 Okay so I'm going to call the meeting to order and for roll call I've got everybody except for Brydon and Susie at this point and including Kim, Eric, Eileen, Angela, Joanne and Justin. No public today. So the first thing is if we could look at the minutes from February and if I could entertain a motion to approve these. I move to approve the minutes from February. Thank you Chris. Is there a second? Second. A second. Oh sorry. Is that you Rhea? Yeah. Thank you very much. I'm all in favor of approving the minutes as presented. Please wave your hand since we don't have our I thing going and opposed. Okay so the minutes are approved in a unanimous fashion. Okay Eric if you would like to share your screen with us then we will look at the proposed accessions. Hey Brydon. Hello. So we have three accessions this month. First one is from the Longmont High Class of 1917. Includes a yearbook, a scrapbook, clippings, photos and as well as some items from their 50th reunion in 1967. One interesting thing about the yearbook is that the face of one boy has been removed cut out on two different pages. We don't know why that was the donor's grandmother that donated had been in the class 1917. It was not someone she would ultimately be married to or anything so I don't know if it was an ex-boyfriend or what the story was. That is our first accession. Any questions on that one? And I can't see everyone so just go ahead and speak up if you do have a question. All right we will move on to the next one. So this relates to our ongoing COVID collecting initiative. These are items that were given out during the 2020 Boulder County elections. So we have a mask, a face shield and then a poll book training book. So this is significant both for reflecting the COVID situation as well as the 2020 elections. Any questions on that one? Hearing none we will move to last accession which is a crate of 24 glass bottles and the crate itself from the Red Rock bottling company. The bottles are rocket beverage and they do actually say it's a little hard to read but the crate does actually say Longmont Colorado and the bottles also say bottled in Longmont Colorado. So definitely a local company. There were apparently Red Rock bottling companies in other communities as well but this particular one documented well in Longmont. So any questions on this or really any of our our accessions? We'll go ahead and pause here before we talk about the last slide so we can move to Excepter. Have any further discussion on the accessions? I have a question Eric. Okay. So if we taking these bottles you indicated that we have one in our collection already would it be something that then would be considered not individual bottle be considered for deaccession perhaps or? It's it's possible. Honestly we we usually look for figure or things in you know poor condition for deaccession right now so but yeah at some point if we're you know looking around for other things to deaccession that would that would certainly be an option since we've got a much more complete collection than that single bottle. Okay yeah that was kind of my question on the the fifth slide too was if we have you know something similar but it isn't as complete you know does it put itself out there as a possibility for deaccession? Yeah so I think we'll open that up for discussion once we've had the vote on that's fine. Is there a motion to approve these all of these accessions? Dale? Is there a second? Sorry I can't see everybody. Second. Chris? Thank you. All in favor of um accessioning all of these items please um can't see everybody but wave your hands great um all opposed. Chair I can see that that is that all did put their hands up. Oh thanks very much Angela um so the um accession of these items is unanimously approved thank you very much. All right so then we'll move to the donation for review um so this is actually something that we have not yet received uh the potential donor actually got bit by a dog and so had to postpone it but I thought it was a good opportunity because this is a case where we have again very similar items in this case it is a one-to-one one bottle we have one bottle almost identical in the collection um so um wanted to bring it to the board um as as Eve raised it's always possible for the museum to deaccession an existing bottle but it's not a quick process we have to do a lot of documentation um we bring it back to the board it requires a higher a two-thirds majority of the board to approve um so it's not as simple as just oh we've got a better one we'll get rid of the old one um so it's one of the reasons why I wanted to kind of bring it to the board and just sort of see your general thoughts on these situations where we might get something that's in a little better condition or um just um a little different example but very very similar to one I think it's cool that it has a lid you know that's the kind of stuff that's always lost or often so I think it's that's that's very cool well there thoughts from anyone and looking this is Tom and looking at the two bottles is there a clarity of one better than the other um it's a little hard to tell we just have the photo of the one so I can't compare them side by side um the one that we have was taken against a blue background so it it may appear more clear um than it actually is because because the background is actually a pretty uh a darker blue than it appears in the photo um so I would tend to say that that they're probably pretty similar um in in sort of glass clarity ours is definitely still still dirty you can see the dirt down inside of there which obviously we could wash out if we ever unless it's special dirt that's what I was thinking how old is the dirt that's right Dale did you have a comment you need to get off of mute first you're on mute sorry um I had a question I've heard a lot you know on and off about the Lamont bottling works or whatever they were called what Eric do you know did they bottle a variety of things