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Town of Reading <br />Meeting Minutes <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Cultural Council <br />Date: 2014 -12 -01 Time: 7:00 <br />Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center <br />Address: 49 Pleasant Street <br />Purpose: Business <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />HECEIVED <br />t OWN CLERK <br />L"DING, MASS. <br />1015 APR -b p 0 ®b <br />Location: Arts and Crafts Room <br />Session: <br />Nancy Snow, Donna Schenkel, Maryann Kozlowski, Catherine Folan, <br />Rosemary Lewis <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Lynne Cassinari <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Rosemary Lewis <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />The meeting was called to order at 7:10 pm in the Arts and Crafts Room of the Pleasant <br />Street Senior Center by Donna Schenkel. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved. <br />Donna reported that Jacqueline is no longer eligible to be a member of the council because <br />she no longer resides in Reading. Therefore, we have two open positions. Donna further <br />reported that just today she received an email and resume from a woman who is interested <br />in joining the council. Donna invited her to attend this meeting and explained what to do to <br />become a member. <br />Cate reported she had no treasurer's report because she hasn't received anything more <br />from the Town. She then presented the information from the Voting Meeting Calculating <br />Worksheet to help us derive the exact amount that will be available to award in grants. The <br />total was $5555.08, leaving $285 (5% of FY15 grant from the State, as approved at last <br />meeting) for administrative costs. <br />Discussion about the grant proposals ensued. There were 13 applications. Three were <br />disqualified as follows: <br />15 -01 Event does not take place in Reading <br />15 -05 No endorsement from RMHS that the event would take place; no date. <br />15 -06 No venue, date. <br />Another application (15 -10) was felt to be lacking a definite schedule and alternate sources <br />of funding. The consensus was to encourage the group to reapply for next year with more <br />detailed schedule, budget and additional sources of funding. <br />The rest of the applications were considered and the available monies were awarded after <br />discussion and input from all members. A motion was made to approve the following <br />awards with all members present: <br />Page 1 1 <br />