HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Museum Of Science And History Advisory Committee - 10/06/2015 CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY ADVISORY BOARD
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM
Museum Conference Room, 1900 N Chaparral Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
MEETING MINUTES
1) Call to Order: 12:07 PM by Jonda Holcomb
2) Roll Call
a. Present: Jonda Halcomb, Steve Arnold, Cary Perales, Scott Sutherland, Carol
Rhetmeyer
b. Absent: Amanda Leal, Anita Eisenhauer, Wes Pierson
3) Adoption of minutes
a. Motion by Scott, 2nd by Arnold with spelling corrections. All in favor. Passed.
4) Public Comment- None
5) Deaccession Items
a. List of 153 books prepared for deaccession. Duplicates of some that are being
kept in the collection. Books purchased by auxiliary or friends. Permission to
deaccession. Committee reviewed books.
b. Recommendation from Cary to donate last book on list to Seaman Association.
c. Motion to deaccession by Arnold, second by Scott. All in favor. Passed.
6) Museum Director's Updates:
a. Doc McGregor event grossed 45K and net 23K. Talked about changing frequency
of event to every other year and changing to 1940's theme instead of 1920's.
b. Friends of the Museum paying for and are in charge of the Children's Science
Center. Still on schedule to open in late February. Total cost is $2.5 Million. The
Friends put up 1.2M.
c. New Volunteer Orientation done monthly. 100 volunteers on the records.
d. Home School Days- happened twice a month because of popularity.
e. Sugar Skull for Family Fun Day- this Saturday.
f. Sensory Nights are for special needs groups. Done 4 times per year. Autism
Group sponsorship.
g. Haunted Museum netted $9K last year. Last two weekends in October. Need a
lot of volunteers ages 16 and up for this event.
i. Cary Perales will send message to theatre arts group and key club and
honors programs.
ii. Flash light tours during the day for the little ones.
iii. Outside is PG13 version.
iv. Want to break $12-15K revenue, if possible.
h. Carol is host and Chair for the Texas Association of Museum convention...April 6-
811want to see how PPP is working. Museum is in the spotlight.
i. Have 22 members in Directors Circle. Trip to Chicago May 9-13.
j. Museum has $4.6 million in grant requests out.
k. 3 groups are interested in million dollar naming rights: HEB, Valero, and
. Half a million dollar sponsorships: Citgo and Ed Rachelle
I. Preschool- challenge because of management agreement. Have to set-up as
separate entity or else will not be able to fund it. Needs staff, principal and
teachers.
m. Putting together a curriculum group- maybe Jonda and Cary will like to be in the
group.
i. When will curriculum committee be created?
ii. Add curriculum to children's area (ie. Taking the cells and showing
inhibitors and blockers.)
7) Museum Attendance numbers
a. 92K outreach total. Huge increase from 26K.
b. Hoping that Children's Science Center will triple those numbers.
8) Follow-Up on Committees
a. Ruben is very interested but needs more information about when to start.
i. Lock him in on Doc McGregor Book as Non-voting member.
ii. Funding for Doc McGregor project is from Friends of the Museum
b. With 100 volunteers and potential grant, perhaps the Museum doesn't need the
additional committee members.
c. Museum has no money to hire additional people. Friends of the Museum have
offered to pay for a Development Director (writing grants and securing funding
and working closely with Carol). Under CCMJV for management. All funds raised
will go to the Friends. Reimbursed through the Friends.
d. Museum does 200 events per year.
e. Original intent was to engage committee more and to add non-voting members.
f. Carol wants group to be as engaged as possible: Input, direction, assisting,
helping with sales for tables, etc. Wants group to be empowered in a meaningful
way.
g. Consider Ruben to replace Shannon as an advisory member.
h. Jonda called off the names that were mentioned at the January meeting.
i. Not looking at committees, just 4 non-voting members.
9) Four Non-Voting, Advisory Members- discussed under Follow-Up on Committees.
10)Election of Officers- Jonda elected as Chair. Scott elected as vice-chair.
11)Items on Next Agenda
a. Non-voting members
b. Status of STEM area
c. Next meeting schedule for January 5t", 2016.
d. Cary- Idea: new position with instructional technology department. Google
summit. Inviting Google to Corpus Christi. Two day event. Wants Museum
involved somehow. Museum staff receive free comp tickets to attend. June 2016.
Will provide more details at the January meeting. Hoping for 300 people.
e. Carol requested that Cary help to reach out to more than just 1st graders to visit
the museum. Maria Luisa Guerra- Deputy Superintendent.
f. Reached 28K school kids in Corpus Christi. 3,300 are CCISD. 5th graders used to
come to Museum. Dr. Janice Jordan wants every group to have a different
experience.
g. CCISD has new leadership.
12)Adjournment
a. Motion by Scott, 2nd by Cary. All in favor. Passed.