##VIDEO ID:pEU-Fi0VC90## the meeting of the newb cultural council at 6:16 we're going to do a roll call Robin Lawson chairy Mary carille Ryan Kelly IDI Fram Ellen Dy and baren and we're going to be going through the 24 Grant applications and making decision about which entity we will award and how much all right so we need to approve last meetings minutes uh no because I have not seen them yet okay fair enough ready time and we just did the roll call here bra be here uh um so we'll do we'll do the next okay uh starting from the top can I explain what I have up here so um what we're going to do is th this is the table of contents that you all saw the beginning of the package and it's been converted into a spreadsheet and so this was what the project um budget did um and that is what they said their program was going to cost then they request a certain amount and then what our decision is when I put the decision in it's going to take away from the $5,600 here so if we say that we're going to give a $100 here you can see it just takes it away so that way we can just kind of monitor it and then I'm also going to do my best and I'll ask all of your help as well as to what is the reasoning we made that decision because Robin has to put that into the letters and this so everybody knows the process you get you do the denials first and the reason for that is that they can appeal them and if they appeal them and somehow we have to in that appeal there's a decision that they do get some money then there have may have to be other adjustments because we only have a certain amount of money allotted and then once that's all done there's a certain time period Then the um approvals are um or the awards are given so I will simply be the Scribe here um and I may stop you every once in a while and say okay what was our reasoning for that um or and I can also these numbers can just change so as we said well let's just give them what they asked for and we find out at the end that we're we have too we've given away too much money then we can always make adjustments so we may go through two or three times to get to the 600 we only took we went through it once last year I mean last year we got this done very quickly was remarkable and I I suspect based on what I've seen so far um that this one will be pretty easy as well do we want to start just with the first calling as far as ones that are definite Nos and that might help kind of I was just about to suggest that and my question was simply as we call would we agree on what how we're how and why we're calling or does it not matter oh yeah no we has to have the reason why we're not yeah yeah even if it's like they don't have a date or like this is not the right yeah but yeah and can I just clarify that so we only have 56 we have 5600 and the request is 162 yes okay yeah so you missed that part which says that we will spend only 5600 right and we little away somebody asks for a th so we have to there's some cutting that needs and there's also partial funding which you may not have heard somebody might ask for 500 bucks and we can we can give you 175 I me we can do whatever we want so I know we've talked in the past that we would obviously we want to focus on Newbury requests and Newber activity so that's kind of a no-brainer but there was there's a question in every single one about whether it's for uh children and there's a number of them that are not so do in my opinion I thought I'm going to pay a little bit more attention to the requests that do involve kids there was almost nobody that was solely for children but there were many of them that were not for children at all is that a question in there because that's an important way to distribute the money or does it it not matter that's just something that MCC includes on the gr applications this just good to know but we are but they don't believe that you know philosophically we're not trying to okay okay um I had a third one let me just see what is a mass card to culture a what a mass card to culture I have no idea there's a mask card to culture that people can buy apparently that that that gives them discounts to some of this activities okay never heard of that that and do we also care if someone has gotten permission for whatever they're trying to do yet yes yes absolutely that's what I figure okay thank you ready to go all right uh well do you want to start the calling process Ryan sure so we can start with the first one which is the Greek Food Festival well I actually I was thinking that we would just go through it and I have marked mine up sure you want to share you haven't marked up um and I also had done some uh uh well let's let's look at I also marked up things so let's can we just go Ryan can read the names and if anybody has immediate like we can also do a quick color of like yeah your name and we can back yeah yeah okay so what I'd like to do is I'd suggest that we start with uh with number six mural and Plum Island MH that where she wants to first of all where she wants to paint is not a new it's a new right secondly it involves public property so that is not we could give her $300 but that doesn't mean it would ever get done so to me that's immediately that was my question about she doesn't seem to have permission yet to do that so I don't think we want to put money against it until she came back and said I got it she want to stop the next one and I I have to say on number number seven done number seven um I got kicked off The the U out of the app before I had a I just missed that one and when I went back to look at it I had get K gotten kicked out of the app as I