 So from February 21st, does anyone have any corrections to be made for a movement to approve the event? I will move to approve the event, and I will second that. Second that, and then, it's meaningless. Man, I think we're ready for accessions. I'll pull this up. Apologies for being late. Bruce. We have a couple things to vote on for potential new accessions. We have this navy blue suit date unknown, my guess is somewhere maybe from the late 70s or so, based on the polyester blend that it is. Inside the coat it says Harrio Lynch, Longmont, Colorado. Harrio Lynch was a men's clothing store that was located on the street from 1928 to 1980, so it was a very long lasting store. The woman who was running it in 1980 was the wife of the guy who had purchased it, and I think she was a relative to her 80s, and she was still running that store. And we got lots of pictures from the Times Call from those years. So this was found at a vintage shop, but considering we didn't have any actual object from that store, and we didn't know how much is out there with it being 40 years ago, we thought that just would be a great addition. We go to one of the times where... We do the whole thing usually. I'm not a sports member. Any questions? Any discussion? Oh, it's like this. Okay. This was a woman who came in and dropped off her grandfather's trojan handbook, which is from Longwatt High School in 1934 and 1935. That year he was a freshman, and all the freshmen received one of these books. It's not a yearbook, it's like a welcome. It has like the school song, poem, everything, the list of teachers, everything you'd want to know as a new student coming into the school. It's just a little tiny thing. This was a no-brainer to us, and we have a direct connection with her grandfather, Harold Swallow, I think his name's in the front cover. Any questions on this one? They still have the same song, but... Oh, that'd be interesting. Anybody go to Longwatt High? This is kind of an intercity transfer. The GIS department was cleaning out a lot of its archives, this guy, Eric O'Brien, brought by all these mylar, they're quite large, there's this big transparencies of the city. You could just kind of make out that there's like a key with boxes, and each page represents a box on the map. And so this one that I included, this is 287, just south of here, this empty area here is now Prospect, this is Southmore Park, and this is I guess the medical building somewhere around in this area, I guess. There's also prints, like silver delts and prints, that kind of correspond to this map. They take about four boxes, more of those are smaller, they're like 10 by 10 or 12 by 12. And there's also the original film that they use in the airplane when they were taking these. They're from 1992, so it's a lot had changed, obviously Prospect was in there, any questions? No, that's when I moved it out, 1992. Yeah. Is there a photo, are you waving? No, I remember there was nothing on Hoover, past Third Avenue, there was just a Wendy's, and then the old mall. Yeah, we saw some of those mixed in where it was like the mall and there was nothing else. Yeah, exactly, there was nothing else. So yeah, these I think will be really interesting for research purposes. Oh yeah, why is that known? And then last but not least, I believe these materials have actually been here for a while, but it took me a little while to do research on it and to find the last living relative. I think there's one, would you go with three? Oh yeah, they're mine, sorry. Okay, so this one Terry Sternberg lived in Longmont in the early 2000s, she had some and she was a concert violinist, but she had some mental health issues that caused her to be in a hoarding situation that resulted in her house being taken away from her and she was living on the streets in the 2010s, she passed away in 2013, but before she did, she had become a vocal advocate for the rights of unhoused people in the Boulder area and was interviewed multiple times. There's also a book of stories from people that were living on the streets that was written by an author in Iowa, so I purchased that book to go with this. These I believe were 100% sure that these must have been in her house and somehow survived one owner. The house was not condoned and torn down as her only living relative thought it was, but it was fixed up and I think it's sold in the last couple of years and these must have been in the basement when in the last 10 years had thought of moving them so the real estate agent had brought them here and yeah, it's an interesting story. I kept a selection of things, the other items are returned to her cousin that had nothing to do with Longmont, but if we ever wanted to profile someone from that community, it seemed like an interesting selection of things. What happened to her? She was an alcoholic. They did find housing for her in Boulder as she was found dead in her apartment. It's a very tragic story all around. She was adopted, her parents put a lot of pressure on her to be a violinist. A lot of pressure on her to be really good in violin. She went to California was the principal violinist for the San Francisco Ballet, but I think according to the cousin her alcoholism got her kicked out of that and so she had been to Colorado for summer music festivals in the classical music scene before so she decided to settle here in certain new life but she had a lot of trauma from her parents. Also she was great in college when she was in San Francisco and she was never able to get over that so there was just a lot in there. So it's an interesting story. That's where the trauma comes from. And the alcoholism. Where the possibility also of adoption. Each child is adopted and raised in all of that. Alcoholism usually stems from some kind of trauma. That's a really sad story. She was beautiful. She was really gorgeous and we have pictures of her to go near to the end of her life so we've got a whole range of disciplines life in photographs. Yeah, I've got a quote from Elizabeth for tracking down. It was literally like, here's