 I'm going to call the meeting to order. So, do I need to have the roll call? I will call the meeting. Fantastic. We have Tashila here. We're public invited to be heard. Would you like to make any comments? No comments. I'm sorry to be losing such a fine direction. Thank you. Yes, congratulations. Yes, congratulations. I'm excited. It's a wonderful meeting. It is. It's a wonderful meeting. It is. Okay. Did everyone have an opportunity to take a look at the minutes that Joanne sent out? Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Hitties, they're seconded. Thank you. All in favor? Yes, it's fine. I hope that is unanimous. I did catch the second. Second of the thank you, Joanne. All right. Perfect. I will turn it over to Eric for the great percentage. All right. Sorry, it was not organized enough to hit up on the screen today. I only have two exceptions. So if you have your printout or I can just hold it up. The first one is it will post cards. She has no third term to win with Wilkie. So this is from the 1940 presidential election. We don't have a lot on a particular election. So even though this doesn't have a direct long line, it doesn't seem like something we would fill out our mid 20th century political memorabilia. I will note I didn't text them. I leave a bit of description talking about a video that isn't strong, previous, et cetera. So I'm going to ignore that. But it's basically an end to this. But it's a representative of the 1940 presidential election. It's a cyan type, which is a fluid process used to make blueprints. The actual fabric is about yay by yay. And it was used to print photographs as well. So this is on fabric and photographs of historic long long buildings. It is a founding collection of accession. It has been in museum possession for at least 20 years. But we weren't able to track down any documentation prior to that. So I will be noted that this is a founder collection. Someone comes in with a long paper that says, I loaned that from museum in 1972, and we would need the extension of the term. But we think it's pretty long. So this is kind of a cool piece because it does have some photographs of that. We didn't have previously in the exception collection. It was kind of a cool fabric photo. I don't know why there are those exceptions. Are there any clues to just how old the second one is? Just so I know. Based on the photographs, what buildings are shown, it's between 1906 and 1921. The photo of City Hall is a city hall that was torn down in 1921. And there's a photo called by Alan who was built in 1906. So between those two lines. Probably before or earlier. So was it found in the process of cataloging everything that you guys have been doing? Like all of the cataloging you've been doing? It's actually been sitting on a shelf in the archives for most of that time. And we had very few exceptions in January. And I was like, you know, we've got anything in like the fountain collection. And I went over, oh yeah, there's this cool cement type fabric that we could dig into. And so I verified that, yeah, we didn't have really any other documentation on it. So we had a few exceptions. Is there a motion to approve the exception? I'll move that we approve the two exceptions for photos. Maybe one second. All in favor? As unanimous. Fantastic. All right. We can move on to reports. So I'll turn it over to Kim for the report of the museum director for the last time. Well, first of all, I would say it's a pleasure working with all of you on this issue. So very, very much. And maybe the case that tomorrow we'll learn more about what's happening with the surveys that went out is what is potentially a tax that will be put on about it in November. When we report to the city council about what results of the surveys have been. And then the city council will give recommendations about what to do. What will be included if anything is going to be put on about it. And it's more important for you all kind of what your role will be in all of it. Because I know that a lot of the advisory boards have been asking questions about, you know, what can I say, what can I talk to, what is the messaging around it, so on and so forth. So we'll get more guidance tomorrow at that city council meeting and Eric and I will be in conversation about what it will mean for all of you because certainly, if we are put on about it, if you only get questions and you may want to talk to friends and voters and do so and so forth. So we'll be sure that you've got some copyrights and I'll sort of open those up. And one of the things that doesn't appear on here is that we will be, for the capital campaign for the museum expansion, we're working with an organization called Prismatic Consulting. Oh, hello. Hi, Stacey. Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? We're just talking about what to expect at tomorrow's council meeting with the results of the survey. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. The other thing I was just trying to say is that we, the friends of the Longmont Museum have paid for a consultant to publish with the capital campaign and so that is going to be launching probably in May and the consultant that we're working with is really helping pull together talking points and sort of messaging around the capital campaign and that'll move forward regardless of what happens with the ballot initiative. The idea is that we would eventually, assuming that the ballot measure goes forward, we would extract the capital expenses from that for the museum expansion and that the only thing that would go on the ballot would be operating expenses for the museum. And so that's, you know, 20 million dollars that we would be pulling off with the price tag of all of that. So our consultant has been really, really optimistic about the potential for being in the middle ways and part of the reason is that we've got so many things to be excited about. You know, we've got the children's room, we've got the expanded outdoor areas. We've got the rooftop space, we've got the cafe, we've got an expanded gift shop. You know, like all of these things, a lot of different people will be attracted to and given that there's like, this is a fundraiser stream, you know, to be able to have all of these things to sell basically. So they're really optimistic about being able to have a successful capital campaign. And so we'll make sure that you guys get those talking points and the sort of share of the funds and networks that all the things that we've got to offer. So with that, yeah. So they remain optimistic about the economy? Yeah, absolutely. Then what we've got going and part of the theme that I've shared in the report is that we've already got, so out of that $20 million, you still trust my math here, but out of that $20 million, we've already raised five definitely. We've got ran out for another one. And then at the last City Council meeting, I saw the patience of don't trust me here. But whenever that happened, the City Council also awarded the museum some oil and gas proceeds and said that we don't know the exact number yet, but that's estimated between $800,000 and $12 million. And so we've already got a good chunk of money raised for that all day. And I think with that momentum, plus all these other sort of, we've got the possibilities that we can work on, but we've really got a great change that raises them up before it. And we've got it lined up in a way that works really well too, and we'll be building in phases. And so the first phase basically is already funded. The second phase is pretty darn close. And then we kind of take our time with phase three. And so given time, the exciting things we can sell, and the momentum that we've got going, I think we've got a really, really strong protocol. So that's why I wanted to share this all with you. This is the latest hot-market presence design and I am super, super excited about it. I feel like our architect has listened to us really carefully and she has created spaces and, you know, adjacencies and various ways that we can do things like that. That's tiny, so I'm sorry for the tiny print on it. For instance, from the entrance of the museum, all the things that are available for free access are all right up there at the entrance. So for instance, the local art community gallery, that'll be available for free as people enter, and the cafe will be available free for people to enter. And then as you get deeper into the museum, those are paid areas, so we'll be able to kind of control the access from the front desk perspective. You see we've got the cafe, we've got an expanded gift shop, the new children's gallery will have a new front-range rising gallery and then new spaces for an artist's studio, for an artist's collection program, a much more expansive rotating plex gallery space if you can see the collections gallery there that basically will be able to have, you know, history exhibitions that really focus on our collections and be able to bring out collections that, you know, as you all know, we've got a lot of stuff in collections that we've done a lot of opportunity to bring out, so that'll be another opportunity to show the collections that you guys are, you know, approve all the time and so being able to see some of those things actually come out of those are joy. We'll be really amazing. And then on the other side to see, and this is just a first pass at what the elevations will look like from the outside, but I think you can see in this rendering it excites me to see how she can create those really interesting angles and the windows and the different materiality and all of that. I get super excited about seeing it in this rendering. So this is, again, it's just the first pass and we're still, that's why Eric and I are leading this in the contractors to look at the very first thing that we're going to be, which is the new textile storage, you know, that we're renovating that space. That has become the clean area for exhibitions construction, so the graphics and the labels and all of that are going to be moved up to that space and then it'll be on the spaces where Jared and his team and our public places are going to open up. So we'll be able to spread out, especially as we bring on new staff. It's called the SENSA Architects and the principal architect that we'll open up is Krista Plaza. They are on a new scale today. And they're an on-call architecture that does the vital work and I have to say they've been really great to work with. I've thought about this in the past, I was real about it, so it gives their specialty is the recreation centers, but I just feel like she's listened to us really, really intently and I think this design is fantastic and she's bringing line of items by the next few specialty museums who will act as just a peer reviewer. So while doing sort of the pretty work that we'll be able to have that knows museums and the needs of museums. So even that aspect is, I think, really impressive. From her perspective, she didn't have to do that, but just through the grapevine, she was like, you know, there's this local expert and we should put her on board. So that's it. I have one more question. Yeah, sure, great. Presumably, that's good to know. What's the... How do