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Board -Committee -Commission - Council:
READING, MASS.
Cultural Council
Date: 2016-07-25
Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center
Address: 49 Pleasant Street
Purpose: Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
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Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Lounge Room
Session:
Nora Bucko, Mary Ann Kozlowski, Nancy Ziemlak, Donna Schenkel, Jane
Soloway, Rosemary Lewis
Members - Not Present:
Julie Barber
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Rosemary Lewis
Topics of Discussion:
The meeting was called to order by Donna Schenkel at 6:30 pm In the Conference Room of the
Pleasant Street Senior Center.
Discussion turned Immediately to the topic of the online application process for grants. The following
decisions and action Items ensued:
We will strongly encourage the use of the electronic applications.
For this year only we will accept both paper and electronic applications.
Local guidelines and funding priorities were amended by a vote to 1) remove the
stipulation that projects that have not received funding in the past 3 years would have
priority, and 2) proposals must state a confirmed artist, venue and performance date to be
considered.
Donna will complete the form and submit the changes to the MCC website and Nancy will
make changes on our Town website.
Minutes of the previous meeting were approved after one correction.
There was no Treasurer's Report. Jane has still not received a statement from the town since
February.
There was discussion about CreativeGround.org, a forum for consolidation of information about arts
groups In Massachusetts, which sent us an email inviting us to update our profile. It was decided to
simply provide a brief statement with a link to Arts Reading.
Julie Barber has submitted her resignation from the council. Jane will Invite Beth Mosler to consider
applying, as she expressed interest during the May Reception.
The meeting adjourned at 7:38 pm.
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