 So, extra pleasure, sir. Do you want to wait for them or get started? Well, I think the only one we're waiting on is Tom, where we know students is going to be half hour late. Well then, let's call this order at 433. I will. How are you on that? Remembering how to run, we know how to run this. So this is the roll call. Do we actually, because we don't have the clock groups, do you want to go around the table and introduce ourselves quickly? Let's do that. Oh, I'm Brian. I'm the chair now. Thank you so much, everyone. I've been on the board for since 2016, and I've been on one for about a decade. It's a local city. I'm part of that. This is my first in-person meeting. I just want to say that we're actually going to see people. I'm Sheila Conrad. I'm not a member of the board. I'm recording this in behalf of Longmont Public Radio. No, not Longmont Public Radio. Longmont Public Media. I'm Brian Moriarty, I'm the vice chair of the board, and I've been on the board for three years. It's half a year. I'm Dale Conrad. I'm the one who makes the motion all the time. That's my job. And I've been on the board for just three or four years now. Okay, Nicole. Second board meeting. Very nice to have you right here at this meeting. We're here to meet you, Ann. Well, I need you to send it over to me in person. I'm Joanne McCoy, executive assistant, and I'm also your board secretary. Okay, thank you. And I'm the manager of the director after the meeting. Eric, how about the person for the meeting? Is there any way that we can turn that off while we're here? So, everybody's going to have to kind of tell a little bit through this, especially so we can capture our voices on tape. So, we're missing, at the moment, Tom Kurtz and our liaison, Susie, who should be joining us shortly. Okay, next up is publicly invited to be heard, we're invited to be heard, yes. And now, the approval of the minutes. Does everyone have a chance to look over the minutes around the last meeting? The motion, Susie, et cetera. Tom, the minutes. Yes. Hi, Tom. How's your process? I can't reach your comment. And then, Joanne, you're going to have to look over the minutes. Yeah, I mean, you know, you know, the pages. We must have been chatting last night. And it was very interesting in the dynamic and presentation. I hated to leave anything out. I had to miss it, it's like I was right there. Great, we'll move on to the session. All right, so, we have the discussion topic, and we don't have the... Got it. Yep, we're good. All right, so, at first, I'm going to vote in 21, I vote 3-2. This is a collection from a family with a lot of alumni. It's the next mid summary and collection. If you're familiar with Jim and Tom, I'm actually the son of Emma Allison, involved in this, and it was her mother and grandmother's address. The same way, it's a little hard to see here, but it was quite a number of good photographs, including the one on the floor, the meeting period. We'll get that here. And a number of letters. I'm going to vote in 21, I vote 3-3. So, this continues the acquisitions related to a lot more than 50 minutes. We can see a lot, but this is a photo of the slate page that adds the objects. The Mountain Railway Company is a long-run company that designs model railway cars. They donated 18 of them to the museum for each of it. We thought that there was a local company that was designed for this thing. We have sort of a summary of what they gave us. Well, they gave us many pages, and we got all of them. I'm going to tell you a little bit about them. I believe I didn't have to go there to visit them. They're a draft company. I recollect them. 20, 21, 0, 3, 4. So, this is a small book. It's hard to see, but it's in less than 100 pages. That was sent to us by Vance Graham. I cannot remember. Since he produced it, basically just for his family. Normally, we would not accept a mass-produced book, dealing with both the acquired, and the mass-produced. It's a suffering, but I think it was worth it. It's a reminiscence of his family. I think it was worth it. Was his family also here in Long Island? Yes. It goes back a little bit before they came to Long Island to talk about how Vance grew up here. I'd like to read a little bit about it. I believe Vance grew up here in Long Island. 20, 21, 0, 3, 4. This came out of him. We give it all though. It was acquired after he lived in New York. But because we had reached out to either Lou who was in charge of the Chinese New Year celebration in Long Island, trying to find out a little bit more about that celebration, including photographic work, having a celebration in Long Island. If you'd be interested in a dress, this was for about 10th anniversary of the 19th New Year, so it was kind of the last one before the COVID-19 pandemic. Any community in Long Island was also coming here. That exception? I'll motion to approve all of the exceptions. I'll second. Right. Raise your hand for his dress. That's his unit. Do you hear that? I'll just add that the opening reception, which some of you have worked in, Rita was there, and I think just being could imply the whole night long. So, those are really important budget principles. Okay, on to the directors. So, you guys may have heard that we got a new masking order for kids, anybody older than two within anything that's a camp-like setting. So, that doesn't impact us immediately, but it will impact us as we get into the fall with our kids programs discovery days. And maybe by that point there'll be more. We'll see. So, it seems to be changing every single day. I'm sorry. I'm fogging up with my glasses and I can't see without them. So, try to get through this. We should, in