2017-04-03 Cultural Council Minutes

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� OFq Town of Reading e etECEIVEp Meeting Minutes 1'OVd RK READMI CLERK Board - committee - commission - council: "" OCT -9 PM 6: 14 Cultural Council Date: 2017-04-03 Time: 7:00 PM Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center Location: Arts and Crafts Room Address: 49 Pleasant Street Purpose: Business Session: Attendees: Members - Present: Mary Ann Kozlowski, , Donna Schenkel, Nora Bucko, Nancy Ziemlak, Beth Mosier, Jane Soloway, Rosemary Lewis Members - Not Present: Others Present: Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Rosemary Lewis Topics of Discussion: The meeting was called to order by Donna Schenkel at 7:10 pm in the Arts and Crafts Room of the Pleasant Street Senior Center. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved with corrections. Treasurer's report included the addition of the Grant money for this year on January 31. Otherwise, no changes. No payments made. Publicity and Survey: Mary Ann reported that Reading Rec has a new executive director. She had a talk with him and found out they could do an email drop with Information about applying for grants, which would reach 4000 families. We should get in touch in July about this. Donna reported one of the grant recipients—New England School of Performing Arts—has changed the dates of their program. This did not pose a problem. Discussion turned to what might happen if a grant recipient failed to use/request their funds. Would that money be rolled into the next year? Donna will check with the MCC about this. She will also follow-up with New England School of Performing Arts about their new dates and make sure it is going to run. Nancy presented the latest draft of the survey for members' comments. A few minor changes were suggested and the final draft was approved. Everyone agreed Nancy did a great job of pulling this together and thanked her for her work on it. Nancy will send the final draft to RCC members first for one final check that it is coming through Survey Monkey appropriately. She is working with Matt Kurlis, the Community Liaison for the town, to get a link on the website. Additionally, we will have an ad in Your Community Connection eNewsletter with a link to our survey. The library approved placement of a poster inviting people to take the survey on the computers In the library. We will also use our email database to send a request to participate.