a box of stuff and she was able to track down the story from all the documents that were in that box and that it turned out to be a really story that's very hard normally for museums to tell. I mean the unhoused, just not very often though. So have you written that for a story? I mean not for publication but have you written it up for researchers? I think I need to get my notes into a more formal which I will do for this but yeah it's all kind of handwritten notes at this point. And also it's what was most helpful was the daily camera had done news articles and interviews not only with her but later on there was a whole thing that really led me to find a cousin was her violin. He was found in a pawn shop by a violin professor at one of the local schools here and he said that the violin was in terrible shape that it was talking to him and he wrote a whole piece and he figured out, he actually knew her through like just general violinism in each other. So he wrote a whole musical piece and there was a concert and then the newspaper covered that and so I was able to contact the professor to get connected with her family to give the rest of the story. Supposedly she had her violin stolen up in the shelters and then they pawned it. So that was a drama for the day. And that's all I have. Any other discussion on any of these? When did she die? She was 13. She was born in the 40s. Any other questions about any of these sessions? I don't know what anyone would like to make some of the great sessions we've had. Any of those? Yes, ladies. Let's see, well as you probably saw when you came in work is progressing nicely on the School of County Courtyard and we actually poured the main slab for the new hard escape portion of the courtyard today. So we're out there now doing saw cutting to create the pattern kind of this crazy pattern in the hardscape and then also starting to put up steel for the performance so you can really start to really take shape. You can actually see what it's going to feel like and a great addition to the museum. We are basically this summer going to use it pretty lightly because we want the grass to grow in them. So we'll have our grand opening will be at the Gala on September 7th. A few other things in there just kind of the previews and some use of it during our spring. For the most part, the summer concerts we're taking out in two parts this summer so long being here. Exhibits, they are busily working on the Lego exhibition. You can see a list here of all the different things that will be in the Lego exhibit. We'll open up June 1st. Artorium programming. Elizabeth and I did a program that highlighted a lot of museum's photo collection and there was also 243 folks ticketed so it was very nice. Fund the show off, love it. Education. The art and sip program which happens on Thursday evenings. This spring we've increased from one class to two classes every Thursday and we have seen great response to that because it would take a while for those people to get familiar with oh there's now four or five class two they've been filling out quite well so we'll write these down fast. And then summer camp. Last I heard we were about 65% full for summer camps and we've already awarded all 80 of the scholarships that we have available this summer. Pleased by that response collections. Elizabeth wrote a grant called a cap grant so we'll have experts coming in assuming it's funded to look at the museum's collections and also the museum building so they actually have a conservator that looks at the collection side and then more of a building expert that will look at the HVAC system and the roof and all those kind of things so that's kind of an early step to creating a new long range plan for the next steps to upgrading our collections care for the grants down the road. Art and Public Places and collections actually did a collaboration Art and Public Places was contacted by the Children, Youth and Families Division that are known as the Youth Center they had a mural done probably in the 1990s two murals that they no longer wanted and so rather than just have them tossed out Art and Public Places collections to store them Elizabeth was going to do some more research and see if we can figure out who painted them, what the story is behind them and if it makes sense to add them into the museum's collection then you'll see them on a future session list. Development, I think last month we talked about the Touch-A-Truck fundraiser on June 22nd working on getting sponsorships for that and continuing obviously to work on the capital campaign we've got another matching challenge that will be coming up in April where we're hoping to get as broad a match as possible as many people it's a $5 gift or a $50 gift will be matched by a very generous donor we've got some of the stats and we can see so in 2023 we had duality contemporary indigenous art very similar attendance to picturing the West January was a little bit low because the gallery was closed that week it's all a pretty good increase in ticket sales February year over year and January we had one program in January in January in January of 2023 so you can see growth there also hit a milestone recently we are now over 1,000 members museum first time ever was not that long though we had 400 members pleased to see that growth the marketing mentions the auditorium program show pass around what that is take one pass it on so this is a brochure that if you go to any program at the auditorium the actual program of that event is inside this we have a nice glossy full color program that gets used usually reused several times because it's often keep it at the end of the event but it gives people a chance as they are waiting for the event it's coming on happening and then also has a nice cover for the program also if you are on instagram and facebook we've been doing a lot of posts about construction about some of the programs that are going on so please follow us on instagram and facebook volunteer and evaluation coordination we just had another prototyping event