 the acting chair stunt double. All right. I'll let the power go to your head. Yeah, yeah. So welcome to the Lugmont Museum Advisory Board meeting, Wednesday, November 15th. I called this meeting to order at 4.30. Welcome all. I got it. All right. Public invited to be heard. Thank you for having me. I was aware of this meeting because of my lady that I, so I went to the art and sit classes downstairs. And one of the ladies, we started talking and she told me that she was going to be here today. So I don't see her right now. And she told me about this and she told me how can I come here and talk to you guys. So here I am. So first I'm David and I'm a member of the Museum, by the way, my family is. And I'm also part of the Northern Colorado, California pipe band. You guys probably, that's a mouthful, by the way. That's pretty much short for, I'm part of a pipe band that we practice here in Lugmont. Every Sundays we give free lessons for piping, you know, piping, piping is just the highland bagpipes. You guys have Scottish and Irish heritage. And we also give drum lessons. And right now there's a church in over and 14th around that area that we, they host our rehearsals and lessons every Sundays at four o'clock. So my vision, I became part of the pipe band about a year ago. And I always thought that this place, the museum, would be so awesome if we can do those activities here, you know, teaching classes for free to the community, and doing rehearsals. And part of that would be, you know, we could give also like a big show once a year. You guys are aware of what Burns Night is? Burns Night? You know what it is? Okay. So we could host like a Burns Night dinner. It could be a big thing that we can promote. I can also see that maybe one, you know how you guys have exhibitions in and out every six months or so? We could have an exhibition that is about Scottish and Irish heritage. And you know, Estes Park, every year they host like big highland games. And we can get them involved as well here. So me being part of the pipe band, I can see the pipe band growing with this kind of setting, because it would give us exposure, it would give us, you know, more reach to the community. And we volunteer for teaching, you know, we want to promote the arts. So I am here today just to tell you guys about this, but if you guys would entertain us to make a proposal. So I am not one of the leaders of the pipe band. I would have to get them involved in making a proposal if you guys were interested in hearing about this. Because I did not know at first glance, I did not know if this was a feasible thing to do. You know, how open was this if it's even possible. Or if you guys would entertain the idea. If you guys are great, I would like to make a nice proposal with the leaders of the band and present to you guys like what do we need, you know, how can we give back and how can you know, how can we make this happen pretty much. That's all. Over 20 something. I don't know, like not shy of 25. Oh, and you all play together. Yes, we were going to do that last month per rate, Halloween parade, but it got so cold that morning that our instruments, they don't do well in the with the cold, our reeds, you know, and we have a reed instrument, they just get shut down so that we cannot blow into the reed when it's that cold. So we have to cancel the last minute, but if you go to the highland greens, you can catch us there, you know, at this part. Yeah. But anyways, I, I do not know. Here I am, right? requesting this, but all I want to do is like if there's a follow up, first of all, if there could be a follow up to this conversation, who would that person be with? And then if we can set up like a meeting, you know, that's the case. Then who do we set, how do we set the meeting? It could be something next year or something, but the thing is I want to get something going if there's a possibility. If there's none, then we can just very good. David, did we get your contact information phone number, email? Could you provide us that? scribble that down for me. That'd be great. Yes, I like the idea. Right. Our, our spaces are, you know, they are available for rent. And so we don't typically do, you know, free use by the community because we have to be equitable in the community. So, so it would be nice to know how much it would cost to rent out. Let's say, you know, if it's not free, then how much is it? And then if we can do some kind of, maybe he's offering classes. There's a few things to consider to write like this. So if it's rent, if it's going to be like maybe half rent or a fourth rent or something, and then we can maybe do some kind of fundraising to pay for this. Because, you know, we are a non-profit organization, you know, just like you guys are. So, and it's more to promote, I don't know, the arts, you know, the arts, music and heritage. So, certainly glad to get your second info and get you in touch with folks that schedule our spaces and get you the right information. Yeah, these, I can tell you, because we have free space right now, which is a church. If there's rent, the leaders are gonna be like, why pay rent? I, I can see the potential of, you know, I would pay the rent if like, if there's means to, to collect funds, right? I know right now you guys are shooting to raise like a lot of money. And you're getting closer. But I believe so, some of the leaders in the band, they're