HomeMy WebLinkAboutMCC 09/13/2016Mansfield Local Cultural Council
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Mansfield, MA 02048
September 13, 2016
Meeting Minutes
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Call to order
Lisa Piscatelli
7:01 pm
Attendance
Present:
Nicole Burch, Secretary
Sally Fehervari, Treasurer
Katharine Wroth
Annette Shaw, Publicist
Jackie Curtis, Public Official
Liaison
Gail Gilman
Lori Stanovitch, Grant
Coordinator
Lisa Piscatelli, Chair
Guests:
Sharon Friedman
Brian Quinn
Robert A. Brown
Absent:
Lynn McDonnell
Welcome
Introduced guests.
Treasurer's
Reimbursements are coming
Report
in.
Sally is scheduled to meet
with Accounting on 9/14/16.
Do we want to set aside
money for something? For
promotion? $5400 from state
and $2700 from the town, but
we can set some amount for
expenses and promotion.gets
spent on grants. But we have
$27000 from the town and the
cushion we set aside.
Discussed amount to set
aside.
Money for a brochure and a
reception.
Motion to set aside $500.
Seconded. Voted
unanimously.
Planning: Grant
Online Toolkit for Local
Lori is the liaison for
Cycle Update
Cultural Councils.
grantees.
and Promotion
Our deadline is Oct 17th
because the 15th is a
Katharine will call
Saturday,
past grantees who did
Applications are online.
not have an email
Lori emailed all the emails
address informing
from the last three years
them of the new
informing them of the Online
Online Application.
Application process.
Promote: Town web page,
State web page, Facebook,
Press Release, Appear at
events.
If someone interested in a
grant doesn't have access to
the online application we can
refer them to the library or
Annette can be a contact
during the day.
On our website it says the
window for events needs to
happen between July 1, 2016
and December 31, 2017. We
were going to change it to
January 1, 2017 to December
31, 2017, but we didn't. We
will revisit this after the grant
cycle.
Edited Annette's press
release.
Planning:
September 14, 2016, 7:00 pm.
Sally, Jackie, and
Meeting with
Board of Selectman meeting.
Annette will attend.
Board of
Our contribution is to let
Selectman
everyone know the
Jackie will let the
application process is open
Board of Selectman
and online. That it is a new
know who is
process, that the deadline is
attending the meeting.
October 17, 2016, and the
money amount available for
granting.
Planning:
October 5, 2016, 7:15 pm
Katharine will take
Downtown
Planning to attend: Lisa
the minutes.
Strategy
Piscatelli, Jackie Curtis,
Workshop
Annette Shaw, Lori
Participation
Stanovitch, Katharine Wroth,
Gail Gilman, Brian Quinn
Arts Festival
September 17 - 18, 2016
Need: Tent, table, chairs.
Happening at the North
Common.
There is a 5:00 pm reception
on October 16, 2016, the
council is invited to attend.
Sign up to work the table. 2
people per hour.
We can hand out our press
release.
Communication
Facebook page is updated and
Update
lots have been shared.
Events for Local Cultural
Councils:
October 13, 2016, 5:30-7:30,
Workshop in Brockton
September 26, 10 am to 12
pm, Public Hearing for
Tourism at the New Bedford
Whaling Museum
Miscellaneous
There is a Local Cultural
Council originated grant that
is open to us if someone
wants to apply.
Collect applications.
Schedule Next
Tuesday, October 25, 2016,
Bring computers to
Meeting
7:00 pm
next meeting.
Thursday, November 17,
Katharine will ask
2016, 7:00 pm
Deb Herbert if we can
Thursday, December 8, 2016,
hook up to the
7:00 pm
projector.
Planning:
Katharine brought in a map of
Gail is going to
Cultural District
Downtown Mansfield and
another Cultural
Update and
started pinpointing the
Council meeting in
Direction
Cultural sites.
another town and will
bring back helpful
info.
Outreach to
communities to bring
back to our meeting.
Katharine will have
an updated map on
October 5, 2016 to
Downtown Strategy
Workshop
Planning:
Will bring to Downtown
Sharing of
Strategy Workshop on
Survey Results
October 5, 2016.
Lisa paid for Survey Monkey
monthly dues: $104. Asked to
be reimbursed. A motion was
passed and seconded. We
voted unanimously and
approved the reimbursement.
Lisa wanted to donate the
money she spent on
promotion: $81.53, but the
Council suggested full
reimbursement. After
10/25/16: Sally made a motion to accept the amendments to the minutes.
Brian seconded.
Voted unanimous.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole L Burch
discussion, the council
accepted the donation. A
motion was passed and
seconded. 7 voted yes, 1
abstention (Lisa), and we
approved the Lisa's donation
for promotion expenses.
Meeting Minutes
Motion to amend the minutes
for June 28, 2016.
Seconded.
Voted. Approved.
Motion to amend the minutes
for August 2, 2016.
Seconded by Gail. Voted
unanimous. Approved.
Adjournment
Motion to end the meeting by
Jackie. Seconded by Gail.
Voted unanimously.
Meeting adjourned at 8:55
pm.
10/25/16: Sally made a motion to accept the amendments to the minutes.
Brian seconded.
Voted unanimous.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole L Burch