or were they all I mean for instance these bottles look fairly small to me I mean I would guess they're what five inches six inches high maybe yeah that's probably about right um did they bottle different did they have different kinds of bottles did they bottle a lot of different substances or every bottle I mean all the 12 that we have are almost exactly the same size they have different markings on them but they're all pretty much that same um volume we know they did bottle a lot of different substances because we have a photo of the interior of the bottling works and there are things like pine apple soda and pine and apple are two different words so I don't know if it's pineapple soda or pine apple soda um there's also birch beer and a couple of other flavors of soda so they they bottle the number of things but every bottle we've ever acquired is this size and and they all say longmont bottling works or what whatever so this this particular these two say city bottling works longmont colorado some of the other ones say just longmont bottling works or but they don't they don't actually have have any identification of what's in the bottle no no I don't know if originally there was a paper label that's gone or you were just surprised when you took a drink I don't I think we should pursue getting the bottle that has the lid personally I don't know I don't know that's really something for us to vote on but are there other thoughts oh I feel the same way I you know it's like a cup without a handle or something if you don't have the stopper yeah I go ahead that was to say I agree I mean philosophically it makes sense and that if we're going to be trying to have things like this we should have the best ones I wonder if the stoppers got led in it sorry I don't know just wondering how I can't it's hard to tell what the stopper really looks you know how it would have worked yeah I'm not sure till I actually see it all right great so hopefully if if the donor is able to come in next month you'll see this as a regular accession to the collection I'm going to stop sharing thanks Eric okay um Kim would you like to give us your report I would be delighted oh good if we have to vote on that did Eve do we have to vote on that last bottle I just wasn't sure I don't think so um something if I'm wrong I think it was more of just uh looking for interest yeah okay since we don't actually have it in our possession yet um I'd prefer to wait until we physically got it in hand just so if something happens uh person ends up not donating we don't sure on the record which is a technical question I was wondering thanks Tom that's good we don't want to don't want to miss stuff Susie hello welcome um so Kim all right I'm up um I am going to go you guys got a copy of the director's report so I'm gonna go through it quickly and um as usual if you have any questions please just stop me along the way um we have contracted with a new architect to help us complete our master development plan um we've met with them uh as a group um in um once and then they did a site visit today at the museum um and they have on their schedule to be complete with the master development plan um in early June so we're looking forward to having that document and there will be um for this architect that we're working with there will be some opportunities to provide feedback um for all of you um and so they'll they'll plan some um sort of public outreach events for that process as well so I'm looking forward to that um we also have our fund development manager was approved recently and so that position opened um as a reminder that's a position that's funded by our scfd dollars um so those are going to be ongoing dollars so um we were able to get that position approved um it closed on March the 5th and so um we've selected seven candidates that we're gonna be interviewing starting on Friday so that process is moving forward and I hope to have somebody on board sort of ASAP um we also completed um as you know the community and audience engagement assessment and in in that process that we did with our peer reviewers um one of the things that came to the kind of rose to the top was to do an interpretive plan um and I'm this was many many meetings ago so I will remind you and and maybe inform some of you that we got a donation from the Stuart Family Foundation of 60 thousand dollars I believe it was in late 2019 and so um you all approved us having part of that money pay for uh the interpretive plan and so part of the money is playing for the master development plan and then part of the money is paying for our interpretive plan and so I am working with the woman that we received um a proposal from and we're trying to figure out best timing for that given all the other things that are going on at the museum so we'll be engaging in that um as soon as we can I thought I heard a question so just stop me yelling me if you do um we've got a lot of marketing going on for our um exhibit that's up right now the enduring impressionism uh enduring impressions exhibition um we are also seeking sponsors for Longmont 150 um that one opens on August the 7th um and so if you have any great ideas for sponsorship for that exhibition please let us know that would be great um the museum also raised uh 25 thousand dollars um from 150 individuals as part of our year in annual giving and that really was aimed um the pitch really was about um COVID recovery and so we had a lot of very generous this is more money than we've ever raised for our annual campaign and it was clear that people were being very very generous to us um in in the wake of the pandemic so that was that was very um nice to see our summer camps um opened on March the 9th and so we're getting a lot of registrations for that we have um basically kind of got three prongs of summer camps that we're offering in person socially distance we're doing some outdoors and then we're doing some virtually so that everybody kind of has an opportunity