American Canyon High School’s über-booster club wants to raise $100,000 before the first students arrive to the new campus next summer.

The newly incorporated American Canyon High School Alliance — the school’s unique booster club — will raise money to pay for sport equipment, computers, drama and art supplies and other expenses.  The school is scheduled to open with 550 students.

“It’s going to help the entire school,” American Canyon High School Principal Mark Brewer told a group of Realtors in American Canyon on Friday.

Having one unified booster club will prevent competition between groups for sponsors, a system that can be divisive, Brewer said.

“That gets ugly sometimes,” he said. “That would be bad for the community.”

American Canyon Mayor Leon Garcia said Friday he supports the idea of a unique booster club. One booster club will foster collaboration between groups to focus on fundraising, he said.

“It’s going to be a really good thing,” Garcia said.

The American Canyon High School Alliance has rallied dozens of volunteers, including longtime American Canyon residents and business owners, many of whom will not have children enrolled at the new high school on Newell Drive. A set of fundraisers is planned over the next year, including a pasta feed Friday for 600 people at the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa in American Canyon.

David York, a certified public accountant in American Canyon, said the group’s articles of incorporation were filed last week with the Secretary of State. York, who is working with Brewer and attorney Belia Bennett on the group’s by-laws, said he will prepare the booster club application for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.

“I am very passionate about the high school,” said Bennett, the mother of a

25-month old daughter, who lives close to the high school.

York, Brewer and Bennett and two other volunteers will form the board of directors, drafting broad goals for the booster club while a bigger advisory board, which will include Garcia, will make day-to-day decisions on how to allocate the funds.

“They’ll handle the details,” York said.

The board of directors may include a representative for Kendall Jackson Wine Estates, the Sonoma-based company that has decided to sponsor the future school.

Brewer and Ed Farver, general manager of Napa operations for Kendall Jackson Wine Estates — the company currently constructing a massive wine warehouse in the city — will meet next week, Farver said Friday.

“I’m sure we’ll be involved with the booster club,” he said.

In the meantime, volunteers are selling tickets to next week’s pasta feed.

George Popa, an American Canyon resident and computer consultant, is creating a Web site.

“I just want to do something for this high school,” Popa said. “It’s an ongoing process.”

Money raised over the past year for the new high school, including $6,500 collected at a fashion show and singing contest in March, will be turned over to the American Canyon High School Alliance.

Elizabeth Goff, a city Parks and Recreation commissioner and teacher at American Canyon Middle School, organized a fundraiser last spring for a sports program for the middle school and the high school. On Friday, she said $500 has been pledged for the high school’s student-athletes.

York said that while the group’s short-term goal is to raise $100,000, more money may be raised.

Brian King, athletic director at Napa High School, said Friday the Napa High School Sports Booster Club raises about $125,000 annually for the school’s 700 student athletes.

Brewer said he’s confident American Canyon High School will be a great school. Asked if $100,000 will be enough, Brewer said “I don't know yet, but it is a great goal set by the alliance.”

The American Canyon High School Alliance’s pasta feed will be 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 16 at Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa, 3600 Broadway/Highway 29 in American Canyon. Tickets are available through Monday from Cori Badertscher at Eagle Vines Realty, 4381 Broadway/Highway 29, American Canyon. For information, call 649-8088. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children up to 12.