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6 Park Row
Mansfield, MA 02048
October 25, 2016
Meeting Minutes
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Call to order
Lisa Piscatelli
7:06 pm
Attendance
Present:
Lisa Piscatelli, Chair
Lori Stanovitch, Grant
Coordinator
Katharine Wroth
Annette Shaw, Publicist
Sally Fehervari, Treasurer
Brian Quinn
Jackie Curtis, Public Official
Liaison
Nicole Burch, Secretary
Guests:
Sharon Friedman
Absent:
Lynn McDonnell
Gail Gilman
Downtown
Members discussed what was
Strategy
talked about at the
Workshop:
Downtown Strategy
Meeting
Workshop:
Minutes,
Annette: Need parking
Discussion and
downtown. It was said there
Representative
are 90 occupied storefronts,
Appointment
but it doesn't really feel/look
like that is the case,
properties that are leased
must have been counted.
Sharon: It's fine to park and
walk, i.e.: Patriot Place and
Wrentham Outlets. We need
to rework people's
perception. The Planning
Board is addressing parking.
Jackie: We need to start with
five little things. One
example is a sign at the train
station.
Lisa: The slide from the
Transportation Overlay
District was interesting. Our
focus is on art. It's great we
have a seat on the committee.
Jackie motioned to approve
the minutes from the
workshop. Katharine
seconded. Voting was
unanimous. Minutes were
approved.
We discussed who wants to
Brian will represent the
represent the Cultural
Cultural Council on the
Council on the Downtown
Downtown Committee
Committee. Brian
volunteered. Jackie motioned
to appoint Brian to represent
the Cultural Council. Annette
seconded. The vote was
unanimous.
Discussed keeping a Cultural
District our focus. We will
have more dialogue in
January to further plan what
we want to do.
Communication
We need to update our page
Planning:
in the Annual Report. Dec
Events,
16th is the deadline. We can
Meetings and
publish some of the survey
Community
results in it.
Survey Results
Survey results also shared on
Facebook and in newspaper.
Schedule a meeting with a
selectman to present the
results.
Plan an event for a reception
to honor the grantee
recipients. At the reception
we could share the survey.
The Annual Report was
Sally and Annette will
revised last year by Sally and
revise the Annual
Annette.
Report for this year.
Lisa can write a
paragraph about the
survey for the Report.
Treasurer's
John Shannon emails.
Report
$250 was granted to him last
year for the Mansfield STEM
Fair. He wasn't able to
attend. He asked for an
extension for this year to be
used on March 18, 2017. It is
acceptable to grant this.
Katharine motioned to accept
the extension. Annette
seconded the motion. The
vote was unanimous.
Sally met with Accounting.
All the accounts looked great.
We are on time with
everything.
$7696 = granting out this
cycle.
$500 not included in this for
our promotion fund.
Lisa has to sign off on some
grants for payments.
Brian moved to accept.
Katharine seconded. Vote
was unanimous.
Grants: Process
We have three meetings for
Jackie will print out a
Guidelines and
discussion of grants and
hard copy of all the
Application
voting on who receives
applications.
Review
funding.
If there is a conflict of
interest we will remove
ourselves from the room
while the rest of the Council
votes.
Look for applications that are
diverse and different.
Do we want to continue
repeat grants?
Was the applicant's last event
well attended?
Look at the total amount
requested.
#5793 On Common Ground:
Annette will contact.
No contact info.
36 applicants total.
For next meeting look at all
the applications.
#4973 Canton Community
Sally will email and
Band
fmd out details about
Where is the venue?
the concert.
#4479 Nancy Wall
Wayfinding Signage. Some
discussion of signs and plans
for signs.
#4322 Mansfield Downtown
Annette will contact
Business Association. Caitlin
Caitlin.
Brian motioned to approve the minutes on 1/12/17.
Katharine seconded the motion.
Vote was unanimous.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole L Burch
Barrows.
Whose salary are we paying?
#6846 South River
Lisa will contact the
Elementary School in
Marshfield Cultural
Marshfield. Wrong town?
Council and alert them
to this mistake.
Next Meeting
November 17,2016,7:00 pm
to 9:00 pm
December 8, 2016, 7:00 pm
to 9:00 pm
Adjournment
Lisa made a motion to
adjourn at 8:55 pm. Sally
seconded. Vote was
unanimous.
Brian motioned to approve the minutes on 1/12/17.
Katharine seconded the motion.
Vote was unanimous.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicole L Burch