to engage at their own comfort level um and we're hopeful that that's going to be a good combination for people to be able to find some opportunities for their kiddos for the summer um we've also got some uh discovery days kits that are going out in the final month and as I've mentioned to you before that has been a very very successful program during the pandemic that um basically uh uh parents are picking up these kits for their kiddos and being able to do those sort of um as as they want to but they can also get on to the uh sort of um moderated virtual with um Miss Lee so it's been it's been very very successful so we're we're pleased with the turnout for those the art and sip programs are also going well um and we've been able to we actually got a big compliment um during the city manager's meeting he does the weekly meeting and someone actually sent him an email to say that they were really enjoying the art and sip program so that was nice to hear through our city manager um let's see we've got members registrations I've I mentioned summer camps so member registration opened um last week and then the registration for the general public is this week so we should see those um uh enrollments bump up pretty quickly and then as far as the collections um go Eric helped kick off the celebration for long lot 150 um and it was very very cool I hope that you guys had an opportunity to um log on for that virtual program and if you haven't had a chance to see it I I would highly recommend going back to find it because it was a very heartwarming program that birthday celebration so you can log on to um our website and find the facebook page for that it's very very cool um and so he opened the time capsule from 1996 as part of that um program um and then there were a lot of other festivities including uh the symphony um doing a rendition of happy birthday so it was really fun Eileen's been working with our digital communication specialist Scott Yoho uh to work on the next tour for our mobile app and this one focuses on Latino history in Longmont so there they had um some consultants helping them with that project and um so we'll be rolling that out soon Scott's been a really great asset to the museum he was um a person that we were able to hire with our NEH grant um to help with digital um and virtual programming so we've been really really lucky to have him with he's been a real asset to us we've also been able to have um volunteers back into archives so um you know changes on the dial have allowed that to happen um and so we're able to do some cataloging that have been has been kind of backing up so all the things that you guys have been approving they have been gone uncataloged so we've been able to have some volunteers in in the archives to help with that now so that's really great and then in exhibitions we continue to um develop and design Longmont 150 um included in your report is a photograph of a low rider that um the shop is designing and building with the assistance of our CU intern Ainsley um and so you can kind of get a glimpse of what they are able to build with the shop button with the tools that they have in the workshop which I think is always very impressive um and then BRAC is researching and designing um a model railroad layout that's going to be part of the exhibition um and then Eric is helping with the the layout and the design of the exhibition as well um we've also got a section of the exhibition that's going to be looking at racial equity and so Eric's been working a lot with um a committee that is helping develop the whole exhibit but this has been a particularly poignant aspect of it since there's just not a lot to collect for that um and so they're they've been very helpful in trying to help tell the story about racial equity in Longmont um but if you've got any suggestions about objects again let us know because that would that would be a great addition to the exhibition um we are going um we're also doing five different satellite cases that are going to be around different city buildings that are going to also include um aspects of the the anniversary and so you can see those at the senior center the rec center library civic center and safety and justice building um then we've also got um Eric Zimmer's pieces are in the atrium and we're going to keep those there those those tiny little paintings if you see them on the way back wall in the atrium so those are going to stay up um I think until September they've been very good sellers so it's been good to have them and then we continue to work with the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art on an exhibition that will pair artists with farmers to do some installations and so there'll be an installation piece in um in Boulder and then in Longmont and then hopefully some slight sites along uh in farms between our two institutions so we're looking forward to developing that exhibition even further um and then we'll be doing some internships starting in the fall and we we had some money um in the budget that were that was earmarked for um uh installation help um hired hands for installation help for Longmont 150 and what we were able to do is have the city manager actually approve that money to be used for interns which is going to be super helpful because um the there's a particular program um that CU has that is oh I've totally forgotten the name of it I went oh yeah environmental design um and they have the students in that program are just really really well trained and so they're kind of perfect to help Jared with the work that he does in exhibits and so we'll be able to pay them which is also going to be a really big deal because of course you attract better candidates and it's much more equitable if you're able to do that so we're we're pleased to to be able to get to that place that we can pay them um and then of course we continue to get requests for fabricating plexiglass barriers in various departments through the city