 Okay, well, I'm going to call this meeting to order and I thought we could combine the roll call with the board member introductions. If that sounds okay to everybody. I am Eve Lacey I am the current board chair and I have been a museum volunteer for some years, and I've been on this board for a number of years as well so I welcome all the new members and everybody else. Nice to see you. It's been a while. So if you don't mind, I'll just call out names if we could start that way. Kim, would you mind introducing yourself first please. Happy to thanks Eve welcome everybody. I am Kim manager and the director of the Longmont Museum. And we haven't met in a long time so it's so nice to see you all hi. Thank you very much. And since we're on the administrative people. Eric, would you like to introduce yourself. Hi everyone. I'm Eric Mason I'm the curator of history here at the museum. And so I usually present about the things that the museum is proposing to bring into the collections. Great, thank you. Joanne do you want to go next please. Hi I'm Joanne McCoy my title is executive assistant, and I am your secretary. Perfect. And then just to stay with the staff. I mean would you like to introduce yourself. I'm the registrar at the museum. I am sitting in and will help Eric out. And then I don't know in no particular order Dale would you like to introduce yourself please. Sure I'm Dale Bernard I've been on the board for two, three years I don't know, but I've been a volunteer at the museum for a long time, and it's dear and near to my heart so it's great to see you all after so long. Thank you Dale. Briden would you like to introduce yourself please. Hi, my name is Briden Cook I've been on the board since I believe 2016. That's it. It's been a long couple of years. Chris, would you like to introduce yourself please. Looks like you're in a car. I am in a car. This is Chris Bernard. We're driving from Little Rock, Arkansas to Amarillo, Texas on our way home. I've been on the board I think a little over a year. I can't remember. Prior to that I was on the public places commission for about 10 years. Great. Thank you very much. Ria, Ria would you unmute yourself. Yeah, great. Thanks. Hi, Ria Moriarty. I've been on the board for about a year. Great. Well, thank you. And then we have two new members with us today. Megan, would you like to start. Oh, sorry. I'm Megan Arnold. I'm new. As mentioned, I'm excited to be here and be part of the museum advisory board. This is Mia. She's three weeks old. Oh my God. So we're going to be feeding and diaper changing every so often, but it's great to meet you all. Great. Thank you so much. And Thomas last but not least, you need to unmute yourself. You're right. I'm Tom Kurtz. I'm a new appointee to the board. I've been in Longmont a little over four years. And I'm looking forward to working with all of you. Great. Well, thank you so much for joining us. And then I guess Susie Hidalgo faring our city council is on. She's either going to be late or not with us today. Is that true? That's what I heard earlier. That's correct. She had a conflict today. Okay. So she might, she might pop in at the end of our meeting. We don't know. Okay. Well, that's great. And thank you very much. And now I guess we'll get on with the start of everything. Everybody has a board packet. I'm assuming to look at. And so the next thing I think on the list is for an election of officers. And I guess my question is the nominations are now in order for the office of chairman. Do we have any nominations for chairman? I would like Dale, I would like to nominate Eve Lacey as chair of the board. Thank you. Are there any other nominations? Okay. Eve Lacey has been nominated. So what we'll do now is vote. So all in favor of electing Eve Lacey as the chairman, please say I and wave your hand. And we may be good a second on that nomination first. I second. This is Chris. I second. Depending on which Roberts rules you read, you don't have to have a second. We can just be doubly set, right? Yes. Good to go. Like there's such a big competition for this particular position. Okay. All in favor of electing Eve Lacey as chairman, please say I and wave your hand. Hi. Hi. Okay. Are there any opposed? Chris, you have to put your hand down unless you're opposed. Oh, sorry. Yes. I mean, if you're opposed, it's okay. No, I was ready for my name to be called. All right. So because it was unanimous, Eve Lacey is elected chairman. So now we would, I would like to take nominations as our vice chairman. Do we have a nomination for vice chair? Dale, I would like to nominate Bryden Cook as vice chair. And I will second that. Are there any other nominations? Okay. So we're going to vote. So all in favor of electing Bryden Cook as the vice chair, please wave and say I. Hi. Thank you very much. Opposed anyone opposed. Okay. So, at this point, Bryden Cook has been elected as the vice chair, which is yay. So that's great. Thank you very much. And then our secretary is Joanne per our bylaws. She is the staff member who's a secretary. So thank you very much Joanne for doing that. If she's ever gone, we have to find someone else to take the minutes. So got to be as nice as possible to Joanne. Okay. Do we have any public to be heard? I'm not aware of that. Joanne, have you heard anything about any public? Hang on. Let me check my email quick like and just make sure that no one emailed in. Yeah, I see no one that wants in the meeting. We have a public invited. Alrighty. So then we're going to move on to approval of the minutes, which you should have all gotten. And it's very strange, but it's from February. So I hope you had a chance to, to look at it. Does anybody have any remarks or did anyone notice any issues with the minutes? If so, we've just raised your hand and we can talk. Okay. Crickets. Okay. Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes? Motion to approve the minutes. Okay. I'm bright and thank you very much. Do we have a second? This is Rhea. I second. Great. Thank you very much. All in favor of approving the minutes, please. Wave your hand. Say I just wave your hand. Hi. Hi. And anyone opposed. Okay. So the minutes from February. 19th are approved. Okay. So we're going to move on to the next session. So we're going to move on to the next session. Okay. So this is going to be one of our shortest meetings on record, except for the preliminary stuff we had to do before the meeting started. So Eric, would you mind walking us through the. Accessions that you have for us. All right. We'll have a PowerPoint so we can all be. Looking at the same thing. So staff, we have quite a number of accessions since we have not met since February. This is the August 2020 proposed accessions to the museum collection. Go to the next slide. So the first item on the list is. Name plates from the old city council chambers. So. I don't know of all the board is aware that city council chambers underwent a major remodeling over the past few months. And. We wanted to preserve a little bit. From that. So decided these were pretty easy to store and kind of represented what. A little bit about what the old city council minutes. The council chambers looked like. Any questions on this accession. Move to the next slide. So this is basically a notebook. This is a full of slides. These were found after channel eight moved out of the Carnegie building. So we're guessing they probably were created by. Longmont cable trust in its early years. They're from the about 1983. And what's nice about them is they do have. A lot of different. Like every church in town, all of the schools in town. They do have a real history of what. At that point in the eighties. So a nice kind of snapshot of what. What. Longmont looked like at that point. Any questions about this accession. Here in time. We'll move on to the next slide. So. This is annual report for the city of Longmont. 1966. It didn't do an annual report every year, but in the 60s they did this one, it kind of documents a point when Longmont was really beginning quite rapid growth, and it has a number of photographs as well as descriptions of the services that the city provided at that time. Any questions on this accession? Eric, I had one question. How long is this, I mean, how many pages or how long is the report? It is, I believe it's a, you can see it's like an 11 by 17 report, so I think it's an eight-page document. Okay, I just wondered if it, you know, how long it was. Yeah, it's not super detailed, just kind of the highlights. Any other questions? If not, we'll have the next slide. So these are photographs of a fire at the Greenant Turf Products Plant, 2389, part of Highway 66. It was taken by the donor who owned the farm right next to that Turf Products Plant. So one of the nice things about photographs that were taken by the donor is as part of the donation, then we would also acquire the copyright to the photographs, so an added bonus to that, and they show both the fire and then the aftermath, the destruction of the plant. Any questions on this accession? All right, we'll have the next slide then. So these are some items that basically came from Ann Matlack, who was a local historian in Longmont. Her father was a doctor, well-known local family. So one of them is a photograph of her. We didn't really have too many photographs of Ann, so I wanted to add that to the museum's collection. Another is an early edition of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Burr, and the third is a small, it's a little hard to tell in the photo, but it's a thin, hardback book called Hygiene Portrait of Small Town. Got a lot of color photographs inside of it, and we have one copy that we've been using for reference, but for small, wrong, kind of rare local history books like this, I'm trying to now add a copy that goes into our collection just so that we have one copy that's really not being handled and damaged by the public. So that's why those three things are in this, in this accession. Any questions on this accession? All right, we'll move to the next slide, or that may be the last, no, we've got one more. So this is kind of an unusual one. This is one that someone in another state found at a yard sale kept for a long time, and we've actually been getting quite a lot of these, quarantine cleaning inquiries. People are finding things and contacting us. So this