fact, I have the latest December architects report that's in my inbox right now. So, we've got the plans for that pretty well wrapped up. And so maybe we'll try to put that on the agenda for the next month, and then we'll do the drawings that we got from the Center for our Master Development Plan. And keep in mind that it's really, as we were talking about last time, these are still very much conceptual drawings. If and when we get to the place that we get it to, schematic, I remember the terminology, that there's still likely a lot of change, so those can change. But we do have the initial drawings for that. So that's super exciting to think about the future growth at the museum. You've probably noticed too that we, through the work that you all did, the land acknowledgement statement was actually adopted by City Council. And the thing that ended up happening, which was interesting, Mayor was actually really opinionated about how we used the statement. He accepted it and voted to adopt it. But he feels really strongly that we don't use it at every event. That by using it constantly, that we actually take some of the meaning away from this statement. So we will be talking about it at our staff retreat next week to try to just understand for ourselves what that means. Because our job really is not to create policy but to follow policy from City Council. And so we need to figure out amongst ourselves how we're going to be using the statement. But it did pass the City Council so that I think that's a really big deal. But thank you all for your help in getting that on the agenda. I think the Office of the Museum has already mentioned we're going to be having a staff retreat next week. So we're going to be talking about really all of those things that we've been up to lately which is the interpretive plan, the master development plan, the work that we've been doing with diversity and inclusivity, where what our lives might look like if we do get a new building, what kind of staff we might need in that case, what kind of budget we need to be looking for in that case. So a lot of planning work is going to be happening during those meetings. And then I include that the Performing Arts Center Visibility Study is still on the radar. You all may remember that when the consultant presented at City Council about the feasibility of a Performing Arts Center, the direction from the City Council was for staff to figure out how to make it happen. And so I'm involved in those conversations because there's a lot of things to figure out. So we're going to be doing what I call feasibility 2.0. So I'll keep you updated on that. But just to maybe backtrack a little bit that in that feasibility state there was a phase one and then a phase two that the consultant's recommending. And that's why we included a 500-seat facility in the early conversations of our master development plan of the museum is that that was the phase two that they had recommended. And so we were trying to see if there was any way that we could help decrease the cost of a big Performing Arts Center by taking on that phase two. But it didn't make any sense. I mean the data that we were able to figure out in terms of the number of parking spots and the number of amount of money and the square footage all of those things just culminated in a conclusion that it didn't make any sense for us to have that kind of big-seat facility happen. So we weren't able to do that. Which is fine. I think it's good to have done the investigation and it's good to have a conclusion on that. I actually all know we had our new development director is working like a dog. She has been writing grants like crazy and she also organized our Long Island 50 opening which I think was a big success and thank you for those that were in the movement. There was music and Eric had the best outfit of everyone who showed up. It was really fun and I just had to say like I felt like people at that event were just so happy and it was hard-working and I to see people's faces was just great because it was a very fun event. She's also working that just a bit of yesterday at NEA grant partnership that we're working on with MOKA and if we get that one, it's $100,000 for that partnership. Next week is an American Recovery Act grant and so we're hoping to do a transition with that proposal and then we're also working on a Colorado sustaining the communities which is also rescue money and that one is a much lower amount of money so for that one we're just working like supplies and things like that. There is a lot of money out there right now because of all of these rescue planned programs that are happening that are best in the advantage of all of them and so it's just been timing with my name on the board that weren't able to do this because otherwise we would never be able to do this but that's all she's been doing. She hasn't done anything else so because hit the ground right now. We've got the follow-up newsletter which is going to be hitting the mail boxes really soon so you'll be able to see exactly what we're all up to and have publication so we've got lots of things going on. We have made plans as if the Delta variant isn't going to impact us. We will see if that ends up happening a lot but if in fact things shut down like they did before then a lot of these things will go back online. We've been through those drill. We know what to do now but right now we're still planning on having in-person programs so it's the monitoring programs to celebrate days and all of those things so that's going to happen because I think everybody is interested in being out into the world. We've also got a lot of