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Reading Cultural Council
April 20, 2005
7:05: Meeting Called to Order
Members present: Alison DaSilva, Karyn Storti, Kathy Kelly, Harold Bond, Anne
Looker, Janet Latherley
Treasurer's Report: The treasurer's report was accepted as submitted. The report stated
that the Joshua Eaton PTO had submitted for payment. EMARC also held its program,
and therefore, submission for reimbursement is expected within the month. With this, all
grants from the 2003-2004 year will be paid.
Mail:
® We received a letter from the LCC stating that all training for Cultural Council
members is now online and any member is required to become trained within 3
months of being appointed.
® We receive a note of thank you from the EMARC program.
Community Input Survey: The RCC recently distributed the Community Input Survey
around the town and collected the responses. The survey was approved by the
superintendent's office, distributed to several homerooms in the high school and
collected. Copies were also left at town hall and at the library open house where
additional responses were collected. Among the information collected in this survey were
the names and contact information for people who answered that they were interested in
becoming more active with cultural events in town. We will be making personal contact
calls to these people in the hope of raising greater community involvement. We discussed
plans of making a database of the results, and we will review the results at a future
meeting.
Friends and family Day: We discussed plans for the Reading Friends and Family Day,
and will discuss plans further at the June meeting.
May 18¢h meeting: An email was sent to the neighboring Cultural Councils from
Lynnfield, Wakefield, Woburn, Stoneham, Andover, North Reading, Melrose, Methuen
and Winchester inviting them to our May 18th meeting. At this meeting we will discuss
successes and strategies used by other councils in hopes of getting new ideas. We will be
contacting those people who gave their names on the community input survey and
inviting them to this meeting as well. We also discussed refreshments for this meeting.
Meeting Adjourned: 7:45
Respectfully submitted,
Janet Latherley
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Reading Cultural Council
Treasurer's Report
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Attached please find the 2004 - 2005 fiscal grid. The Joshua Eaton PTO was submitted
for payment. Recently EMARC held its program and submission for reimbursement
should be obtained this month. With that all grants from 2003-2004 will be paid. I have
spoken to the town treasurer's office and informed that $35.00 in calculated interest was
credited to our account. Those monies have been shifted to our administrative funds.
The following is a breakdown of our funds:
Administrative Funds: $392.71
Grant Monies 2004 -2005 $4,110.00
Grant Monies 2003 - 2004 $200.00
Total Balance: $4702.71
Respectfully submitted by:
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Anne W Hooker
Treasurer