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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAM Agenda - 11/04/2020CITY OF ARCADIA Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Museum Commission regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage located at 380 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, during normal business hours. Arcadia Museum Commission Regular Meeting Agenda Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Location: Museum Education Center, 382 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons with a disability who require a disability related modification or accommodation in order to participate in a meeting, including auxiliary aids or services, may request such modification or accommodation from the Museum at (626) 574-5468. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to assure accessibility to the meeting. 根据《美国残障人法案》，需要调整或提供便利设施才能参加会议的残障人士（包括辅助器材或服务）可与市书记官办 公室联系（电话：626-574-5468）。请在会前 48 小时通知市书记官办公室，以便作出合理安排，确保顺利参加会议。 Pursuant to the City of Arcadia’s Language Access Services Policy, limited-English proficient speakers who require translation services in order to participate in a meeting may request the use of a volunteer or professional translator by contacting the City Clerk’s Office at (626) 574-5455 at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. 根据阿凯迪亚市的语言便利服务政策，英语能力有限并需要翻译服务才能参加会议的人可与市书记官办公室联系（电话： 626-574-5455），请求提供志愿或专业翻译服务，请至少在会前 72 小时提出请求。 COVID-19 As part of the City of Arcadia’s COVID-19 transmission mitigation efforts, this meeting of the Arcadia Museum Commission will be conducted virtually and the public is discouraged from attending. Per the Brown Act, the public will still be provided the ability to make public comments. For members of the public who would like to participate virtually, the meeting will be held via teleconference. A conference line has been established to enable the public to observe the meeting via teleconference. However, public comment will only be accepted via email. Conference Line: (669) 224-3412 Access Code: 545 738 565 https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/545738565 How to Submit Public Comment: Please submit your comments via email to Museum@ArcadiaCa.gov Comments must be received at least 30 minutes prior to the posted meeting time. Your email must be 300 words or less. Please contact the Museum at (626) 574-5440 for more information. Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Museum Commission regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage located at 380 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, during normal business hours. CALL TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL OF MUSEUM COMMISSION MEMBERS: Jeanne Roy, Jr., Chairperson Billie Tone, Vice Chairperson Virginia Blitz, Commissioner Dale Carter, Commissioner Carlos Reza, Jr., Commissioner PUBLIC COMMENTS In accordance with Executive Order N-29-20 all public participation will be conducted virtually. Public comments can be submitted via the methods described in the COVID-19 Notice posted on this agenda. Under the Brown Act, the Arcadia Museum Commission is prohibited from discussing or taking action on any item not listed on the posted agenda. REPORTS FROM MUSEUM COMMISSION MEMBERS / LIAISONS Announcements / Statements / Future Agenda Items DIRECTOR REPORTS Announcements / Statements / Reports a. Director’s Update b. Curator’s Report and Updates c. Museum Education Coordinator’s Update d. Grants e. Interns and Volunteers 新型冠状病毒（COVID-19） 作为阿凯迪亚市减缓 COVID-19 传播努力的一部分，本次阿凯迪亚市博物馆委员会会议将以虚拟方 式召开，不鼓励公众参加。根据《布朗法案》，仍将向公众提供发表评论意见的能力。对于希望以 虚拟形式参加会议的公众，会议将通过电话会议形式召开。 设立了一条会议专线，允许公众通过电话旁听会议。但仅限通过电子邮件接受公众评论意见。 会议专线： (669) 224-3412 接入代码： 545 738 565 https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/545738565 如何提交公众评论意见： 请通过电子邮件将您的评论意见发送至 Museum@ArcadiaCa.gov。必须在公布的会议时间前 至少提前 30 分钟收到评论意见。您的电子邮件不得超过 300 个字。 如需了解更多信息，请电洽博物馆，电话号码 (626) 574-5440。 Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Museum Commission regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage located at 380 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, California, during normal business hours. f. Programs g. Exhibits h. Collections i. Flyers  Bobcat Fire  Catapult Kit  Educator Resources  Postcards  Virtual Gilb Museum CONSENT CALENDAR All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine and can be acted on by one roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the Museum Commission, staff, or the public requests that a specific item be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion and action. a. Approve the Regular Meeting Minutes of Sept. 2, 2020 Recommended action: Approve ADJOURNMENT The Museum Commission will adjourn this meeting to Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. in the Museum Education Center at 382 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia. 1 The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage Museum Curator’s Report September - October 2020 Virtual Visitors to the Museum for September & October: 17,651 September Social media: 14,269 Facebook: 1,766 Instagram: 1,980 Twitter: 10,500 YouTube: 23 October 1 through 22: Social media: 3,382 Facebook: 48 Instagram: 1,191 Twitter: 2,143 YouTube: 0 HIGHLIGHTS The Museum continues to be closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic but is still very active virtually with the community. Getty Intern Diana Leon Garcia has finished her internship at the Museum. The Museum has gained a new Intern, Brendon Chen, from Cal Poly Pomona. EXHIBITS Museum staff continues to update many of the permanent exhibit spaces, adding more items from the collections area and adding more context to provide the community a greater understanding of Arcadia’s history. Two new exhibits were added, Prominent Women of Arcadia and the 1984 Summer Olympics. The City’s Public Works Department assisted with the installation of the last two new digital screens in the exhibit space, providing more opportunity to share digitally, more of the collections, not physically able to fit into the space. Curator Acevedo reached out to local Tongva artist Weshoyot Alvitre to obtain permission for the Museum to display her artwork in the Native American permanent exhibit. The Museum would like to include local Tongva artists' work to help illustrate the legacy of the Tongva in Southern California. Ms. Alvitre has graciously agreed and will provide an artist biography and description of her piece, Tongvaland. Curator Acevedo applied earlier this year for a free exhibit Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote from the National Archives Museum. It was on display outside the Museum entrance for the public to view until September. The exhibit has now been moved to the Arcadia Public Library for public viewing. The link for virtual exhibit is https://museum.archives.gov/rightfully-hers. COLLECTIONS During the closure, the Curator has continued to spend time accessing and curating the current collections at the Museum and adding them to the new museum collection software, CatalogIt. The Museum’s Getty Intern has been assisting the Curator in the inventory of the collections. Volunteer Rebecca and Intern Brendon have also been trained to assist with collections. Curator Acevedo has begun inventory of all the Arcadia school district yearbooks in the collection, including yearbooks from Monrovia Duarte Arcadia (M.A.D.) High School, Arcadia High School, Dana Middle School, Foothills Middle School, and First Avenue Middle School. All yearbooks have been accessioned into CatalogIt from the local middle schools and M.A.D. High School. The Museum currently has two complete sets of the Arcadia High School yearbooks. One set of yearbooks has been added to CatalogIt, the second inventory set will be added soon. 2 Curator Acevedo has taken some time with volunteer Rebecca Andersen to organize the oversized artwork in the collections. The artwork was pulled, the shelves vacuumed, and padding was added before putting the artwork back. Pieces that were small or could be rehoused were placed in the map filing cabinet. This has given staff more room for future items to be added to the collection and remain safely stored in the collection space. Curator Acevedo spent time teaching Ms. Leon Garcia and Ms. Andersen how to build custom boxes for the collection, and how to care for objects with leather. The item used for this demonstration was the horse saddle in the collection. Rehydrating the leather allows for preservation of the saddle and gives us an idea of how it may have originally looked. Curator Acevedo will continue introducing different techniques used in curation that will benefit interns and volunteers in their experience with collections. Photographs of leather horse saddle, before and after. Curator Acevedo began the digitization of VHS tapes in the collection. Since VHS tapes are not commonly used anymore, the quality of the images deteriorates over time. The first tape digitized was footage of Arcadia in 1928, which included the Santa Anita Dam under construction, a trip with Earl Ovington over Arcadia, and a car racing clip. The videos will be saved on the Museum's server as well as an external hard drive. At one time, the Museum took items on loan from community members for display, but this practice hasn’t been done for many years. The Curator is contacting original donors to make arrangements to either return items or ask if the donor would like to make the donation a permanent gift. All items donated to the Museum are considered permanent gifts and a formal Deed of Gift is signed by the donating party and the Museum Curator, relinquishing all rights to the Museum and the City of Arcadia. Staff discovered the World War II Marine uniform of Charles Gilb was on loan, not gifted, to the Museum in 2005. The family agreed the uniform was in good hands at the Museum. They did request, however, for their father’s military hat to be returned since it has a lot of meaning to them. They also stated the hat will be donated to the Museum at a later date. The hat was mailed back on September 21 and Ms. Gilb signed an updated Deed of Gift for her father's uniform. 3 Inventory of items donated during this time period:  Mr. Logan Maertens: two sets of the Arcadia High School yearbooks from 2018, 2019, 2020.  Ms. Meredith Brucker: two Jobs Daughters Directories from 1951 and 1953, and a silver button hook to be used in our teaching collection.  Mr. Roger Diebulb: map of Arcadia, c. 1955, Arcadia Magazine, c. 1980’s, World War II doughboy helmet. Arcadia armband that was his stepfathers, Irv Moheler, three Arcadia High School yearbooks c. 1956, 1957, 1958.  