yesterday march team for our lego exhibit had some rough versions of some of the interactives that we are going to have in lego and it was a chance for public to come in try them out see what was working see if there are any problems that then could be resolved let's do the final versions any questions about the director's approach can you tell us anything more about the beta testing for the 3k field trip program so the birthday parties and field trips basically what we are going to be offering is opportunities that are very much aligned with our current discovery days program so it will either have a field trip like a pre-k group come in and do discovery days activity and it will just be that class rather than the general public so it's a chance to bring in folks from various pre-k's around the area and then the birthday party is we see potential for some significant revenue generation so the discovery days birthday parties will kind of be in our first test essentially after the last of our discovery days hands on early childhood programs ends for the day on a friday or a saturday then we will have discovery days birthday parties so typically for the younger kids 4, 5, 6 year olds come in have a discovery days experience the same crafts, same themes we do during regular discovery days and then adjourn to the adjoining room for cake and candles so we are going to try that out we are hoping it will be well received and then all what we are anticipating doing is adding on birthday parties tied to the lego exhibit so again be either an evening or a sunday morning when we are not open and if those are successful then we plan to kind of implement that as an ongoing program once our children's gallery opens in 2026 kind of looking at ways to bring in more revenue that can support programs throughout the museum parties folks with kids know can be very expensive and often not that educational so we want to try and both have revenue but also really make it an educational experience are you guys kind of trying to figure out the price adjustments in the data phase now? yeah it is kind of what is going to be competitive pricing how many kids is going to be a good maximum how is it going to work how many people are we going to need to be in the gallery and then getting those kids then we are going to use our classroom D for kind of cake things like that because it is going around that is not really rendered on a regular basis so we are set up for this kind of there is just kind of a lot of logistics that we want to test out before we do a big announcement of these available ones how about moving the Thursday night music to the parks the parks or parties so we are going to do three concerts one in Collier Park one in Carr Park north Longmont and one in Willow Farm which is southwest Longmont and those were chosen both geographically diverse and also kind of the best fits logistically either there is parking or they are in fairly walkable neighborhoods so we can walk with the concerts I think generally our sense is this is a one year thing we really like having concerts here at the museum and we are excited to have the courtyard but this summer just didn't feel like we were going to be quite ready for it so to keep our concert series going to kind of keep people aware that the museum is doing concerts that is what we decided to bring them out into the parks so I think it will be a good experiment I am guessing we will probably make it a one year experiment just to get the challenges and the logistics on the cost because we have to bring in a stage and all kinds of things but yeah come on out for any of them we will be announcing the dates in our program catalog I don't have our corporate chair any unfinished business for photographs and I have listed for new business that it is time for recruitment to fill the vacancies on our board and commission application deadline in the fall 19 if anyone wants to be a good fit so we have three vacant spots on the board and Bob your term is up he is just joining filling a partial term I will apply very good we are a tough car out though any inquiries I do have one person who is very interested a professor from Front Range Community College Caitlin she has actually worked with us a couple of times on some donations potential donations to the collection so I reached out to her she is pretty engaged she actually almost came tonight she was like oh when is the next meeting I want to come actually it is tonight she is going to be putting in an application so we are also hoping to get some more there is a vacancy including Bob's position so we have three vacancies plus plus three total three plus so love to have more diversity on the board it is always great to get a wide variety of voices around the table what is going on and just being ambassadors out into the community if you know the folks by all means let them know and I think I did email out to everybody the link to the application so it goes through the city clerk's office and I think most of you have been a part of recent ones where it is actually board members who are the ones that do the first interview so we will be looking for board members to be on the interview panel once applications close on night I thought we could have artificial intelligence to do that and no one would be hired I have to say Jared has done amazing things with AI and some of the concepts that he has come up with like for our children's gallery where he will tell the AI here is what I want and it puts a picture that is amazing beautiful renderings we still have to build them I can't do that then you will be sued for copyright infringement we were trying to get it to give us a midnight underwater mermaid cafe for the children it was interesting to see what it came up with and then we would be like more purple more shells in each religion would add different things and then is there anything else from the let me hand around so this was not done in time for the packet give it to you all man so this is a summary of what we did last year and thought it might