was explaining earlier so I don't even know what that one is but my gu best guess is that doesn't it's not it's training for elderly people to use their smartphones and their tablets it's actually program but it's expensive um they they're charging $250 a session that they do um against and that's what the money is for that's my understanding Michaela read that way to you that's that is exactly what they propos but it's a service we're essentially paying for a service right and so that was going to be my next point I don't think it's really culturally relevant and if you look at how many of the cultural councils they did they literally went an alphabetical order and did about half the state all right so thentic three l number eight I am as I recall Bart we did not fund that uh last year we did not and um and the reason is um that there's no local sponsorship so all she's doing is taking a proposal just sending it throughout the entire State and hoping for somebody just to throw him some money and um it was not inexpensive um he did say he was going to do at the town library but there's no um letter of a support or anything so there's no local support okay oh everybody agree yes okay uh then we have number 16 sorry 15 which is the out sculpture at Bley we received a notification from Bart or Bert that um the the sculpture exhibit is not going to happen in 2025 they withdrew their application was not relevant it's just he they withdrew their withdrew their application number 15 that was number 15 withdrew their application okay all right then I have uh number 24 which is the stat of dignity and I did nothing didn't that it's a presentation about bullying I didn't think it was a good fit it's also another one that's fits that what you were talking about before no local sponsorship local sponsorship okay so that's if everybody it's not cultural either is it any sorts of things just to be fair to say to them that libr yeah exactly right okay now to to to keep us organized I would like to suggest we don't have to do this but I'd like to suggest that we go through the ones that are specific to new right and then we can go back all right so that if we skip down to number nine this is Georgetown Theater Workshop takes place in bfield they're asking for $500 we have funded that before it's at the bip Community Art Center pardon they perform at the bill Community Art Center yeah and we funded them last year at 300 they requested 500 last year and we funded them at 300 just to give you a sense but we can put I can put in if people agree I can put in 500 and again we can back okay then we have uh the library passes to the strawberry B Museum in M otton which is requested by the library and that with they always the liate always asks us for funding and we always for it's up there sorry it's I it's number eight yeah um I will tell you oh numers changed oh it's oh I'm sorry yes number 10 um I don't know if anybody uses those passes they're wonderful we've done a lot of museums we why would they not get passes for things in Massachusetts though instead of in New Y they they they get passes to what people like who people want that the library they look at the programs and they find out what of the the most popular and they choose depending what's the most popular they get input because we have our own historical stuff that cost you money to go see too but that's what that's what they that's what they asked for I'm sorry can we go back so there I did have another one that did not have any local support which one um number five Community magic show ah yes I wanted to talk to you about that as a matter of fact so you well we're on the subject all right so here's what happened we talked about whether or not there might be a Grant application that would fit our summer initiative did we know that yes we did yes so normally just is just a level set for everybody that type of application we would dismiss out of hand because there is no local connection and how are you going to publicize your event oh the the C Cal C will do it we're like no so but in this case because we had talked about possibly having something like this that serves children right at newb Town day I contacted Pete and I said very very vaguely you know we're in discussions and some possible Summer Event tentative right would you be available on a sum of Saturday in August and he came back and he said yes so but he is not a local person are we are we not trying he's in bler he's in bler he's not but wouldn't couldn't we not wouldn't couldn't we ask him to just participate in New Town day separately and use the the money from the other budget and not put him into this category we could I agree yeah yeah we could that seems a little clear yeah yeah I think so so pay him then it's great that we found this connection but we shouldn't use this money for that I think there's better fits for this money but I think it's a good sounds good so that'll be good on the inside room of the f yes it would which I which I go byy again the other day and saw how small it was it looked bigger the first time I saw it is small but you can fit I mean it's like it's almost a third size this half it's pretty big in there actually but his his website also shows outdoor oh yeah I think stage talking about you like to have those things outside people say that good and number okay so we'll deny his will not deny his Grant right but we'll keep in touch and say yeah try have them hold the date even if worth kind of thing but do we have to set that money aside now though no no only because we're talking about not taking out of this money there's