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Commission awards $1,500 scholarship after single applicant year
Summary
The commission's scholarship subcommittee recommended and the commission approved a $1,500 award to the sole applicant (named in meeting as Aisha Bettach); commissioners noted low applicant numbers and discussed outreach challenges.
The Middletown LGBTQI+ Commission voted to award its $1,500 scholarship to the single applicant in this year’s cycle. Beth Shapiro, chair of the scholarship subcommittee, reported the committee received one application and recommended awarding the full $1,500 to that candidate.
Beth said, "So, unfortunately, we only had 1 application this year," and after briefly pausing to confirm the applicant’s name in the packet, the commission recorded the recipient as Aisha Bettach. The motion to award the scholarship was moved by the subcommittee chair, seconded, discussed briefly (including outreach efforts to local high schools and Wesleyan), and passed unanimously by voice vote. Commissioners discussed how to broaden outreach in future cycles after noting that application counts have declined over the committee’s three years of operation.
The commission asked staff to coordinate contact and payment logistics with the Chamber for scholarship disbursement and to consider additional outreach strategies for next year.
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