 We will go ahead and call our meeting to order at 9.16 is what I've got. And has everybody had a chance to look over the minutes from the last meeting? Okay, so if there is no corrections that need to be made or placed, I need to have a motion that we can approve the minutes from the last meeting? Have corrections. You do, okay. What needs to be corrected? I think we need to include Connie as an attendee. And then we do need to note that Karen Reed was not in attendance. Then in, let's see, paragraphs 3D1, we need to, last sentence, it states the mayor is the only person who can sign it. We really should make this proper. It's the city mayor, city and mayor, but capitalized. And then in old business. So that's for A3, then the name waddle and dob. It's with two T's, not T's. So waddle is W, A, T, T, L, E. Okay. Then in part five, C, the 6,000 that the event generated, we need to clarify that that was, the event generated $6,000 for a woman's work so that we don't have any confusion that that was generated with Calhan house. And then lastly, if we can change my correct, the spelling of my last name in the adjourn moved by Karen Cruz, Cruz is K. R. U. S. E. Okay. All right. I'll make all those changes. Thank you, Kathy. I have one correction because I was not there at that meeting. I was down in Texas. You were online with us. I was not. I thought I was going to be able to, but my mother had a doctor's appointment that morning. That's right. Yeah. So that's my great. Thank you, Colony. Appreciate it. And thank you, Karen, for those corrections. And so we cannot approve the minutes until, you can prove them as correct. With corrections. Okay. Okay. So if I could get an emotion on that level, please. We approve the minutes as corrected. Okay. Can I get a second, please? Second. Oh, okay. Karen and Connie, that was a tie. Go ahead, Connie, it's yours. So the minutes have been approved with corrections and moving on to the house manager's report. Kathy. Good morning. It is exciting to report that things are busy. At least it feels busy compared to the last 15 months, right? Yes. We had 14 events in May, four city events, most of which were grant meetings, five club meetings, a final walkthrough and two revenue generating meetings and two tours. The garden's been really busy with pictures, but again, we're having a hard time keeping track because it's, we're not always there. So in terms of inquiries, we're doing quite well. We had 34 in May, five by phone, 29 electronic, and the email distribution, we got two that were just regular email. We got 10 from Wedding Wire, nine from the city of Longmont, six from the Knot and two from venue hub. And we had almost a hundred guests in May. So that to me is very exciting after the house sitting empty for a year. Yeah. We have lots of lucky lose, but no new revenue generating events. People are poking at doing events, but they're not looking yet. So it'll be interesting to see as people become more comfortable if we actually start to get some more bookings. I hope so. I'm expecting that to happen. We had one catered event in May with 24 guests, which was a nice little wedding. And we had, we have a total of 13 revenue events booked for 2021. Our annuals are installed, come by and see the garden. It is bursting with flowers. The peonies are lovely right now. I was trying to think the poppies are still blooming. The roses are starting. The annuals are all in. And we got the fountain working yesterday. So we are almost good to go. Nice. I've lost my spot. The annuals, I'm looking and trying to look at the camera, but then I lose my spot on the paper. The annuals are a lot smaller than usual. So if you walk through the garden, you'll notice that they're really itty-bitty, but that's because all of the gray days that we've had, even the greenhouses had trouble getting things to grow. So I think it's gonna take a little longer for the annuals to mature this year. We did get a few substitutions, but we did receive most of what we ordered. I think it's gonna be really pretty. Terracare and parks work together to start the fountain for the season. It's been kind of interesting because apparently parks completely dismantled the pump underneath the fountain last year to drain it and then didn't put it back together. Oh, so when we turn on the valve to fill the fountain, all we did was dump water in the pit and make it like a waiting pool down there. So yesterday, Elisa and another person from parks, another lady from parks came in, figured out what was wrong and put it all back together and we actually dialed it in and it's working great. So the good news is we have a memorial on Friday and a wedding on Sunday. So we're up and running. And we learn a little bit more about the fountain every year. I can tell you, I don't wanna fill it with a hose. It's okay to top it off with a hose. You don't wanna fill it with a hose unless you've got all day. Terracare repaired our sprinklers which had a major break just south of the house and checked all the zones and everything's working properly. So now that we have flowers, we also have water. So that's good news. Our events for June are listed. We do have a very busy weekend. This weekend we're doing a memorial on Friday where we're providing the food and the staffing. It's both a service and a reception. We're doing a wedding rehearsal on Saturday and we're doing a wedding and a dinner on Sunday. All of our clubs are back except Longspeak questers and they'll be back in the fall. They don't meet during the summer. We did have a lovely little wedding ceremony on the 22nd of May. It was such a pleasure to actually do something again and they had a really good time and then headed