you see the vision of staff in these levels? Will definitely need to increase staff and I think that ultimately it's just going to be creative thinking and at the request through the city budget process. I've did some math recently and I think during our time we've been able to have something like a six-part team and that's been essentially outside of the city budget process. So it's possible and I think that it's just it requires just creative thinking. And so while it feels like it's really challenging to get staff, I think that that's what some thought that can happen about it. It's a position Yeah, exactly. And you know, the thing is that we'll be able to also kind of scale our work accordingly because I think that we can be able to do spaces really essentially as well for a while and then be able to as we can have staff that we can expand. So I think that this will just give us some ability to be able to do what we can better and then as we have staff being there. So I think there's some staff growth that we really want to be able to accomplish. But even without that we need to do some darker work. Good question. Well, it's pretty amazing. I mean, I would say it's important when it started out that we're a lot of different people and we're developing a lot. So this is really exciting. Well, and that's ultimately what it boils out to is that we've got a lot of demand and we can't do it right now. Part of the staff that you've come out and part of it is just the building to provide and see it. So this is an opportunity to do what we can and we've got to believe in all of this and clearly people like what we're doing. And it makes me really sad to be right now. There's exciting things on the horizon. So yeah. So I wanted to kind of point those out. Those are things that happened after we were able to get the report together. So I'll jump back into the report. I did mention the storage and we've submitted the company for that. So that's getting underway because I mentioned just about the contractors who also benefit for that. They are also on city-wide awards and so hopefully that will happen quickly. That's resulted in that. As I mentioned, the survey for the library recreation and culture fund is going to be presenting the city council tomorrow. So we'll see how that goes in terms of their recommendations. And then at the last meeting that I attended I'll just put it that way. City council voted to award the money for the sale of the Broncos to children with family. And so they'll make decisions about how that money gets distributed. But then also promoted the oil and gas proceeds. I'll work hopefully to work with finance to figure out exactly how much money that is and make sure that it gets appropriated to the CIP for the expansion project. The rest of this I'm reading for the first time. So yeah, let's just wing it. In exhibits to agriculture exhibition is really looking forward. This is going to open soon. So Jared's been working to do the interpretation of the exhibit through the artists and former interviews. So that's the next fun project for them. They interviewed the folks who are involved in the project to give people together the interpretation. Amanda. Thank you. She was in town from Toronto and so the current is going to go to the Agriculture Heritage Center. So you see a picture of that on the right-hand side. That's the space that it's going to go into. And the left-hand side is an example of work. So basically that work is going to go into that barn and so they want to see how they're going to be able to pull that off. I think it's going to be really impressive. Sarah Stence was also in town. She's from Sacramento and she works with photos that are essentially working together. So she'll take here two photos or maybe more and basically read those together. And so she was here to be able to figure out exactly what kind of photos she would be able to use in the work that she'll be doing. She's an Indigenous artist so it's great to be able to include her in the project all together. And then Patrick is also a local artist but really nationally and he's going to be part of the project and he was here gathering corn stalks. He's going to be using the production of a 25 foot, by 10 foot, woven curtain that we used in the exhibition. He is, if you go to the airport, you may see his work. He created very enormous logs that are kind of in this environment that you see as you approach the airport. And especially if you come in on the train, you pass right by them they're really quite cool. That was a project that took years and years and years to do. So if you want to see you can see it there. We've also got six hands on activities that are going to be included in the exhibition and so we're really trying to make the exhibit that's going to be here in our galleries really active and sort of kid friendly. Because typically we have a kid's exhibit during that time, right? So we want to make sure that we sort of appeal to that audience during that time. Also in the process of hiring and use of an assistant and really this is part of sort of new museum professionals that we're trying to develop. So this is the first round of museum assistants that we'll be hiring that sort of stems from our intern program. So it's really geared towards new professionals. You may have seen as you walk in the building that we've got a new art public places piece that's hanging out within the atrium. It's called Angels' Wings and so the thought is that you see a great total amount. It's really exciting to have that wall has been sort of a challenge for us to deal with on a regular