The Fall River Cultural Council held a meeting on December 15, 2021, where they elected new officers and reviewed numerous grant applications for the 2022 cycle. Donna Valente was unanimously elected as President, Susan Cody as Assistant Chair, and Dr. Don Carvalho as Treasurer. The minutes from the February 2nd meeting were also unanimously approved. The council then proceeded to review 69 grant applications, discussing each one individually for provisional funding amounts, with a final roll call vote taken at the end. Key discussions revolved around ensuring projects directly benefited Fall River residents, had confirmed dates and venues, and aligned with the council's mission of promoting arts and culture, rather than health or general community services. Several applications were denied due to lack of specificity, non-local focus, or being deemed outside the council's purview. The council reconciled their budget, which initially showed an overspend of $274, by adjusting some allocations. Notably, Rhonda Fazio's 'The Art and Language of Food' project was split to receive $500, and the Narrows Center for the Arts' 'Concerts on the City Pier' was adjusted from $16,000 to $15,720. A motion to accept all funding figures, with the exception of Gnome Incorporated, passed unanimously. A separate motion to accept Gnome Incorporated's funding of $7,000 also passed unanimously, with Chris Anteo recusing himself. The meeting concluded with a discussion about holding future workshops for applicants to improve proposal quality.
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are susan cody susan cody um chris anteo don carvalho um i'm donna valente acting chairperson and um debbie pelletier is our clerk um before we begin the meeting um we do have a statement that i need to read pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that
0:27such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible and our meeting is being recorded and um aired on um through fall river tv on and on facebook um okay um first order of business is election of offices do i have any nominations i nominate donna for president i'll second that i'll second the nomination for president
1:03okay can we have a roll call yes we can um do this properly uh mr anteo yes uh dr carvo yes miss cody yes mrs valente i guess i have to say yes it's unanimous and we need a um a coach uh an assistant chair is that what we need debbie on the assistant it's not necessary but you can if you would like just in case okay um could i have a motion two for
1:44election of an assistant chair and i'd like to nominate susan cody second all in favor oh no roll call uh roll call mr antenna yes uh doctor uh dr carlova yes miss cody yes mrs valente yes and a motion to um for the office of treasurer i nominate dr carvo i second that colin yes mr antea yes dr carvalho yes is cody yes mrs valente yes okay our next order of business is approval of the
2:43uh minutes from the february second meeting can i have a motion to accept those minutes i'll make a motion that we accept the minutes of the meeting second second roll call mr entail yes uh dr carvalho yes miss cody yes mrs valente yes unanimously minutes have been approved um number three on the agenda is a request from little theater to modify their 2021 grant application due to the fact that
3:23they were unable to hold their um proposed um performance as approved by us last year um and i think everybody's had a chance to look at this debbie sent it out to us can i have a motion to modify the 2021 grant application from little theater i make a motion that we accept the proposal i'll second the motion any discussion okay can we have a roll call mrs pelletier yes dr carl yes miss cody
4:02yes mrs valente yes um next order of business is um a request from jim manning for an extension um we received a backup letter from um david mello in the fall river public library um supporting his extension could i have a motion to approve the extension i'll make a motion that we approve the extension second a second any discussion okay um mr spelling yes dr carlo yes miss cody yes mrs valente yes
4:47okay moving right along um review of applications for the 2022 grant cycle um applicant number one is brook baptiste for reggae on west beach you have any discussion i believe the project is outside of fall river which would not meet our local guidelines that was my thought as well i agree so these are provisional um amounts that we're discussing now correct correct what we'll do is we'll
5:23discuss provisional amounts and then at the end we'll we'll take a um rather than go through them one at a time this way we can go back and amend as we go along if we have more funding available and then at the end we will take a a roll call on on the um proposals is that agreeable good idea okay so the final vote will be toward the end but for now i propose zero funding
5:54i agree any more discussion no not with me okay question it's out of the area it's out of the city get that guy going yes that's not beneficial to the uh far river community okay i'll use that i'll use the let me scroll down here uh let me see it is sorry guys my computer is not this project does not play take place in forward and does not guarantee public benefit for its citizens that one yes
6:34correct sounds like a fun a fun project but it's not in fall river uh mr entail uh i approve the zero funding on that one dr carter oh no we're going to do that later i'm sorry okay that's okay i'm getting rolled paul happy number two um charles boucher new horizons i kind of looked at number two and three together i was just gonna i was just gonna ask that question if we could look
7:13at two and three together um number three is um by charles boucher also and it's crossroads and trees and i i would recommend 2000 as an individual artist uh excuse me we have to take each grant application on it as its own individual application that's our mass cultural council guidelines correct so let's pick one and a lot zero and two thousand to the other one well that was my thought um john because
7:49if you look at them it looks like they're both an individual artist and one in one the um timeline is january 22 to september 22 and the other one is march of 22 to november of 22.
8:05so i think you're right so maybe we should take the first one new horizons and do we want to approve him as an individual artist for two thousand dollars sure i agree which means you're denying the third grant what do i use for a reason that's in our guidelines
8:30can is there something about more than one application debbie absolutely not they can send as many as they want and i have been telling anyone who's contacted me that didn't we uh agree on last meeting i thought or the prior meeting to that to or to only fund one application per artist or organization no no no when we got more money we changed that i got it yeah because we have more money alternative
9:00idea it would be a thousand for project number one as an individual artist and a thousand for the next project as an individual artist okay we could do that we could do that so if we look at new horizons um a thousand dollars for new horizons and then go on to crossroads and trees yes and yeah again i agree he's applying as an individual artist and i would say a thousand dollars
9:44i agree with that
9:55okay moving on to number four um cambodian community of fall river the mass sarah dance troupe they're looking for 1200 12 400 um this is going to be a long speech i think for a moment i'm having trouble with the proposal we have a long history of supporting different cultures and including cambodian dance troops and in spite of proposals that were sketchy at times we gave them the benefit of the doubt
10:41because of language issues but this proposal i feel is very inadequate they describe an intent of 30 performances but there are no dates there are no venues it's i believe it's an organization that we funded before there are no pictures no documentations here in this proposal of what they did so it's difficult to look at a track record they also list the fact that dancers get a small stipend
11:19and i don't know what that stipend is i'm going to recommend that we reach out to them and offer help in developing more adequate proposals that sounds like a good idea yeah there is no place in that even on their budget page john you're you know i couldn't find anything that talked about the stipend and how much the stipend was it sounds like they have um as many teachers as they do performers
11:55it did it does say performance stipends for teachers and musicians in performance but it doesn't break it down into exactly how much right and just as a point of information we have not funded this group before we have not we have not this is the other group okay because i was i'm sorry um one of the things that i did notice that it said uh regarding the where the project will take place
12:30fall river and surrounding area but again there's no there's no other locations that are going to show that the four river community they're going to benefit from this because we don't know where it's going to be exactly and again we don't have the dates and we we require at least that information dates and confirmations of venues for all other applicants i think we should need to be consistent i agree
13:06was the recommendation to not fund this proposal yeah at this time yes okay and debbie i think you know the dates and times is definitely one of the um stipulations that they need to provide dates and times all right so yeah on venues priority eight specifically dates and venues on your project were not stated correct okay um number five christian chin snow money again um any discussion here
13:52getting a local project not a local project no okay so that's a zero debbie do you have that not a local no not a local project number three here okay uh number six co-creative center co-creative sessions again i'm not clear how our community would be involved no specific plan to target for river rights uh a quote from the proposal is that they're embracing the pulse that makes new bedford so unique
14:40i don't think that's helping fall river you're right there's nothing near to our benefit so maybe this is one that we reach out to them as well they do some good work over there but you're right so if they would had some sort of road map to connect four river artists i'd be willing to support them but you're right your exact uh quote don it clearly looks like a copy and it from a new bedford application
15:13that's right yeah but maybe we reach out to them let them know if they did have a clear-cut you know avenue to affect our artists here locally they do some really good work there know and they if they've had different programs but they don't really specifically say whether or not there's been any local um participation from from the fall river culture um called you know cultural um community okay so that's a zero
