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Members Reconsider WHCC Grant Action
At their annual meeting last Saturday, foundation members referred a grant request for $7,500 for the Weston History & Culture Center to the foundation board to return a recommendation to the members for consideration. This is the standard procedure for a request of this size and not in a budget previously approved by the members.
Club Immediate Past President and foundation Trustee Amy Jenner presented the request to members at the annual foundation meeting. She was presiding in place of acting foundation President Keith Johnson, who was not present. The item did not appear on the agenda that Amy emailed to the members on April 25.
The members amended Amy's motion to require repayment of any foundation grant to the extent WHCC may eventually receive a portion of the currently terminated $25,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Weston Historical Society. The foundation members passed the motion as amended.
In subsequent discussion, some members expressed doubt about the size and appropriateness of the request, as well as a lack of prior notice and adequate information about the state of the foundation budget. A motion to reconsider the motion passed, laying the motion on the table and referring the matter to the foundation board for return to the membership with the board's recommendation to the members for any future action.
This article appears only in the edition emailed to Weston Kiwanis members.
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