is a photograph, no information on the back. The only thing we have is the envelope that it was in, which said it was from 815 Main Street, and it's postmarked December 23, 1914. So we don't know our future. We do know that more than likely it came from Longmont, and this is a Longmont family. Interestingly enough, 815 Main Street doesn't actually appear in the 1916 City Directory, which is the closest one that we have. So I weren't able to really trace it down anymore from that. But we haven't done a huge amount of research, thought we would bring it to the Board, see what your thoughts were on it, and if it's worth bringing in and then doing additional research, see if you can find out anything more about this. Well those are the days when you just had the town and the state where you lived. Yep, yep, so yeah, just sent it to Mrs. F. B. Connor, where's Creek Wyoming, and it got there. No, it's crazy. Any other questions on this succession? All right, if not, I believe that's the last one. We'll double chop, I forget one. Oh yes. There's one more. One more, all right, sorry I don't have the paper in front of me. So the Bill and Lila Stewart family, if the Board is not aware, they are the family that funded the Stewart Auditorium in large part, as well as a significant donation to the original construction of the current museum. And when Lila Stewart passed away a few years ago, the contents of her house were basically available for family members to take, and once the family had kind of gone through things, they said, well, these are things that we do not want, and so they offered them to the museum. So we have basically Bill and Lila's here to be probably wedding photos. We have a photograph of Lila in kind of an old time costume. There are two others of them, one at the Stanley Hotel and one that was at a wedding anniversary. It's a little hard to see, it's the one on the far right. It is signed by a lot of their friends on the mat, and then one other of just Lila by herself, a colored photo, and then one of their daughter, a large colored photograph of her daughter, who passed away some years before either Bill or Lila did. So our plan with these is we would not leave them framed. We would take them out of the frames other than probably the one that has the map on it. We might leave that one framed, but all the rest we would take out so they're a little easier to store and store them. Is the thinking on that? Any questions on that one? Well, if nobody has any questions for Eric, then I would love to have a motion to accept all of these accessions. If someone would like to make that. Hello. Chris Moose, do we have a second? This is Rhea, I'll second. Thank you, Rhea. So let's vote all in favor. Please say I and wave your hand. Hi. Hi. Hi. Opposed? Anyone opposed? Okay, so there are unanimous approval of the accessions as presented. Thank you. Thanks, Eric. So I don't know what we should do next, except for listen to Kim tell us all of the things that have been happening since March. What is it? What do we decide? March 15th or 14th or something? Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it feels like a lifetime and yesterday, right? Right. And so, you know, the thing that has happened, and we're all very grateful, is that the city has continued to pay staff through all of this. And so even, even our front desk staff, whose job is really dependent on having visitors in the building, we've been able to find other projects for them to work on. And so even though our doors were closed, we were all still very, very busy behind the scenes. And I tried to share a few director's reports with you all while we were closed and unable to meet. So certainly if you have questions about those other reports that I shared with you prior to this, let me know. We do, I think, have a few on this latest report that are kind of reiterations from previous reports. So I'm just going to hit the highlights here. I don't want to read all of it to you. You've got it in your packet. But again, if you've got any questions, feel free to let me know, and we can stop and discuss things in more detail. I think one of the biggest ones that I want to reiterate for everyone is that we were able to achieve the SCFP Tier II qualification. And I'm just going to go into that a little bit, especially for our new board members. It might be worth explaining exactly what that is and what it means for us. The SCFP is the Scientific Cultural Facilities District, and it's basically a tax revenue source for us that is part of a seven county region around the Denver area. And it's a sales tax. And so basically we get a small portion of things that come in from people who are buying things. And we've been kind of eyeballing this Tier II qualification for several years now. And the way the SCFP works is that it's broken up into Tier I, Tier II, Tier III. Tier I organizations are the big ones in Denver, and it's the Art Museum, it's the Zoo, it's the Botanic Gardens, it's the Museum of Nature and Science, the Performing Arts Center. And they get the lion's share of the money. Tier II, which is now where we are, is kind of that middle section. And the way to get into Tier