15:44uh next one is uh edward cope sea life balloon animal twisting workshop at the fall river public library i recommended that we do full funding um i concur i agree this is supported by um you know the people from the folks in the florida republic library so i i recommended full funding on that one i'd even like to reach out to them and maybe somewhat try to support them from gnome as well since it's sea life
16:17well i'm kind of skipping ahead a little bit but um i guess that's one of the things that they're focusing on at the public library this year is sea life so chris you might be might be interested in some you know work working with them so that'd be good okay so 450 for sea life um next one nancy cody everyday life in fall river i want to mention she's not related to me
16:50so what's your recommendation susan let me look at my notes here um let me see she doesn't have an exact date as far as the spring and summer just mentioning it on the other hand you know we're looking at something that's going to pull a lot of the uh locations on the waterfront as far as the the maritime museum the battleship heritage state park um this is saying that you know she's
17:23estimating 400 people to be served but i think it could be a lot more than that because of everything that's involved down the waterfront there are so many different people there that are always there so i mean i think that it's a great idea um i would just like to see a little bit more maybe documentation from her i was thinking of individual artists then i was i was as well that was my
17:50thought too with um an individual artist um because it seems that's what she's doing it seems like she has a studio down at the narrow center and i think you know that opening her studio with you know she could um keying on some drop-ins and and looking at the different um the arts festival and the spindle city fest etc i think you know that that seems i know where she doesn't have
18:16specific dates so but i think that seems to be her intention is to take part in in those those events okay then i'll agree as far as a stipend for her and we pretty much use 2000 as the max for individual artists so that's what i would recommend that was that was my recommendation as well chris yep i'll go with that okay um creative arts next network history comes alive i'm a little confused by the proposal
18:56at one point they mentioned that there will be a fee the performance will be 25 per person and i didn't see dates for specific performances i would be interested in helping to fund the interpretive boards but i wish there was more info and cost estimates for that right right we funded them last year for some interpretive boards am i correct i believe we did i can look it up in a minute
19:33now there will be there will be some performers so one thought i had would be 3500 the stipulation that is for the performers that's what was requested right sorry my computer is slow um you know i do have a note here too that the sheet uh when the application was completed um there is an error in it that they were asking for zero money uh the way it was written up on the spreadsheet not requested
20:16it's you know it had uh project uh budget in the column seventy three hundred dollars a month you know you're you're looking at the wrong one susan um number nine number nine creative network i'm sorry i jumped don't that's okay that's okay um no they're asking for 12-5 you're right i jumped that's okay last year their project was open air in art culture and we awarded them six thousand
20:52yeah i was looking i was looking at the same lines don was looking at for the salaries and for the performers but i agree with don it doesn't seem to be any kind of dates or or timelines as far as when these performances would take place
21:13and i know that they want on this one here they wanted to do the billboard correct correct no not the billboard that was yeah you did jump ahead interpretive boards yes part of it was to have some interpretive boards but there's no information on or i believe on the cost of those boards no and that was why i didn't know if they were still doing the boards from last year um
21:45and it says you know the but they're because they talk about the boards from last year um and then they talk about the performances will take place at venues in the district but it doesn't say when or where which is why i would like to see a stipulation if we agree to pay for the performance well the only way they would get paid debbie if i'm if i'm not mistaken is if they provided proof of
22:19performances am i correct they have to provide proof of performances but if you put a stipulation then i can only i only submit to done on the amount of the performances right if if there's less than that they're awarded in what they've paid performers then i send that to dunn and he usually rejects it okay so if we if we gave them 3 500 for performances and they didn't have a performance
22:52they'd get only oh for the performers is that yeah if they pay if we gave them 3500 for performers and they only paid i'll say 2 000 for performers they would only get the 2 000.
23:06correct correct well because i'm looking at i'm looking at all the other expenses in their budget and they're i'm questioning some of the things that we you know we certainly can't pay for insurance or permits or anything like that so our office supplies miscellaneous gift bags um marketing so i'm thinking that the only thing that we could pay for would be performers am i right yes
23:54so i recommend 3500 for performers chris a second that yes yeah i would agree we're not voting now but i agree um okay susan you agree yes absolutely okay now susan number 10.
24:20he's the expert lead mary sear um child millwork is a fall river outdoor installation i think that that it's a nice idea um i would have liked to have seen maybe a few more details as far as you know how she's going to about going to go about accomplishing all of this it does look like a big big project to put together if i would recommend any um any money i'm looking at supplies and materials
24:59the twenty five hundred dollars right because the rest is rental and technical cost um you know i'm part of it as far as salaries fees administrative they're looking to go to the national archives to scan our photos so when i was done reviewing all of the um expenses in the descriptions i came up with just the twenty five hundred dollars right right um the other the other question i have and i i'm not familiar with
25:35this process that she's planning on doing but if this was going to be outside i'm thinking wheat paste is that something that i don't know much about yeah stays for quite a while does it elements eventually start to break it down it's what you see when you're like in new york city and there's like uh some nice mural that's starting to peel off that that would be like a wheat pasted
26:00okay because i was thinking wheat paste i'm thinking the first time it rains no it creates like a like kind of like a laminated top over street art so to say but it doesn't last forever it just lasts you know a year max so there's really two ideas that she's presenting the first is to put is to rent a billboard and to place on it photos that were done in the early 1900s by a famous photographer
26:38louis hine who focused on child labor i don't know that i want paul rivera to have that paste it all over you know it isn't the filter of his history but to put it on a billboard i i had mixed feelings the second idea she had was to put some of these with the wheat paste on windows of an old factory and she gave an example in her proposal of what that might look like
27:17the weakness with that idea is that she doesn't have a specific agreement with an owner of such a building right but i thought of an individual artist stipend okay i think that's a that's a good that's a good idea i'm i'm just concerned you know i'm i was concerned i had the same concerns you did don with the um permission to do this and how much um the billboard you know i agree with you
27:47about the you know is this how you want to promote the city but um and what you know what what messages is it getting across but um i thought her i thought her proposal with the old mill was very interesting but like you said um that's not something she has permission for i i have trouble with that too if they don't have any specific you know documentation that someone's
28:09gonna let them do that like what are the chances they're gonna actually do it right i would definitely put a stipulation in there that the project has to be completed as stated right then we can then we can't deal with it as an individual artist i gotcha i don't know she has a studio i saw some of her photographic work and i was impressed by it yeah it doesn't say whether or not she
28:39has a studio there's nothing there's nothing in her presentation that talks about um you know she's had some she's had some exhibits but there's nothing that says she has a studio do you want me to do you want me to see if we can get from um i can i can give her a call and we can um find out if she has permission from you know the mill that she was suggesting um
29:10she should suggest a specific no she did she did it was one of the um she was interested in i know i uh closed me i heard it meg it didn't say it just says a closed mill near father travasso's park on alden street she did not specifically say um a particular mill
29:42because if we give her money as an individual artist then there's nothing that says she has a a completed work right into the individual artists must complete their work before they get paid they must send me proof that the project's been completed so could we do that then could we fund her as an individual artist and then if she doesn't go through with this installation on the on the um on an old mill
30:16then she doesn't get paid i'm okay with that that sounds reasonable as long as we communicate that we're not interested in supporting the big billboard of uh child labor oh yeah i like i like the presentation that she did with the um pictures on the old mill um
30:52so individual artists you want to go with the whole 2000 done i would be fine with that okay everybody else i agree okay with that okay i'm okay with that floral museum of contemporary art exhibitions program you're asking for five thousand dollars
31:21has anybody been to the fall river contemporary and to the museum i haven't i know that there's always a lot of people going in and out of there but i have not yet been there i haven't either i've seen some of the work they've done it's pretty it's good stuff yeah it looks interesting it looks interesting contemporary pictures of the museum are particularly attractive too they did a really nice job
31:55i've met the both the artists there the resident artist and that they're pretty passionate about their work so on and so forth and seems like they've got quite a following outside this community as well so the weakness of the proposal is that they mentioned doing two exhibitions but there's no specific dates or how many days the eggs the exhibits would be open but they also say that they will show at
