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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Cultural Council
Date: 2021-12-06
Building:
Address:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting & Grant
Deliberations
Attendees: Members - Present:
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TOWN CLERK
READING, MA.
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2022 JAN -5 PM 5: 19
Time: 7:00 PM
Location:
Session: Open Session
Version: Final
Brian Kimerer, Katherine Lopez Natale, Megan Fidler -Carey, Sherilla
Lestrade, Kerri Perry
Members - Not Present:
None
Others Present:
None
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Kerr! Perry
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting of the Reading Cultural Council December 6, 2021 7:00 PM Via Zoom
Call to order at 7:05 PM.
Review of meeting minutes from November 1, November 9 and November 16. Edits
requested to spell Megan's name with no h and updates will be made. Confirmed with group
start and end time of the meetings to edit accordingly. Minutes for all three dates were
approved unanimously with the edits mentioned above.
Treasurer's report was presented. We have $23,100 to grant, does not include interest.
Vote was unanimous to accept the Treasurers report.
Grant Applicants were discussed and deliberated. Four grant applications were unanimously
voted to be rejected and the rest were decided to remain under deliberation for an amount,
although based on our budget this may not be for the grant application's full request. The
amounts each of those will be granted will be discussed in our January 3, 2022 meeting.
The rejected grant applications and reasons were as follows:
11 -LCC -16562 Musary International Music WS: project did not provide enough public
benefit to our community compared to other proposals we received
29 LCC -11675 Reading: Do Your Ard: project did not provide enough public benefit to
our community compared to other proposals we received
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33 LCC-12059 Duo Pianists, Composers &Educators Whipple & Morales inConcert: project
did not provide enough public benefit to our community compared to other proposals we
received
28 LCC-6060 Time for Kids K-1: project is not clearly related to the arts, humanities, or
sciences
Rejection letters will be sent by Brian on December 9'h and they will have a time period of
15 days to appeal and we will be able to receive any appeals to review in the next meeting
on January 3, 2022. It was decided that meeting will be held by Zoom.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:59 PM
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