just like, well, why, why get all this, you know, like, we're fine where we at. I don't see it that way. I see it that we want, I want to grow it. Right now, there's a generation of pipers that are above 60. You know, we need to fill in the next generation of pipers coming in. And that's where the class is coming in. You know, we want to bring that generation of pipers and drummers, you know, kids. Thank you, David. I appreciate you guys having me. So, is it okay? Should I stick around? Well, I would just like to say, if he's offering classes, if they're offering classes free, then you might want to consider that as an equitable bargain for the space in exchange for free classes. It seems like a, seems like a good bargain. Stick around, you might actually end up on this board. Montgomery has a Scottish name from the islands. So, thank you for hearing me out. I've been looking forward to hearing from you guys again. And, yeah, maybe one day, I don't know how that goes up. I live right there. I live like five minutes away. We just segue right in. So maybe, maybe, maybe I see what this is all about. I'm going to ask for approval of the September minutes, September 20th. Do I have a motion to approve? Any changes to the minutes as reported? Did you get a chance to look those over? I have none. We did. We got a half. All right. And then I will ask for a motion to approve the October meeting, which was not a bet. We have to move. We do. We have to. So, there's Linda and I will second that. And there are no changes to it. So, thank you. Do you want to technically vote on each one? Yes, we could do that. Did you want to vote on the September report? Approve. Okay. And the October non-reporting. Okay. Thank you. Separately done. Sessions. All right. Here we go. These are the four donations that we are considering for the collection this month. This collection of papers were found in the walls of 11367. The most interesting, I think, that they booklet called The Rocking Mountain Lysine that was published in 1895. And it is an interesting advertisement of sorts of speakers and musicians and performers that came through Longmont and the front-runner area in 1895 to 1896. That was pretty fun. There's also a no-plot on the cardboard cap. The cardboard cap, not just the ring, which is actually kind of a fine for a Shelley's theory online. So, there are a few more vaguely indescribable letters that we will ask the volunteers. What are the letters about? An excellent question. Yeah. They, many of them have a two and a from, but I was not able to read them through. We will work on that. Do you know how to read script? Slowly. You weren't taught how to write script? I was taught how to write script. Okay. Congratulations. I can read that particular script. Yeah. And it was one of those fun letters where you ran out of papers as she turned the paper inside. So, yeah, finding the beginning and the middle of the end was a little different. Do you know why it was hidden in the walls? A lot of times papers, especially like, a Lyceum like this, were added to walls with a heat-free filter. So, you have scrap paper around it and you have a drafty wall. Well, they didn't rip them off. So, Lyceum in particular is pretty water damaged and torn up. So, it could have been either. But it does, there's nothing salacious, particularly in the letters. So, I, they're not like a trove of letters or something with something intending. So, but you don't know. So, Lyceum, how many papers is there? It's a decent size booklet. I would say probably about 20 pages or so. And most of them have photographs like the cover. This is the cover of the speaker where they were traveling from. It seemed like a publication that was put on by like the agents who was representing the group. Are the letters dated? They are. Why? I don't really know. About the 19th century or early 20th century? Well, yeah, early 20th century for sure. But yeah, I'd have to look back. Absolutely. So, yes, somebody was renovated on 6th Avenue. Reinsulated. Oh, yes. Cutting expenses. I'll do all four of them. Ann Denny is a frequent donor. She did a oral history interview of sorts with Dorothy Doherty and her son Doug. Doherty's an operate, the Doherty Museum on 207. And the audio consent is a recording of the interview and also she carried a tape recorder around the summer open house event that they had in 1995 at the Doherty Museum, which has a number of farm equipment and tractors and large machinery in the building at Mr. Doherty. Lots of cars, guns, animals, pretty interesting place. So it's an interesting snapshot of the Doherty family. This is the quilt that is on display downstairs. This quilt was made in 2014. A year after 2013 floored by Boulder County residents commemorating the blood and commemorating the restoration projects. It's hung in Boulder County building atrium for since 2014. And we were interested in having it in the display downstairs in Kaiser C. And a little bit of accession after the display. Oh, and it came, sorry. The photograph on the left is a book that was produced that explains each quilt square. Each quilt square was made by a different culture and has a course on the page in the book that talks about why the design was picked and not the culture. It's very colorful. It has, you know, meaning. Yeah, it's very local and very yeah. And a certain, it would be interesting to be certain