basis and so what we decided a year or so ago is that we were going to just dedicate that for our public places loan program and so that will change essentially on our annual rotation and so the museum staff won't necessarily have to program spaces that aren't public places and deal with that. Is there a certain percentage of the art on the move that's outdoor and indoor? You know I think for a long time it never occurred to me that was indoor art on the move because I was so used to art in public places being outside and I knew that. Yeah, Angela said a great job of sort of reconsidering this because the limitation is that in order for it to be art public places it has to be accessible for free to the public and they're not outdoor spaces that have that criteria and so we have certain areas of the museum that are available free to charge and those are the spaces that are available for art and public places. There are a couple of other places that she's programming in a civic center and in the what's it called? Safety and so those are the ones that she's not got on her slate that she's programming for indoor spaces. It really is a little bit making a point of doing it so it's kind of it's new and this will be part of the rotation. Yeah So 2D work that I mean it's also challenging because it's 2D work that gets loads of light and that aspect of getting loads of light is problematic in terms of conservation of art and so it's definitely part of the conversation in choosing this piece that it has to be everybody has to be fully aware of the light. So I actually love that piece and it's very cool. We've got in terms of the laboratory programming and the events and rentals we're back in business. We've had 24 events over 28 days so that's a lot of stuff going on. Mark is almost slightly less busy with the grant for 23 busy programs sponsored by Rentals and City Units. The February highlights include the grant deal tour to the worst one-man show it's called The Pump and Indian Romantic Comedy. We have so many apps from on the site of these animals and a new work created especially for one-man museum. Sold out Friday afternoon concerts featuring them jazz legend pronounced Dean and installation by the some winners of showcase. This has become an annual event I hope it stays one with Bonnie and Taylor basically curating her scene at show. Mark marks the return of the elder international film possible of the often not hold up motion picture orchestra and I don't know if you've ever been to one of those but they're really cool if you've had a chance. Basically it's a film that is accompanied by Latin musicians and they're usually really cool. Then we had Native American poets on March 15th and the sacred art of the pow-wow March 30th and so really just a great line up that has accompanied the grant deal exhibition. And then by members we have from before events to community partners over 1200 people revenue at $13,000 and ticket revenue rental revenue at $13,000 and ticket revenue at $39,000 you can see the percentages there so we could be able to date. We've got school tours we've got three lined up for the spring season this is something I think maybe Susie can respond to this that the slow coming getting people coming back for school tours but I think that we'll be seeing a rise in that as well. Dozens have been sort of beautiful in between it's been a challenge basically to be able to recruit for dozens knowing that the school tours have been a little slow coming back so I'm really trying to get a handle on the dozens of being able to train dozens in you know, to make sure that we honor their time. In summer camps we've got 73 equal scholarships have been awarded so far 320 campers in the room so far. We've got some that are full already which is kind of unexpected I don't know if you've dealt with this but basically for my kid as soon as the camps open so online in order to get those we've got great team volunteers lined up for those summer camps I feel like this is oh, I didn't even know this so the first time I read this Sam Mandigan who's one of the artists for the agriculture exhibition he is something to do a polo in the 1800s camp teaching a scientific process. I didn't know that, that's super cool Sam's been really active because he is also working with CU on this tree project that they have done that so he has shown it up in Colorado periodically and we've been able to think back on that so that's exciting to see that for us. I dance is the Lava Museum is hosting the first program July 17th to 21st so this is a special camp that pairs experienced instructors with children with disabilities and teach them dance what's true all the years of our science each cancer to serve about spotters providing customized physical support association and encouragement throughout the week and the children can learn from one on stage until the last day so that's going to be a little bit of accessibility program that we've been doing and of course scholarships are available this is planning, the planning has begun for that so we're leading with Randy again who's helped coordinate the program for the last couple of years and we've been able to help expand the work we can do because Ann has been doing it for a long period of years so that's great and then engaging again the committee that works on that fall planning also is underway and we're looking to be able to work on the agricultural fall program since there's going to be less in the group at that time and some of the things that we're going to be doing is composting workshops and planning and food fermentation and all of those