and so Jared continues to do that for um uh coronavirus um prevention there's a big section here about the auditorium that I'm actually going to reserve for Justin so he can kind of talk about some of those things um and then we've got a couple of sections here for visitor services so our exhibition enduring impressions has brought in almost seven thousand dollars in revenue for the first six weeks of the exhibit and Saturdays are selling out as you guys I think know we've got time tickets for that exhibition and so we're basically selling out all the time tickets for Saturdays and we're coming close on Friday so we're doing pretty well for the exhibit attendance um let's see we've had twelve hundred and seventy people view the exhibit since it opened uh and this is as of the date of this report so that's probably about a week ago now um we've got again the discovery days kits are being picked up at curbside so the front desk is helping a lot with that and getting it out the door and then we've got gift shop sales um for the impressionism exhibit that are really doing quite well as well um the attendance so far for oh no I'm sorry the attendance for 2020 which is interesting in my mind is was actually really good so our typical in-person attendance is about 60 65 000 annually and given all the virtual programming that we did um the total attendance was 126 000 people and so that's that's pretty amazing and we hope to keep that that kind of momentum up there were 111 420 people doing the virtual programs and then about 15 000 um in-person people so um so we will I think it's it's a given that that virtual programming has really reached a lot of folks and so even even once we get to a place where we can seriously meet in person I think we will continue to do some virtual programs and then we also of course have um the auditorium outfitted with cameras and new equipment that were funded through the city manager's office with their um uh cares dollars so so now we've got great equipment for it too and then in art and public places um there's some projects going on over at the civic center to try to uh kind of coordinate with um you know the development that has been happening there the construction that's been happening over there and so hoping to get some art and public places um installations happening with that AIPP and the um LDDA um slash the creative district met with the creative lab to discuss a trying to get a creative cultural plan off the ground so this is something that we've been talking about at the museum for quite some time um trying to really integrate just some planning and some strategic partnership that for the whole of Longmont to be able to try to understand kind of what um creatives need what people in the city are willing to pay for what the people in the city are willing to attend and and um support um and so this is an effort now that includes art and public places the museum um the creative district LDDA and then I think the city manager's office got a little bit of money for it as well so we're really hoping to get the wheels cranking on a creative cultural plan that'll probably get kicked off in the next probably three or four months and then we've got shock art calls that are out the call for entry voting strategy and the digital and in-person marketing um museum newsletter and social media and in local newspapers so that's it for my director's report. Anybody got any questions? Alrighty thank you always you're welcome to contact me if you do. Great thanks Kim um I don't have a report today but as we talked about I think maybe last time we we are going to have various staff doing presentations for us so that we have a better idea of the things that they're doing at the museum so today we have Justin Veach who's the auditorium and events manager for the museum and I don't know if I have your title right Justin but um okay um anyway so he's going to spend I don't know 10-15 minutes and tell us a little bit more about what he does and what's happening at the auditorium and then we'll have some time for questions after. Hello I am coming at you live and direct from the museum's marvelous steward auditorium this evening it's great to see you all thank you all for having me and thank you for all that you do for the museum. I'm really glad to have your support out there in the community and I haven't met a lot of you so this is a first time first time meet-up for me for a bunch of you. I've been here for going on three years next month actually I kind of went fast and slow at the same time like really fast and also seems kind of like eons this last year especially. I have a background in non-profit kind of an extensive background in non-profit arts and cultural institutions I'm really a contemporary art guy contemporary art theater dance and performance with a solid foundation in in literary arts programming as well so author events and that kind of thing. I did my undergrad at Naropa back in the 90s and sort of cut my non-profit arts teeth at BMOCA. I worked for the BMOCA's theater back when they had an 87 seat theater there I worked with Judy Hussey Taylor who went on to run who's the director of a dance-based project in New York which is a big deal dance organization. I did my master's degree at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia California and I'm an Angelino and a Die Hard Laker fan third generation Angelino so I'm just another displaced Californian out here. I'm really excited about this space this is a really beautiful gorgeous little space and this is actually I think maybe the fourth venue that I've been associated with or worked for or worked with of this size and I really enjoy this size it allows for a lot of it's like a little race car or sports car or something you can it's a lot more maneuverable than like a big giant bulky behemoth of a performing arts center or something you can get away you can have you know 35 people in here and it feels pretty good which is