II is by your revenue. There's a revenue threshold that you have to meet in order to be able to achieve that status. And we were able to do that in our last fiscal year, so 2019. And so prior to that, we were in Tier III. And Tier III, as a Tier III organization, we were getting, you know, 20, $25,000 a year. I think we got up to about 30 at some point. It fluctuated a lot, but it was never a huge amount of money. We were thankful for it, but it was never a huge amount of money. So this bump into Tier II is going to take us from about $20,000, we got $23,000 last year to $125,000. So a significant bump in revenue that we are going to get as a result of achieving this Tier II status. That $125,000 is actually an estimate that is based on the projections. I actually think that we're going to see more than that. What the board did is that they actually took their revenue projections and scaled them back 30%. And that's what we see with that $125,000. What they're actually seeing is more like 8% of your reduction as a result of the coronavirus. And so I think that in reality, we're going to see even more than $125,000. And that's going to start, we're going to start seeing those distributions in September. So that's a really big deal. The other thing that is happening with SCFD has all of these Tier II organizations have been really hit hard by the coronavirus. And they've been kind of appealing to the SCFD board to say, how in the world are we going to meet this threshold again? And the board has been trying to be very responsive to this because the reality is that if Tier II organizations are not able to hit that threshold, then it means that they drop down back into the Tier III organizations, which would really decimate Tier III. So as a result of what they have ended up doing, and we are going to have the 27th of August, this will become official because the board will vote on it. What they have proposed is that they will maintain Tier, I mean, all of the financial information for the 2021 budget based on 2020. For us, that means that we will use the completed fiscal 2019 year. And so we'll basically resubmit exactly the way that we submitted this year. And the threshold will also be frozen to what it was this year. And so that means we're safe for next year. We've already done it, we've already met the threshold. And so we've automatically now met the threshold for next year. They're going to revisit this and things may change further into the future. But for this year, and then for next year, we are safe and we are in Tier II. So that's really, really good news. So I just want to, if you guys have any questions about that, that's probably the, our really biggest thing that's been going on kind of behind the scenes. So feel free to ask questions if you guys have any. Like I said, this is something that we've been really keeping our eyes on for years now. And we feel really quite excited that we were able to meet that threshold. And it's such a weird time for it to happen because we're now in this strange coronavirus world. I don't really have a question, but I just wanted to say that that's great. That was my question, whether or not we were going to qualify next year. So it's great to know that they're going to go ahead and freeze that, that status. Yeah, it's not official. They will get it approved on the 27th of August. But I can't foresee that there would be any reason it wouldn't happen. They have gone to links to basically vet this through all the legal channels that they need to make sure, because the challenge with this is that they need to make sure that they're being equitable. Because there have been some organizations that have been able to stay open. There have been some organizations who had some sense of normalcy. We, for instance, have been able to have all of our employees paid. And that's not true for a lot of people. And so they wanted to approach this in a way that would be the most equitable, because there is a fear that people would sue as a result of it. And so I think that this really was the solution that ended up being the best for everybody. And of course, it's, you know, shoo for us, we feel like we really dodged a pull of them. Thank you. Yeah, it's a big deal. So other things I think that are on the list that I'll highlight is that we officially reopened on July the 7th. I don't know if anybody has a chance to be able to have a lot of things in place to make sure that people are safe and for cleaning protocols and mask wearing and that sort of thing. We have tons of signs and we kind of hate it. But in order to be able to make sure that we're communicating well with folks, there's a lot of signage to draw people into the museum in the appropriate ways. We have limits on the number of people who can be in the museum. I'll let you guys know we're not seeing tons of people come in at this point, but we're also not terribly upset by that. The reality is that any money that we can make at this point is gravy for us because, like I said, we're already paying people and so we're not losing money by being open. And so we're feeling very glad that we're able to serve the people that we are being able to