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Town of Reading <br />Meeting Minutes <br />4r Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Cultural Council <br />Date: 2015 -12 -07 <br />Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center <br />Address: 49 Pleasant Street <br />Purpose: Business <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Time: 7:00 PM <br />`RECEIVED <br />TOWN CLERK <br />READING. MASS. <br />Im %AR Is P Is 26, <br />Location: Arts and Crafts Room <br />Session: <br />Donna Schenkel, Jane Soloway, Julie Barber, Nora Bucko, Mary Ann <br />Kozlowski, Nancy Ziemlak, Rosemary Lewis <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted. By: Rosemary Lewis <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />® The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm in the Arts and Crafts Room of the Pleasant Street Senior <br />Center. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved. <br />Treasurer's Report was presented. Everything has been paid out, except for the Reading Art <br />Association grant in the amount of $500. We paid out $1030 to Creative Arts, leaving a balance of <br />$813.04. There is an anticipated expense of $20. The Treasurers report was approved. <br />Donna reported that the January 11, 2016 meeting will be held in the Lounge at the Senior Center due <br />to prior booking of the Arts and Crafts room. She also suggested that at the next meeting we vote on <br />getting an additional poster to be displayed at events we are supporting. She will do some pricing and <br />we can finalize at the January meeting. <br />Discussion turned to the grant awards. Several of the applications were considered disqualified <br />because they didn't meet our criteria: <br />16 -06 RESS Foundation, Inc. Vague timeline, no date or venue <br />16 -08 Mouli Pal, Indian Classical Dancer No date or venue specified <br />16 -09 Birch Meadow Elementary School No date; unclear budget information <br />16 -12 New England Swing Orchestra No date or venue specified <br />Further discussion about the remaining grant applications ensued. We then voted on the following <br />awards: <br />16 -01 UUC Ivy Chord Coffee House $ 655 <br />16 -02 N. Suburban Child & Family Resource Network 400 <br />16 -03 Reading Community Singers 750 <br />16 -04 St. Agnes Summer Musicals 1600 <br />16 -05 Marble Collection 0 <br />® 16 -07 Delvena Theater, Truly Eleanor 495 <br />16-10 Reading Antiquarian Society Soo <br />16 -11 Birch Meadow PTO Author Day 1000 <br />I6 -13 Creative Arts 1000 <br />Total $6400 <br />Page I 1 <br />