great. When I first started here I really wanted to focus on kind of diversifying our programming and to really reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the museum that so that meant really trying to increase the flexibility of this space because it's mainly built as a recital hall you know Lila Stewart was a big fan of classical music thus our gorgeous sugary kawai piano that she donated for us in addition to this space so it's not it's it's you know for theater it's not ideal for amplified music it's not ideal so I added curtains which has helped and we continue to work on ways to kind of improve flexibility so that we can support a myriad and a real variety of performing arts activities beyond just classical acoustic music so you know we've done some stuff with well we had Buntport Theater up for a weekend from Denver they're a really great kind of contemporary theater company down in Denver they're really kind of kooky and a little experimental and very smart we've we've you know we've had all of the local folks in you know including the Centennial State Ballet and St. Chinto Baroque Ensemble and other performing arts groups. One of the things I really one of the things that I rolled out was something called Museum Presents which is which is this kind of programming so instead we have our Thursday nights and then we have more elaborate or more more expensive bigger ticket performances that happen over the course of a weekend and hopefully these will happen over the course of perhaps several weekends at some point but these these are these are bigger scale productions and really focusing on on a variety and a diversity of programming. In the first two years that I was here pre-COVID we saw a lot of we said we saw a serious increase in ticket sales which was exciting. 2019 was kind of a was a record year in terms of ticket sales and then 2020 we were real 2020 we're really off going off we're off to the races and then March happened but we've been increasing the number of number of events number of programs and that's that's been going pretty well. When COVID hit of course we had to completely change direction the show had to go on line the show the show must go on line so we just switched to an online format and started blasting things out to Facebook Live that started off with me in my den at home doing hosting conversations with people you know with Eric on collections we did a number of inside kind of behind the scenes museum programs we did a tour of Terry makers home and studio space and then when we hit summer concerts we decided to to offer them all live online and have them and produce them from the auditorium so we switched from my my den which wouldn't fit all those musicians to the auditorium and we're we streamed from here and we've basically been streaming from the auditorium ever since there are now cameras we have a camera mounted on each side of the auditorium I feel like a stewardess or something and a one behind me in the center to all which are motorized and can be controlled remotely from our tech booth where we have monitors and we can it's like a little we're now a little TV studio practically so we can capture all kinds of stuff more efficiently and with better angles we work with Longmont public media who's the city's AV contractor they also run Channel 8 Longmont Channel 8 80 and through the museum's agreement with them their contract with them they're able to capture all of our programming which is really really special so we have great video people who get to use our great equipment and we're getting a good product as a result and you know one of the great things about you know Kim mentioned this one of the wonderful things about or the silver lining if there is one to not having actual people in the space and live streaming is that we've we've really expanded our audience and touched many many many more people than we would through just you know having having people in the audience so that's that's exciting so it makes me wonder what it will be like when we do come out of this and whether whether our audiences will be even larger than they were before that's exciting I also manage rentals for the museum and rentals have been not only a source of income for us but another way to engage the community and support the community whether it's performing arts like the Longmont Symphony renting out the auditorium for concerts or local nonprofits utilizing the space for fundraisers or people having weddings we've really focused on you know providing excellent customer service and really supporting people's events and so much so that we have a stake in the success of what you do here so we really try to bring our expertise in in presentation to everything we do here just like we do to our own pro for our own programming and I think I think that's I think that's been evidence through the well we've gotten lots of good feedback and our rentals have been up pre-covid let's see what else oh coming up so one of the things we did you know our Thursday night programming was previously entitled views and bruise which was mainly film programming and it was oftentimes themed around like cult classics or some other theme and I've really worked to diversify that so pre-covid and then moving forward as we come out of COVID it'll be less much less film and concerts instead we'll be doing concerts and talks and readings and that sort of thing one of the great things about this auditorium is it's a vehicle for for engaging not only new audiences but for working with other organizations and artists um you can get so many people through this space right 365 day there are 365 days a year so that's three practically 365 opportunities to to bring people through this space and develop relationships with them so we've had uh bobby lefieber the colorado state poet laureate has done two programs with us um we we've uh we've developed a uh a uh what are we calling it cultural spotlight what am i calling it