Ms. Karen Sexton: butter churn for our teaching collection.  Ms. Brittani Alberto: I Love Downtown Arcadia t-shirt.  City Manager’s Office: six books about the history of the City of Arcadia.  Ms. Ann Marie DeRosa: 1984 Olympics artwork that belonged to her father.  Ms. Dorcas Aunger: several newspapers c. 1901-1965, a stereoscope EDUCATION and PROGRAMMING Ms. Alberto held a virtual Animal Mascot election to help children understand the importance of voting and elections. Community members of all ages were able to choose between candidates Beeatrice, Jearimy Bearimy, and Petey the Peacock through a Google Form available on social media. Many community members, including Councilmember April Verlato, participated in the election for candidates. The election was held for the duration of October, and the winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 3 to align with the national presidential election. The winner will be featured on Museum marketing for the 2021 year. The Gilb Museum published three Google Classrooms. These pre-made classes focus on Primary Sources, the Tongva Native Americans, and the Santa Anita Japanese Assembly Center. There has been some interest, including other Museums across the U.S., looking to museums who have already implemented Google Classes. The Museum Education Coordinator received questions from the Brick Store Museum from Kennebunk, Maine and the Monroe History Center in Bloomington, Indiana. Staff continues to add content to the Educational Resources tab on the website with materials for adults, children, and educators. More coloring pages designed by the teen volunteers have been added as well. This page also includes links to the Curator’s Corner and Kid’s Corner videos on YouTube. ADMINISTRATION The Friends of the Arcadia Museum met on September 3 through Google Meet. The meeting for October was postponed until November. Museum staff updated the Board with current projects including new kits provided to the community and the Curator’s Corner videos. At the City Council meeting on September 15 Councilmember Verlato presented the $5,000 donation given by the Hakka Foundation to the Friends of the Museum so that the Museum can keep providing virtual programs and curbside kits to the community. Curator Acevedo worked on the Museum’s emergency preparedness plan during the month of September. She applied the knowledge and hands-on training learned from the Los Angeles County Heritage Protection Project training in 2019 to the Museum’s Emergency Plan to create a more comprehensive plan specific to the Gilb Museum and its facility and collections. Ms. Acevedo created a priorities list of the collection in case of an emergency. All emergency containers and supplies were also inventoried and checked during this time. Museum Staff had a practice drill with the Emergency Preparedness Plan and participated in the City’s and L.A. County regional Great Shakeout earthquake drill on October 15. Museum Education Coordinator Alberto and Curator Acevedo attended the Arcadia Council PTA meeting on September 1. Staff shared current and upcoming programs available for the community through the museum. In September, the Gilb Museum shared the Google Classroom 4 links and instructions to the principals of the local schools, encouraging them to share with their history departments. On October 21, Ms. Alberto attended the Holly Avenue PTA meeting where she discussed the programs available for students on the Museum’s website, as well as promoted the kits that will become available soon, including the Catapult Kits, in early November. The Gilb Museum has built a partnership with Kelsey Brown from Baldwin-Stocker Elementary school. Ms. Brown has invited the Gilb Museum to send all flyers to her to share with parents and teachers. MARKETING Due to the closure to the public, the Museum has become more active online. This has led to more people following the Gilb Museum’s social media accounts, which has led to more people interacting and engaging with the Museum through social media. The Museum has been marketing through their social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, for the community to still be engaged with the Museum. Museum staff continues to record and post the Curator’s Corner video series, posted weekly social media The Museum Education Coordinator helped the Curator by writing scripts for the Curator’s Corner video series, including special episodes for the 170th anniversary of California reaching statehood and the history of Mexicans in Rancho Santa Anita to align with Hispanic Heritage Month. The Museum created a new series, OUR-cadia. This series will have videos focused on an artifact in the Museum’s collection. These videos will be directed towards students, who can use the videos to learn more in-depth about Arcadia history. To align with National #AskACuratorDay the Curator and Museum Education Coordinator worked together to hold a Gilb Museum Ask a Curator Day. Community members were asked to submit questions on what it means to be a curator, and what a curator’s day looks like. About 15 questions were submitted, asking everything from dealing with the wax statues in the Museum to Ms. Acevedo’s favorite ice cream flavor. The Gilb Museum also posted #SuffrageSelfie