be nice to have on one page all of the programming and rentals that the museum did 606 programs 25,000 people $245,000 in revenue and a wide variety of different types of programs discovery days, childhood films, camps we just fairly recently last year was our first year starting a teen program and we have definitely seen that grow this year we have typically 10-12 kids per sessions last year we had five or six per program so it's basically a drop in craft and create program so it's kind of discovery days for teenagers they come in there's craft materials available often there's a theme and they kind of talk about what's going to be the theme for the next weeks one so they have an opportunity to help create the program and that is led by one of our newer education staff members Henry Anderson who is in his early 20s and very interesting guys getting a degree in archeology pop culture expertise kind of a great thing for that an art and sip 2023 we did 25 this year we'll help with more than double math concerts we'll probably do quite as many concerts because that includes seven outdoor concerts this year our school tour program is still definitely coming back from COVID it was just basically wiped out during COVID and a lot of those school tours are that individual connection that a teacher has with the museum and so many teachers have moved on that's a program we're going to so walking tours that's something we'll be transitioning this year from me to Elizabeth and talks in the auditorium holiday programs variety of other programs and exhibit openings and of course the Inventos or biggest festival which is held in downtown every year plus then rental events we have our most rentals and our highest revenue rentals has come roaring back after COVID post-COVID or at least the COVID normal I don't know, COVID extended any questions on the program we've done some collecting COVID we've got took a lot of photographs during COVID around town but I think there's still more to do there's a lot of newspapers and rock, we've got the newspapers when you had some vaccine vials we got the first vials of vaccine used in long lines to get the test to yeah, we should get the test I don't want to walk you down Main Street when I shut everything down there's nothing completely it's like a ghost town it was so weird but really neat photos of the signs on the all the way down Main Street no one on the streets just I know I should have taken them we're actually one of the collections that we're still working on so this is a new a summary of the programming that we did in 2023 we're talking a little bit about I mentioned this is kind of the first full we feel like post-COVID year programming but we are seeing most of our programs returned to what they were in 2019 the one big exception being schools were still building back but definitely a lot of growth in our programming and a lot of more growth coming in 24 we're expanding a number of our education programs Discovery A's program has added more sessions the art from SIP is adding more sessions we'll also be adding birthday parties is kind of a test and what's the age span on the birthday parties we're going to start with like the three to six year old that are tying into our Discovery A's audience and then when we add the ones for Lego about age 12 some of those details we're still working on calling this a beta test figure out exactly what's our sweet spot oh yeah I was mentioning Bruce was asking about how we had talked about COVID so one of the we have one potential board member who actually took photographs of all the churches around lawnmower and the signs on them closed due to COVID and what they were saying because she's multiple different subjects but one of them is religion and so trying to get her to donate those photos to the museum's collection she gave me a blog today I haven't done it yet what did she give you? a link to a blog and then she said we'll take her with more time to get the original files photography of the churches during the city was interested with the signs we're seeing the messages they were putting out there that was a good idea yeah of course caught a few of those little churches around old town that turned into residences Christian science churches or residences yeah and the one 6th and Pratt also the 6th you got one and the other one 4th and Pratt church right across from Thompson yeah that's the Christian science and ironically it's sort of a thing for churches to be in church almost now oh yeah who bought the other one 6th I'm sure or the Bowen and Long's Peak that church was up for sale oh really someone bought it so another little church or someone I don't know yeah that's such a cause you look straight down Long's Peak and it's right at the end there's a landmark churches turn over into other other uses Long's becoming secularized any other questions on the programming list this is great so you know what's going on yep it's more than 600 programs yeah you kind of need to expand the teams we're really pleased those kids are so unhappy now and you ban the phones don't let the phones enter the building they might actually have a good time their anxiety level will go down you know I'm told by tea volunteers you couldn't feel how I wish there would be a camp for adults where there would be no internet why would you want that oh cause you have no idea what it was like before but it's so much better yep yeah the team program at as most museums really struggle so it's exciting that our program started in 23 and it's now it was like 5 or 6 kids now it's like 10 to 12 so what's the age span of those kids I think for the most part it's probably the junior high school early high school yeah 9th grade yeah kids in the most changing personality yeah I know junior high school wow that's about the worst age what an entire lifetime you don't really have a whole lot of program in that age that's part of the problem exactly and we really need to do more because we're having influence of drugs are we yes there's a huge amount of drugs going on of