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Board - Committee - Commission - Council: W! NOV -8 PM 1: 13
Cultural Council
Date: 2018-09-17 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Pleasant Street Senior Center Location: Arts and Crafts Room
Address: 49 Pleasant Street
Purpose: Business Session:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Donna Schenkel, Nancy Ziemlak, Nora Bucko, Mary Ann Kozlowski, Jane
Soloway, Megan Fidler-Carey, Brian Kimerer
Members - Not Present:
Rosemary Lewis
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Nancy Ziemlak
Topics of Discussion:
The meeting was called to order by Donna Schenkel at 7:00 pm in the Community Room of
the Senior Center.
Welcomed new member Brian Kimerer.
Secretary minutes were reviewed and approved by all.
Treasurer presented report. There is $2,342.04 remaining in RCC account of which $564 is
administrative funds and interest, $1,777.29 remains to be paid to Creative Arts, Delvina,
and QP.
Megan Fidler-Carey left meeting at 7:15pm to attend Reading Education Foundation Board
meeting. She would Inform the Reading Embraces Diversity group members of the October
15 grant deadline.
MCC allocation for 2019 is $7,400. Jane will meet with Sharon at Town Hall to complete
forms.
Member list was distributed for review and updated accordingly
Brief discussion on ArtsReading question about applying for a grant to cover money spent
on registering for non-profit status. It was agreed that this was not within the guidelines
but suggested that Nora suggest that a grant to support the ArtReading Day would be
appropriate.
Publicity included:
Donna submitted ad to Your Community Connection for the summer, to the library for their
digital sign in September/October, the Reading Cable station and the Reading Post which
was published. The RCC grant sign on the common will be up on October 1.
Mary Ann wrote up press release and distributed.
Nancy sent out email to RCC mailing list, posted press release on Reading Patch and
ArtsReading Facebook Page.
It was noted that last year similar outreach was conducted and we received more requests
for funding than funds available.
The schedule for next year's meetings was reviewed and agreed upon:
9/17/18 10/15/18
11/5/18 12/3/18 !!
1/7/19 3/4/19
4/1/19 5/6/19
The remaining time at the meeting was spent reviewing the grant process with Brian and
answering general questions.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:45PM