off to Flagstaff house for their dinner. So that went quite well. We'll have an update on the grant. I apologize for my voice. Who have an update on the grant later in the meeting but we did receive approval from the state historical fund for our letter of intent to apply for the grant and got the link so we could start putting information in it prior to the grant deadline. And we have to present it to council in July to get approval from council for the submission because Brian Bagley the mayor is the only city official who has the authority to sign intergovernmental agreements. Connie has joined in Karen and I for the final push to get everything ready. Thank you Connie and thank you, Karen and Anne. We sent out or we're sending out, I think most of them are out but there's one or two that haven't gone. Request to pass to present club members guests and community members for letters of support to attach to the grant application. If anybody has any ideas about somebody we should send one to please let one of us know and we'll get it out if we haven't already. I've already got a few back. We need to attach five to seven letters of support to the grant application. So we're trying to get a nice representation of the community to do that with. Clubs are back. I already said that it really is a pleasure to have people back. We haven't had any event cancellations are new events booked under marketing venue hub has announced that they're going to reinstate charges for their services. So we won't be getting leads from them anymore. I think it's pretty expensive compared to what we're really getting from them in terms of leads and responses. So we're not going to pursue that wedding sites and services we had one lead list with 181 leads got three opt outs and 36 bounces. So their lists are about 80% good emails. Moving on to the financial information you'll be happy to see on the actuals that were actually in the black. And this is prior to me putting more money in the accounts in the last few days. So we're actually in the black which is I think really good news after last year. We're up to 32 events with 175 guests for the year and that's going to start climbing fairly rapidly now. Thank you universe. If you take a look at the actuals for May you can see which clubs met and which events we did. Other than that, there isn't too much interesting information on there. When you start to look at the expenses the other thing we're going to see as we move into doing more events is we're going to have an increase a corresponding increase in expenses. So you can see that we're starting to buy things for the garden, have rentals for the events. The staffing numbers are going to start to climb. And the last report is the financial report for Munis. So that's about all the information I've got. Any questions? Every time I look at the screen I figure out I'm like getting closer and closer to it. Any questions about the manager's report? I did have a quick question. We're still not counting the... Have we heard anything more from Mary Ellen? I believe it is about possibly doing QR code? Not yet, and it's Sue Ellen. I'm sorry, Sue Ellen. Of course. I'll send her a note to get an update. I'm not sure it will really help us count but it might help us some. I think it's worth it with a shot and with the QR codes we can also then look at... If we get a QR code installed we can also do other things like having it bounce to do a tour when somebody's there, that type of thing with the historic information. QR codes give us a lot of other advantages in regards to getting a count of people that are actually at the location. So that's just my thought on that. Okay, moving right along with the agenda. So, Kathy, anybody else have any questions in regards to the manager's report? All right, moving on to old business, grant update and discussion. Karen's gonna take that. Yeah, I think that's me. Okay. So our update is that the letter of intent was approved without comment. So that's excellent because it shows that we're right on track with the content that's gonna be in the application. The application portal was opened to us at the approval of our letter of intent. That was the first of this month. And we have created, in a sense, kind of a duplicate of the online application in a Google Doc, so that we could put the information in the Google Doc, share it with one another, update it. And then as we're finalizing the content, then we transfer it into the portal, the online portal. So, and as we have been adding into the online portal, it's saved, so it's in the status of save and continue with the work until we hit complete and submit. At this point, our objective is to have each of you take a look at the Google Doc and provide us with any input or suggestions or comments by the close of the business date Friday. We would like to go ahead and provide this draft application to History Colorado, the advisors there, for a little bit of input. And we should be able to do that by sometime next week. But I think what's most important for you to know is we get one shot at advice from them. And so we want to be able to put together the most comprehensive, complete draft possible to submit to them for their advice. And then once that's done, then we can make any additions or corrections and then provide it to Karen Roney by July 2nd so that she can ensure it goes to city council for the meeting on July 13th. City council would need to approve going forward with it and approve Brian Bagley signing it. And once we have that, then we can submit it timely by the August deadline. So that's our time to around, that's our status. I can email to you all the link to the Google Doc after