squares, certain squares and stories. That's a, it's a keeper. These are two photographs of Deakin ancestors, over at Deakin and Jesse Stanton Deakin. And we are asking to accession digital scans of these photographs, so not this actually not the image that I took. The originals will be returned to Deakin family. The Deakin family was the Albert and Jesse lived in Malmö in the 1920s and 30s and raised their children. Jesse was the librarian in Malmö. Albert was a lawyer who actually worked in Lyons a good bit. And Jesse was a stanton. They, their family went on to have a photography business and they were re-sodding. So, good, good addition to the collection. That's all for it. Do you have the rights to the, to the images? Cool. So, someone wanted to copy it, they would have the right to do that, or do without the right to do that. We've got language for living photographers where we can share, they retain rights, but we also have rights to. That's a good point. So, the donor is there free, free of charge? Maybe only grants. Grants. And he is an active photographer up in the fastest park. Is the magnetic media the cassette tape, is that transcribed to any other media or is it just in this format? And included a transcription of that paper back in the photograph. But I agree that we should get the audio off of the cassette before it goes to the park. And then we would just test it. We do have a small digital collection here, which is where the scans would go to of the photographs that are on the cloud and which I don't remember the name. I have a question. On this donated media, is it accessible to the public? We have a large collection and a lot of it is available on our website through a database portal. So, you can do research specifically, or most successfully, I think, with the historic photographs. So, the ribbon scans would be quick to see. But people can visit. Yeah, I want to take it out. I'm a software developer. That's my profession. I do the piping as a hobby. But I would like to see this program because I love history and I think I would do another proposal in the future. If I don't like this program, I want to make it better. We are always looking for volunteers. If you'd like to get started, we can start cataloging. Yeah, we'll definitely want to take a look at it. Do we vote on the sessions as a group or individually as a group? Do I have any further discussion regarding them? Well, on the transcript, again, you have the rights to those, so people can vote from it without that. There aren't the same, yes, there's not the same It's already history back its own. Yeah, so the audio did a release form on it. So the audio would be. Is she still alive? She is. You just get a simple statement. Or if you don't have a formal release document, if you have something. We do currently in another air drive. Center informal emails, if you mind. Do you mind if the museum can make this publicly accessible there? I'm sure that was her. You just have, you just have it. Other comments to someone wish to make a motion to acquire these sessions? Bruce? Yes. Second, Linda? All in favor and honestly, very good. We'll move on to reports, but report of the director. You have the full written report. I will hit you highlight under administration. If you want, after our meeting is done, you can check out our new office area, which is just about done in what was our old textile storage area. If you saw that room, you won't recognize it now. That will allow us to move seven staff members over in that area. Make it so that we're not all doubled up on cubicles in here. There is a little room that's like, yeah, it's looking perfect for time. Under exhibits, I will just mention our two upcoming exhibits, picturing the West. We'll open up January 26th, 2024, Black and White 19th century photography. And one thing that makes it unusual. So it's a traveling exhibit. Normally, the traveling exhibits, we bring them in, put them up on the wall. When we were first looking at this exhibit, it was pointed out that all of the photographers in the exhibit are white males. And we started thinking about, well, I'm guessing there were other photographers operating in the 19th century. And so one of our museum assistants, as well as Irene, have worked to find examples of photography by women, people of color. And so we are adding that in a sort of interior section of the gallery. We're called Reframing the West. So you'll see the full exhibit as the traveling exhibit, the very well known names. And then these less are known, but still really powerful images from other paintings. Then coming up in the summer, we are bringing back one of our most popular exhibits ever, our Lego exhibit from 10 years ago. So this year, we're calling it Build, Design and Create with Lego. That will open up June 1st. And it will have both Lego creations created by local Lego builders who are real artists in their own right, as well as a lot of hands-on activities geared kind of around engineering on this one. So building with bridges, building the Paulus tower and seeing how it can survive and earthquake and things like that. So we're hoping this will be a great sort of introduction to hands-on kids' exhibits again at the museum as we prepare to open up our children's gallery. I'm excited about that. I'll skip down to education. I will just mention Day of the Dead. We had another huge success with