course at the moment in terms of guns Chris Denver is like crazy it's a tough time for kids and the programming I remember I once had kids to run an ice rink shop called Sundays S-U-N-D-E-D I was thinking about that having them tie it to school and having them be able to run it and work it and learn about on-trend I have a friend who runs a program with a nonprofit in in Massachusetts where they run a bookstore yeah I think we need to do more of that we really teach kids about one of the things I remember I devised a program where we were teaching them about kids about taking care of themselves, living skills bank book all of this stuff that they don't know about and could use the responsibility yeah I would think financial literacy but it's not it's not anymore it's never been it should be basic financial skills how to take care of yourself so yeah we're certainly there you go what we've accomplished the teen audience is definitely a hard audience to reach and so we hope to build on what we've done with position craft would you have a life skills fair coming up with Walter County Fairgrounds to stay under this month no they need it has to be a captive audience you can't graduate unless you know how to know something about financial literacy otherwise and it should be a class it should be an ongoing class where the kids have to fill out bank accounts bank books and learn how to process the money how to deal with banks how to deal with online credit cards even investing very basic concepts what is happening on Fridays right now who's up today Wednesday so I think it's the day for the teen craft and is that something that is going to try to move towards revenue or is it more important to kind of get the audience in the door I think we'd like kind of a break even eventually with that one we started out as free just but actually we are getting some folks just giving a donation and saying I know it's not required but I do want to pay for the cost of materials so we're at least about that and that's kind of the direction we want to see and I don't think it's going to be one of our big revenue generators but really important programs revenue numbers revenue numbers are here like is that not including the cost of materials so it's like this is the revenue so Discovery Days is another program that is definitely not breaking even and we don't anticipate that it will it's really so that revenue is entire revenue from all the kids and parents coming in we do also get some grant funding to support that program because it's just such an important aspect that early childhood exposure to museums and also that program is very much geared for adult child interactions and our facilitators will work with parents about like redirecting if a child is maybe misbehaving in a way that's like stop that that's a little more productive so they're very much trained around how to basically teach skills to parents that come in this every day and how to work not take over the project allow the child to do the project but support them in that so that program is our largest program in terms of attendance and our longest running program so we are not a licensed child care facility so that is what we have to stay away from because that's a whole big complicated thing so we may work recreation does have some of that so we may work with them on sometimes when we really want to have a babysitting aspect do that but as far as being our getting licensed ourselves we'll pursue that without significantly more stuff are there in the building yes so if the parents are in the building so we've talked about the parents might be at an urban sim and the child could be in another room that we can do if we have the staff to make that work because I know that is like a different level that's what's required in the building any other board comments I do have one other item so the April board meeting I will be out of town obviously someone else can fill in for me if you wish to continue to me I just want to know that and see what any thought of rescheduling I have a comment I'm here on this board because I attended the neighborhood group leaders association where council member Barring made a plea can I say plea for boards and commissions that is the reason I was on the transportation board also through the NGLA that meeting is tomorrow night I will be pitching for this group tomorrow and any other boards and commissions it's a great place to find people to get involved and to see you tomorrow I'm not on that board anymore so I am now on the arts and public places and council member Rodriguez is there and I don't know so we have a long one housing commissioners meeting tomorrow from 5.30 so we're done and then so I don't even know if council member Rodriguez will be at the NGLA because they double showed us our group will vote us but thank you so much I'm trying to reach out to my contacts to networks and we'll push people applying how many vacancies so we have three vacancies and then Bob's term is coming to an end so I'm going to reapply so there are two is anyone turn limited please we think they will aren't exist so we don't have any no one else is this year so anybody yeah we have three okay for what we want to do about April New well is there any pressing business we should know about that you're not telling us about I know there was interest from the board more presentation about budget which will be coming up in full swing April and May I can certainly present at the May meeting on the budget what our plans are and what our requests are and how the museum budget works it is complicated well so it's like we don't really need yeah I'm making a motion yes we have a motion to skip our April meeting and to meet in May is there a second yes what is everyone's vote vote to skip April unanimous so we will meet again in May and then they will have a budget and yes we'll plan to do a presentation thank you are there any other four comments a motion to adjourn the meeting a motion to clear the second a second all in favor unanimous we are adjourned at 524