our meeting. And again, this is the opportunity for you to look at the application in this form. And because it's as complete as we could make it as what the online portal is. But this way, at least you can see prompts. You can see the writing narratives. So you can see what's going in here and then attachments as well. There are multiple attachments required, recommended and optional. We are including all, we've been very comprehensive. So you'll be able to see all of that. So if that's not too much to ask, is that acceptable ladies? Can you all look through this and give any kind of comment or support? If I close the business Friday? Certainly. Thanks very much, Karen and Connie and Anne and Kathy as well for everybody that's been working on the grant. I do apologize. I'm working on my letter that I will be turning in just probably either this afternoon or tomorrow, but I apologize for the past couple of months. I've been dealing with an additional family member that's been in the hospital. So that's been exceedingly stressful. So I really feel like I've let you guys down on not giving as much support as I could or should in regards to this. So it's just one of those things. So thanks so much for all of you guys working on it. Again, I've got a letter of support that I'm turning in. I'm also getting one from my in-laws and I've got a couple of other past community members that have contacts to the home that are also gonna be submitting. So I'm working on that aspect. It's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other work that you guys have done. So thank you so much. Any other comments? Karen, I have a question. Are we gonna try and attach the attachments or are we just gonna look at those at a later point? I can attachments in PDF documents. I'm gonna put them in the Google Doc. Yeah, we're still working on the attachments just so you know. And they'll be the last thing we're working on. Yeah. I did see that when I spoke with Anne and she sent me email. I saw that I believe the submit date was the 28th, but the last thing, but I understand when it comes to, you guys wanna get this done and have it all wrapped with a pretty bow and ready to go. Who's gonna be presenting this to council? We don't know yet, TBD. One of us. Yeah. But just for clarification, the June 28th due date, that's just for letters of support. Everything else we've been gathering along and collecting and putting together. So those letters of support will be kind of the last pieces that get placed into things. But you'll see on the Google Doc the list of what is going to be included. And then I can provide PDFs of those documents that we currently have that we need to look at. Thank you. I understand that Karen. Again, thanks for the clarification for anybody else that. So any other questions in regards to the grant update and discussion? Excuse me, I have some questions. This takes me way back to when this kind of all started where our niece, who was the historical figure in Colorado, she's the one that came to one of our open houses and said, you need to get a grant. You need to apply for a grant. And at that time, she was no longer traveling the United States naming the historical houses. She gave us two names to contact. Kathy knows, I don't even have those names right now, but they're in my folder. Had we had contact with Emma about any of this since we started? Yes, we have been conversing and meeting with Megan Efflin and Dan McCleave. And they visited the house about a month ago and we sat down with them again. We had done a virtual call with them back in the, back in the, what, January-ish? And then we visited with them in May. So they are very involved and that's who we're gonna submit the draft to for review. Oh, that's great. I can't wait to tell our niece what she started here and that you guys have taken over and really done well. Thank you. Thank you, Janet. Yes, I agree. Thank you all for the hard work you've put into this. I have a question. Were there any guidelines sent out for these letters of support that I missed? There's a memo that is attached to the email that's being sent out to- We can send it to everybody. We'll go ahead and put that out to all of you. So you have it so that you too can forward it to anyone who you think it might be helpful to have a letter of support from. All right, Karen, are you gonna do that or do you want me to? I will, since I'm sending the link and the attachments, I'll go ahead and send that out too. Thanks, Karen. Well, and we have picked a fairly broad representation of people. We've gone to some of our vendors. We've gone to Centennial State Ballet. We've gone to Art Walk. We asked Santa to do a letter. We've asked the mayor and the city manager to do a letter. I think we asked Jeff Freezer for a letter. So we have a number of past board members and what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a selection of the best letters and the best representation from the community because we probably won't be able to attach them all. And Candy, I also have sent a letter of what we call it. Support. Port to the St. Brain Historical Society that was one of my areas and then a couple of individuals too. So we're trying to cover all those bases of the people that are already involved in history of course, as well as mine. Great. And on that note, I think I'll ask each of you if you have someone in particular that you're thinking that you'd like to send this to to request a letter of support. If you would share that with all of us board members, that will help us to avoid any duplicate efforts. Yes. Okay. I guess all discussion has been covered in regards to the grant and moving right along. We'll just go