kim is it the cultural spot anyway it's basically we spotlight a local uh arts institution that's been doing good work um and present it to the people of longmont so we did that with clio parker robinson dance um and we celebrated their 50th anniversary and clio came down taught they talked about she was in conversation with one of her young choreographers and they talked about the history of the organization and what they do video clips it was really great and then we just recently did the same thing with su teatro uh down in denver which is denver's oldest uh latino uh theater company so we had their uh their executive director in conversation with bobby lefieber and so every time we we we have a new program we develop new relationships and really expand uh we really kind of expand our tendrils out into the front range in colorado which is i think very exciting um and each program leads to another program it seems like too um i've also uh as a result of the of the of you know everything that happened this summer in late spring with george floyd and beyond a taylor and that sort of thing um i've really um and through some um some some uh there's a c u boulder program i was a part of where we read read the uh how to be an anti-racist book it was a dei study group through the c u boulder with other arts and cultural institution leaders and uh i have felt very uh uh inspired and driven to really bring home uh dei related programming to the museum and i know that's a priority for us all here um and so we've done some programming uh some panels on the history race and social justice here in longmont we're doing a panel discussion here tomorrow night on art and social justice so diversity has really been been been key um uh in terms of all programming that i'm looking at lately um so really it's uh you know we we are making it through uh covid and we we think that we'll come out even even better than we were you know this was a time for kind of some some growth on our part and uh my my own uh my the level of programming i've been doing since covid started here um has really increased dramatically um and i'm hoping that i can sustain that when rentals come back and and and get back to normal great well thank you dustin would you mind just wrapping up and then we'll take some questions if people have specifics yeah i you know i would love i'm i'm always interested in feedback um i'm always interested in uh ideas suggestions what have you um so um i think i kind of ended i think i think i kind of reached the end i could i could go on no that's what i was afraid of no i'm just kidding put a cork in it beach anyway um feel free to shoot some questions my way does anybody have questions now that they'd like to ask justin or okay i just had a quick comment great um justin my wife and i've and friends of ours have been logging into um uh thursday night uh programming and um it's just been we've been really impressed it's been not really great so uh thank you for that and uh the work that is going into it is uh certainly not being unknown it's not unnoticed thank you brad i hope you tune in tomorrow it's going to be real it's going to be a great conversation really we're planning on it yeah thank you anybody else thanks thank you very much justin this is uh this is a it's nice way to start this off and i think you know each meeting we have um as we go forward we'll get somebody else from the staff to give us the low down on what their job entails and what's what's happening so thank you very much for being the first thanks for having me and have a good rest of your evening until next time thank you thanks justin you're welcome okay so um the next things we'll look at at our old business and i have to tell you the land acknowledgement statement is the first thing up and um i know that eric shared information with us about what's been happening at least in museum city other places and i don't know um that at this point we really are in a position to do a lot more eric i mean you or kim if you have comments about that i don't know if it's something that we need to try to set up a subcommittee or if at this point there's just too much going on i'm not quite sure what the status is as far as um what our role in this is uh sorry thomas did you have a yeah i had a question i just wondered if any other entities of the city i saw thomas is saying i wanted to see i just wondered if any other entities of the city of longmont heard of contemplating something similar and uh if they are uh should be we we'd be working a concert with them as a as an option the kind of the way that this has happened is that you know the museum started looking into it as a result of the longmont 150 um exhibition and then i was in a meeting with carmen ramirez who is the director of the um neighborhood and uh neighborhood resources and she was like oh well we should be doing this too so it has kind of started to spark a bunch of different people sustainability is now talking about it um and so i this really i think because we already had started working on this i think the museum is well positioned to kind of be a leader okay and i'm hoping to get um you know susie to help us kind of take this to the level of city council um so that we can do exactly what you're talking about tom to be able to have this be a kind of city-wide endeavor okay that's just curious yeah thank you lots of people have been talking about it lately and and because we had already started working on it we we kind of became the default leaders if you will so kim at this point is there anything really that there isn't really anything that this board can do specifically like particularly in this meeting um i mean what i what i am hoping is that you know we we have the support of the advisory board um to to pursue this um eric has drafted um a statement um and it's really just a draft at this point um based on the work that montoya had done which really as you might have seen in those documents um