32:31a storefront but that's not listed either um i'd like to support them though yeah i was looking at i was looking at um the three thousand dollars which would be oddest fees um salaries fees educational component okay i'm okay with that i'm okay with that too i'm fine with that too uh next one fall river public library foundation legends of new england they're looking for five hundred dollars full funding full funding
33:19everybody okay with that yes yes debbie is that jeff belanger is he the one that's been involved in theater and fall river for years ago or do not believe it's the same jeff belinda i i'd be wrong but i don't think so i was just wondering was the same i you know i kind of lost track of where but where he was and what he was doing but i
33:41know he was very involved in in the um little theater wasn't he yes yeah yeah um i don't i don't think this is him though i think it's another jeff flander okay just wondering i could be wrong but i agree okay um so full funding forward next one phone number 13 full review public schools youth are making curating sharing promoting i said it's really tricky because it's a school and do we still have those
34:16concerns from the state about funding absolutely not so we don't have those concerns okay okay because that's why wait a minute there is one i do believe let me look up the guideline on that i think they've taken out in school but i'm not let me look up the guidelines well we could go with for example 3 000 for the lead curators which are not teachers in the school system
34:47oh if they're not teachers in the school system then you can find it right am i right in reading that correctly that the curators would be coaching the students yeah i i wasn't i wasn't completely clear on this because it talked about teachers being paid through the school system right and then it also talked about salaries and fees for the the artists and the lead teachers at durfee
35:28they're talking about this heather pereira and barbara mullen and it said and the lead curators when i was reading it i was trying to decide whether they were one in the same people no there's a sentence here the curators of f r m o c a mocha that's the that's the former contemporary contemporary art yeah okay so they're going to work with the drifty art teachers as visiting lecturers
36:07yeah because i would i had i had a quest on issue with supplying um you know part of their their budget is for art supplies and i you know i just think the school department should be supplying their own art supplies and not the cultural council what if we fund the curators i think three thousand for example three thousand hundred rate that sounds good i'm good with that because at least they're getting something
36:45yeah i was just my question was you know if it's something that has to do with the curriculum at one point we couldn't we couldn't fund something if it had to do if it was curriculum related but that seems to have changed right debbie it has all of those guidelines have kind of gone by the wayside okay okay uh the next one uh also fall river public schools why you matter
37:16i don't think we can buy cameras that would be a capital expense that would require matching funds and who would own the cameras and what would happen after that and the only other expense there would be um the posters buying the poster boards is that 5.99 that's the 5.99 that's what i recommended okay 5.99 for poster purchase of poster boards no debbie did you have a i'm reading something i'm thinking that
38:11we can't buy school sentences uh culture constants fences they removed the capital okay remove the casualty defense thing those old those are guidelines from before they've removed those so we could buy we could buy the digital cameras yes they cut a lot of the guidelines because of kobe
38:49i don't know if i'd want to get into like purchasing cameras though no i i i haven't paying artists and like programming and services yes there's other places for capital grants in my opinion i agree especially to a school system who gets a lot of state money to begin with my opinion no i agree i i i i'm struggling with giving them 600 for the poster boards but i'd like to give them something too but
39:29yeah that's his recommendation so back him up you know what uh to be honest i mean i agree with donna i mean i am struggling with the um supplies and materials because we just got through denying someone for a thousand dollars in art supplies and posters could be construed as art supplies oh absolutely absolutely that's what i'm saying i think it's it's something that you know the
39:54school department should be supplying and and not necessarily us i i would rather see our our money go to other projects i mean if we if we go with the digital cameras then you know maybe can we request that they uh put some kind of a policy in place as far as you know what's going to happen with them after to make sure they stay within the school department and they don't leave the school department
40:28there's a lot of potential fighting between memphis and the school department then yeah i know we might be keeping more peace if we don't fund the cameras yeah i would rather not fund the cameras either so let me make a case for the poster board though yes in this case it's going to be um a thousand pictures of students faculty staff people posted throughout the school i think that helps to promote the arts right
41:03okay i have less problem i you know even though i still have a problem with it i have left less problem with that than i do the cameras i do have a problem with spending 1400 on cameras so you want to do the uh 5.99 for the uh poster boards posters okay um rhonda fazio artist in residence and interwoven heritage and i recommended two thousand dollars for rhonda as an individual artist
41:40a stipend i'm okay with that the strong letter of support from heritage state park on that right and we've supported her in the past and she does she does do some beautiful work chris are you all set with that one yep okay uh next one is also ron defazio the art and language of food um snap to the max i was less impressed by that one because it's a healthy cause pun intended but promoting
42:23um good health is not necessarily in our priorities of promoting the odds i agree i agree i i had said zero on that i really didn't see where there was and and in fact they have funding from the massachusetts department of public health so that shows you the uh area that this falls in yeah i couldn't i you know i thought i thought the project itself is a is a
43:00very good project i just wasn't too sure um that it falls under our purveyance chris i agree i need a reason if you're going to deny it because it comes under humanities they claim to erect humanities but i don't agree i think it's i think it's health not promotion of the odds i i have i have to agree it i know it's i know it falls under humanities and i
43:41think you know this was this has been an ongoing this has been an ongoing discussion for many years if mitch machado was still still here he he'd agree with don with don and i i think am i right debbie but i still need a reason of what one of our guidelines or the state guidelines at valley elites not our top priority that's not one of our denial reasons am i right
44:12absolutely not we have to go along with our cultural priorities state let me go back and review the cultural priorities
44:45local guidelines here too
45:02color and as i'm reading them i'm just seeing that we have a thing for matching funds yeah yeah we do in our guidelines i had forgotten about that that we work we have etching funds for capital and expenditures
45:29i got nothing
45:45well i'm just
45:55number two up number two priority all performances by professional artists humanist and cultural organizations must take place in fall river or reflect collaborative partnership with greater fall river but the significant benefit to the citizens of fall river last sentence says preference will be given to fall river-based artists humanist and cultural organizations so how does that how do we do a denial based on
46:33on that that preference was given to fall river-based artists humanist and cultural organizations but she she is a fall river-based artist yeah but not this project not this project
47:13well that will that suffice debbie i don't know so a hypothetical question so we have x amount of dollars and we have an extraordinarily large number of applications um wouldn't we rank order the applications and what's left would be some non-funded projects the guidelines say we have to we have to deny based on one of our guidelines or one of the mcc guidelines
48:07and i suggest that we use the argument that we gave preference to other applications because they were more in line with our
48:23this is where we might want to take a look at implementing funding one artist one application again one organization so to say then you got to prioritize what you're looking to accomplish i'm reading on number three says the fall river cultural council is particularly interested in projects that will enhance visibility of art and culture in the fall ruger community period
49:05so i just don't see health promotion as fitting into that definition does it say well it does say resident of her target audience is residents of fall river um and it's going to take place in the farmer's market so it is taken this this is an issue that should be tackled by like i don't know a health organization right that far river does have a very high level of diabetes we're talking about physical health here
49:42i can argue that mental health has a component in the arts so to say but physical health i don't know i kind of agree with don yeah i you know i think if she was doing something if she was incorporating some kind of uh you know like she talks about the art and language of food and if she was doing something like that but everything that she has for her in her proposal talks about the healthy
50:14aspect not food is an art i certainly don't deny the importance of the project um but there's only so much that we can do we're not solving all of the poverty in the city we're not solving all of the housing issues all the mental health issues etc etc they are all worthy causes but we do have a specific mission and i don't see where this is in any way promoting the arts no it's not
51:09you want to put this on hold for now and go back to this yeah let's revisit it okay okay um next one is frank silvia elementary school mad science carnival night and here we go again don with uh but it's a performance so this is the performance between the performances right right
51:47i like the project i do too i do too i recommended full funding for this one yes because the booths seem to um if you read further on um the booths seem to support what they what they're doing in the science shows and where the children are able to create activities i agree with you okay so 1930 yes okay um number 18 friends of the fall republic library delvina theater company
52:35i like the project because it's six completely different productions that will be held in our library right exactly i i recommended full funding for that one me too the 4 600.
