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Meeting Minutes
Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Cultural Council
Date: 2015 -04 -06
Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center
Address: 49 Pleasant Street
Purpose: Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00
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Location: Arts and Crafts Room
Session:
Donna Schenkel, Catherine Folan, Nancy Ziemlak, Mary Ann Kozlowski,
Rosemary Lewis
Members - Not Present:
Nancy Snow
Others Present:
Nancy Reid
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Rosemary Lewis
Topics of Discussion:
The meeting was called to order at 7:02 pm in the Arts and Crafts Room of the Pleasant Street Senior
Center by Donna Schenkel. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved. Donna introduced Nancy
Reid who is interested in joining the council.
Treasurer's Reports from January, February and March were presented and approved.
Publicity and Advertising
Recap of the publicity efforts included ads in the Community Connection, poster on the Common in
September (9/28 - 10/12/15). There was discussion about the Reading Street Fair and Town Day. In
previous years, these attempts did not prove to be effective. Donna handed out the flyer /posters to
be distributed around town. Mary Ann will arrange press releases for The Patch, Chronicle and RCTV.
The Community Conversation about how to apply for grants will take place on May 4 at 7:00 in the
Senior Center. Nancy Z. presented the slide show she and Mary Ann worked on for the council's
review. Nancy will initiate the conversation, but asked for input from all the members since she is less
familiar with the whole process.
Donna will send a PDF of the flyer /poster to Mary Ann and Nancy so they can email to the Non - profit
groups in town. There was discussion about the mailing list that was compiled and whether or not to
include various groups. The Schools can be contacted through the Superintendant's office.
As we are asking people to RSVP about attending the event on May 4, the Gmail account will be used
and Cate asked that someone take this over. Rosemary will take charge of the account.
A community survey was conducted in 2014. Nancy S developed and distributed that. We should
plan on doing one again next year. Donna will get information from Nancy S about that process
before she leaves the council.
Discussion about membership — Jacalyn Shelton Wallace submitted her resignation letter. We officially
have an opening on the council at this time. In July, we expect 2 more openings. Donna asked
members to think about taking on the role of Co- Chair.
Meeting adjourned at 8:05 pm.
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