things are going to be cool and that adds to the exhibition in terms of collection and what Ann is going to learn you all know we've got a new collections management program and so really transfer all of that data and making sure that the new proficient unit of governments has been a massive undertaking and so it's much more powerful but also I think it's going to be interesting in terms of ongoing because it's not as simple as past perfect and so being sure that the volunteers have been training the usage of a lot of sort of in hands archival cataloging volunteers are learning the new software and I'm sure that we've got all of the cataloging that you guys are able to do essentially those new sessions in the system to see all the things that we've got to light up for the new sessions. Erica and me also led tours for the new collection center and so we have eight in the first one that came out of attending that tour and so basically what we wanted to be able to be just have you guys and the kind of VIPs have a look at the space and then open it up for additional public programs and I think it will then not continue those tours etc. I think that people are excited to see the sort of behind the scenes that incidents will have those available for the city. And the committee commissions led to our introduction to your question to be presented in the committee room and the committee's process has received a neighborhood grant leader's project of excellence award which is really cool and now we're going to start your question. Oh we'll see you, thanks Eric. Featured in an NGLA newsletter Council Member Sean McCoy has joined the ANP Council with Council Agnes on of you all in the second phase of the briefsway of the Mama housing thing that's begun, and it will be completed this month. I think it's already completed, which is the reason I'm like, huh, what? So the picture there that you see, I think he's I mean, look at that. And that is going to be what I haven't seen, and we'll have to share it with you when it becomes live, is that this mural is, you can scan a QR code, and on your phone, it's activated. And I don't know what it's going to do, but something will move. And so this is one of the two, then the state. And so this is going to be really exciting that you'll be able to use your phone and see something happen. So that's going to be cool. The mural, I think, is already done. So it's just a matter of adding the digital aspects to it. Thank you very much. Moving on to visitor services. The store has seen increasing sales, and so 2,300 dollars per month. February, Grand Canyon Islands are one of the best museum store customers, and so being in the gear up for some of those different things, we had 74 new, renewed members in February, and then you can see the attendance. I mean, it was January 22, a little over 1,000, and then January 23 of UCF bump at almost over 1,200, and then February 22, we had 1,800, a little bit less in February 23. And then visitor services manager, Elizabeth, and Sairi, and new visitor service staff. We do have one new person that's already started. He was, I don't know, we'll take up her title. I don't remember. Do you have her title? I can't remember either. Heather has been working with us at the front desk, and she's now taken on a new role. And I can't remember the title of it, but it's something like visitor services assistant, and that's a full-time, benefited position. And so she starts to, and we'll have her place our position at the front desk. So that's a role that has been vacated for a while, so it's really great to be able to have it fulfilled. And Elizabeth, it's really a struggle. I think this is common in bed, especially during this part-time, long-benefit position. There's sort of a constant turnover. So poor homes have been spending a lot of our time interviewing those jobs over and over again. So poor homes are an English job. The city did talk about those salaries because of that, but we're still having a lot of trouble for those conditions. All right, talk to you a little bit about prismatic consulting. And so the first step is really to better people together with the donors for potential interviews. And I've got a plan of stakeholders who might be interested in being under the student city. Megan applied for a $50,000 grant from the Lowes Community Foundation to help support the needs and affordable access program. So this is the program that helps with our scholarships for the camp and for the discovered days. So this being a big boost to be able to help that program. High Plenty Bank has committed $2,500 to sponsor some concert series. Bill and Branty also has committed his support again. So likely similar to last year's $2,500 sponsorship for the concert series. So those are two quick ones to see. Megan's also talked to smugglers about donating unprocessed goals for the summer camps and then exploring other partnerships for PNF free options they did this for us last year. So we saw kids eating a bunch of unprocessed goals at summer camps last year, which was really helpful. And then we've got, I think we've mentioned this before, membership software as well in Lorraine. And so that's expected to go by a couple to six. Then it's really been, it's been a really great process working with Ben, troubleshooting the data transfer and troubleshooting all of the ways that we use the software. Joanne and Eve Lazy, who has been on the support before and is a volunteer within UCM and really knows the database very well. She's really been helpful in troubleshooting and so that's gonna be great to do that new software. The old