for Women’s Equality Day, which also promoted the Museum’s temporary exhibit #RightfullyHers from the National Archive. The Museum participated in #MuseumMaskDay by creating custom museum masks with the Museum logo. Community members were also encouraged to donate masks that they have created to add to the Museum’s collection. GRANTS Curator Acevedo attended the California Humanities Grant Seeker Workshop on September 3 to learn about potential grants for museums. Ms. Acevedo also attended the Humanities for All Quick Grant Application Webinar on October 2, which is a grant that is offered three times a year from the California Humanities, which could potentially fund a project at the Museum. VOLUNTEERS and INTERNS Volunteer Rebecca continues to assist the Museum on Fridays with the collection, and working on updating CatalogIt, while also photographing and scanning items. Ms. Andersen has also assisted Curator Acevedo with the organization of the collections, as well as learn more hands-on techniques for the preservation of objects in the collection. Intern, Brendon began working on site on October 9. Mr. Chen sought out an internship with the Gilb Museum to learn more about collections and exhibits. He is a current student at Cal Poly Pomona studying 5 history. and is currently working on the digitization of the Pony Express Museum Collection, which includes postcards, photographs, and newspaper articles. Museum volunteers have been completing projects virtually, such as the transcribing of the postcards in the Pony Express Museum collection. Volunteers Edward Ma, Neil Thakkar, and Jonathan Ornelas have assisted in this project, and transcriptions have been included on CatalogIt so Museum staff can use the postcards for research and future programs. Since the Museum’s closure, volunteers have completed approximately 625 hours virtually from home. So far for the year 2020, volunteers have completed approximately 1,400 volunteer hours. The Museum has been very happy to have intern Jonathan Ornelas still assist the Museum virtually. He has provided the Museum with original coloring pages that the Gilb can use in programming. Teen Volunteer meetings have been held once or twice a month. This is a time where Ms. Alberto can assign projects and the volunteers can meet with each other and collaborate. 11 teen volunteers are currently in the process of applying to college. To help them in this time, the Gilb Museum will be hosting a college panel on Saturday, November 21st. The Gilb Museum will rely on previous and current adult volunteers who are in college or have recently graduated. These adult volunteers will speak on their college experiences, the applications process, and the differences between high school and college. They will also speak to how their experience volunteering for the Gilb Museum has helped them. The Gilb Museum is thankful for all the work that the volunteers do and would like to offer this program in return for all that they have done. Since the volunteers are not meeting in person this year, the Gilb Museum has decided to hold fun family-friendly virtual game nights where volunteers can meet, talk, and have fun. The first game night was held on Friday, October 2nd and well-attended by Museum volunteers. The next will be a spooky-themed game night on Friday, October 30th. The Museum currently has a total of 42 volunteers, including 35 teens, 3 interns, and 4 adult volunteers. Some volunteers have chosen not to be active during the quarantine. Volunteer hours: September 6 – October 26: 205.25 hours COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Based on the popularity of free educational kits throughout the summer, the Gilb Museum has extended the community kits program. The Gilb will offer a new kit every other month, starting November 2020. Kits still seem to be very popular, 50% of the kits were claimed within three days. Starting in 2021, kits will take on planting, horses/Santa Anita Park, and oral history themes. These kits will remain free with a $3 suggested donation and will be available for curbside pickup. Curator Acevedo continues to work with Ms. Kira Camacho, an Arcadia High School Girl Scout working on her Gold Award. Her project, “The Senior Series” is centered around the idea of collecting oral histories of the life and times of residents growing up in the great city of Arcadia. On September 6, the city of Arcadia was affected by the Bobcat Fire in the central San Gabriel Mountains, in and around the Angeles National Forest. To document the Bobcat Fire the Gilb Museum asks the community to send their personal photographs of the Bobcat Fire which will be added to the Museum’s archive. Photos can be sent digitally to email (museum@arcadiaCA.gov) 6 In order to become more connected to the community, the Museum has opened a postcard drive. The Museum asks Arcadia residents to send the Gilb Museum postcards, detailing their experiences with the Bobcat Fire, the election season, the quarantine and more. The Museum encourages citizens of all ages to participate. TRAINING The Curator and Museum Education Coordinator have been extensively attending virtual workshops and webinars online to see what other Museums are doing. During the closure, this has given staff the opportunity to attend a variety of talks hosted by different