a different partt of money yeah it's Town money this is State money that would be town before you got here we were talking about celbration fund that we think we're pretty sure what you miss was that uh to make a presentation to the select board and say by the way we're going to be get enough this fun for such such expenses um okay so the next on my list that's uh a new a direct Li connection is the number 17 um which I think that uh is a much larger conversation but we can do it now if you'd like so I was confus sorry oh 17 16 17 no no 17 but I'm going through my list I'm for what for all intens and purposes I'm going through my list that we're and calling out things that are that are in just to help us with Focus so the the the SE number 17 which is the you are here sculpture they're trying to get 350 towns all across America okay right so but I marked it as newb because it would be here it would be okay so let's let's revisit that one so then I have um liid spine great Marsh that's in Newbury flying aces in is in number 19 is in newy as is um uh 21 and uh and 23 of course is scholarship money so those are all that right you know here and then the other ones are new repor or thereabouts so I thought that would help us to move things along okay so let's just take them one by one so you are here it didn't feel to me like she has permission or goahead or commitment or anything from anybody yet and also the LCC would have to pay for installation and a bunch of other stuff if you read through the thing it's like the money is for one thing but then we have to do $33,000 for the work right and and it took me three years to get one piece installed in April of Evans and it's literally literally they just last week Bard the Bas I think it's a very cool idea but I don't think she have it has it ready for us to commit money she needed to she needed to get wall wall rolling I'm going to do a dramatic reading of an email that you sent us this email is regarding my Grant application for the you are here sculptures I have been feeling a lot of inquiries that are similar so I thought I should send an email to all of the lccs explaining the two main questions that everyone's seems to have first most cultural councils including my own here in willham require that you secure a venue so that the grant does not get wasted do due to an artist not having a place to perform display Etc I agree that this is a very good idea the reason the sculpture project doesn't have an exact location nailed down for each of the 351 towns is strictly because of the large scope of the project it will take months to meet with ag ofu and receive your input regarding where you think the sculpture will be best located in your own town it is my responsibility to gather this information from you and get the permission and location secur if we had a town hall we could position it there indeed it just isn't feasible to do it for blah blah blah blah uh talking crazy secondly there have been I'm skipping over the rest of the that that's beginning part first question secondly there have been a lot of questions regarding the art on the back of the pen again as the person requesting the grant it will be my job to organize what goes on the back and get it completed I don't do you know what she's talking about there's a blank white on the back many of the lccs thought they were responsible for doing the leg work of finding an artist and creating the work that is my job I only ask one thing of the LCC is other than granting the funding and that has to give me your input this is crucial to the project when you fund this project I will ask to schedule a meeting with all or some of your cultural councel to gather information about what you would like to see on the back and if you have local artists that you would like to recommend I will reach out to them and see if they are suitable after Consulting with your LCC I will work with the audence to come up with a draft to show you as a courtesy it won't be going up for a vote uh finally I want to make sure that everyone I'm skipping over a lot here but uh details finally I want to make sure that everyone understands that if their Council can't fund the entire project in one year it can be split into 2025 and 2026 grants please take a moment to little thank you for considering the sculpture project the response so far has been overwhelmingly positive sounds that the lady doesn't have a life she going to have a lot of freaking work a lot of work and who who's she going to interact with and she's driving driving all around literally Massachusetts not sure exactly how I this is one person huh I think it's a great idea I just I don't know if it's the best use of our money right now especially given the fact that our town doesn't it's not like it's Asbury with downtown or Newport downtown it's it's we we don't have a ton of money and I think the money would be more culturally spent on the people in it versus hoping people drive from not them but other places they should also have more of the proposal outline artists and designs and all that it seems very beginning stages yeah but it also sounded like we have to do a lot of work exactly yeah it's just not clear so I just took a few notes this this cover this is cover it I said no local support requires additional support outside Grant we are too small to take this project on needs more local connection I would also say we don't have an obvious place we don't have a central place in town for the display right outside the rest of door that would probably be more people come from there for the r can't anything else they should