PETERSON
AIR & SPACE MUSEUM
FOUNDATION
0900 Monday 29 January 2018
Broadmoor Hangar Meeting room
0900 CALL TO ORDER - Called to order at 0905.
Attendees: Gail Whalen(DAFC), Jeff Nash (Deputy DAFC),
John Brown, Dick Burns, Jim Henderson, Glyn Howells, Phyllis Howells, Bruce
Long, Ron McClelland, Errol Reiner, Carl Silber, Ron Solomon, Linda Yepez
OLD BUSINESS
Management Review
1.
Oct 2017 minutes
approved, last meeting held in 2017
2.
Treasurer Long discussed financials as of Dec 31, 2017. YTD income $46,440. Dec income $14,930, expenses
$1,094, Cost of Goods sold $(7,170), Net $21,005, Cash $90,707, Operations $52,211,
BH renovation account $38,497, Air Show Museum receipts $1,319, Air
Show Committee donation $10,000 .
3.
This is Bruce
Long’s final year as Treasurer. Need replacement. He will stay on to train.
4.
Accounting
review was completed. We need better
inventory tracking controls. We are
using old prices. We need to increase
pricing and track inventory by item.
5.
2017
Volunteer hours Down
from 2016
MONTH |
VOLUNTEER |
|
WEB SITE |
FACEBOOK |
|
HOURS |
VISITORS |
HITS |
REACHES |
CY2017 |
8,526 |
19,642 |
30,676 |
183,065 |
CY2016 |
9,128 |
21,086 |
38,595 |
241,484 |
|
|
|
|
|
6. Website: The top referral sources
have changed in recent months from our traditional leading referral site of
VisitCOS.com, which was running in the 40% range of our referrals from
them. Last month our top referrals were from Peterson.af.mil, Wikipedia, and nationalmuseum.af.mil. Our web traffic is down
by more than 20% from previous years. Some of this could be attributed to
museum closures. We could consider using a SEO to increase our ranking in
web searches.
7.
Curator update:
a. Finished repaint
of CF100 and CF101.
b. Five more
aircraft repaints have been approved for 2018.
c. Working on
improving the landscaping by moving trees/plants and doing some trimming. Offered to donate some trees to the Family
Camp.
d. Requested
help for prep work to cleaning up, patching and painting meeting room in BH.
e. Need help in
preparing the mini-theater with updates to include: special exhibits, photo montage on outside
wall, Vietnam artifacts, and adding 4 to 6 mannequins.
f.
Want to highlight one of the local squadrons on a rotating basis.
g. Install
accent lighting in mini-theater.
h. Working with
Lockheed Martin to get display for hanger.
i.
Working on repairing cargo door and emergency exit on EC-121.
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Antiterrorism
Force Protection Briefing presented by Jeff Nash
2. Eagle Eye
Reporting System discussed
3. Volunteer Dinner at the Peterson Club at 6 pm on 2/21.
4. NORAD 60THAnniversary
(May timeframe) discussed Museum participation
Meeting
Adjourned at 10:30