marketing going on for our long-run limited-view exhibition The Centers for Professional Business is kind of a typical plan for us in order to get the word out for the exhibit to kind of make sense of that scope of marketing and pictures included there of the banners a couple of links to different news articles that we've been part of which are always going to happen We usually get really good coverage but I'm taller than the long-run readers and it's nice. And then we also recently launched the additional Restored Long-Lot tours on our virtual app and so we already have the walking tour that Eric put together that basically just translated the content that he already had through the app and then now we've added one on the history of the Latino community and one on the history of women in the Long-Lot and so we issued a press release and got a couple of stories about that as well and then we've got a new media partnership with the Long-Lot leader and very much so we'll be doing some digital advertising with things like that so it won't be able to really get some leverage that way and then as you know or being of the KG interview is also one of our legal sponsors so that happens now Some are camped in the Education Department there from the end of July and there were a lot of returning campers and it was super successful this year I think that what we saw is that people really were itching to get out so our summer camps picked very well basically we were when we started our planning we had the number of people in the summer camps thinking that we were going to be indoors and virtually distanced and then as things changed we realized that we could have more people that we could do things outdoors and so we were able to adapt and we added the number of people that we were able to have into those camps so we did way better than we projected that we were going to do within summer camps because of the changes that happened from the time that we had to do the planning until the time that we were executing the actual events which we've just gotten good at all discovery days kick off September 1st in person so that we would be able to continue with that and we've got some scholarships available I have a professor of all of you which is that we did some evaluation at the end of our summer camps and one of the questions that was on that evaluation was about the scholarships and apparently feedback that not a lot people knew about the scholarships so if any of you know anybody who might be interested in summer camps discovery days discovery discovery days at the summer camps we do have scholarships available for those so please help us share the word for anybody who might be interested in a scholarship we've got money to spend so there's no reason not to apply for a scholarship but the next step is really kicking into high gear at this point now that we've got summer camps behind us we've got an exhibit opening planned for October 9th and that's when the possible is going to be as well school tours are going to be kicking back in hopefully I think as long as we're masked at this point we'll be able to do those it's just going to have to do with the schools because the transportation is going to be a challenge and the feedback that we got last year is that it was too much for teachers to click on so we'll see if we get a lot of employees in the school I think we already have one on the books but I think teachers are kind of tapped at this point so we'll see how how that hands up and of course the policies and requirements so as to have access on the policy yeah Jordan, do you have a collection section? so basically we'll pick out the last one and we'll all do that and I hope we have time to pick it out and then also I'll be going to do that and they were all 150 all the time yeah that was that exhibit I mean when you go to look at it you'll see there's a lot of collections in it but there's also a lot of design which requires a lot of labor that was a very labor intensive exhibition so it was very cool and we also have in addition to what's at the museum with satellite exhibits at the rec center the senior center so it's also interesting to promote it but also telling some more specific stories of those locations so the impressionism works with that to the growers without incident which is what we like to see it's all all about working and then you see the list of things there for the auditorium programs the summer concerts they were really well attended we were trying to keep tabs on a number of people that were out in the courtyard so unlike years past we were actually taking reservations they were still free but you had to make a reservation for it and so we were covering around 250 or so for almost all of those concerts and there's not so they did quite well over 1600 people and then more more things coming up we did have a large turnout for the final days of enjoying the pression so that was really great I'm glad that we were able to get that in we were all in the clear wild we had total of 1797 gaps on july 1 to july 17 so that's a good number of course we had 145 visitors on Saturday 25 people attended the one month one 50 opening reception which was a really good number I felt like it was more than that but that's still a good number and there was gift shop sales I've seen some quick numbers lately the 9th of the opening I think we had a $2,000 thing so that was a really good day for us so just number 4,000 for the whole month of july then we had 16 membership ring rules for sales and two giving membership sold in july we've got a couple of new breakfasts people we've got lots of nutrition over the course