52:51let's get some interesting some interesting proposals any any other discussion on that no okay chris you have to excuse yourself from this next one gnome incorporated serve culture and happiness in in the community and i'm just going to answer any questions if you have any i'm just going to inform the council that all of the disclosure forms from chris and from the rest of you for this application have been
53:29sent to the mayor's office and have been forwarded after they've got there to uh message that they were forwarded to the city council to the city clerk okay thank you
53:48are we discussing this one now yes i love their overall project it really is noteworthy in terms of the services that they provide i'm still in that quandary between um some of the components not necessarily in the odds and cultural domain chris might argue with me because he's an artist artists will see art in many places i i can i just state something quickly about surfing surfing it's like dancing
54:33it's a it's a self-expression right so in its purest form it is in art you know what i mean and there's no better way to build culture than surf culture uh and we're proving that i mean i don't believe people to truly understand that but we're proving that in what we're doing with the growth of the program and the kids that we're affecting where we went from 800 to 2400 in just one summer you know so
55:02i'm very impressed with the work chris i know you are um i am so but i was thinking of and again this is tentative right we can revisit this i was thinking of 5000 which would be for the two yoga instructors and the two art instructors that's what that's what i had with the plus sign it was five thousand we also employ photographers which should be included in there i don't know why it wasn't
55:35can we do five thousand with a plus sign to the visit actually i'd like to do seven and include the photographers okay i'm okay with that don are you okay with that yeah no i'm sorry who was that for another photographers and salaries for yoga uh and photographer and videographer thank you and in terms i'm going to say this now ahead of time um in terms of revisiting i would look at
56:13the area for the uh adaptive surf instructors just because of what they do it is a form of art okay so you still want to leave the plus sign there with the 7000 absolutely okay okay all right all right chris you can come back on um number 20 greater fall river symphony society the fall river symphony orchestra 21 22 season
56:46again this is
56:57um can i go on a tangent sure so there there were a few organizations who put on large-scale performances and when i say large scale i include the price for putting it on the number of people who attend these events and we have some of the organizations and for example the symphony little theater marquee theater productions on stage theatrical productions you know so those are big projects that
57:47need some help some of the organizations rely more on volunteers who don't get any reimbursement so there's some variations across the groups and in my head as i was toying with the fact that we only have 44 percent of what the total requested by the collective number of applications that we have um we need some limit so i was thinking in the range of 10 000 for these organizations and with respect to
58:31our only symphony in the city um i was thinking of full funding of the 8 000 that they requested even though their total costs are much higher cost for the conductor soloist musicians concept masters is 14 675.
58:55i'm i'm good with that i'm good with that i agree with what you're saying i agree you know it it is our symphony the fall river symphony orchestra and they they you know they do several performances and and they i think i think you're right they they do deserve to get a good chunk of money anybody else i agree 8 000 it is uh number 21 chain stores chainsaws cheeseburgers and rock and roll live jesse green
59:38and they got high recommendations from the people from the alternative school i just wish they they would do more with the um the general population sounds like somebody that they could they could use across the system
1:00:14anybody i was thinking full funding of the 500 yep anybody else well that's it chris are you good with that i'm good okay uh number 22 andrew harms spoke jazz and film music for trumpet and piano no specific venue no no no venue no no date so i i said zero which is too bad well you know too um one of the things was also the location because it's going to add to an existing
1:00:58funding tour that includes needham brookline and chatham yeah he doesn't mention fall river right right so i you know i had a a slight issue with that um so i would say zero okay number 23 anton hendrix visual around the community what's he going to do not sure what he's going to do he says whenever and wherever he sees inspiration yeah i had i had when is this going to happen i mean this is a grant
1:01:45at the end of the day right yeah at the end of the day you know i can do whatever i can with whatever's granted to me um i you know his his application is very vague multiple visual art pieces throughout the city um again they have no where no you can't just no put up a piece of artwork no dates no venues no well hospice or specific project so the
1:02:18idea that he wants to pursue should be listed in the application exactly exactly okay zero funding yes yes okay next one um jameson scott jameson magic at the library and i recommended full funding okay i agree agree yes okay um timothy kane altogether drumming again taking place at the library he says he's willing to do it for 350 dollars it's a bargain i know i i recommended the 450 even though he
1:03:09said he reckon he would do it for willing to go down in price for 350.
1:03:14i know i know he shouldn't shoot himself in the foot like no no i recommend it exactly what i thought when i read it i said oh my gosh you're kidding no i recommended full funding i think we should have a drum circle someday down at south shore beach chris i agree well yeah we'll we'll see if we can get him to do it okay uh number 26 lafayette jerky historical foundation 18th century
1:03:42living history domestic and military and it sounds like they're going to have that during the course of the year and they've got their own location right it sounds like it's an ongoing ongoing thing i know they have several projects going on you know different holidays and i would you know if they're doing separate projects in relation to this just i would like to see the cultural
1:04:09council get notification of some of the dates although i know everything is going to be there and you know existing at the uh different way at lafayette durfee house so i was going to recommend full funding i recommended full funding as well i think it's another one of those those nice things that this you know the city has has to offer uh can we ask something of them though because their primary announcement
1:04:38vehicle is a newsletter letter to paid members i think we should be notified so that we could help spread the news as well as just know what they're doing can we put that in their letter debbie i already made a note of it okay very good thank you i mean number 20 should be doing that for us i think everybody should be doing that for us because it provides content for
1:05:10our facebook page and it's not so stale in between posts is when these events go off we should be letting people know right through there like we can help market for them through our page so to say maybe maybe that's a something that should be added debbie to the letter that goes out to everybody that you know please notify us of upcoming events so we can give you some free publicity in exchange you know we ask
1:05:36them to put our logo on but i think we also need to ask them to notify us so like chris said um we can put it on our our facebook page um number 27 27.