on to the COVID update and mask and capacities. The good news is, and Ben can correct me if I'm wrong, most of the mask mandates and capacity requirements that would affect us have been lifted. If they're vaccinated, they don't have to wear a mask. We are not asking if people are vaccinated. So we, and we're back to pretty normal capacities both inside and outside the house. Ben, do you have anything to add to that? Yeah, I mean, a couple of things. I'll just tell you, I was thinking about this. If the amount of information I have processed over the last year concerning regulations, masks and COVID, pretty sure I could have learned two languages if I spent that much effort. Yep. It's something else, but we are nearing the end. So the most recent was the state on the first came out with a new mask mandate that essentially put all facilities under that umbrella. Before that, they still had schools and hospitals and other than public transportation which is a national thing. They are all underneath what Kathy had said, which if you're vaccinated, you do not need to wear a mask. If you're unvaccinated, it is recommended, but most places, including the city of Omaha are not asking. And that's just how, that's kind of how it is right now. Although you can require it. So you'll see a few places still that are requiring. I think, I know if you've got a Kaiser, they're requiring an important example. And that's fine, I can throw all of us. There are no regulations outside with masking whatsoever, those are gone. The other thing that changed on the first that was kind of important, not having to do at Callaghan because we don't have 100 capacity inside was there was a odd 100 person plus having to know how many of those people were vaccinated. It was an odd regulation that really shouldn't have been included that really never came into play for us, thank goodness. And that one went away on the first. So we're really down to there are no cleaning, distancing, you know, stuff like that. There are no regulations like that. We are down to just that mask regulation at this point. And we do expect Boulder County to buy tomorrow, do you issue something new? It's our hope that they just align exactly with the state, because theirs is still a little, they still have some of those advanced things concerning schools, which affects our day camp, for example, but doesn't really affect Callaghan. So that's where we're at. We're kind of taking these final baby steps towards the end. Numbers are excellent. If you look at illness numbers on Boulder County data site, the graph lines have all come down to the very bottom at this point. And the last few days, you'll see two cases, two cases, four cases. It's an average of seven cases a day. So there's a little bit out there, but that's virtually nothing compared to what we're dealing with even a month ago. So there's a kind of a COVID update. And oh, and by the way, Boulder County is very well vaccinated at 75%. Over 75% of eligible people have been vaccinated, at least one, I think 65%, over 65% both. And of course you have the 11 and under percentage that are not eligible yet. So that's where we sit. Anybody have any questions on it? Pretty much we're okay. And if you're vaccinated, I'm a little comfortable that in my opinion, there's not a lot out there and that's wonderful. You're reaching a society which makes me very happy to be in my creation. A new sense of normal. Yay. Yeah. Thank you. You bet. Hey. Thank you, Ben. All right. So that covers all business. Moving on to new business. I don't see any new business listed. So does anybody have anything new that they would like to add? I have one thing that I didn't list because I didn't think of it till after I posted everything. We did have a discussion last month about perhaps not having a meeting in July or August. And I wanted to see if there were any thoughts on that. I think the discussion point was that we should consider having the meetings simply to make them short, sweet, and to the point. And because they weren't canceled sooner type of thing, I believe that's what was said. And also- We can cancel them still, so just so you know. I understand that. It's just, I guess the next meeting would be right prior to us going before council with the with the grant in July. So my recommendation is, is if we might cancel any meeting, it would be August. It's at the next meeting is actually the day after we go to council. Oops. So- Okay. Because it gives us the opportunity to give the board an update on what the council meeting results were. Well, and this- August- Next month we could meet in person. And yes, that will be great. Yay, what? I'd suggest July because August, September 11th, we have Art Walks. So that August would give us a time base with everybody about Art Walk. In which I want to throw one little comment out there. If anybody has an artist in mind, can you contact me and we'll discuss it? And we can only have a few, you know, we can't, but if you could, if you have somebody you'd like to invite, give me a holler, send me a note or something and then we'll decide. Okay. Absolutely. And we should have put Art Walk in old businesses. So we could discuss that. Thank you very much, Ann, for including that information. Appreciate it. So that being said, ladies, it's really up to what, do we want to have a discussion on this and what everybody else's thoughts are? Do we cancel the meeting for July? Or, and thanks for the comment that, yeah, we don't want to not have the meeting in August because of Art Walk being right there. So. Well, I think that at this point, it's probably justified to have both July and August meetings. That's my thoughts, but if there's