our Day of the Dead exhibit in celebration of the event day on October 14th, 5,411 people in downtown Longmont. That same day, 500 visitors here at the museum and almost 300 riding the trawler back and forth. The exhibit of alters was up for a month in our atrium. I don't have final numbers on how many people visited that, but it's a great event. This was our 23rd year of Day of the Dead. Under collections, I'll highlight that we have an impurator of history. It was a bold one, which we'll start next Monday. So she'll be replacing me as a curator of history. To develop and diversify our collection, which is one of the things I want to make sure that we do is have our collection represent the full breadth of Longmont's diversity. And then the last thing I think I will highlight is under our capital campaign of development. So as of 11-6, we had raised 6,559. We raised about another 5,000 over the last week or so. So we are slowly but surely getting there. And had some big news last night. The Stewart Family Foundation, which has already committed a $5 million dollar plan, has now said on top of that they will match all donations given to our capital campaign through the end of the year up to a total of $100,000. So it's a great opportunity if you haven't given to the capital campaign. One of the things that as we're talking to foundations, they asked as your entire board supported the campaign, just meeting with the Gates Family Foundation a few weeks ago and they asked that. So it's really important that if at all possible, it doesn't have to be a large contribution. But if every board member can make a contribution, and now that will be matched for all of us through the Foundation. So great news on that front. That campaign is moving ahead. That is where I will leave off on highlights. But if anyone has any questions about anything I talk about, or any of the other things in the director's report, I'll have a question. Under capital campaign, it says that we raised $6,559,425. Is that a typo? No, that is correct. That is correct. If I set another number, I'm going to spoke. So we're now at $6,563,275 when I checked on the computer for this meeting. Very good. Other questions? None. There's no report from the chair. Is there something sent in? So we'll move on to unfinished business. All right, then we'll move on to new business. All right. So the main item under new business is our 2024-2029 strategic plan. This plan was developed by museum leadership team working with the assistant city manager, Sandy Cedar. We had basically a day-long retreat where Sandy, who has done this for groups throughout the city, took us through a whole process to develop a strategic plan. So we did a lot of putting things up on the board about basically what she posed to us was it's five years from now, 2029. The plan is complete. What are you talking about at the end of your party? And those are the kind of things that then we turned into the goals that we have in this document. So we have six different sections within the document. And then under each section, we have a series of kind of the long-term five-year goals with the heading in 2029. And then below that, we have immediate action steps. So these were elements that then for the end of the day, we looked at everything we come up with and we started talking about these are the things we want to address first. These were the highest priorities. And our thought is that this plan will certainly evolve. We will be regularly revisiting it as a museum staff and probably we'll be bringing back annual updates to this board, how it's going. I also want to note that right now it's kind of in a text form. Not that exciting. Our plan is once it is adopted, then we'll turn it over to Jared and Brad or designers and have it designed with some cool graphics and things like that. So it's really something we can be handing out to funders and showing this is a plan that's very much tied in with the broader city goals and also very much thinking about our next five years are strongly going to be focused on expanding and then living into that expansion. That's what a lot of the things that we're talking about. So as a museum considering managing the Kalahann House and the Visitor Center at the St. Star Ranch, those are currently under recreation and recreation and the museum are both under the same division, which is how I like Jeff Briesner and Jeff was at our strategic planning meeting and he was the one that raised those. He said, you know, it's something we need to discuss. We need to decide really as a department does it make sense for those to be under recreation or under the museum. So that's some discussions we have to have in terms of, you know, can the museum support those? Do we have the capacity? Is there funding that comes along with that? Right now, Kalahann House is largely self-funded. It's a rental space and so it's the one that probably makes the most sense because we are a rental space. They are a rental space. It's, you know, a historic house with a whole lot of history that we've worked very closely with. There's one staff member and then there's also and they raise money. Not so much money, but it's the income from rentals. So how do they maintain the flat rental fees? They maintain the facility? There's grants. So there's one person who writes grants? Or sometimes I wrote the last. But they're the kind