SUBJECT: Minutes of
30 March 2015
ATTENDEES: Brown, John, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret); Blanshine,
Janet; Burns, Dick, USA (Vet); Grier, John, MSgt USAF (Ret); Harris, Jim, SMSgt
USAF (Ret); Henderson, Jim, Secretary; Howells, Glynn, CMSgt, USAF (Ret);
Joiner, Jere; Long, Bruce, SMSgt, USAF (Ret), Treasurer; McClelland, Ron, Maj., USAF (Ret); Miller, Mike, Lt. Col.,
USAF (Ret); Mogel, Jake, Maj., USAF (Ret); Moyer, Norm, SMSgt, USAF (Ret); Murphy,
Joe, Maj., USAF (Ret); Pfennig, Tonya, USAF (Vet); Reed, Tracy, SMSgt (Ret),
USAF; Silber, Carl; Schneider, James, Capt., USAF; Solomon, Ron, USAF (Vet); Whalen,
Gail, DAFC, Director.
OPENING REMARKS: Meeting called to order
by Jim Henderson
1.
OLD BUSINESS:
-
Management Review;
a.
Minutes Approval: (
-
26 January 2015 Meeting Minutes reviewed.
b.
Financial Review ( Long)
Summary of Financials at 28 February 2015: Cash on hand $58,996; Feb 2015 YTD Income $766;
Feb 2015 YTD Expenses $3,307; Net Cash
Flow $-2541.
c. Volunteer Hours
& Visitors Numbers Through Feb 15(
-
Volunteer
Hours: 1,079 v 1,469 Feb 14
-
Visitors:
1,265 v 1,938 Feb 14
d. Web Site, FB through March 15 (Data from McClelland&
Nash):
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Website
Hits: 6,482 v 6,785 Feb 14
-
Facebook
views: 11,165 v 4,804 Feb 14
-
Mc
Clelland will re-activate the guest registration for visitor passes on the
website.
e.
Open Items:
-None
2. NEW BUSINESS
Curator Update (Whalen)
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The
CF-18 is still expected in June. [Subsequent event: On 3 April, the Canadians
said that the CF-18 will be delivered in November, 2015]
-
Improvements
in the exhibits in the City Hangar will be done in time for Volunteer
Appreciation Day, April 27.
-
No
additional ceremonies will be booked into the City Hangar until July.
-
New
daily museum opening and closing checklists have been prepared and will be in
the docent office.
-
Starting
in May, “Zone Defense” for handling visitors (as opposed to individual
docent-guided tours) will be initiated.
-
The
STEM Fair will be August 29. Docent help
will be needed.
Other
-Tonya
Pfennig discussed her work in the PASM archives and she and Whalen conducted a short, but fun-filled, guided
tour of the artifact storage area.
Items needed, and not needed, were discussed. It was noted that this is not an
archive facility which is open to the public, but research requests can
be accommodated.
-Bruce
Long requested docent help in stocking water, etc. for docent staff and
visitors in various locations on the museum property. Tracy Reed volunteered. Thank you,
-Long
also conducted a short course in the operation of the credit card machine in the gift shop.
Meeting
adjourned 1130
hrs.
3.
NEXT MEETING:
The 27 April Staff
meeting is cancelled – the Volunteer Staff meeting that evening will take
its place.
The next Staff meeting
is scheduled for 25 May.
Respectfully
submitted,
Jim Henderson, Secretary