1:05:50do send me an email so i just don't put it on the facebook page i'm gonna have to get with chris on that yeah you can just forward it to me and i'll make a post about it i'll figure it out it's easy you know easy for you chris that's why it's time to get hard for me too on social media oh my god you you
1:06:10put you put a lot i see a lot of you on social media on both facebook and instagram we're just asking we're just asking for one that's it um number 27 alex left cycle of memory if i read it correctly that project's already done it sounds like it's already done for a screening event but i don't see any specifics in the proposals about what's involved in the screening event no there's nothing about um a specific
1:06:47time or a venue um correct i i i said zero no no specifics no time no venue me too i agree okay number 28 um christine levitra my roots are here an homage of gratitude to the fall river art association now she has a date uh at the art association for her presentation so she's got the venue she's got the time i was looking at her as an individual artist i was too
1:07:32because she doesn't list who the artists are and her proposal is there's a four thousand dollar stipend for them that's for other people then then she correct well i wasn't sure about that because she was talking about doing um the only place that she taught talked about other artists i'm including some talented musicians who will be playing at my reading but she was talking about doing a
1:08:01sculpture and then talking about it so i thought she was the artist and the other stipends would be going to the musicians who were going to play at her reading so i was looking at her more as an individual artist i did too okay so two thousand dollars two thousand is fine um number twenty nine little theater fall river a mile in the night visitors operating expense expended expenses excuse me
1:08:40in terms of the fact that we our total allocation is 44 percent of the total light set a maximum in my mind of 10 000 for those organizations i discussed earlier yeah i agree 10 000 works for me well because just you know if you look at their salaries and fees and then you look at the royalties the royalties alone are 3600. 36.60 so if you combine that with the um salaries and fees for
1:09:16the musical directors and musicians you're you're pretty close to you're over nine thousand dollars so 10 000 now do we want to put a limit on the specific areas where they're going to spend the money no i think that just gets too complicated okay all right okay am i right debbie you need some kind of proof that it was spent on that project absolutely otherwise i can't give them
1:09:50the money yeah so i think check it out after covert to give these organizations money because they've been having to pay their heat and utilities then if your intent is to give them the full amount then the stipulations just get in the way well we're saying 10 10 000 not the full amount just the 10.
1:10:09yeah well okay uh number 30.
1:10:14vincent love grove bubbles in the park i would give him the 2000 as a stipend i know he's working with recreation according to the application and he's looking at uh doing that at 10 different locations so if we give it to him as a stipend and i think that's his intent okay with that i'm okay with that too and everybody loves vinnie everybody loves mr bubbles there so okay number 31 uh
1:10:50gregory my check um the jellyfish fish how to pastel paint and he's asking for 662 dollars and i support that amount i do as well me too okay uh marquee theaters legally blonde the musical well with what don's proposal was the ten thousand dollars that we give him the ten i'm okay with that you know he's got a lot of expenses and his his productions are always very well done very well attended very well thought out
1:11:32i would say the 10.
1:11:33okay uh number 33 pamela means pamela means presents the power of the pro protest song our shared history and present day struggles she's looking for 950 dollars there's a time and there's a venue there's a time and there's a venue and i thought i thought it sounded very it sounded very interesting i'm okay with that amount i'm okay with that myself as well okay chris you're what's up with that 9.50 yep um
1:12:22david mello from the deep number 34 good project the only thing i thought of not having uh included was the hundred and twenty dollars uh for the rental issue on the other hand and we could just give him two thousand dollars as a stipend well that's what i was thinking too it's like is this he's doing this as an individual artist really yes two thousand dollars i think you know seems to be our limit on individual
1:12:55artists and that's not far from the request no yes right so 2000 yes okay uh number 35 um margaret moody the trolls in the tree um at fall river library summer reading club i would say uh full funding full funding 500 yes yeah okay moving right along uh musicdance.edu i am autistic i am fantastic the musical all right the full funding i recommended full funding on that one as well well 580 people
1:13:43because they are getting 100 from the apparent company right i recommended five 580 for that okay okay the next one is also musicdance.edu hip-hop dance chat exercise for seniors i wanted to know if i can go to that you're not a senior oh oh yes um thank you so much susan but yes i am i'm taunt on this one frankly because they are dance instructors but they're not physical therapists or occupational therapists
1:14:23i don't know how aggressive they will be with their exercises and the potential of doing um i did this project last year and we funded it and i've got they sent me pictures of the at the senior center that they did it in oh okay so yeah i would think that if they're um you know their dance instructors i know what you're saying but i think that i don't think the um nursing home
1:15:01would be offering it because i'm assuming that they're sending some of their residents as well um as it's being offered to community seniors and i don't think chair chair hip-hop i don't think you're gonna have too many injuries and they potentially could be working with physical therapists and architect occupational therapist to develop their curriculum yeah i would hope that they did do some background work and
1:15:30get some expertise so to say yeah i agree and they're asking for 500 because they're getting a thousand a hundred dollars from their parents so i recommended the full funding for that okay um everybody good with that one yes yeah okay katrina myers fall river evening halloween parade um i don't want to go first all the time anyone else i i thought it you know it sounded like a worthwhile project um
1:16:09and something that could be a lot of fun i'm not too sure there was no place where she indicates that she i would think you have to get some kind of permits from the city and some kind of um funding for you know police officers um you know you just can't decide to have a parade and march down bay street and there's no list of participants in the parade there's no details regarding who would be marching
1:16:44right they claim that they'll be promoting local artists work but this parade is aimed to begin at sunset so how are things going to be able to be seen very well in the lighting yeah yeah they she did mention that the parade um participants will be directed to utilize light in their entries you know i'm thinking back to several years ago when they had one of the um parades for first i believe it was first
1:17:14night they had a parade and they had the light up but what they don't have is approval for the city for a parade on bay street right there will be expenses for police and traffic control probably extra lighting and right in terms of their cost it seems like more of a financial benefit for their own business pursuits three months rent at bay street licensing insurance legal fees web development phones um
1:17:49they're probably you know when you're dealing with a crowd too i hate to say it you've got to get portable toilets porter john's so that's all additional expenses that they have to consider i don't think it's well thought out or necessarily necessary approvals yet no i think i i think down the road you know if they if this was something that was established like the um i know in the past we've funded the
1:18:17the children's we've given some funding to the children's parade um and some other parades not always one of my favorite causes um but i just think this one is it's a brand new it's a brand new thing there used to be something debbie that we couldn't fund any organization that was not established for more than a year that's what i'm looking at to see if we still have that i'm actually looking at that right now
1:18:48right yeah i thought it was maybe two years or three even no it was always it was one year there was something that you couldn't fund an organization that was less than a year old starting that was a state wreck for a while yeah i better get on the state side again but it just i think my my biggest concern was that the fact that that you know there needs to be permits in place
1:19:14and before we you know any think about doing any kind of funding and what are we funding you know i know in the past we funded when we funded parades we funded bands because then you know there was um performance the performance aspect of it
1:19:42but it doesn't seem to you know this seems to be two individuals that don't have a history of why are they renting a building for only three months they're building into an art center they may be very talented and energetic enough to pursue this but there's just no basis at this point to fund it in my mind no
1:20:28i may be missing it but i don't see that on the the updated uh guidelines is there anything revised in august is there anything in the tonight i guess we need a reason for denial and the fact that they don't have any kind of they they have their date but they don't have that date confirmed and i would think they'd need a confirmation from the city of fall river that's correct there's nothing
1:21:10you know they're they're recommending it take place on october 28th but there's nothing that to back them just say the project will take place at 505 bay street and go down north on bay street it without permission from the city they there needs to be there needs to be some some kind of collaboration or something that says you know we have we've applied to the permits from the city or we need they need permission
1:21:46i mean all the funds that we give to all these different artists that perform at the library we always have a letter stating that they're supporting these these artists but this is there's no support here that this is being okay by the city there's no confirmation letters or anything no no
1:22:15so can we use that as a denial debbie that we don't have any confirmation yeah as far as a venue okay it's like it i'll reword it saying it's the permits that are the problem the permits yeah correct okay that's really a confirmation of venue without those permits okay uh narrow center for the um arts concerts on the city pier john do you want to go with the 10 000 on this one as well
1:22:42that's an idea um 10 000 with the plus in this case though it brings a lot of attention to um the city and benefits a lot of fall river rights it's a hundred and twenty thousand dollar project total right you'll be four different concerts in the summer and they've got that they i guess they're using the new the new city pier um i don't know if anybody saw that went
1:23:19down this summer but they did the um they had them set they had groups set up at different spots along the um boardwalk this past summer because of cloven and it was a it was a little bit disappointing that the way they were spread out i don't think people realized they weren't stopping so they really you know just kind of had passers-by they didn't really have um audiences per se
1:23:43it was it was very it was very nice but like i said it was and it was it was a hot it was a hot day and the sunshine so they were out in this in the sun with no shade so i think that was a downfall but yeah i would say at least 10 000 and even revisit this unless you want to go a little higher i thought what if we did like um artist fees
1:24:05and since there are four different events you know maybe four thousand dollars per event which would be 16.
