 Okay. Well, I guess if it's okay with everybody, we'll go ahead and start the meeting and if Susie comes in later, that'll be good. So I'd like to call the meeting to order. And I think as far as roll call, everyone's here except for Bryden and our city council liaison and Eileen. So the first thing I'd like to do is welcome Kali Cordova, who is our new board member. She was appointed yesterday, so she's brand new. But we're very happy that that you're here, Kali. So thank you for joining us. In addition, we have a member of the public joining us tonight. Hi, Sheila. Please introduce yourself and give your full name and address. And then you have the floor. Please go ahead. I didn't know I was going to have the floor. My full name is Sheila Conroy. I'm retired and live 518 Gay Street in Longmont. And I do a little bit of writing for the Longmont leader. And I usually review museum Thursday nights and anything else, and the reopening. And I think that Longmont is very lucky to have a facility like the museum. And I admire you all and congratulate you all for keeping it keeping it going in these terrible times. So I'm just here to see what's on the cars and what's going to be happening. Great. Well, welcome. And thank you very much. And if you have questions or comments, as far as I'm concerned, you're free to raise your hand if you'd like to add a comment at our appropriate times. Okay. Great. Thank you. Hi. Welcome, Susie. Hello. Since you weren't here, Susie, just so you know, we do have a new board member. Well, you probably do know since you were at the meeting yesterday, but Callie did join us. So she's here with us as well. So I guess the first thing we should look at is the minutes from our previous meeting. Anybody have any questions or corrections for that? If not, is there a motion to approve? I so move. Dale. Thank you, Dale. Is there a second? Chris seconds. Sorry, I didn't see who that was. Chris. Chris. Great. Thank you, Chris. And all in favor of approving the minutes from last meeting, say I and raise your hand or any opposed. Okay. Dale, are you opposed or is that a delayed reaction for the approve? Well, no, that was I'm I don't know what's wrong with my transmission, but no, I'm not opposed. Okay. Thank you. So the minutes are approved unanimously. Thank you all. So we'll just keep on going here and look at the accessions there, if you would. All right. Well, we could start the PowerPoint. So we can go ahead to the next slide. So we only have two accessions this month. The first one is a single abstract of title. This is a pretty standard legal document for tracing ownership of properties. And very handy if you happen to own that particular property. It tells you everybody who ever owned it or had any kind of a transaction in it. So when these when these are offered to us, we usually accept them. But anyway, this one is actually for land at 911 Kimbark Street in Longmont. Any questions on the abstract title? If not, we'll go on to the next slide. So this is a little more unusual. I know that Dale Bernard is familiar with Tom Taylor. I don't know if anyone else on the board is, but he was born and raised in Longmont. And then eventually went to California, became an artist, became very involved in the conceptual art movement and produced a number of different pieces in different media and so forth. And this is a piece of conceptual art completed between 1969, 1971. The total piece, which I couldn't even really photograph because it takes up more room than I had. But it is 100 individual sheets of photo stat, essentially, like a like a photocopy. Done by a number of different artists. Tom did some of them, but friends of his and other folks did them as well. They are around the concept of consider your confines. And people took this in all kinds of different directions. So I gave some sort of generic overviews and then a few individual scans of this. Tom Taylor now lives in Pueblo West. He's in his 80s. And approached the museum about, did we want this artwork? And after some discussions back and forth, we thought, well, yes, not only is it by an artist that has a lot of Longmont connections, but there are actually a lot of Longmont elements within this artwork. For example, it's a little hard to see, but the image in the lower left is actually photocopies of historic photos relating to his ancestry. So that one of the gentlemen pictured is Amos Milais, who was an early Longmont pioneer. The house, one of the houses that the family was connected to. Just a lot of different Longmont elements. And as well, it really does kind of document that time and history of conceptual art and so forth. So it's an interesting piece. I'm curious if people have questions about it. So I will also just note for full disclosure that the artwork does include male nudity and some profanity. So that is just one of the things for you all to be aware of. Any comments, questions, concerns? Maybe we should have had cookies. I might just add one other thing to Eric's comments. And I'm sorry I didn't read through all of the things that you had written there. But correct me if I'm wrong. I think he has exhibited this work at the museum before. Yeah, very good point. He actually that was the first email he said. This work was first exhibited at the Longmont Pioneer Museum as it was then in 1971. So 50 years ago. At that point the museum was about three buildings ago. It was in a building in downtown and it's no wonder even there, I believe. And so it's sort of fascinating. He was actually able to get us the same edition. It's a 100 edition work. He was able to get us the same edition that the museum actually exhibited in 1971, edition number 30. So kind of a fascinating element of Longmont Museum history as well. So yeah, thanks, Kim, for reminding me. Anybody else have comments? I was just going to say I think it's something worth preserving, right? I mean, that's really what the work of the museum is, is to collect these documents and these works and we're preserving them