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programs. For 2016 grants,applications and amounts For more information about the Massachusetts outnumbered the total grant awards available. Cultural Council and funding guidelines,visit the website at http://wwwxnashpeema.gov/Pages/MashpeeMA_BComm The Mashpee Cultural Council met numerous /cultural. And please LIKE US on Facebook, too, at times in October and November 2015 to consider 24 "Mashpee Cultural Council",where you can also learn applications seeking total funding requests of about the initiatives we fund. $12,354.00. For 2016, 11 of these applications qualified for full or partial funding. Including 2015 Respectfully submitted, carry-over funds,Mashpee Cultural Council is pleased Barbara Cotton, Chair to have awarded the following grants: Bruce Taggart, Treasurer Sarah Daley,Secretary Mashpee Recreation Department Susan Clark Children's Theater Production $ 400.00 Patricia DeBoer Mashpee Recreation Department John Miller 30th Annual Oktoberfest $ 400.00 Dawn Thayer Mashpee Public Library Madeleine Walsh Brett Outchcunis Music and Dance $ 515.00 Lynne Waterman Mashpee Public Library Jungle Jim's Reading Olympics $ 499.00 Cape Cod Children's Museum Report of the Building with KEVA Planks $ 500.00 Energy Committee Mashpee Public Library Zentangle Drawing Workshop $ 525.00 Kids Klub Childcare Center To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the BOKS Preschool Engagement Program $ 500.00 Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Mashpee Council on Aging The Energy Committee continues to pursue both Jumpin'Juba Concert $ 300.00 energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, as Cotuit Center for the Arts appropriate. Mashpee has seen another significant May Institute Community Outreach $ 500.00 investment by the Cape Light Compact and the Green K.C.Coombs Elementary School Communities program to help ensure that the Town's Poetry and the Art of Listening $ 500.00 facilities are running as efficiently as possible. Projects Mashpee Council on Aging this year included continued efficiency upgrades at the This Land is Your Land musical journey $ 400.00 K.C.Coombs School. TOTAL AWARDED $5,039.00 While these steady efficiency improvements continue year after year, making the Town as energy All Mashpee Cultural Council Meetings are efficient as possible, the Town is now reaping the posted and open to the public. We welcome your benefits of the all of the renewable energy projects that suggestions that will assist the Council in promoting accounted for much of the Energy Committee's efforts the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences. These over the past several years. These projects include a programs help Mashpee residents of all ages to be 1.8MW solar farm at our closed landfill,330KW solar sensitive, caring, aware, and well-rounded citizens. installation on the roof of our High/Middle School and Anyone wishing to serve as a voting Council member 3 smaller solar installations at the DPW, Council on should inquire directly with a present sitting member Aging and Library. These projects continue to offset before applying. Likewise, all project ideas may be the energy costs for municipal services thereby giving discussed with a Council Member prior to applying in the taxpayers significant savings. the Fall. We also extend our thanks and gratitude to the Town of Mashpee for administrative and other support generously provided to the Council. 99