of grants that we've written in the past to stay as a local fund grant. So, you know, it's certainly a discussion we need to have with recreation, but it was one of the things that Jeff felt like this is a discussion we need to have. You know, one person is a little overburdened. So, I'll take you with a couple of staff. Yeah, yeah, so far you're bargaining. Yeah, and that one, that one's further away, a little bit harder to connect to. It's been a challenging facility, I think, for the city to try and figure out. If you're not familiar with it, you know, it's on Highway 119. It is adjacent to some of the ball fields, but actually kind of hard to get to the San Juan Randy Falls. So it's currently open, very limited hours most of the summer. So that one is, I think, a more of a challenge for us to take on, but to do anything more different. What's the land swap? So, for at least 10 years. So, right now, the city owns a narrow strip of land going all the way to Main Street along Quail. It's about a 50-foot-wide strip of land that came with the donation of the land that became Quail campus. And then a private developer owns the land next to it that actually comes just about almost to the edge of our parking lot. It's maybe 15 feet or so from our parking lot. So, for a long time there's been discussion about developer would have a lot more use of that corner at Main and Quail. And we would really like to have a little more breathing room to expand our parking lot. Developers have come with plans and even probably about 10 years ago presented to this board and said, oh yes, going forward won't be long now. You'll see this. And the city basically requires, as part of that development, that that land swap happens. So, the developer would get some of that land at the corner of Main and Quail. We would get, let's say, would get land adjacent to the existing parking lot. It has not ever come to fruition. And so, that's something we don't really control, but it's just one of those things that hopefully in the next five years it will happen. Well, it sounds like a very successful program. It's really outside. Developers in Bay. Well done. Well done. So, it's outside of our control to something to do, but it was in the list of things we thought, you know, in five years it would be great to have that done and be able to attend to the questions. I have a question. Under the growing audience, I was struck by this. Historically excluded groups have a sense of ownership in the museum. Do you want to speak to that? Who goes? So, there's a lot of different terminology, what people might have once called minorities. And the sense now is that that term is kind of a derogatory term in some ways. So, we use historically excluded to kind of call out that, you know, groups like Latinos and blacks and so forth have at times been excluded by our culture. So, that is what that means. It's kind of a very broad umbrella term. Yeah, very good. Doesn't mean that the museum has ever excluded them necessarily, but our culture. That includes the Scottish. The bagpipes. Yes. I'm not Scottish though. I'm Puerto Rican. Other questions regarding the strategic plan? How is Stonestone a five-year plan? I think a five-year plan is... It's, you know... Yes, I know. It's aspiration. It is, I think, the last plan. By the time we actually got the thing adopted and through everything, we were two years into it and it seemed like we had a year to finish it. So, we wanted to give ourselves a little more leeway. And sort of on the line of the ambition long month, yes, we're setting goals. So, if the board is, as William would ask, if we move to adopt it, so we can move ahead and then have it, you know, officially adopt the plan. I'll make the motion to adopt the strategic plan as outlawed. All in favor? All for us. All right. Thank you. Of course. Thank you. Who's, who's, who's going to be the next that wraps up the plan? So, congratulations. So, was there a discussion about hybrid meetings? So, this came up, I think, in some emails changes over the last month since we had to cancel the October meeting due to lack of quorum, whether there would be more attendance if we had hybrid meetings. I will say having attended other boards that have had hybrid meetings, I personally don't find them to be all that effective from the standpoint of the person who is not in the room. It's just difficult for them to contribute. We have this, you know, fancy you how old camera, which, which helps, but it's still hard for someone who is not in a room to really understand the flow of things. But, you know, it was raised in a sense of whether the board feels like that's a direction. I'm not in favor of them. No, I'm not in favor of them. Not unless we have to go back to the COVID thing. Oh, okay. How many can I be of this? Yeah. Yeah. And I think so that was an exchange that we had with you and Tom. And so the library, our library advisory board does use the hybrid. I think the setup of a room plays a role because I'm a teacher. So I taught hybrid for a year and a half. And you survived. And I did survive. Yeah, half my class in front of me and the other half online. So anyways, I sat on both. So there's been situations where I've had to join virtually. And you're right. It is a little challenging. We have one member who for the time being cannot join us personally. So that's we made that accommodation to include