ended with you know you really need an action item in there um that it's not just a recognition but there's actually an action item in there um and then susie if you don't mind i would i would love your feedback because um we exchanged an email earlier sounds like you've worked on these things before yourself yes yes i have and so um for the last three or four years the national education association has adopted the use of land acknowledgments prior to any presentation that we um that we offer for our members other teachers and trainings and um and so i had shared some examples with kim um it can range from anything from a video we've done um things where it's just part of a slideshow right before our presentation something listed on a website um really what in the areas of our presentation so i had worked i was a part of an educators um kind of zoom um book study and we we did um it was from the um book we started it with um from the book stamped which is by the same author who wrote um me how to be an anti-racist so it's the same and so it was a variation of that um just another another book title and i had worked with educators from new york here in colorado and california and so we when we did our land acknowledgement we actually pulled from recognizing the the tribes and the um the ancestry that was on these lands in these different areas so we just you know it's almost like i i kind of attribute it because you know i'm catholic so you know before we have any kind of um meal or anything you know we kind of you know have a moment of of silence a moment of grace and thankful so i for me you know as i was kind of explaining it to people who had nothing who knew nothing about what this was it's like well i kind of almost like think of it as as like a prayer prior to it's that acknowledgement and appreciation and respect for the people that have been on these lands prior to us and just offering that that bit of um respect and acknowledgement to and and recognition of the histories that were here prior to us um so you know there's varying ways that we can um we could go about you know it could be something that's presented on a website it could be something that is done prior to um a meeting or you know we're doing a lot of virtual programming it could be something that that shared and displayed before a particular program and um and it's really fascinating too to know especially when i was working with colleagues from different parts of the united states what tribal um what tribes had been there in those areas prior to um you know being new york or prior to you know being san diego and um so it was it was it's interesting it's i think you know it's very much in line with what the museum's doing as far as education and and historical context so i i i think having the museum lead this is is wonderful i think you know it's very appropriate and um so i think for me as a person on city council you know i could say well you know this is something that the museum the board of museum is prioritizing we wanted to see this move forward so so just to have i guess the consent of the the board i think it would mean um it would be more powerful as i as i bring this up so it's like oh god it's not susie again just bringing another thing but it's really something that's um driven by the community so that's so in that vein susie do you think that um uh how how would you feel most comfortable should we draft something for you to take to the rest of the council or do you want to just introduce the the concept of it with our you know with the with the advisory board's blessing what what do you think is the next step so um so i think when i um made the statement when i um back with the george floyd so i had written that statement i sat down i you know i talked to herald i spoke with marica and she kind of helped um so you know i brought brought brought forward you know the essential like the skeleton part of it and marica really went in and cleaned it up for me and i so if i had something that was you know this land acknowledgement would be included here and and just kind of have like a skeletal of what needs to be included in these to make them authentic um i think you know we could have city staff um help us revise and but you know if you have ideas of what you think what we think really needs to be included on there and then staff can kind of help rewrite and and revise that polish it up so but if i have something just to make my case respond to yeah yeah yeah i think that's a great idea so eric do you want to share do you think you want to this is the time to share the draft that you put together sure sure i can just uh share my screen so people can and see that so again very rough first draft just basically trying to get the the bones of it i've got it out there but um you know saying we acknowledge that long month sits on the traditional territory of the shayan arapaho and youth peoples we honor the history and the connection that they have with this land it is our commitment to face the injustice that has happened when this land was taken and to educate our children to ensure that it does not happen again wow so a couple of the things this identifies the traditional tribes there are other tribes certainly that that were in this area uh i think the city of denver actually acknowledges 48 tribes within colorado and their land acknowledgement statement but these are the three that that have had really the strongest connection i think uh to to the area so that's that's kind of why why i chose those three um and then wanting to do a call to action wanting not just to be a a we acknowledge this and go forth but but really have have something that then we can we can commit to doing so that was that was kind of the last last sentence as well but again really at this point you're the first people to have seen it so um it's uh very much a work in progress that would love to have your thoughts on what does this include what does this miss