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C� OFR' <br />y c <br />M. <br />o ,�o <br />�63s.►xcoao°P' <br />Town of Reading <br />Meeting Minutes <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Cultural Council <br />Date: 2016-03-07 <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 <br />S <br />READING.MA. <br />tllb SEP 19 A W " <br />Location: Lounge Room <br />Session: <br />Donna Schenkel, Jane Soloway,Nora Bucko, Mary Ann Kozlowski, Nancy <br />Ziemlak, Rosemary Lewis <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Julie Barber <br />Others Present: <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Rosemary Lewis <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />The meeting was called to order at 7:05 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. Current balance is $789.04. There was a question about <br />whether the balance after paying the $500 is all administrative money. Jane will investigate and <br />report at the next meeting. The Treasurer's report was approved. <br />Mary Ann passed out a copy of a press release for the local papers and the Town websites regarding <br />the grants. Nancy will also work on updating our local MCC website. The press release will also be <br />emailed to our data base of organizations that we compiled, as well as Maureen Knight at the <br />Community Connection. <br />There was discussion about the Reception for grantees in May. Donna reserved the Senior Center's <br />Great Room. Grant recipients for the past 2 years will be invited, as well as past Council members <br />and our MCC Liaison. We discussed including invitations to Town officials, including the Town Manager, <br />Treasurer, Clerk, Finance Committee members, State legislators, members of Arts Reading and Matt <br />Wilson of Creative Arts. Nancy will work on designing something through Evite and we can finalize at <br />the next meeting. We will need audiovisual equipment for the video and our power point <br />presentation. Donna found out that administrative money can be used for refreshments for the <br />reception. We will organize and assign jobs for setting up and getting supplies at the next meeting. <br />Donna will be away and will miss the April meeting. Nancy will chair. <br />Upcoming events were discussed. Jane attended the Ivy Chord concert. Delvena Theatre is 4/14/16, <br />Reading Antiquarian's Fair is 5/14/16, Birch Meadow Author visit 3/9 and 3/10/16 and St. Agnes <br />Summer Theater Aug 11-13, 2016. <br />Maryann suggested we inquire about "Read Across America" events in town and offer to participate as <br />a group in support of reading. This is a nation-wide day of reading in honor of Dr. Seuss on his <br />birthday, March 2. We will look into it for next year. <br />Meeting adjourned at 8:25 pm. <br />Page 1 1 <br />