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Jennifer L. Hall
From:Linda Lobatos <lindalobatos@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, November
To:Public Comment; Jose Moreno; Trevor O'Neil; Avelino Valencia; Gloria S. Ma'ae; Jose
Diaz; Stephen Faessel; Nancy Cortez; Richard Gordon
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Sycamore Jr. High Band Disney Performance Request Presented on
10/25/2022
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Dear Anaheim City Council,
Thank for your service to our Anaheim community and for reading my email. As you know, On October 25th,
2022 I spoke in the Public comments of the Anaheim City Council meeting. I came before with a request to
please help our Sycamore Band students. I wanted to share the message that I sent Mr. Moreno in hopes to see
if the City of Anaheim could help our students with the cost of this event. In addition please read the response
the Disney Corporation Representative (Mr. Larry Labrado)gave our Principal which is still pending because he
could not agree or confirm at the moment in helping our students with the request.
Below is the message I sent Council Member, Jose F. Moreno on his FB Page, regarding the requests that was
brought by our Sycamore Jr. High Band to our Sycamore Jr. High School Site Council.
Please see below:
Gracias for informing us Jose. Can you provide me with your email? I want to speak with you regarding a
need our Sycamore Jr. High Band has. This February, they are performing at Disneyland and unfortunately our
kids need to pay to enter the park this year. According to what was presented at our Sycamore School Site
Council meeting yesterday, they will need $12,000.00 to pay for entrances alone. Just so you know Sycamore
was highly selected to participate in this event and they will be playing among top performing school bands in
the nation that day. It is an approximate $120.00 per student to enter the Disneyland Park. Do you think you
can help us with this request? All of our children in Anaheim are so deserving of the best and this time
Sycamore Advance Band is the only AUHSD band that is going to represent our AUHSD district and Anaheim
in this event. Please let me know how we can collaborate to make this happen for our students. As a Sycamore
School Site Council Representative that I am, I am hoping we can work together and give this once in a lifetime
opportunity to our Anaheim students. As you know… Sycamore is located in our Anaheim District 3. Please
let me know if Disney can wave this $12,000.00 for our Anaheim kids to participate. Our Sycamore Junior
High Band students and I appreciate all the help we can get.
Thank you, I look forward to your response.
Linda Martinez
I received confirmation that Larry Labrado, Director of Social Responsibilities and Strategic Initiative for the
Disney Resort contacted our Sycamore Jr. High Principal, Mrs. Nancy Cortez today at around
1p.m. Unfortunately Mr. Labrado mentioned that he could not help us because that would mean that he would
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need to offer the same to other bands who are performing that day if they find out. It is important that we keep
in mind that our Sycamore Band are not only representing Anaheim Union High School District, but are also
representing our City of Anaheim. They were selected by Disney to perform amongst many bands who applied
for the opportunity. Mr. Labrado also mentioned that there are two programs that the bands can apply for to
perform. Unfortunately, the Community Arts Program is on pause as of right now which is the program in
which our students wouldn’t have to pay entrance fee. So the other program is the Disney Arts Band
Performance and this one is the one that our students at Sycamore Jr. High applied for since the other one was
not available. Mr. Labrado mentioned that he would get back to our Principal regarding this request because as
of right now he cannot offer a solution or help resolve this.
All that we ask is that all of you do all that you can to help our Sycamore Band students. We hope that you can
call and reach out to the Disney Corporation to help our AUHSD Sycamore Band students be a part of a Once
in a Life Time Dream of performing at the known, Magical Place On Earth!
Our Anaheim students are so deserving of this needed help. I am hopeful that with your help and follow up, we
can have our students take part of the wonderful experience of performing that day.
Thank you for all that you do for our beautiful City of Anaheim. I look forward to your response.
FYI, I have included our Sycamore Jr. High Principal, Mrs. Nancy Cortez and our Sycamore Jr. High Band
Director, Mr. Richard Gordon in this email communication.
Linda Martinez
Sycamore Jr. High
School Site Council,Parent Representative
Anaheim Resident
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