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<br />Lexington Council for the Arts <br />Minutes November 18, 2013 <br />Parker Room, Lexington Town Hall <br />Present: Zoe Perry Wood, chair; Emily Passman; Victoria Campos, secretary; Jean Hart; <br />and Cristina Burwell; Regie O’Hare Gibson; Lynne Klemmer; Diana South.; Jessie <br />Steigerwald. Absent: Cheryl Meadow, Leslie Masson Minutes taken by: Jessie <br />Steigerwald <br />Zoe called the meeting to order at 7:27 pm. <br />Topics discussed: <br />October minutes <br />Emily Passman moved approval of Oct. minutes, Victoria Campos seconded. <br />After brief discussion, the motion carried by a unanimous vote. <br />Note: Zoe suggested future minutes could be housed on web on a google account <br />and she will circulate account information to the group. <br />Treasurer’s report <br />Diana South presented updated account information and reviewed items in <br />question. Diana is working from the state’s template to make sure our accounting <br />is delivered to the state in the proper format. <br />Balance ending 6/30/13: $6,348.97 <br />Encumbered from 2013 $2,105.00 \[Grace period Feb. 2014\] <br />Funds available for grants: $4,622.06. <br />= balance + interest + balance from local account <br />+ FY2014 MCC allocation (- 5% for administrative funds) <br />Admin. Avail. Balance $212.50 <br />FY2014 allocation = $4,250.00 \[From the MCC\] <br />We have $2,059.65 (“Patron’s Fund”) of our own local money. <br />Zoe applied for grant on behalf of us – LCO grant – to create gallery space at The <br />Munroe Center for the Arts, as was discussed at the last meeting. However, there <br />is problem with accessibility. Zoe talked to Tom Griffiths. Zoe shared the idea <br />from this group about possibility of installing a chair lift. This cost might be in <br />range of $100,000. However, after discussion with Tom, it sounds like a <br />$250,000 cost to solve the problem due to ceiling clearance and other problems, <br />and Munroe has other priorities at this time, including the driveway and parking <br />lot. <br />Discussion about whether we could try to keep the grant, but ask the grant-maker <br />to let us move the location of gallery to new Community Center if the town <br />agreed to that idea? Could we get that in place by time CC opens? If next fall, <br />the group thought it could be possible and should be discussed as there is so little <br /> <br />