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Nantucket Cultural Council approves $10,000 in grants after audit finds leftover funds
Summary
The Nantucket Cultural Council voted to distribute roughly $10,000 in grant funding after staff audit uncovered unspent money from prior cycles; the council approved the disbursements by roll call, with one abstention. Members also approved January minutes and heard a resignation and recruitment notice.
Shanta Boyce, a staff member for the Nantucket Cultural Council, told the council during a remote meeting that an internal audit found unspent money from prior grant cycles and proposed distributing a total of $10,000 in grants this year.
The audit identified "$2,459.08 from previous grant cycles that weren't granted out," Boyce said. She said she and another staffer reviewed seven years of past grant cycles to clean up leftover funds and traced an additional balance that left the council with an amount she described as approximately "$8,100" to allocate. Boyce said she could create a supplemental grant from the cultural district of $1,840.92 that "then brings your total, funding to grant out this year, to $10,000."
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