come do this Jes SC Rusty okay so the next one you said was the liquid spine great Marsh which is local because they would do the thing loely day but look at any of the I liked it they were pretty cool I thought it was a great idea it's a lot of money it's a lot of money in the scheme of things but I love the idea well we'll go back and we don't have to1000 right so I see a lot of head shape is that a yes yeah yes everybody likes it do you want me to put like 500 down or just put the Thousand I I would put down start there and then we'll go back and Fiddle with it okay and the next one is flying Aces which is actually hisor I like it I like local reasonably priced and historic has been a great partner to us it's different and it's kids yeah I think that's I think that's a no- brander myself yeah too and then we have um we have love letters and this is the uh uh C on Aging um I like request every year to have Del make their presentation and what was it this year Lizzie Boron they remember they changed it oh that's right so we we fund this every year yeah we do and last year we gave them 750 um so this is uh so this actually last last year before we get too before we get too far ahead past this one which I agree that we should probably just fund this one I would like to say that we do fund all of tempo the Thousand that they ask for all of who Tempo T that's the scholarship I have a question about temp um oh so are we going to jump to that I'm sorry no we don't have to I agree if we wanted to finish love letters I think it's makes sense and it's less than yeah no we're we can we can we can yeah okay so 695 so so then you wanted to go to Tempo yeah which is the next one anyhow no no just just par oh no no no I'm we're going through the ones that are that are new newb specific and then we'll go back okay so last year we decided not to do Tempo what last year we didn't do Tempo it was it wasn't the request was different was it different I believe scholarships was the scholarships oh what is the ship money go to it it goes to individuals which is why I have an issue with it for this kind of money because it's not for large groups of people or for bringing the community together it's scholarship money it's a service to me and the same way the other things are I love the idea is it scholarship to attend school or what is the money Ed for because I don't no scholarships for camps it's it's for um it is it's my understanding was what it's for camps and learnings associated with arts and things okay so extra extra yeah but it it only just goes to one person that's myly challenged with it it goes to about 25 people yeah yeah my problem with it was that they they do tempo as a great Organization for these kids they do a lot of fundraising activities it said in their application that they're short on money because of lack of participation in their fundraising activities right and what does that say yeah well you know um so so they want to rely on the cultural Council to give them scholarship money which I you know as you said I I just have a good point and I know how though 25 is a decent number of of I mean that's it's not five but um would we could I would like to do some amount yeah that's what I'm thinking if that could be fair if even if it's the amount that they ask for or something we can see how it shakes that MoneyWise but as someone who was born through the tempo program and is multicultures because of it it does matter and it is it does have a direct link to so Ryan you you are a Tempo recipient I went through the entire music program from new real metri school to Tron Middle School to Tron high school and I did as many extracurricular after school things Tempo money went towards the buses for our winter percussion competition it went towards different lessons and things my brother went to the UMass honor band he was the third best trumpo player in the state at one point because of tempo money so it's it's a the people Community Arts Center are there because of it's investing in the it I kind of use that as the argument that there's literally Alum that are now I'm here because of that it kind of it's the seeds of that and I can understand it's a lot of money and I understand we don't have a ton of money to give um but I would like to see some go to it if possible because I do believe very strongly that it is directly impacting the the culture of disturbed by the lack of participation it's sad to hear I just went to go see my girlfriend and I went to go see the Lightning Thief the musical we thought it was pretty good so do we want to put in um approved like 500 for now we'll come we'll come back and stick the number and then revisit it 500 I think is fine I have to I'm just going to be a devil's advocate here I understand everything you're saying right MH is the cultural Council in the business of funding scholarships or is the cultural Council in the business of funding activities and programs that benefit the wi Community I would argue we could do both in some capacity depends on what it is and well you got me with the 25 number if it was literally three to five scholarships I think i' feel differently but 25 is a small group that'd be like doing a small it's literally one class I touch 20 people at a time exactly which we might fund in some of these other places as small numbers yeah and and how do the recipients of the scholarships get chosen or awarded they apply my family actually we give a a grant through the school outside of tempo and it is up to the music teachers or whoever is on that board I think I knew one of the DB maranella or whatever her