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Lexington Council for the Arts <br />Wednesday, November 2 2022 <br />7:00 PM– 8:30 PM <br />Location: Via Zoom. See below for remote participation instructions. <br />Pre-Meeting Tasks <br />Review of draft minutes from September 12, 2022 and October 5, 2022 meetings <br />Attendance: <br />Present: David, Hoose, Steve Poltorzycki , Ashley Rooney, Anwell Tsai, Lisa <br />Herbert, Marie Hewes <br />Absent: Shalini, Kakar, Jessie Chen, Doug Urban <br />Guests: Claudia Lach <br />Recording Secretary: Marie Hewes <br />Meeting start time: 7:07 PM <br />•Call to order : 7:07 PM <br />•Secretar y’s repor t (Marie) : The Minutes from September and October meetings were <br />Unanimously approved. <br />•Treasurer’s repor t (Steve) <br />❖Nothing new from last time <br />➢State Account : Used for grantees. People have a year to complete their <br />project. <br />➢Town account : around $4,000.00 <br />➢Local account : $4,700.00 left. <br />•Grant cycle: over view of the process ( Anwell) <br />❖Anwell has been reorganizing the for mat of the panel book to simplify the work <br />for ever ybody. A folder was created for all the members. In that folder grant <br />proposals are divided by themes and a spreadsheet summarizes all the important <br />infor mation. Each member is now able to take notes and rate each proposal on a <br />scale 1-5 , with 5 indicating that one strongly supports funding a project. <br />➢Ever ybody should receive an invitation for the google folder. <br />❖The Sub-Committee has reviewed the criteria and will reconvene to discuss the <br />projects that receive a 3 or are borderline. <br />❖The time it takes to g o through the grant proposals is about 6 hours. <br />❖We have $ 9,100.00 . The council gets 5%. We also have money back from <br />grantees who did not complete their project. <br />❖We will need to decide whether to allocate up to 20% of the MCC funding for <br />one of our own projects.