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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM BOARD MINUTES January 12, 2016 (revised 2/2016) Present Museum Staff Present Chuck Wilson, Chair Sarah S. Mundy, Director Elio Palacios, Jr., Vice Chair (A 4:14pm) Margie Haupt, Arts & Cultural Affairs Manager Surekha (Su) Acharya Brenda Focht, Senior Curator David Barnhart Toni Kinsman, Senior Office Specialist Dorothy Fadakar Absent Bud Minton Mary Hughes Todd Carpenter Rose Monge CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 4:02p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. The minutes from December 15, 2015 were approved with the following correction that Rose Monge was absent due to personal reasons not illness. Motion: B. Minton Second: S. Acharya Ayes: All REPORT ON MUSEUM OPERATIONS The inventory report will be delayed to the February 2016 meeting. DISCUSSION/ACTION ITEMS 2. Revised Museum Institutional Plan The document was created with extensive meetings between curatorial and administrative staff, reviewing goals, objectives and detail for the multi-year report which was expanded from the Riverside 2.0 plan. Each page was reviewed during the meeting with edits noted. The Museum Institutional Plan is the last core document for submission of the American Alliance of Museums core documents. The document was approved as revised by the RMM Board. Motion: D. Barnhart Second: M. Hughes Ayes: All COMMITTEE REPORTS 3. RMM Board Harada House Project Ad Hoc Committee - no report at this time. 4. RMM Collections Committee- B. Focht ran an Argus database report and the search populated 222,002 item records. Citrus labels for the teaching and permanent collection were motioned for approval at the Collections meeting held earlier in the afternoon. Clinton Marr architectural drawings for mid-century buildings were also accepted. A request for a print out of an Argus item report for the February meeting was requested. 5. RMM Exhibitions Committee- no report at this time.