name is I think she was on it she may not be in charge anymore but they literally have a meeting just like this and they say this kid is excelling in this they're doing this what this well they're pushing this thing they're the leading the play this is they just apply for this thing the family's you know struggling with this and this we should give them the let's say it was 500 bucks we should give them the $100 thing to cover the panes for that thing I think it's an internal conversation so the the student doesn't have to necessarily participate in their fundraising events I don't know outside of how they run their fundraising but I know that they apply for certain things and I know that basically a small board like this from when I was in it could have changed right but um we basically had to is our decision at all based on the concern that if say we do partial funding that this The Entity who we award will not be able to go forward because they didn't get any other funding there's a on the um on the back of the application that says um if we don't give you the money what are you going to do right and then you know most people um have an option for well we'll scale back the program we'll reach out to somebody else we'll have fewer available whatever it's for theirs verbatim the question is how will you adjust the project if the council cannot find on the entire amount they said if we are unable to achieve our goal of 8,000 then the total which is the total total we they asked for a th000 for the record then the total scholarship fund that we are able to achieve will be divided among the student recipients so it's they get a lower awarded amount than in Prior year so to our point we we fund half right now and if that's all we can do they still have some money which I feel good about personally but it's not like they're not going to give it away there are other events in here where it's the 350 or the 4 00 or like I've done classes where it's like if they can't give the full 500 bucks for me to go to the Linfield library then they don't hire me but that's a small amount it's 20 something people and they usually do the event so my my the discussion that we had last year was along the lines of what Robin brings um and I'm still inclined to believe that that's the right answer um but the reason I'm open to it is that it's such an important thing the question is is it appropriate for our Council and last year we decided it was outside the bounds of our Council uh it's basically a fundraising entity what money we give to them simply going to go to a pool I mean it's not going to be year marked to 25 people I think it's just going to be a big pool um so I I was open in the discussion to partial funding um because I do think it's an important thing and I think it's great that you've been through it and you can really speak to that um but I'd like to see what we would be giving up in terms of other proposals before we decide on the total amount so while I was inclined to give it zero I'm open to giving it some sure um certainly not a thousand that's well I think all of them were going to go back so yeah we talked about putting the 500 in as you did and then that this would be highlighted as one to definitely look at the number may go up or down I'm dying to know whether and I could have found this out now that I think of it whether Rowley and Salsbury Cal councils fed it it says it right underneath oh if they did it last year they did last year they did we don't no and we don't know but we we were pretty clear last year when you sent that letter I believe you said that this was outside of our scope scope yeah it did say they at least appli more so than the other things that we talked about as service offerings this will continue to grow in the community as a cultural these kids are going to go off and do more things that are all related to what we do fund and support versus I might go see the bullying thing and while it's good for me to do that doesn't influence anything else I'm going to do in the community culturally related so there's nowhere for them to go except into something else related to what we do you know support so if we want to just put a pin in it for now and keep moving on I it's fair to keep going I'm just I'm going to so I actually know I don't know the chair of the rowy cultural Council but I know personally the chair of the salber Cal C it's really easy for me to find that out sure I would ask them how they view it it would be probably helpful to know right absolutely yeah yeah so let me do that and I can just go into the now that I can get back no actually it's public I'll go back into the into the NCC website I'll get the name of the rowy person and we can collaborate don't have to make that well we kind of do because we want well whatever just question one final note if we do end up giving 500 bucks it's $20 a kid towards a scholarship yeah so it just it seems like when you put it like that to me like not a it's like it's like a sandwich for a kid not even yeah they The Temper used to used to for years apply to uh for the spring percussion concert every year always gave them full amount and so this is the scholarship is different the scholarship is really different and it was kind of jarring when I saw it because it was just it was that was also a no-brainer I think I think outside of anything else I think asking the other councils just for us to know is not a bad idea yeah however we won't know the answer tonight decision I supp I could call her up right now all right so that's um that's Tempo and I think that's I think we're done with the