1:24:14yeah or is that too much well let's do the 16 and i mean even then we still could revisit it because of the you know the magnitude of this yes some of these zoom we might want to decrease when we revisit too so that's true okay so we'll do we'll do 16.
1:24:40okay um number 40. the new bedford festival theater festival theater summer academy beauty and the beast and beyond see local guidelines yeah i they are no benefit to fall river no benefit zero okay um new bedford museum and art center art mobile um at the fabric festival at the children's museum of greater fall river um i gave them full funding i liked it yes so that's a thousand dollars debbie
1:25:17um number 42 new bedford symphony orchestra um young people's concept no benefit to the city the local guidelines zero okay um number 43 uh vania marie noverco bavaris backyard birds and blooms season two sequels 11 to 20. so just like we saw for another artist with two different proposals yes i was thinking individual artists for a total of 2000 and if we need to split it up we could do that a
1:25:55thousand and a thousand so number a thousand for number forty three and a thousand holding on to number forty four artists and influence um yes again as an individual artist a thousand yes everybody in agreement with that okay number 45 passport to history old county historical society they're looking for three thousand dollars three hundred dollars i'm sorry i'm getting crazy here
1:26:35um i think we funded them before because it's a passport program that yes and i think for the 300 i mean they serve a lot of individuals and they do they do use um you know some of our local areas i think there were um was it the historical society in some place else the uh lafayette lafayette house yeah yeah so i said the full full 300 uh number 46 sheila oliveira contemporary portraiture of historical personages
1:27:15i saw individual artist individual artist two thousand dollars yes um number 47 onstage theatrical productions rebuilding step by step back to the theater and this is another one done i know are you good for chen on this one that's what i have here yeah because she and mark here are two uh two biggest you know along with some you know this um symphony and other things so i think you're right
1:27:59uh number 48 cookishan river festival partners for a healthier community and he's looking for 5279 dollars
1:28:15i do like the fact that numerous other groups are participating it was a strength yeah i was looking at um i was looking at the salaries for the artist of um 2075 and with a plus sign because i wasn't too sure some of his other fees that he was looking at um whether or not we could even fund them like maintaining restrooms um printing costs that kind of stuff
1:28:56any other thoughts no i'm okay with that all right um i'm okay with that as well next one uh repeat the amount please 2075 2075.
1:29:16okay next one um practice best practice practice best practice workshops and again i looked at this one and i wasn't quite sure whether or not this was of any benefit to fall river i had the same quandary there's no evidence that four river creators have participated but they do have a statement that 141 zip codes were represented and but there's no plan in how they will reach fall river creatives no no
1:29:54i said zero funding i agree i looked at that and i mean you want to try and give some money to everyone if you can but just the fact that they stuck in fall river i mean i i you know i looked it and i looked to see if they gave us any background information on you know where the folks fall river how they got there etc there's nothing so nothing no i said zero zero
1:30:21okay number fifty um john regan the magnificent monster circus um i recommended full funding on this one four hundred dollars yep anybody else i agree seven hours concerts seminars fifty fifty fourth anniversary season i actually have zero i did too me too this this benefit no date no confirmation with the local cable access which is what they want to do present a previously made recording of 60
1:31:02minutes of the highlights but there's no agreement with uh local cable no i said i said zero as well number 52 south coast community corral good vibrations a sensory experience i thought 6 000 which would be for the musicians 12 of them at 500 a piece um that's what i had six thousand for musicians yep all right and anybody else chris are you good with that six thousand okay um south coast open air market um
1:31:47south coast open air market is the project i said zero that's not fall river no but in all fairness to them um they do get a tremendous amount of folks coming from fall river i've been there a few times and run into a lot of people that i know right so i i'm just looking at maybe we give him you know maybe 2 000.
1:32:16i think it's a bad precedent why don't we give money to the new bedford festival since some fall river rights go there okay you know i agree i agree i think it's a bad precedent i think it's a bad precedent to set i you know i know they do they do draw a lot of people from fall river but i think it is okay um south coast spring arts um south coast spring aunts that's in marion
1:32:51and i i wrote actually my notes i have zero there was a reason why i was going to give them money one of the letters of support is from the viva fall river though that was why i think i gave them that they were only asking for 250 and i think that was why i gave them the 250 because they did have some um and they actually have somebody on the steering committee from
1:33:18fall river so unlike some of the other organizations and i think what they do is they promote i think it's more of a promotional um program throughout the south south coast region okay first how do you feel i'm okay with 250.
1:33:42if it's going to help artists yeah 250.
1:33:46um number 55 spectrum empowerment project the jungle book junior i looked at it that we would give them the money the full funding the fifteen hundred dollars yeah and even though i had a thousand but okay and i had the full funding too i know it's taking place at whites but it seems like they're using um you know using actual spectrum yeah and yeah and they needed a venue they needed a venue
1:34:33yeah that was that was what was i guess was available but i thought it was an interesting um i thought it was an interesting project and i i recommended the full funding for 1500 so john would you say a thousand yeah but i'm okay with the 1500 i'll stick with the 15.
1:34:56chris 15 is good 15's good okay um number 56 super flat new bedford hummingbird project no local no local no local zero um wendy tanner river rocks um no there was no venue there was no no dates no venue well those rocks are placed all over the city right but i wasn't exactly sure where she would be doing these like where would it sounded like she wanted to have like workshops where people would come
1:35:38and paint them and then place them so what are we paying for because i can paint a rock and put it anywhere maybe um could we have some clarification from her on that on exactly you know what they're gonna do because it doesn't really it doesn't really say where she's doing it river rocks has done 20 free community events but she didn't put anything in and then she put in space rental
1:36:21to do events inside when the weather was cold but she didn't talk about where or what i just thought it was very vague did she have a studio didn't i didn't sound like it like where are they painting even even did she set up a table someplace at some of these events because she did say beaver fall river allowed them to have events at their location and any events they put on but
1:36:59i believe they did some sort of like workshop where they said that there was some funding available from the local cultural council i don't know if they really don't deep into what our priorities are and what we expect from the local artists so maybe we one of us has like next time around like at least hops on that call and like tries to explain what it is that we're really looking for
1:37:27uh because i feel like a lot of these applications are coming from that little cohort which i have no problem funding it's just we need a little more information i would think right well i think unfortunately because of covid we haven't been able to do like our little workshop yeah you know maybe that's maybe that's i know the state does it virtually but maybe we we put something i don't mind doing it
1:37:58either no i think you're right chris you know we're in the fall before they stop filling out applications even if we did you know a zoom a zoom workshop um that would prevent a lot of these like great ideas i think i think it's something we need to look at for next year i agree okay and maybe we just make a recording and like send it to people like who will
1:38:22inquire about more information i mean it doesn't need to be anything to elaborate complicated or cost as much of anything no because we do have we did have a hand we did have a handout that we used to put out um basically that had all our uh list of our requirements etc and we could probably revisit that you know at some point and and come up with a a list of
1:38:45things that need to be on an application but i just think this one is too big and she's asking she's not she's asking for five thousand dollars that's a substantial amount it is okay so what's um everybody's feeling on this one i said zero it's not a there's not a venue that's specified it's not giving any specific places where the no i agree do you want to go with zero zero um coalition for buzzards bay discover
1:39:37buzzard's bay fall river asking for a thousand dollars again there's no plans to incorporate forward the residents so it's not a local priority actually though it does say in the application that they're going to partner with uh the freetown fall river state reservation hikes and michael la bossier he's a state forester from fall river so i mean that's all it says as a partner i mean on the other hand when you think
1:40:17of buzzards bay far river is actually not possible part of buzzard's bay because we're mount bay right yeah i i i was i was of the same feeling that we're not part of buzzard today and it does say bordering towns like westport and dartmouth as far as where the project would take place which also tells me that they would be more geared towards probably westport and dartmouth than coming all the way to fall river
1:40:47right right so i was all over the place with this one yeah i was too but then i i came up with zero because i wasn't i think it's it's not a of no no benefit to fall river no it's at least it's not enough benefit okay uh next one fall river art association student art classes i think it's an investment in a pool of artists in the city to begin training early i like the idea
1:41:34yeah i did too i did too they're asking for um they were asking for twenty thousand i i suggested i my recommendation was five thousand for supplies i had seventy four hundred because they also added the weekly art classes twenty four hundred okay so seventy four hundred and we can revisit that if that's too you know if that might be too much okay okay 74.
