SECA Commission — Naperville, IL
Date: 2018-09-06

400 S. Eagle Street
 City of Naperville Naperville, IL 60540



 Meeting Agenda

 SECA Commission

Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:30 PM NEU




A. CALL TO ORDER:

B. ROLL CALL:

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

D. OLD BUSINESS:
 18-719 Approve the SECA Commission meeting minutes of May 22, 2018


E. NEW BUSINESS:
 18-720 Direct staff on format and logistics for the series of upcoming annual
 SECA Grant Fund workshops

F. ADJOURNMENT:
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400 S. Eagle Street
 City of Naperville Naperville, IL 60540



 Meeting Minutes

 SECA Commission


Thursday, September 6, 2018 5:30 PM NEU


A. CALL TO ORDER:

 Chairmen Kovener called the meeting to order at 5:32 p.m.

 .

B. ROLL CALL:
 Present 10 - Jaqueline Clermont, Vicki Coletta, Shannon Greene Robb, Richard Grimes, Donna
 Kearney, Melvin Kim, Gary Kovener, Deana Losurdo, Colleen McQuillan, and Cindy
 Lo (Student Member)
 Absent 2- Rebecca Obarski, and Ganesan Narayanan (Student Member)




 Staff present:
 Dawn Portner, Special Events Coordinator

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

 No speakers under Public Forum

D. OLD BUSINESS:

 Approve the SECA Commission meeting minutes of May 22, 2018

 A motion was made by Greene Robb, seconded by Kim, approved. The motion
 carried by the following vote:

 Aye: 9- Clermont, Coletta, Greene Robb, Grimes, Kearney, Kim, Kovener, Losurdo,
 McQuillan, and Lo (Student Member)

E. NEW BUSINESS:

 Direct staff on format and logistics for the series of upcoming annual SECA Grant Fund
 workshops
 At the chairman's request, and to avoid any issues, the Commissioners tested
 electronic devices and wifi access in advance of the upcoming series of
 workshops.

 The Commissioners requested staff review the following applications to make
 sure they were recent and completed according to SECA guidelines:

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 - Fair Lady Productions
 - DuPage Symphony (Concert Season)
 - Naperville Women's Club (Young Adult Art Contest)

 Lorsurdo entered the meeting at 5:57 p.m.

 The Commission discussed how many years some applicants have been
 receiving SECA grant funding and how these events and programs should be
 funded in the future. The Commission also discussed the appropriateness of
 allowing salary requests if the salary was connected to a specific program or
 event and decided that it was too late in the CY19 cycle to make any changes or
 recommendations. Both the number of years and salary prohibition will be
 discussed prior to the beginning of the CY20 SECA grant fund year.

 The new point system was discussed and the Commissioners reviewed some
 challenges with the points as well as the two program evaluation sheets.

F. ADJOURNMENT:
 Commissioner Kearney made a motion, seconded by Commissioner Clermont to
 adjorn the SECA Commission meeting of September 6th at 6:43 p.m. The motion
 carried by the following vote:

 Aye: 9- Clermont, Coletta, Greene Robb, Grimes, Kearney, Kim, Kovener, Losurdo,
 McQuillan, and Lo (Student Member)




 /S/ Dawn Portner
 Dawn Portner, Special Events Coordinator




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