serve. We also had a great summer camp program this year which basically was all online and so we were able to bring in a little bit of revenue that way as well. If you jump down, if you're following the report under education, we served 150 individual campers and some of those were enrolled in multiple camps. We also, through our Dodge Family Fund, were able to support scholarships for some of those campers. Let's see what else do we want to draw out here. Just a quick question. How does that 150 campers compare to previous seasons? You know, I don't know off the top of my head. I've asked Anne to put a report together so that I can look at those numbers better. We saw a drastic decrease. I mean, there are a lot of kids and parents that, by the time our summer camp started, there was a lot of online fatigue. Schools had already shut down. They had already taken a lot of things online. We definitely saw the effects of a lot of online learning fatigue. It did pick up a little bit as we got into the season and so I think the first camps were the ones that were impacted the most and then of course, a lot of families were just not interested in doing online things. It was summer. They wanted their kids to get out of the house. So we could definitely see an impact but I don't know those numbers specifically. I can certainly try to get them in a report for the next board meeting that we have. I was just curious that it doesn't matter that much. I just was curious how many, yeah, we can look at that. Let's see. What else? I think another thing and we've talked about this various times but Eric has finished up his book and so he's putting the finishing touches on the Longmont, the first 150 years. We should see Eric remind me. I think that the shipments are going to be coming in in November. Is that right? Yeah. We're super excited about that. The Longmont 150 exhibit is going to be launched next summer and so this is going to be part of that kind of package of things that we're going to be celebrating. Longmont 150th anniversary. It's a beautiful, beautiful book and so we're very, very proud of it and I think that it's going to be, you know, we basically started the conversation two years now or something like that ago based on some feedback that we got from the local bookstore that basically nothing like this existed and so we've been able to fill a gap and have an expert really pull all of this together and we're very, very proud of the book that Eric and we'll have it on our shelves soon. Thank you Eric. That's very cool. We do have tons of fall programming that we're working on and a lot of it is detailed there. Like I said, I'm not going to read all of this but what I really want to say is that our staff has been remarkably creative and resourceful and talented and the programs that they've pulled together for the fall and for the summer, I think are something to be really proud of. We are taking all of our fall, most of our fall program online and we just don't feel comfortable with the way that things are looking in terms of the virus and so we're with caution and we're bringing most of those programs online. We do have some walking tours that we're doing that are very small and so we're able to control numbers of people that way but I think this is the most creative lineup that we've done since I've been at the museum for three years and so again, silver linings that are happening as a result of being closed and being able to focus on some things and so very, very cool programs that we're looking forward to in the fall so we've got our newsletter that's going to be coming out soon that'll beautifully illustrate all of this but the kind of list of things are there in your director's report and then some other things to highlight is that we are going to be doing The Day of the Dead as an online virtual experience this year but it's going to be really quite amazing. I mean basically what we are creating is this resource for all things Day of the Dead and so we're going to populate it slowly over time with workshops and creative things and then also have these performances that will livestream and so I really feel strongly that despite the fact that we're not going to be able to meet in person this is still really going to be an amazing online festival and it's going to be a resource that people can use, a cultural resource that people will be able to use and then the other piece of that is that in the galleries we're going to do what you're used to seeing the altars are going to move from the atrium back into the gallery space so we'll be able to feature the altars and then we're going to have basically two halves of the gallery and the other half of the gallery we're going to feature an artist from Denver whose name is Tony Ortega and his work is really founded in a background of Hispanic heritage and so it's very relevant to the Day of the Dead celebration and so to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Blongmont Museum celebrating Day of the Dead we're really trying to commemorate it in a way that's a little bit more than what we've done in the past and so again this is another silver lining from Day of the Dead because