. By the end of March, we will have a database of 500 schools and music educators across BC which will be posted on the foundation website and accessible to all.

I am calling them Music Supervisors but they will have nothing to do with music except to liaison with 10 programs each. It’s a throwback to pre-1992 when there were real music supervisors in BC. I want to establish a feeling of family between all the programs so they don’t feel isolated. The database will be a start to building VISIBILITY for our public school music programs.

In the second quarter of 2024, we will start gathering material for 5 books called:

TREBLE CLEF, Public School Music Programs and Arts Venues in Metro Vancouver

TREBLE CLEF, Public School Music Programs and Arts Venues on Vancouver Island

TREBLE CLEF, Public School Music Programs, and Arts Venues in the BC Interior

TREBLE CLEF, Public School Music Programs and Arts Venues in the Okanagan

TREBLE CLEF, Public School Music Programs, and Arts Venues in the Kootenai’s

There will be 10 Music Supervisors in each sector, each responsible for 10 schools so 100 schools total in each sector. Each school will receive two pages opposite as in the opening sections of the Handsworth Dynasty books in our online library see https://issuu.com/metroguides

The books will be printed in the first two months of the third quarter and distributed in September at the end of the quarter. 40,000 copies of a 200-page book will be printed for each sector so 200,000 total. Each school will receive 400 books which they will sell at $50 each earning their program $20,000 annually or $10 Million for all 500 schools.

***Maybe one day the Music Supervisor positions can grow into full-time positions and take on a role similar to before when they coordinated regional events to ease the role of the band directors.

Chris Best

CEO

The Arthur W. Delamont Foundation