software, what we had was also past perfect. So past perfect did not do for us. So it was the collecting action of the software and it was also the donor. David's management. And because past perfect is essentially going away and we had to find replacements for both of those, we chose Lorraine for the membership and donor software and it's got a lot of new functionality. And so it's really good timing in terms of the capital campaign because Megan will be able to really use that new program to its fullest advantage and be able to track donor relationships and touch points and all of that. So this is really good timing for the new software. In terms of marketing, we've got promotion in full strength for duality and I don't know if you guys have all been able to see that show or if you've had it, please come back and spend some time with us because it's really an amazing exhibition and we're lucky to have it. And so we've got NPR spots and Westwood and Times Hall and science throughout town and so we'll be using some of that and then we've got our promo video with the long public media and there's only a few to do there and if you wanna go check out it's really great. And then we've got a new Instagram account, we've talked about that before, but it does give us an opportunity to be able to really share some of those visual things in a better way than we have in the past. And then we'll volunteer at the value issues coordinator. We've got monthly updates for the survey collection that we've been doing and then we've got a draft volunteer manual underway and recruitment for team volunteers for summer camp. And I don't think that's a big question, just a lot. So it's been going well today? Yeah. I think it might be nice for Megan to present to us more maybe in May or June. Yeah. And just talk about it a little bit more quickly. Yep. We need to make sure that happens. Any other questions? Let's see the process for you. Let's go. Great question. That I obviously don't know the answer to this. I just had a game this morning with Jeff Bresner who's the head of the department and Jimmy March, who's the assistant city manager who's the head of the division. And so we'll talk more about what that's going to look like. What I really want to have happen in front of what we talked about this morning is I want there to be someone in place by the time the camp campaign goes live. And I think that's totally doable. In May? Yeah. I'm hoping I'll be able to do that. So the- I think it sounds like the episode will be in line for the films. Well, I don't think that there's anybody in mind per se, but certainly there are networks of people that we can share with. But ultimately, it'll be important, I think, to have somebody that is sort of the champion of the project and really out there as the one person in the movie. And I think it's totally doable. I mean, it really is horrible timing for all of this to happen, but also an opportunity that I've been in for sure. I'm not taking that one. And I think that Jeff and Joanne are committed to making sure it happens too. So I feel like there's a lot of movement behind it, so I can go about it. I mean, it's so exciting. I really am like, this is a terrible time. This stuff is like, you know, a director's dream. But it'll be the next director's dream, too. So, yeah. Any other questions for me? We'll be sure to keep you guys in the loop about what happens tomorrow with the state council meeting and what that'll mean. I think, probably, it'll kind of jive with the launch of the Catholic campaign as well, especially when it comes to those talking points and sort of how to be a master's from using them. Is there a date, certainly, that you're going to have the grant of the people? That is supposed to happen in April. I know it's in April, but I wanted to know if it was early April or late April, or... Oh. Off the top of my head, Dale, I think it's the 15th that we're supposed to hear. But don't put lots of stuff in that date of April. In fact, is the 15th a Saturday? The 15th, because what Megan has been saying is that it's weird that they would have said it was on a Saturday and she hopes that we hear it before that date. Yeah. So that's the dating announced. But since it's a Saturday, it's likely that it'll either be the Friday before or the middle of the afternoon. Anything else for me? I really am serious and sincere. When I say just because I'm leaving doesn't mean I don't care about this place. I really, really do. And I want you all to feel free to connect with me on my personal email and if you have any questions or if I can help in any way or if you just want to talk or whatever. I really want you to know that I'm sincere about that. I care about this place a lot. And there's a lot of me that is super, super sad about leaving especially right now. So please take that seriously. Okay. That's it. I'm cool. We'll miss you. We'll miss working with you. Congratulations. Thank you. You're an exciting new adventure. Thank you. I appreciate it. When is your last date? The 31st. The 31st. It's now going back. Wow. Okay. I'm psycholized people. I don't think there's any going back. All right. Report for chairs next. I do not have a report. And so we move on to unfinished business. Does anyone have any unfinished business? I cannot recall anything from January meeting. All right. Any new business? Okay. Any board comments? Okay. Okay. All right. We have a motion to adjourn for meeting. No, we want to adjourn. Okay. Thank you first. Is there a second? Second. Thank you Linda. All right. All in favor? All right. All right. That is unanimous. We are adjourned.