there's we hadn't planned on doing it this way and we needed to kind of shift our gears when all of this happened and so we're very pleased to be able to host Tony in the space and then we also were able to partner with the Art and Public Places program and they have commissioned Tony to commemorate to mural downtown and so there'll be kind of an enduring reflection on this 20th anniversary time so we're pleased that that was able to kind of come together to in this weirdo time that we're living in. So I think that's the last thing I'll call out on the, maybe one other thing I'll call on the Doctor's Report which is that we're going to do instead of the holiday festival that we typically do in the Stuart Auditorium we're going to do a Webathon so we're going to do this holiday fundraiser Webathon and so spread word about that I think it's going to be a really very exciting thing that we pull off that's going to hopefully bring in a little bit of money for us in this time that we've been closed and not being able to bring in some revenue and I trust Dustin to really do something very exciting he's been able to pull off some pretty great programming while we've been closed and haven't had the ability to have folks in the auditorium and I'm sure that he's going to do this something like this as well. So with that if you guys have any questions about the Director's Report or things that are going on all righty Eve back to you. All right cool well you know if we don't have to buy our fancy holiday outfit for this year we can spend it at the Webathon. There you go. Oh man we have I mean it's it might be worth noting you know with like stimulus that were happening we saw some money coming in from people that asked that they were still doing okay financially and they wanted to support us so that felt really good. Yeah it's been interesting on the membership side too we've had people who you know normally we send out renewals to people because people forget to renew and a lot of people have been sending them in anyway so or end with a donation so it's that's been really nice. Okay so I don't think we have any old business unless I'm forgetting something Joanne but we do need apparently we need to talk about or just clarify when our future meetings are going to be this year and when and where and then where the information about those meetings get posted so part of what we have to do or what Joanne takes care of is that the notice that we're going to have these meetings gets posted at several places I believe in the city so that the public is aware of it if they want to attend so Joanne would you mind just reviewing what we're doing and then I guess I don't know if we need to vote on this or if we can just keep status quo here or how we sure well if you'd like to keep your status quo we entertain the motion to continue to have meetings on the third Wednesday of each month at the museum at 430 posting places are at the museum itself at the Civic Center mall on their posting board and of course we post it online so I think that's pretty much it time place and posting locations. Dale I so move that we continue to have our meetings at 430 on whichever Wednesday you said Joanne. This is Chris I second at the museum. I think you have to unmute sorry remedial here all in a favor of keeping the meeting at the same time in the same place and the same day of the month please say aye and raise your wave your hand. Aye. Anybody opposed so we will go ahead and continue the same time and then I don't know if we need a separate motion Joanne for the posting locations or do you want to just go ahead and include that in. I can lump all that in with one motion. All right thank you. So does anyone have comments of any type that they would like to make now that we're almost at the end of the meeting no comments well my only comments are that I hope that we'll get to the point where we'll be able to have these meetings in person yeah even if we have to do it in one of the larger classrooms or something at the museum so we can have some social distancing but it's been great to see everybody and thank you so much for the two new members for joining us. We're really looking forward to having your input. It's always good to get another point of view and then next time I think Eileen should have her baby with her too so we can see the two babies. I know that's not very professional. Okay if there aren't any comments oh go ahead. Oh no she's laughing. Okay um if there's nothing else then I guess we will adjourn this meeting by my clock it's 5 14 so thank you all. Thanks Eve and have a nice evening. You too. Thank you. Have a good day everybody. Thank you staff. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good to see everybody. You too. Thank you everybody. Bye. You guys are awesome thanks again. Oh you're welcome Joanne. I really appreciate your time and effort doing this so no worries do you think are you guys going to meet next month will you just let me know so I can get it on the calendar. Yeah I don't know. I anticipate we will. Okay. Okay thanks Joanne. Okay thank you guys. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Bye bye. Thanks. Bye bye.