1:42:07okay thomas chu memorial boys club the arts program they're asking for 3 000 yeah i recommended the 3 000.
1:42:20absolutely you know they do a lot they do a lot with the kids there i had a couple of concerns though so last year they only had 10 youths participate again that was because of covert right my understanding is that it's taught by a current that the art classes are currently taught by a college student it's not even clear that that student is an art major and the artist fees are projected to be 4 200.
1:42:56i think that's pretty much so what they've done every year no a couple in the past they they actually had um what was the gentleman's name that used to teach the art classes at the boys club james k james k taught them am i right debbie yes yes we went to a lot of the exhibits there yeah they used to do an exhibit and i obviously didn't have one last year
1:43:27probably because of covet but i know in the past they had a large number of students that participated yeah the the hallway walls were covered with right the different artwork from all the students and some of it was somewhat was amazing so i'll read that the specific concern the arts program will be taught by a staff member who is a current college student and has been the program assistant for the past two years
1:44:01additionally she's a former club member who participated in the arts program for several years the club will also continue to seek students who are art majors at bridgewater state university or umass dartmouth as well as volunteers from the florida school department
1:44:26i just had the feeling that maybe we're paying paying a staff person uh how about if we give them 1500 for supplies and materials i'm fine with that okay with that you want that stipulation yes supplies and materials okay number 61 uh children's songs and singing games roger ticknell six hundred dollars i said i said the full funding on that one okay can we pay for travel i'm forgetting which rules get changed
1:45:14uh yeah i i think i think that one went out the window too um it did with the state let me just double check hours
1:45:28for the cultural council does not pay for transportation cost or oh no that's i'm sorry for the other one it is not on our regular one and it's only for the field trips for the field trip so we can pay for that so 600.
1:45:42okay okay um number sixty two chi fatao toku building a creative mind through african dance for individual mental health and community growth no data no data venue so zero uh devon torres uh cafe interwoven again there was no date or venue on that one it was a radio show i was tempted to fund this but with the strong stipulation because um the request is for wsar's recording fees for the program right that was
1:46:32that was my here yeah i do have another note there about recording fees and radio advertising so why are we paying for the studio programming fee that's recording the project right correct it says cafe interwoven is asking the floor of a cultural cultural council for two thousand dollars to secure the siege funding for wsar's reporting fees
1:47:06ronda rousey and devon torres will be donating their time and services
1:47:17i wasn't sure we should be paying for radio time yeah i don't think so either that can kind of be considered marketing to an extent right yeah and and you know most i mean most radio shows you don't pay for anything you don't pay for anything because they have aws they are they have sponsors you know they have rights commercial sponsors but there is a potential benefit for our mission
1:47:49um let me read the overall purpose it's a radio show that aims to unite the south coast region over the topics of culture arts food entertainment and it's going to be hosted by somebody we fund ronda faggio right who will serve as a catalog to the current arts and cultural events across the south coast and will feature interviews with local artists i thought it was i thought it was a good
1:48:20idea i just wasn't sure it was something we should be funding because basically we're not paying for their time we're paying for radio time right if we're talking food entertainment this is something yeah i don't like that but as much as i do the cultural events but what i'm saying is it could be funded by those food and entertainment places right right well not only that but i think the radio station looks for
1:48:58do we even have a commitment from the radio station that they're willing to to do this um because i know they have um there's a show it used to be i haven't listened to wsar in a while i used to listen to it when i was in the car um i don't spend as much time in the car as i used to there used to be uh i can't remember her name and it's
1:49:23somebody that we probably all know if i said it she used to be on i believe friday afternoons and she'd always talk about what was coming up that weekend with local events and cultural type things and she would have just grown what was that was it kathy castro yes that's exactly who it was that's exactly who it was i don't know if she's still on but she did something similar she would have different
1:49:49artists sometimes she'd have people from the narrow center or she'd talk about what was going on she she talked about different events that were going on i don't know if she still does it um she does it on bcc television right now oh does she but that was this a similar thing and i just you know i mean there were advertisements there were commercials on her radio show i'm just not too sure
1:50:13that it does say a letter of support will be coming from wsar but didn't it was that one of the letters that i sent everybody by the attachments i don't think so i don't think so
1:50:35no no it's not one of them okay okay i'm okay with passing on that one but we need to give w a reason the venue is not confirmed yeah okay that's a good one okay uh number 64. townhouse clubhouse townhouse mural and art show
1:51:17well this two parts is a request for supplies and i did like the part where they are planning to do a mural on the back of the townhouse building right that kind of confirms the availability of the outside wall for the mural i think i i think i gave them full funding because i thought i thought it was a worthwhile project and we did fund them last year how about two thousand for supplies and two
1:52:08thousand if the mural is completed they can't have any money unless the the project's completed by the guidelines no one can correct but there's the mural is one of two projects so you're saying give them four thousand dollars but the stipulation is that half of it has to be for the mural being completed yeah debbie the way they've got the supplies and materials broken down is they allow asking for two thousand
1:52:45dollars for supplies and materials for our projects classes and workshops and then they're asking for another two thousand dollars for supplies for items relating to the mural okay so can we give them 2 000 for their supplies for their workshops and then the other 2 000 if the mural is complete yes we can okay does that make sense to everybody yes that's fair okay number 65 tribe county music
1:53:20association complementary senior tickets i said zero no no benefit to fall river residents right okay uh diva fall river fracc slash viva fall river community events they were asking for twenty five thousand dollars i kind of had them in the ten thousand dollars i had them in the ten thousand that's exactly what i had done was ten thousand dollars i agree uh kurt whipple between january and december 2022 2022
1:54:09and that was one of the things that you there was a miss um that was one of the letters that you sent debbie right yes he couldn't get the attachment on to uh onto the new mcc website and there was two letters on that yeah there were two letters on on that one one was a correction and one was a letter i think yeah one was one was the correction
1:54:44and the other one is the letter from um four of the media channel 95.
