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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Cultural Council
Date: 2015 -09 -14
Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center
Address: 49 Pleasant Street
Purpose: Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 7:00 PM
RECEIVED
TOWN CLERK
READING, MASS.
11115 NOV - 2 P 3: Q41
Location: Arts and Crafts Room
Session: General Session
Donna Schenkel, Jane Soloway, Julie Barber, Nora Bucko, Nancy Ziemlak,
Mary Ann Kozlowski, Rosemary Lewis
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Rosemary Lewis
Topics of Discussion:
The meeting was called to order at 7:07 pm in the Arts and Crafts Room of the Pleasant Street Senior
Center by Donna Schenkel. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved.
Donna presented the slate of officers for the upcoming year:
Co Chairpersons: Donna Schenkel and Nancy Ziemlak
Treasurer: Jane Soloway
Secretary: Rosemary Lewis
Publicity and Advertising: Mary Ann Kozlowski
Motion was made, seconded and approved to accept.
Treasurer's Report was presented. The grant amount for this year was $6400. Two grants from last
year are still outstanding. There is about $300 available for administrative purposes, so we will not
need to allot more money for this year. Motion was made, seconded and accepted to approve the
report.
Schedule of Meetings
Donna proposed the following schedule of meetings for the coming year:
October 26 (after grant deadline)
November 16 (need to check on conflict with Town Meeting.
December 7
January 11
No meeting in February (MCC State Assembly)
March 7
April 4
May 2 (Reception for Grantees)
Community Input /Survey was discussed. Donna asked for members to start thinking about this and
would like someone to organize this project.
Jane and Donna met with Sharon Angstrom, the Town Treasurer to complete the LCC form.
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Publicity and Advertising
Mary Ann reported that Press Releases went out and there was a nice article about the LCC grant
application process in the Reading Patch. Releases also went to the Advocate and Chronicle. Nancy
proposed sending out the press release to our email list of Reading non - profits. She will do this
through our Gmail account. Donna talked about the ad in the Reading Recreation catalog which was
of very poor quality and in black and white. She spoke with John Fudo about this and he offered to
not charge us for the ad. Donna proposed we pay half of the $60 fee and the council members agreed
this was fair.
Nora explained a little about the Cultural Connection -- Reading group and offered to be the liaison for
us. Nancy is also interested in following their development. She went to be interviewed during the
Town Day festivities. Hopefully this will appear on RCTV.
Donna reported that we have reserved space on the sign on the Town Common 9/28 to
10/12. She will put up and take down the sign.
Thank you notes were received from Reading Art Association and the Marble Project.
There was a little discussion about the grant review process, requirements and the use of
scoring sheets as well as the spreadsheet that Mary Ann prepared last year. This was very
helpful.
The question of whether the RCC should have its own logo was discussed. Donna will
contact Charlotte at MCC to inquire if we are allowed to add a byline to the MCC logo. She
will report back next meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 8:03 pm.
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