for whenever we may find that we want to display them or have them available. So I think it's something that makes sense for the collection. Great. Anybody else? Okay. Thank you, Eric. All right. So do I go ahead? No, I was just asking for if they needed a motion or yep. If I move to accept the a sessions. And is there a second? This is Rhea. I second. Thank you, Rhea. All in favor? Raise your hand, wave your hand. And opposed. Anyone opposed? Great. So that accession is approved. Great. Thank you. And then one other piece of acquisitions news that I'm kind of excited about. We are pretty certain that we will be able to acquire the first vials of vaccine used at both Longmont United Hospital and Longspeak UC Health Hospital for the museum's collection. So this week through Dan Iman with the city emergency management and both hospitals have indicated that they are interested in doing that. So that is something you will be seeing at a subsequent board meeting. Wow, that's great, Eric. Thanks. Anything else cool coming up that you'd like to share? There's other people that have expressed some interest, but none of them are quite definite enough that I can feel like I can really share things right now. So those seem pretty certain. There may be an article in the paper tomorrow about that. Great. Thank you. Kim, would you like to give your director's report? I would love to. Thank you. And thanks, Eric. I think I want to give Eric some props for what is very probable with this, the COVID vials, because he was the one that basically reached out to try to make sure that we got this. I think that Eric's been doing a great job of trying to understand what and how we can document this moment that we're living through, which is just bizarro world. And Eric's got a big job here. So I thank him for reaching out to make sure that we get some of that stuff represented in our collection. So props to Eric. This is actually kind of a long report. And so I don't want to go through every word of it, because I think partly you guys all know that we've been doing tons and tons of online programming and virtual programming. So a lot of that is what you see in this report. I don't mean to diminish all of it, but I think that I'll let you guys read through some of those details on your own. I want to try to focus on more higher level things on the report. And then if you've got questions, just raise your hand. I'm going to read like this. So maybe you should say something so I get noticed. But so I'll start at the beginning there that we reopened as of yesterday. So we've been closed for a couple of weeks based on Boulder County going to red. But what ended up happening, and there was a lot of folks who were very active about this at the state level in terms of museum advocacy, that what ended up happening is that the state actually created a new category. And that new category is basically educational institutions. And so it's museums are mentioned specifically, galleries, zoos, and a couple of other organizations. And that basically that new category gives us the ability to be open even when we are considered and read in the dial for COVID. And so with that new designation, we are allowed to be open. We're limited to 25% or 25 people maximum per room. And so that gives us the ability to be able to open our galleries, which is a really great thing, I think, especially for being able to honor the exhibit that we have right now, which is the Dia de los Martos and Tony Ortega. And we, you know, we're not getting great numbers, we're not getting huge crowds coming in, but we are getting a few people trickling in and I think it's impactful. So that's a really good thing. We did the actual order took place a week ago, Tuesday, and we delayed for a little bit just so we could make some modifications to our front desk and make sure that we've got the right cleaning schedules. And so we opened officially yesterday back back to our regular unusual schedule, which is Tuesday through Saturday, nine to three. So we're open right now, which is great. And then we'll see how it goes because I think that we are being very responsive when it comes to what's happening with case counts and what's happening with the state orders. So none of us are under some illusion that this is going to stick for long, but we're doing our best to make sure that we can provide services and be able to open the doors to the museum. I think it's important. So that's probably the biggest news that we have going on right now. We also are eligible for some relief money that was part of the session that just ended with the state that some relief funds. And so we'll see exactly what happens with that. I have only dug into it very, very minimally so far to understand exactly what the requirements are. We may not be eligible. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Eve. Yeah. Sorry. I had a quick question. I just wanted to go back to being open again. Do you have to have reduced staff in order to also meet the 25% requirement? The staffing requirement is also at 25%. And for us, I think that's 10 people. Even through this whole thing, we very rarely have needed to have more than that in the building. And so we've been really pretty good about that. The thing that has changed is regulations as it relates to masking. And so basically what used to be the case is that if you were with someone who had coronavirus, if you were exposed, if you had a mask on, you were within six feet, it wasn't considered an exposure. What has changed is that whether or not you have a mask, if you are within six feet of someone and for more than 15 minutes in a 24-hour period, that's considered an exposure. So there has been some changes in terms of what's considered an exposure. But ultimately, it's a big building and there are not that many people that are required to work closely with each other. So we haven't really hit a threshold where we felt like we were in danger at all. Okay. Great. Thank you so much. I apologize for interrupting. Any