1:54:53it's the and support and confirmation i was confused about the zoom meeting
1:55:10how will that be publicized and how will that be organized right
1:55:24and they do have they do have it on local local cable and we did get the confirmation um so and this is for a performance that's already been recorded they're just allowing the community to watch it it's almost like a license so i was thinking a thousand for the license because i'm not sure the viewership of channel 95 right maybe 500 for the zoom meeting so 1500 okay so okay 1500 okay it's a complication because we
1:56:16put break that down so that if they don't do the zoom meeting they won't get the total 1500 yeah i think so yeah because if we we'd be doing the same thing um the amounts then a thousand for license for the licensing right and 500 for the zoom meeting
1:56:51okay uh number 68. matt yorks uh songs and stories the highway men and i had zero for that since it's no no date no date no venue right and last one robert zamarchi elijah t grasshopper and friends eight hundred dollars there is a lettuce of support from david mello saying yeah there's a letter about a date yeah that they would be working they would be working that out so yeah fully funded okay
1:57:33i've seen a lot of grasshoppers in costa rica when i just went so a good sign funded good good so debbie what are we up to we have have over spent by 274 dollars oh so we have to take 275 four dollars away from someone or some or multiple people if we're gonna stay consistent probably should check our numbers because they have a different number okay i have that we spent 1 000 141
1:58:20596 dollars is that what you have no i have 134 000.
1:58:28let me have a guess okay um all right do we want to take a break so we can go over the numbers from the recording can we do that you can you can you can what if we just check each other's that we could do that in like two minutes okay all right i was just thinking rather than recording it number one is zero two is a thousand a second hold on a
1:58:56second hold on a second i don't have my my screen up here okay go ahead i'm sorry zero zero two is a thousand three is a thousand four is zero five is zero six is zero seven four fifty eight two thousand nine thirty five hundred ten two thousand eleven three thousand twelve five hundred thirteen three thousand fourteen five ninety nine fifteen two thousand sixteen zero seventeen nineteen thirty
1:59:48eighteen forty six hundred nineteen seven thousand plus with a plus so um foreign number twenty eight thousand twenty one five hundred twenty two zero twenty three zero twenty four five fifty 25 450 26 3000 27 00 28 2000 29 10 00 32 000 one six hundred and sixty two thirty two is ten thousand thirty three nine fifty three four two thousand thirty five five hundred thirty six five eighty three seven 500 38 0 39 16 000
2:00:4540 00 41 1000 420 43 1000 44 1000 45 300 46 22 000 47 10 00 48 20 75 49 0. fifty four hundred fifty one zero fifty two six thousand fifty three zero fifty four two hundred and fifty fifty five fifteen hundred fifty six zero fifty seven zero fifty eight zero fifty nine seventy four hundred sixty fifteen hundred sixty one six hundred sixty two zero sixty three zero sixty four four thousand sixty five zero
2:01:41sixty six ten thousand sixty seven fifteen hundred sixty eight zero sixty nine eight 800.
2:01:50exactly what i have that's exactly what i have let me just let me check my formulas
2:02:17yeah so my my summation is 134 596.
2:02:23my summation is 141 596. how does that work let me just go over to another column
2:03:04i just did it in another column i'm getting the same amount done
2:03:14okay so we have 140 what'd you say debbie 140 what i my total that i from today is 1 140 i'm sorry 141 596 dollars and we have 1041 322 to spend but it's the total of what we spent today that he and i are having a discrepancy i think i know my error is that we we put seven thousand plus so this whole equation may not be putting the seven thousand in there oh i don't
2:03:55put the yeah i put the plus in a different column yep it's 141 596 correct so that was my error putting a plus it ignored that amount um all right so we have to remove 274 dollars well before we remove 274 dollars we also need to go back and look at um the narrows we need to go back and look at number 16 because we put her on hold oh the art and language of food rhonda
2:04:42fazio well i like zero because we treated all the other um artists who had two proposals as individual artists and we made it one thousand and one thousand for the other one well we could do that we could treat we could go back and and only give her a thousand dollars for her proposal on number 15 and give her a thousand dollars on number 16.
2:05:14or correct yeah particularly comfortable with with funding health promotion well could we could we do could we do give her 1500 for um the oddest in residence interwoven heritage and give 500 to the food one yes that's a great idea
2:05:51how does that sound sounds good okay so we're gonna give her a thousand fifteen hundred debbie four and then 500 for uh food okay i just want to touch on something too if we're putting a ten thousand dollar cap like we said somewhat so to say on certain organizations then we need to take that into account the narrows as well and i understand there's four different concerts that we're talking about here
2:06:26but there's organizations that are doing uh you know 120 days straight of services so to say so you know what i mean like sixteen thousand dollars a lot of money to give to one organization my opinion but if you guys feel strongly enough about that i'll step away but i hear you and i kind of agree with that being a non-profit leader like you have to ensure that your funding comes from different areas right so
2:06:59it's very heavy on us and that and i love what they do that's not very supportive of that but that's way outside any anywhere else
2:07:18historically going way back we used to fund when the narrows first started having entertainment and they requested funding from us we did funds them for a few years and as they became independent we we stopped they could fund themselves um i think what hit me about the project on the pia was that the community a lot of people would probably benefit from that enjoy that but i'm okay with reducing it if we have to
2:08:00well i think rather than taking any money away from anybody else that seems to be our big that's our big number that we take we take the money away from from them so the 200 and whatever dollars and i don't know how you feel about that but when we show it debbie two hundred seventy four dollars two hundred seventy four dollars i would i would give that take that away from the sixteen thousand
2:08:45that would give them fifteen thousand seven hundred twenty dollars
2:08:56i'm okay with that i still think it's really high for one organization i mean i know how much i'm spending on my project and you know there's a little nitpicking there on what we requested you know what i mean so for my organization itself it costs about 150 000 to run the whole thing so that's just my opinion but i'm okay with whatever you guys want to go with
2:09:53i think i think we're good with i'm good with the 15 000 because i think if you look at their their total budget it's 120 000 and like don said they draw in an awful lot of people from all over all over the place i'm just thinking of it as an investment to get them started and you know and down the road they'll have to make ends meet if they continue this
2:10:33any other discussion okay so what we need to do now is we need to have a motion to accept all these figures and i'm going to take out number what number is your first seven 19 19.
2:10:59voting on everything except for number 19 i'm going to take out number 19 which is um because chris has to recuse himself from that so i'd like to make a motion that we accept all the figures with the exception of number 19 as discussed as discussed i'll second that okay can we have a roll call any other discussion okay uh mr antenna yes dr carl yes ms cody yes mrs valente yes that's unanimous
2:11:44okay and now number 19 chris you have to excuse yourself to accept um seven thousand dollars for um gnome incorporated surf culture and happiness in the community a motion to accept i'll make a motion that we accept number 19 second any further discussion okay dr carlo yes susan capote yes dr mrs valente yes okay and where is my agenda somewhere in the okay any new business do we have any any new business to discuss
2:12:42no at least i don't okay so debbie these letters have to go out um shortly i would assume i will have them out within the next two days and then they have up until when to 15 days to respond 15 business days or 15 calendar days 15 days 15 days from the day i send it so if i send it out on the 17th they have um until january 1st to respond okay
2:13:16okay so we may know and yeah i think there's a change they have to send their request up to boston now okay so then we would we would have to have another meeting if if anyone does this yes we would have to have another meeting in january because we have to have these in i don't think they changed the end i don't think they've changed the january deadline for us to have this in
2:13:38but i could be wrong they may have extended it when they extended the application deadline now do we need to do anything i think you know there was a suggestion made that we have a um some kind of an outline to either do a tape or do a pretty uh application meeting like we've done in the past like a workshop um we can set up a workshop any time we want okay
2:14:06okay it might be better if it's closer to the actual applications we didn't right push a workshop this year because we didn't know what the website was going to be and okay so we can we can take that up and we can take that up in the in the summertime or in the fall okay um do we have any other new business okay can i have a motion to adjourn i'll make a motion that we run
2:14:30second uh miss danteo yes ms cody yes mrs valente yes and thank you all for for coming and i hope everybody has a wonderful holiday you too me too thank you