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<br />METROPOLITAN MUSEUM BOARD MINUTES <br />December 14, 2016 <br /> <br /> <br />Present Museum Staff Present <br />Chuck Wilson, Chair Alex Nguyen, Acting Museum Director <br />Elio Palacios, Jr., Vice Chair Brenda Focht, Senior Admin Curator <br />Holly Evans Ann Lovell, Senior Admin. Analyst <br />Mary Hughes Evelyn Davila, Office Specialist <br />Bud Minton <br />Absent <br />Dorothy Fadakar <br />Rose Monge Jennifer Binkley <br /> Todd Carpenter <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />The meeting was called to order at 4:01p.m. <br /> <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES <br />1Minutes- November 9, 2016 <br />. <br />The minutes were approved as written. There was discussion about the gift for Sarah Mundy. <br /> Motion: B. Minton <br /> Second: D. Fadakar <br />Ayes: All <br /> <br /> <br />CHAIRMAN’S REPORT <br />Alex Nguyen distributed an attendance document from the City Clerk that contained the recent updates <br />for recording Museum Board absences. <br /> <br />2. Annual Museum Board Officer Nominating Committee & Review Committee Appointments <br />Elio Palacios will serve as the senior member of the Board on the Nominating Committee. Mary Hughes <br />and Holly Evans will also serve on the committee. Any members who wish to nominate themselves <br />should contact Elio, Holly or Mary to express interest. <br /> <br />REPORT ON MUSEUM OPERATIONS <br />The Tlatilco exhibit opening will be October 2017. Upgrades will be occurring to the main entrance to <br />make it more inviting as well as space for education programming. <br /> <br />DISCUSSION/ACTION ITEMS <br /> 3. Discussion of Museum Board Roles and Responsibilities <br /> <br /> The Museum Board informally approved the Museum budget but it should have been formally approved <br />once staff presented it to the Board as an agenda item. C. Wilson requested that budget items be <br />itemized on future agendas. <br /> <br />4. Riverside Metropolitan Museum Re-Accreditation Update <br /> <br /> B. Focht reported that Museum staff are working on the reaccreditation report that will be submitted by <br />April 21, 2017. A. Nguyen to contact Martha Sharma at AAM to discuss issues and concerns. <br /> <br />COMMITTEE REPORTS <br />5. RMM Collections Committee – <br /> a discussion about responsibilities of the Collections Committee <br />was held. Current priority is in completing the inventory of the current collection, so no new acquisitions <br />will be proposed unless significant and meets the Museum mission. <br /> <br />