yeah that's so that's all the Newber proposal so now we can go and unless there's further discussion about that we can go back to the beginning a Greek Food Festival now this is a new um entity I thought they did this every year they do the festival every year they asking for a band band oh yeah this is their first band two dudes two dudes they always ask the Newbury cultural Council for for money no we never no this is the first time so my first question is are they is this a fundraiser for them yes so we essentially will be contributing to their fundraising yes which to me is not the appropriate use of council money I agree that's why I already crossed them up way of is there any disagreement with that I mean I I I just don't think we should be funding fundraisers no yeah I love their food festival but I actually still haven't been I hear about it every year and I love July going to be around definitely to go you know I'll tell you since the ipswitch Greek festival is oh yeah it's bigger they have a lot of ENT they have entertainment yeah they have dance they have oh it's and it's incredible all of the food and all of the logistics are done by volunteers that's amazing it's amazing when's that but any we'll come back should we go to number two here MH y all right so we do that historically um and uh the same amount pretty much every year um I love the theme of it yeah so containment the reason we F containment is because people from Newbury may or may not perform with contam and but people from Newbury go to the contus concerts which are in one of which is in new report by the way as a side note we got an email today from conus with complimentary tickets to their uh new new report uh um concert which is on December 8th Beverly concert which is on the 6th and their glosser con concert which is on the 15th I wrote her back and said thank you very much for thinking of us but according to the state ethics laws we will have to decline however I will bring it up at our meeting tonight and make sure that everybody knows I remember I remember this from the new one obviously and I think for 300 bucks out of 25 Grand it is such a no-brain we're talking pennies per ticket sale but it's a good thing it's it's amazing this is the kind of stuff we need I'm not hearing their coner no I too well you can hear really good stuff not far away uh okay so that's a that's a yes uh the new report Lantern Festival we found that since it started though is is kind of a fundraiser in my mind I mean it's a fundraiser and awareness for cancer which there's a lot of out there but it's a big event I've been to it it's beautiful but again aside from the lanterns that they use it's a fundraiser for a Cancer Society so if we say follow that logic from the Greek Orthodox church right yeah I mean they've made it they've made it a sort of an artistic they have an artistic flar to it because they're using Japanese lanterns and that's kind of their yeah a Greek Food Festival to me this is this is a fundraiser for ovarian cancer which I support by the way I have a very dear friend more cat course is not anything personal but um and like I said I've been to it and it's beautiful but it's it's a it's a cancer program I agree it does seem like we should follow the same logic for both whatever that is okay and I don't think the 500 bucks is going to mean that they don't have it oh no they're going to have it we only gave them 300 last time um so it's um that may have to be a more carefully worded letter but I think it's just a I think it follows the same logic as the other things that we're saying does everybody agree then yeah yes I can understand I think new report we did it because it was in new report but that doesn't you know that doesn't matter now I I can see the argument for sure yeah everybody agree absolutely well you wouldn't want the other people to come back and say you funded them right on the other side right okay next up is new report indous people's day now note on this one we have historically funded that uh event and the MCC you ask about children um Ellen the MCC does want the LCC Mony to be spent on programs that Advance diversity okay yeah oh I I'm unfortunately this this year the weather is horrendous um I was cold to say the least um but it's a really nice program it's an incredible program it's very culturally it's stimulating guess for lack of a better word an excellent organiz It's music there's art there's history there's all the stuff that's in our mission so that's a yes that's a yes so last year we funded them at 300 I believe just yeah 300 so do you want do put 500 and see how it checks out yeah I did have a question that made you know that that um the salaries for the um presenters was 10,000 and that just seemed I mean are there are there many many of them yes and they bring them all over and they're actually quite amazing as and again you're you're talking all that money and then we're getting 500 bucks it's like yeah seems like a small little token okay so now we are up to the Georgetown Theater Workshop which is number nine I thought we approve I'm sorry that skip y oh sorry we already approve that one oh we do oh you're right you're right right okay new report chamber music Summer Festival 2025 we historically do it it's at 300 they're very conscious of the money I all the people that stay at my friends houses um it's actually quite a good it seems like a beautiful thing yeah sounds good to I remember one time several years ago we did not fund the um the new report Chamber Of Music Festival because there was somebody on the cultural Council our C cultural