anybody else that has a different argument, I'm, any other comments, ladies? Nope, I'm good. Okay. And, wow, the thought to be back in the house and be able to see everybody in person. Wow. That in itself is just, sigh of relief, that'd be just amazing, and amazing, particularly at this long stretch. So. The only comment I have about the meetings is, if you're not going to be able to attend, would you please let me know? So I can make sure we have a quorum, because if we don't have a quorum, then there's no point in meeting. Absolutely, absolutely. When would the July meeting be, or date? It's the 14th. Oh, okay. I'll have to check that one out. My daughter and granddaughter are coming, and I don't know if we're going to be out of town or not, but I'll check that out. All right, thank you. Okay. All right. Other business. I think we kind of jumbled new business, other business, everything together. I don't see anything listed. Moving on to future agenda items. Does anybody else have a future agenda item that? Karen? Karen, you're muted. I think there's one that we probably should put on the future agenda, and that's just the planting of, well, the selection of perennials and what's going to be planted around the sign. So we do have a planting plan, but we've since determined that some of the plants might not be best because they would potentially cover the bottom of the sign, which we don't want to have happen. So I think having a quick portion of the agenda for the future meeting, including the planting plans that we can share that with everyone and get any inputs, if you've got from any plant on the board. With respect. Karen, what month are you looking at planting that in? Because usually you want to get it planted in the spring. I mean, I don't know how, if you're waiting till next year or are we going to do it in the fall or what's the plan there? Probably September at this point. I was thinking for some reason, I had it in my mind, I was thinking that the planting would be in July or in August, but is that wrong, Kathy? Well, I just, I don't think planting them when we're at the height of the heat is a good idea. So now, since we missed the May, June window pretty much, I think September is the best solution. And not only that, they'll go on sale and we'll be able to get a good price on them. All of the perennials that we planted last fall have come back. So. When the window- We had no intention to purchase those because that was what I was going to do in the spring and then we decided it was just too cold and too wet to do any of the planting then. So it's still on my radar and my intention to purchase those plants as a gift to the house. So, just so you know. Well, thank you, Karen. That's, that's amazing. I have a question. Do you have, Bro, ask them sometimes about what to plant, where? Because just cause I've been dealing with them in my rose gardens after the fence got torn up, they're so helpful on telling what's going to grow higher or lower. Have you talked to them about the sign? Yes, and that's part of what we've, part of our discussions is that we put together planting plan and Kathy shared that with Bro and they on the ones who said, okay, this looks like probably and not a good option for right in front of the sign and this is the reason why. Okay. We are already consulting with Bro and that's, yeah, we would not go forward without their expert. Okay, they're helpful. That's okay. And a wait in. But we've also gotten the expert input from the flower bin here in town, which obviously Billy Joe is very knowledgeable about the plants and suggestions. So we both continue that process of, okay, how about this? Yes or no? How about that? Yes or no? Will this all work and will it fit and how will it look? And so, yes, we continue to make sure we're addressing the questions to the experts before we move forward with saying, okay, board, here we are and this is what's suggested. This is what's going to be appropriate or suggested to be appropriate and what are your thoughts and anyone have any other suggestions? Wonderful, thank you. Thank you, Karen. So, Kathy, when exactly were the perennials planted last fall? Do you know? September, October. I'd have to look in the notes. We tend to have a pretty good September and October can be really beautiful months still. So if we can then, I agree, put the perennials, I mean, the annuals, the perennials, if we can have the plan for one, I'd like to see the plan at the next meeting. So that would be great that we can show that. And then because I am relatively new to the house in regards to being under COVID, which is a whole new thing. So do we have an overall plan for the garden that's shared with the? Not per se. Not per se? No. So this is just in regards because of the, how we got the sign up, correct? It's just because we need to plant around the sign. So. This planting plan, because it's new and it's very visual. The sign is its own separate little project. Okay, great. So Karen, if you could share that with us. And again, thank you for your generosity to donate those plants, that's amazing. All right, I guess that's under a future agenda items. And if anybody else has anything else to add? Okay. And I guess we're moving right on to adjournment. And we're keeping our minutes down there, Kathy. So you should be happy. We're even starting late, look at the time. So we're doing, we're moving along really quickly and doing great. So at this point, I just need somebody to make a motion for adjournment. I move we adjourn. Good, Karen. Quick. I second. Okay, everybody. I second that. Karen, we second. All right. Thanks so much, everyone. And again, I look forward to seeing you all in July.