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Lexington Council for the Arts Meeting
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Location: Hybrid
In Person: Parker Room, Town Hall (Lower Level)
Attendance:
Present: Alix Fox, Lisa Herbert, Marie Hewes, David Hoose, Shalini Kakar, Claudia Lach, Ashley Rooney
Absent: Eric Hellweg, Elsie Xu
Secretary minutes from September 4, 2024 meeting approved.
Treasury. MCC wants a report by next week that tells about the status of all the grants reimbursement
requests we have received. Currently, people are not sending in their invoices for this year. Some have
been delayed such as Lexington Community Center; some events have not occurred.
Our treasurer Marie said that we get $6000 from the Town every year. We have the MCC grant money
of $9400. We also have a local account of $7100, which is an accumulation of MCC money for
administrative purposes and other sources. We also have another $6000 from an ARPA grant.
Role of Chairs. Claudia described her and Alix’s role. They would like to see everyone take an active
role and to be engaged in our projects. The suggestion is to have two large projects in the spring and
fall and the artists’ reception.
Native American Project. Shalini described her thoughts about a Native American event on June 3.
Tentative budget would be 8-10K.
Horse Project. Alix described the process of getting a horse to add to the Riding Through History
project. Trish Keneally is interested in sponsoring half a horse with us. David moved that the counsel
sponsor a horse. Ashley seconded. The group voted against it.
Porchfest. It was a great example of the committee working together. We had almost 90 acts and 60
porches. We suggested putting bands in center of town; paying the finale band. We discussed if Kirk
could send an invoice for some of his extra work.
Grant Cycle Planning. Marie, Lisa, Claudia, and Alix are on the committee. If Eric is able to join, Lisa will
step down. Alix and Claudia worked with MCC to develop a spread sheet such as we have used in the
past.. Our committee will meet Nov 12, 7:30 pm and Nov 16, noon, at Claudia’s house
We decided the next meeting would be hybrid.