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<br />Arts & Humanities Council <br />Agenda <br />DATE <br />Page 2 of 4 <br /> <br />want to reach out, but offer little of interest to any Latino Culture, including having <br />Latino and Spanish speaking people on their own staffs. <br />-Maryan suggested we try and define what the SCFD calls "underserved <br />populations." It could be any number of groups such as Asian, Latino, Youth, <br />Senior Citizens, etc. Perhaps a bilingual poetry slam that entrained youth would <br />be a good place to start. <br />-Requests have gone to the City for $1 OK funding for LCC and a half-time staff <br />position. Don Brown has repeatedly said we will not receive either. Wendy made <br />point that we still have to ask for such, and ask repeatedly. <br />-Frost Yarnell has indicated that she would like to be the City Council <br />representative to the LCC at the end of Don Brown's term. Kathy Martin and <br />Wendy will explore how the LCC should request her appointment as such. <br />- We are still waiting for response from the City Attorney about questions <br />regarding legal obligations of our 501 c 3 org. On July 13 the Attorney <br />responded to Keith Williams that he would still need a couple of weeks to get to <br />our issues. It has now been a month. Wendy can email those questions to <br />anyone interested. <br />-We clearly need to get our finances in shape and develop a financial report. <br />That is partly a result of LCC Board members not filing timely event reports, and <br />partly due to lack of a financial report for the last two years. LCC clearly needs to <br />get its act together on this as it relates to LCC, the City, SCFD and the IRS. <br />Wendy pointed out that new IRS regulations probably require us to file Form <br />990's, which we have never done. As a 501 ( c )3 we are also required to have an <br />annual audit, which we have never done. <br />-In addition, Karen Gerrity from SCFD has offered to review our financial reports <br />to make sure we've corrected our problems that SCFD noted in May of this year. <br />We need to create one as soon as possible so we have the necessary time to <br />make any corrections. <br /> <br />VIII. Treasurer's Report <br />-The Treasurer was not present. <br />-Maryan said that as of her last deposit the LCC bank account contained <br />$6,380.39. She also stated that she had been unable to get a check from the <br />treasurer for the performers at the last even she facilitated, and that she paid the <br />performers with cash from the door. <br />-Various issues about our financial reports were discussed and that it may be too <br />much for a volunteer to do. It was suggested that we might hire a bookkeeper to <br />help get the finances straightened out. Don pointed out that BCAA already does <br />that, as well as hire an auditor each year. Don will contact BCAA to get the <br />names of the professionals they use and an estimate of costs involved. The <br />consensus was that once the books are straightened out said Bookeeper will <br />only have to work a few hours each month. <br />-Maryan pointed out that the survey forms we have filled out by audience at any <br />one event are not used past Julie Kovash recording the email addresses and <br />Kathy Martin recording the USPS addresses. There is much valuable information <br />