time. Just interrupt. But I am reading over here. So if I don't see you, pipe up. Okay. So let's see. What else was I saying? Okay. So the relief bill. So like I said, I've only dug into it ever so slightly. The thing that I don't quite understand is whether or not we are eligible for this money. And I'll find that out more lately. But basically what I understand is that there is a pot of money and it's going to expire once everybody applies for it and it gets distributed. So I think time is of the essence. But I'm working with the accounting department to understand exactly what we need to submit for that. So I'll keep you informed about whether or not we actually submit for that application. SCFD is actually really good news because the revenue that they've been seeing is now off only by like 3%. It's less than 3%. So if you recall what they had originally estimated for our distribution was about $125,000 and with these new estimates, it will probably get more like $170,000. So I think that what we're seeing is that the economy actually is doing okay during all of this. People are still buying and people are still spending money even when they can't go to the restaurant and that sort of thing. So that's good news for us. As you recall, one of the things that we had outlined in our strategic planning is that we wanted to be able to hire a fund development manager with the funds that we were getting from SCFD and that ad change form to be able to hire for that position is making its way through approvals. I don't have approval yet to hire for that position, but I am optimistic about it because I think it seems to be making its way through the approval process. What that would be able to do for us is, you know, a development person would expand the kind of launch that we've gotten from this SCFD dollars. We would be able to target individual donors in a more focused way and we would be able to focus on grants because Eric's been our grant writer for the last year basically. So that's not even his job. So we would really be able to expand what we are doing in terms of fundraising if we're able to hire for this position. So I'm super optimistic about that and I think that once we are able to get approval for that again, I'll let you know. So theoretically that would be a January 1 hire depending on when that approval happens. And then the other thing based on that master development plan if you might recall is that we had a master development plan in there for an expansion of the museum and we have been able to hire studio architects and so we're underway trying to just look at planning for an expansion of the museum and what that will give us is just tools to understand what will be required. And so that master development plan is going to give us some sense of like how we can expand and how much it's going to cost to expand. And so we started that a couple of weeks ago. I've got a meeting on Friday to understand where the architects are in the process and we hope to be able to have some more concrete information from them pretty soon actually. And then other things on the list but again feel free to ask if you've read through this and you've got any questions. But I just want to point out that the exhibits that we're currently working on are really quite exciting. Coming up in January we've got enduring impressions which is a impressionism exhibition from a collector in Denver. And so that's going to be opening in January and we're super excited about that. I think it's going to be a pretty much a blockbuster if you will. And then of course the Longmont 150 which Eric is really involved in and we're going to be bringing in collections from our own collection. We're going to be bringing in lots of stories and lots of history from the book. And so we're super excited about bringing that exhibition online. And then let's see a couple of other things. Again I mentioned that Eric's been writing a lot of grants lately. One of the things that he's written a grant for recently is to move textile storage. So as a reminder to some and maybe as new information to others when our new museum collection center was opened or was built that essentially was the big 3D collections. And so all of that stuff was moved out and unpacked and has been photographed and catalogued and lots of work has been going on with that collection. But what remains at the museum is our textile storage. And so we need to move those collections out to that new storage space too. But we don't have the money to do that because it's not cheap. And so Eric's been writing a lot of grants to be able to pull that off. And so we should find out soon. We'll hear next August whether or not those get funded. And then I think that once that happens there'll be a kind of a domino effect of like something else fills in the space of textile storage that we have now probably office space probably some storage space. And then we'll start really filling in the gaps based on that master development plan that we're working on with the architects. Let's see what else do we have. I think that one of the things to make sure that everybody is aware of is that during the coronavirus there've been a couple of different things. I'm sure I've mentioned this before but our staff has been really helpful in terms of citywide needs. And so Ann Maka created a big project for mask making and then our exhibition skies have created a lot of plexiglass barriers. And so that work is actually continuing because of what has happened with the Longlatt Housing Authority. So with this we've basically brought on the functionality the city has brought on the functionality of the Longlatt Housing Authority. And so Jared and his team are creating more plexiglass barriers for the folks in those different facilities. So it's kind of it's been wonderful to be able to support some of the other needs in the city. And the fact that we've got this equipment at the museum has been really helpful. So we're trying to also purchase a laser cutter for the