adamantly opposed to it why didn't like cultural music who know who knows and so it it got beat and I never could understand it and then one year we got a letter from an verett spr in fact who was at the time uh the name contact she was the grants applic applicant for the Newport chamber Society she literally said we get funding from every other cultural Council what's up with you guys it was much more polite than that and I said you know but that person left the council so now that that person's off the council since that person left the council we funed every year not just because Ann begged but because it really is again as bar just said it's it um there are lots of people from from our community who attend the concerts and they actually tried to to AB Braden it so that some performers actually are in the localities are supposed to just all being report ding sounds good Spring Concert yes Coral Society we again historically we've always funded them they've been very very good it's amazing how much some of these events cost I agree that was one of the interesting things when I see that from the other behind the scenes that you report for sure and then you're like my $225 ticket they better sell out I totally get it FM I think the film festival fits our mission certainly that is very well attended start looking at overall money that we're about to run out yeah that's why we're have to go back that's what we did last year great H next in the open Patricia in the C that's for children uh one yeah yeah I say yes to that one I do too oh yeah they're quite good and then Port ginger gingerbread Festival that was the first last year was no I'm sorry I didn't mean to I was a little confused by their application are they asking to do this for in the next couple of weeks because they had 2024 for the DAT wow yeah the way the fiscal years work is a little confusing I it's technically we're funding things from this July July 24 through June uh but it doesn't really work that way because we sometimes will do things after June there's I've never I and I looked looked it up today I tried to look up the reconciliation of the fiscal years versus the calendar years and there's no good discussion about it so um we did it last year we funded them last year even though it was done within two weeks of our so are they ready to go have they got a lot of interest in because I haven't been up here so yeah last year was the first year that they did it at the festival and it ended up and I remember sitting around people said no I said why are you guys saying No this is brilliant and first time you're doing it so I was like oh okay let's do it and then it it turned out that it it was just a it was a smash they had a Hu they had a lot of information do they still need the money yeah well they they also have a planning team of 16 people I mean how could you go wrong love to plan something with 16 love that so do we want to say 400 for now and see where we end up for what did we do last year we're already under already over our allotment but we did 300 last year we did 300 last year Well we only have a couple more no we've got um we've got 20 and 22 we have uh right and ioca and 24 oh I'm sorry no that's right we only have two more so ter Children of the Holocaust and justce I'm pretty sure we finded that last year did they end up doing that last year did they did do it yeah we gave them 300 last year okay um on put 500 we'll figure this out is there an entrance fee to that or is it free um they usually charge they say ticket now why you have well it's just to me it just seems like if they have a significant right away significant source of funding that they're going to charge tickets oh but these a lot of these charge tiet they they charge just right yeah they they can't cover their classs okay right and Anna always asks yeah right is she kind of an institution yes she certainly is she actually started a theat yeah um so I I had just scribbled down 300 for that one okay and the last one is Injustice for all which is the peg Center is that the piece of artwork I think that's the one that going to get circulated different towns or something proba a Mur ohun L that idea especially since it involves the community coming in and painting it yeah yeah oh that's great didn't it so we put the whole 400 and go back and chisel yeah okay I think so then the ones at the back don't get disc did did she have a um Chang place where these were going to be these murals exibited that's true is it a secure location what they wrote I think they they were going to discuss they were going to be movable so you could discuss where they're going to be putting each time whatever we have to remove $ 1,145 from the money we've allocated so just starting from the top um contus at 300 that's not really I don't think a haircuts going to do much there um indigenous people's day that's pretty reasonable um your theater any of these look like we could cut a little bit the relatively small amounts well we take the documentary we take 50 or 100 Bock off of some of the ones take 500 okay so Georgetown theater yeah we 400 okay do 400 and then for that one I would do 500 and then the next one i' do 250 and then prob the same for the next one for that one and then okay we already did this one the yellows are where we already cut them yeah okay for that exactly do we want to cut anything out of that one or not 44.95 $1 what if we did this at 500 y that one's yellow but we did it for full for the oh yeah yeah so do 300 there yeah so we only have to cut out 200 bucks I'm inclined to a little bit do that on Tempo but I I do 400 do 