of the pandemic and now that we've really gotten full load of repairs on iris and parts of the system hopefully it all worked out because we've got some busy september rentals so that'll look like something that we can do in the mood in our public visits we've got removed the blue mile by Leigh Armando Alvarez to the right for the reopening the response has been awesome has the image inspired the original Toronto Colorado Colony plant they welcomed two new missioners onto their team just as we did with the advisory board and then they also started the an audit of the area where we just had content we had Angela's work with the patients to really get that up and running so that people can search where the locations are on the city after the start of public visits and we've got September the 11th the art walk event which is going to be kind of the big city celebration and so and it's really going to be a big present there and we asked the to vote we figured out but how are we opening the time capsule for the 25th anniversary celebration we'll check it out but so one more plug that's actually not on here we have down the advisory board in September so the next appointment is going to be so we'll start recruiting in October for appointments to actually start January oh, recruiting in October appointments in January if you have any friends or colleagues family that you just might enjoy the work that we do I really encourage you to ask them to apply because you have down the stage and we need more people that's it for the report, does anybody have any questions for me? I'm just curious on your staff retreats, are you guys closing for those days so all staff are attending or is it in the basketball possible world we would do that but we just really don't have the ability to do that so our staff will be at the museum and we'll all be going to the innovation center so then there will just need to be a lot of innovation staff got it and then the other thing that just occurred to me because of the work that I do with all of the grants that you're applying for you mentioned that you're hoping to use that for a new position with other grants and with that one are you finding yourself looking to create new positions or programs as opposed to going for operational grants or are there operational grants available that you don't have to create something new in order to apply for them? That's an excellent question so the one that we're doing for the position would be used for anything I have never seen a grant guidelines that are this flexible ever in my life but the reason I'm focusing on that position is that staff is our most urgent and so being able to use it for our most urgent meaning feels like a poo you know what I mean it's also a two-year grant which most of these others aren't in fact most of these others you have to spend money by the end of this year and so the idea is that we would do this as a two-year term-limited position and then be able to find the money in those two years to continue so that's the kind of rationale behind that one for the others really what we're doing is not creating anything but to basically just shift where we're how we're funding so for instance one of the ones I'm applying for right now is educational support and it's only I think $20,000 grant so not enough money really to impact anything else but we definitely can change the way that we're going to fund the things that we buy on the counter so the other one that we just submitted yesterday is for this collaboration that we do with the Evoca and so again that's not creating a project that we went the difference is is that if we don't get the grant the exhibit is going to be like this if we do get the grant the exhibit is going to be like this so it just explains what we're able to do yeah let me think about seems like there's one more but yeah I'm trying not to create work for others that's the challenge and it's so interesting because of course it's a blessing and a curse because there's a lot of money available right now but it's all one type dollars so it's really difficult to build something and sustain something with this money so yeah it's a bit of a challenge yeah I'm finding the same thing we have innovation grants I don't want to innovate, I want to pay my staff right exactly yeah and it just doesn't seem to me that each and every one of these has slightly different guidelines and slightly different focus but none of them in my opinion are part of the problem which is all of these organizations lost a lot of money during the course of the pandemic and they are really struggling to keep going and so they do basically ask you to create the program that's what happened with the NIH grants that Eric worked on is that we had to hire somebody specifically for digital programs and then essentially create programs so it was great because we never would have been able to do the virtual programming that we did without that but at the same time we were tapped we were exhausted so it was hard yeah thank you those are good details Eric's going to give us a tour of the facility if you're interested in that do we have anything else on the agenda do we have a new business or a new business if there's not any more comments I'm glad we're getting to see this facility now so thank you for inviting us this is exciting yeah we opened the building and couldn't invite anybody to it because the toilets didn't work and then a pandemic did so so finally we invite you to our brand new two-year-old building well didn't want to have a motion to adjourn what's a motion to adjourn okay I'm not going to use your I'm not going to adjourn awesome