organizations that would have otherwise taken place in person in several different states. Ms. Alberto attended Connecting our Community Through Local Histories hosted by the Huntington Library and Botanical Garden on October 6. This workshop focused on how photographs from local history collections can be used in curriculum. Workshop leader William Deverell stressed the importance of helping students understand their connections to the land. Curator Acevedo is also currently taking a five-part series course, Physical Media to Digital Storage: Migrating Audiovisual Files in Museum Collections. This course, created for collections care staff at small and mid-sized institutions, takes you through the steps to identify, prioritize, describe, verify, and to safely transfer the files. At the end of the course, participants will be equipped to plan and carry out their own migration plans of these critically endangered materials. The emphasis will be on moving image, sound and multimedia content. Curator Acevedo attended the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) Education Conference on October 17-18. It was conducted by the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium and the Japanese American National Museum. Museum Education Coordinator Alberto attended the Huntington’s workshop Dreams, Desires and Challenges: Exploring Migrant Experience through Primary Sources taking place on November 3. This workshop could help Museum staff understand how to highlight the experiences of immigrants, especially since the Arcadia community is populated with many first-generation immigrants. Ms. Alberto also hopes this workshop can help in the implementation and design of the Oral History kits that will be made available in 2021. FACILITIES In the month of September, the Capital Improvement Project (CIP) was completed for the installation of security cameras at the Museum. This now allows for staff to not only have a sense of security of what is going on in the surrounding area while staff is on site, but also notice what occurs during the weekend. Public Works assisted the Museum in installing the last two televisions that have been added to the permanent timeline in the exhibit space. This will give staff the opportunity to showcase more to the public since there is a limit on wall space to display everything. The Museum does not have an HVAC system for climate control for the collections and exhibit space, so staff has taken preventative measures by placing DampRid (bags containing crystals which absorb excess moisture) around the collection space, including silica gel packets in the collection boxes, and the recently purchased dehumidifier running at all times. Moisture is a cause for concern for the preservation of the collection because it attracts pests and can also cause mold to appear. Submitted by Curator Stevy Acevedo and Director of Library & Museum Services, Darlene Bradley Send us your photos! Did you take photos of the Bobcat fire? Submit your photos to the Gilb Museum by emailing them to museum@arcadiaca.gov to be added to our Museum's historic collection. The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage 380 W. Huntington Drive Arcadia, CA 91007 (626) 574-5440 | Arcadiaca.gov/Museum Museum@ArcadiaCA.gov THE GILB MUSEUM OF ARCADIA HERITAGE Kits are back at the Gilb Museum! The Gilb Museum is pleased to offer free activity kits to the Arcadia community. Starting October 26, applications for free Catapult Kits will be made available on the Gilb Museum website. Kits will be available for curbside pickup starting Monday, November 2nd. Catapult Kit The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage 380 W. Huntington Drive Arcadia, CA 91007 (626) 574-5440 | Arcadiaca.gov/Museum Museum@ArcadiaCA.gov Learn more at ArcadiaCA.gov/Museum Gilb Museum Educator Resources The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage 380 W. Huntington Drive Arcadia, CA 91007 (626) 574-5440 | Arcadiaca.gov/Museum Museum@ArcadiaCa.gov Learn about the Tongva Native Americans - Arcadia's first settlers! Take a look at some of the Tongva artifacts from the Gilb Museum collection and learn how to make Tongva-English Dictionaries. Take a look at the life of Adolph Frank, a soldier from Wisconsin stationed at Arcadia's Ross Field Balloon School in 1918. In this lesson students will learn about Frank through his postcards in which he wrote about life in Southern California. Explore primary sources unique to the Gilb Museum that document the lives of people of Japanese descent at the Santa Anita Japanese Assembly Center, including sketches, letters, photographs, and more. Primary Sources - Santa Anita Japanese Assembly Center Classroom Code: hvsdmk6 The Gilb Museum is pleased to offer downloadable lessons and activities through Google Classroom. All programs are free Tongva Time Classroom Code: pikkkyo Primary Sources - Postcards Classroom Code: zkauh4n Contact the Gilb Museum if you would like Museum staff to lead lessons Each lesson includes a lesson plan, Google Slides, and worksheets. C a l l f o r m o r e i n f o ! or for information on additional classes and offerings! We'd love to hear from you! Put your message here! 1. 