what what should we be doing so do we want to take um take this back with us and then come back to the meeting next month with with ideas or we could forward ideas to eric between now and then and then maybe at that point or the next meeting we have something to send with susie i don't know how quickly we want to move this through kim well so um i i don't want to rush anything because i think that we need to make sure that we do it right but i will throw it out there as a milestone that we may take into consideration which is that in may sometime the um sister city relationship with the northern arapaho is supposed to be solidified and so ideally ideally we have the statement ready for the ceremony that will take part with that um you know the recognition of the sister city relationship so so i like i said i don't want to rush anything because i want to do it right but um but if we were going to aim for a target that is probably the one to aim for so if we if if we were able to bring it back in April well you know this time next month does that susie give you time to do anything before may um i think so you know and and so we don't we don't meet as a council next week and then the following week i believe i don't think it's a regular session although i don't i don't think it matters i can bring forward things during the study session but um so no i you know i think i know with the george floyd um statement the turn around was really quick it was yeah it was within so i had brought it forward on council and then we actually all signed it by wednesday and brought it like we expedited that because we were getting a lot of um i think the city was getting a lot of public pressure from various groups and so they wanted to to expedite that but i think it may what um that should give us plenty of time okay and you have something that you wanted to add actually did speak with carmen ramires just yesterday oh yeah sister cities northern arapaho because the northern arapaho have been struggling with their covet uh situation within the tribe actually it's quite extensive and so the may date has been pushed to september so that actually may assist and that's and that is quite literally uh just changed very recently so hot off the presses okay well i'm glad you were here well so that gives us some plenty of time yes yeah that gives us some wiggle room okay and oh go ahead i was just gonna say i think then the next um milestone is probably the opening of the exhibit which is in august yeah that'll be august sixth yeah that would be great because we'd love to have it on the wall of the museum for that opening so what if we um unless we want to do it faster than that what if we plan to have more an in-depth discussion of this and and with people's input next month and then we we can um whatever we kind of come up with then we could forward on to susie to um take to the council does that seem reasonable to everybody we can make this a focus next month sounds great so everybody can think about it yeah can i have a eric are you gonna send that statement out to us yeah i'll i'll out to the whole board yeah i've been trying to copy it or print it won't do it yeah i also have some examples that i sent to kim if you if anybody wants to see those as well i can forward you that email great of different land acknowledgments great i i can forward your email to um i probably have everybody's email addresses oh that's true yeah no that would be great yeah that'd be great thanks kim so then we'll plan on being prepared next month to um work on this in more uh detail anybody else have any other comments about this particular topic before we move on okay great i just i do have one thing to add i don't exactly know the relevance of it but just to note that in denver the denver city council um adopted a statement and um that came directly from a council member um and so the i think the actual statement came from that council member um and so the way that they do it is they do but before every single council meeting they actually recite the the acknowledgement so i think that that's probably one of the things that we should discuss is you know kind of where this will show up and you know who anyway kind of kind of how it's used if you will so that i think should be part of our conversation and sometimes briefer would be better if we do read it man yeah there are some very longer than what eric said but i mean something along those lines great i agree okay well we'll get that on the agenda for next um month and then one other piece of old business i just wanted to mention um we had talked about the uh addendum that we were going to add in some form to the bylaws to reflect the fact that we're doing this emergency kind of meeting virtually so we are still finalizing how that's going to look so that will come up next month also and in addition i assume you all have copies of the bylaws but i'm going to ask joanne to make sure everybody has a copy because i thought this would be our opportunity to review the bylaws that we have in case there's anything else in there that anybody notices that looks odd or needs to be um perhaps changed or i don't know something to be talked about so just so you know um she'll be sending that to you so we will look at that um a little bit as well next month so um that is all that i have does anybody have other new business or comments okay well great well thank you all and um look forward to um working on some of these things next month and uh thank you angela for facilitating and um eric thank you so much for making a start on the land acknowledgement statement it's one of those things like it's kind of hard to figure out exactly where to start thank you all have a motion to adjourn oh yeah sorry is there a motion to adjourn tom move to adjourn okay we have tom and chris all in favor of adjourning opposed okay thank you very much thank you thanks to all of you thank you 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