her online. So that was the only reason why I brought that up. So in the event we have somebody who does, so, you know, we recently lost somebody because of health concerns. But if it opens up that opportunity for people to participate, that they might be homebound, you know, that it builds that, you know, that accessibility piece. So, you know, that was the only reason why I mentioned that. And then it allows us to keep corn. But what was the number for the meeting we're required to have on me? Right now we have seven board members. So a minimum is four. Do we need a vote on that? I think I just, I wanted to see what the board since was, and obviously we can certainly revisit it. The members is not able to attend. And that does make me think if after the meeting, I will, I will grab a card. I think you all got the email from Bill Bernhardt. Yes. He has resigned for reasons so willing to sign up a card for them. Nice. And she's been on the board quite a long time. I'm very, very active. And what are the things that we're, what do I need to do? So, yeah, you know what? And you, or you are? No, they'll start recruiting for the new year. So I'll go get you all those dates. Thank you. Because that's what we struggle with. What is the purpose of the board? Just to give, what is the purpose of, the main purpose of the board? So they are an advisory board to the museum. And to city council. So for the museum, they are the one who are authorized, as you saw in this meeting, to approve all donations to the museum and collection. They also approve major policy documents like our strategic plan. What are the qualifications of a board member? See, you need to be a registered voter and within the city of Longmont. So you have to live within the city. All right, let me check. That's easy. Four years in here. We're the power center. Yeah, I am very interested in getting this opportunity for me to do whatever it takes to get on the board. That's great. We need that. I've been working for two years, membership. And you want to fit the bills. But I am very ambitious though. So I'm going to try to push my way in. I mean, not my way in, but like, that's all right. Oh, that's okay. Yes, that's all right. We need it to push. No, no, no. I get contagious with this stuff, right? So I love this one. I want to be a part of it. Yeah. We're not puppets of Eric. Who is the person? They said something about one person. I know Dale, but and one pending or what is that all about? Katie McDonald has also, she will not be able to attend the next three meetings. And her term is then up in June. So she has said, you know, if it makes sense that she would be the chair. No. Callie. So I'd like to meet with Katie and just talk to the girl a little bit more about that. But we may, you know, if it makes sense for her. She's still very involved in other aspects of the museum. I think at some point, it's not included in the strategic plan. It's too late because we voted on it. But I really think at some point in the future, whenever we need a digital archivist, I mean, a digital archivist, someone who can collect digital historical media of all sorts, whether it's outdated, floppy disks, you know, all that kind of stuff. That needs to be preserved and transferred and everything else. I think that would be a real interesting addition that you could put that position to use in all kinds of ways in digital curation and exhibits in all kinds of stuff. Yes, we have one very large digital collection that we really haven't tapped at all. Time's calls, photo archives from, I think, about 2005 to 2010 or whatever. And actually, the media of photographers now, I mean, it's all digital now. Everything's all digital. So you need a digital, anyway. I think I was saying that I was on the board before a decade ago, but, you know, there are lots of things. Would that be before the collections community? Probably, yeah. That scene has to really take you to an audience. We have a lot of challenges in the next few years as far as making sure that our expansion is staffed, you know, we're going to hire more exhibit staff and staffs and a lot of things. So one thing that is on this media plan is prioritizing staff and so that's going to be a conversation that we'll be having in the coming months is looking at all of our staff needs and starting to prioritize and then making the case for those both city council and also finding ways to be able to generate more earned revenue. December meetings. So traditionally, this board has canceled the December advisory board meetings, since it usually falls fairly close to Christmas time. So unless there's folks that are really raring to have a meeting on December 20th, I know we will usually pretty short-handed on that in any way. I will be out of town in January, so I just wanted to put that out there. Glad to be here December. Well, you can show up in December. I could. Do we need a vote on the December meeting? We would need to vote to cancel the meeting more. Yeah, yeah. We continue to have it. All right, I'll open that to the floor. I move that we cancel it for December. You have a second. Third, I'll make it unanimous. All right. Comments from board members. Hearing none, I will make a motion to adjourn this meeting. Thank you. Well done. Second, second groups. Yes, second. Well done. Go grab a card and sign that for them. We're going to go check out your new.