4. Send to The Gilb Museum Po Box 60021 Arcadia CA 91006-6021 3. Add one stamp 2. Sign your name What has the quarantine been like for you? Were you scared of the Bobcat fire? What are your opinions on the election? What are your thoughts on peacocks? Do you miss going to school? Tell us in a postcard! (Open to Arcadia residents of all ages) The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage (626) 574-5440 | Arcadiaca.gov/Museum Museum@ArcadiaCA.gov The Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage 380 W. Huntington Drive Arcadia, CA 91007 (626) 574-5440 | ArcadiaCa.gov/Museum Museum@ArcadiaCa.gov MUSEUM COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MINUTES WEDNESDAY, September 2, 2020 As part of the city of Arcadia’s COVID-19 transmission mitigation efforts, this meeting of the Arcadia Museum Commission was conducted virtually through conference call. CALL TO ORDER – Chair Jeanne Roy called the meeting to order at 5:02 p.m. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – Chair Jeanne Roy. ROLL CALL: Chair Jeanne Roy.; Commissioners Carlos Reza, Jr., Dale Carter, Billie Tone, Virginia Blitz; City Council Liaison April Verlato; Director of Library & Museum Services Darlene Bradley; Library Services Manager Pat Smith; Curator Stevy Acevedo; Museum Education Coordinator Brittani Alberto. PUBLIC COMMENTS: None REPORTS FROM MUSEUM COMMISSION MEMBERS / LIAISONS: Councilmember Verlato reported on several development projects taking place in Arcadia, including an assisted living center and several apartment building projects. Councilmember Verlato expressed that she is impressed with the programs coming out of the Museum. Commissioner Blitz reported that the next meeting for the Friends of the Arcadia Museum (FAM) is tomorrow (September 3) and funds will be dispersed to the Museum. Director Report Report from the Director of Libraries and Museums: Darlene Bradley reported that Frank Wu of the Hakka Foundation made a very generous donation of $5,000 to help support the Gilb Museum, specifically educational programming. This money will be very helpful to continue programming this fiscal year since the Museum programming budget was reduced due to the pandemic. At this time, L.A. County still is still in the most restrictive tier with regards to COVID- 19. The Museum and Library will continue to operate curbside and virtually for the near future. Report from the Curator: Curator Acevedo reported that Commissioner Carter, also one of the Museum’s Speaker’s Bureau speakers, will be presenting a talk on the Santa Anita Depot to the Kiwanis Club, virtually. The Museum is in the process of purchasing a humidifier system for the collections space to reduce humidity in that area. DampRid collects the moisture in the room and on some days, it is completely full. Curator Acevedo applied for a free exhibit Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote which will be outside at the Museum. The Museum received some donations from Melanie Smith, daughter of Carol Libby, as well as some newspapers from Dorcas Auger. Debbie Cordano, daughter of Dr. Richard Cordano, donated two videos of Dr. Cordano. The Museum has switched to a new collections software, Catalog It, and has migrated all items from the old software, PastPerfect. The new software hosts the collection in the cloud so that the Museum no longer has to host the information on a locally maintained server. The Museum collaborated with the Arcadia Public Library and the California Center for the book and held a virtual discussion of the movie Visions of Warriors. The Curator is still active in making Curator’s Corner Videos for the community, available through the Museum’s website. The Curator also reported that the Museum received a paid Getty Internship, which allowed the Museum to hire Diana de Leon Garcia, a recent graduate from UC Santa Cruz, who will assist the Museum until October. Lastly, the Curator has been working with Girl Scout Kira Camacho on her Gold Award project known as “The Senior Series”. Report from the Museum Education Coordinator: Education Coordinator Alberto updated the Commission on the work of the volunteers. Since the start of the pandemic, volunteers have been asked to work remotely. To date, teen volunteers have completed over 300 hours remotely for the Museum. Projects include transcriptions of postcards, creation of coloring pages, journaling about their time during the pandemic, and compiling a list of all the movies and television shows that have been filmed in Arcadia. Also, the Virtual Summer Enrichment Program was very successful, with over 460 kits being distributed to children. Ms. Alberto has also been working on virtual “classes” offered through Google Classroom and will make this available to teachers. The Gilb Museum has been very active on social media, posting #WhatIsIt Wednesday posts, #FeatureFriday, and #TriviaTuesday. Consent Calendar a. Approve the Regular Meeting Minutes of July 1, 2020 Recommended action: Approve Commissioner Carter moved to approve Consent Calendar Item “a”, which was seconded by Commissioner Blitz, and carried on a voice vote. AYES: Chair Roy, Tone, Reza, Jr., Carter, Blitz NOES: None Adjournment Jeanne Roy adjourned the meeting at 5:41 p.m. to Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. by conference call. Approved: Darlene Bradley, Director of Library and Museum Services Prepared by Brittani Alberto, Museum Education Coordinator