400 here so we got 100 bucks that we got can we go back to the top and do a read through contus 300 that's pretty low already indigenous people um what um um 500 is a reasonable amount that that actually and it affects a lot really important one important let's scroll down and see if we can take 25 bucks out of some of the other ones theater 37 that um we have $500 for the liquid spine one and it seems like a lot because it's I don't know it's involving just a few people that are making this one video and I don't remember who they also asked was videographers where I think most of the fun was I actually agree with you on that I I like what they're doing but um what did they say they were going to do if they didn't get the funding they were going to scale back yeah fils or something they're only asking Newber for money is that it really it just yeah it doesn't say yeah videographer was the most some of the other stuff was the space that's right one of the few that didn't have they got 2,000 grants yeah they already got a grant so they're trying to get, 1500 Extra more and they are not going to any of the other cultural counselors but they could and it says they will reduce and scale back our filming and rehearsal hours to reduce costs we're already giving already cut them back a lot yeah I'm not inclined to cut them anymore I I think I agree yeah I'm wondering if we can try and take a 100 bucks out of even if we did down to tens and some of the other ones we already cut do we want to go through and just see how the ones that we know are getting granting from other things or that they're well yeah like I'm not to pick on them but I'm wondering about the gingerbread people they might already be in really good shape well that's why I asked before they do they need the money like could we put them to 200 and call it a day when you look back up on that one if it's very soon they should they're probably in good shape exactly or they've made it work one way or another uh yes I mean it's literally in two weeks right yeah and I expect to see all of you there you have to SP was hoping to do too exhausting I know get one of those mold flower right no I wanted to make my own I want to make own too maybe you I Cate you know get being sick oh that's right you miss her last I was like I wanted to do a tree house just so the breakdown for them is the I my laptop to do just what you're doing Turn on so it's it's like a $6,000 total thing they have mass cultural C grants Bank Foundation grants local business sponsors private individual donors um they said they're not going to any other cultural councils who this the Jer people so they NE rep it said no didn't have anyone else W maybe it's cuz we were the only ones that funded them last year well that makes no sense I think giving them some is probably fair but I don't think we're being unfair and I think we hit our number and we had 200 so this is it these these are the ones that we agreed to are we holding any we're not holding any money back at all for our own purposes surveys there's another $100 there is okay just want to make sure that well you're in charge of the annual report so I'm not going to worry about it I think that's pretty fair I know some got all and actually not many got all because we cut so what only two four which ones actually got all of the money did the indigenous people did um the LI I mean we went from 16,000 285 to 5600 so those are the only two people that got the full amount that we pay out and it seems like a good variety that we're funding right yeah it covers lots of audiences which which are the two that we the the ones in green are the ones we funded in full Chang I changed the colors but it the two are contous and um indigenous people oh and so we we didn't Fund in full the the passes the library request no oh no no really $0000 is that going to be a problem because then they won't be able to get them well it means fewer people get the passes I kind of hate to we know that they use them all yeah and can we finds of the library to purchase last can we go down I'm sure they can get if not I was going to say what if we cut out a little more from the film festival and the uh you report cor Society take 50 bucks for each and put you know it wouldn't break my heart to cut a little from tal Society because they have a lot we fund them every if we take 50 and 50 from those two new report ones we're still giving more than half of what they asked for and that fills the new one okay what was the other documentary okay so it's 350 and fully fund this at 600 okay I like that you like that Heidi if we're focusing on new first I put new report in a 2/3 plus majority of whatever they ask for for a couple things so I don't have access to the internet so I can't send it to all of you right now but I will send this as soon as I get home thanks for doing that you better the minute you walk in so thank you Bart it so much easier when you can do it like that so we're P time no we're not 7:30 yeah 7:30 sorry um we have other business we need to do and or just at the next meeting I think say the next meeting and I if if we want to spend five minutes and quickly do the thing we were going to do a zoom call for I feel like maybe now since we're so early is not a horrible idea because it saves us all another the meeting but you know okay I think we I think we can this meeting do we need to set a date for our next meeting or not I think we sh before we adjourn technically or okay all right so the meeting is adjourned I I I uh how do you do this I make a motion make a motion I make a motion the meeting is a in favor I