exhibitions department and I think that that's going to be a piece of equipment that'll probably do kind of a similar thing that this is a piece of equipment. The way that we've been able to do the plexiglass barriers is that through our shop bot, through our CNC cutter. And so this laser cutter I think would be a piece of equipment that would also really expand what we are able to do and what we're able to offer to the city. So I think it would be a great piece of equipment for us to have. So we're trying to work through that approval process as well. And I don't know if all of you had a chance to sign on during our holiday webathon, but it was a really quite fun program. And our benefactors, the Stuart Family Foundation has agreed to match the donations that we received through the telethon through our annual giving campaign and through Colorado Gibbs. So they're matching up to $100,000 through the end of the year. So if you know anybody who's interested in donations to the museum, their money's going to be doubled through the Stuart Family Foundation. And so that was something that was a surprise and really super exciting to hear. So they were very active in the program that night. And I think it was super fun. They were just and put together a really exciting event that night. It was lots of conversations and music and a lot of fun. So I think he pulled off the very best virtual holiday program we probably could have ever done. Let's see, what else? The Eric's book that we've referenced now a couple times, here it is. If you don't have your copy or if you need more copies, the museum has it. We have really had great response to this. In the first couple of weeks, we had 450 copies sold. We do have, even if the museum is closed, we have curbside delivery service for folks who want to buy things at the gift shop, and that's one of them. And so the response from that book has been unbelievable. So again, thank you, Eric, for I know that was basically a year of your life that you put into that book. And it's gorgeous and it's just amazing. So thank you so much. And then finally, let's see, things happening with our art and public places program that I wanted to make sure that I mentioned because you all may know about the mural that was at Ninth and Alpine that was tagged kind of repeatedly. And the artist has been working really closely with Angela Brill, our art public places as administrator to be able to remediate that. And so there's some images there of what he is going to end up doing to be able to repair that. And I think that everybody is very excited about the things that he's going to be able to do. And what's going to happen is that they're going to paint it, and then they're going to seal it. And this kind of damage won't happen again. So we're very, very excited about that project finally coming to a conclusion. So Kim, it'll say the Longmont together. That's the design that'll be on it. Okay. Yeah. It was basically what ended up happening. I don't know if you've seen that mural, but basically what had happened is that in the tunnel, there was a lot of graffiti. And the kind of flanking on the outside of it, there was less damage. And so what he did is that he really tried to create a new design that would kind of unify that internal, that inside the tunnel piece of it. So that's what he came up with, which I think is really great given the context of all of it, because he is actually a very community dedicated artist. And so for him to come up with this new design, I think is really pretty fabulous. Great. Where is a gather enough people going? I don't know if they know the answer to that yet. They have to move it based on some redesign that's happening. And I don't know that they have a final conclusion about where it's going to end up. Is that because of redoing the way the water flow is? Yeah, exactly. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you guys. I'm available if you do. Thanks, Cam. Okay. So I have one thing of old business. In August, we kind of already did this, but we've been asked by the city clerk's office to establish our 2021 official agenda posting places for the record. So I just want to put out that what the plan is that they are the Civic Center West entrance bulletin boards and the Longmont Museum and on the museum's website. So like I said, we did talk about this in August. But if I could have a motion to approve these locations, we'll just do this again for the record. This is Chris. I saw move. Thank you, Chris. And is there a second? Thomas, thank you very much. All in favor? Opposed? That's a unanimous approval of those posting sites. Thank you. And then I do have one piece of new business unless somebody else has anything that's old business. I just wanted to mention that there is going to be a new member orientation, new board member orientation on Thursday, February 4th from six to eight. It'll be a virtual program. And Michelle Gomez, the city will reach out to all the new board members. And then also if any of you who are not new board members would like a refresher or didn't go to orientation before, if you're interested, just let Joanne know and then she'll get an RSVP to Michelle and get you the, so you can get the appropriate link. Does anybody else have any new business? I want to thank all of you. And before we adjourn, I'd like to wish everybody a happy holiday. And it's kind of hard to believe that they're here already, but they are. So is there a motion to adjourn? This is Rhea, motion to adjourn. Great. Is there a second? You know, if no one seconds, we have to stay here all night. I think Thomas has got his hand up the second. All right. Thank you, Thomas. All in favor of adjourning. Thank you all. And we'll look forward to seeing you in January. 2021. Yeah, I know. All together. It'll be great. I hope so. That would be nice. I'm looking forward to that. All right. Thank you, all of these, everyone. Thanks for joining us, Kelly. I'm so glad to be here with us. Thank you for joining us, Sheila.