HomeMy WebLinkAboutAM Minutes: 11/03/2021.MUSEUM COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
WEDNESDAY, November 3, 2021
CALL TO ORDER — Chair Jeanne Roy called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. in the Museum
Education Center.
Zw_1LEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE — Chair Jeanne Roy
ROLL CALL: Chair Jeanne Roy; Commissioners Dale Carter, Angela Ayala, Billie Tone, and
Virginia Blitz; City Council Liaison April Verlato; Director of Library & Museum
Services Darlene Bradley; Library Services Manager Roger Hiles; Curator Stevy
Acevedo; Museum Education Coordinator Brittani Alberto
REPORTS FROM MUSEUM COMMISSION MEMBERS / LIAISONS
Commissioner Tone reported that she would be giving a presentation on The Elephant Sanctuary
in Tennessee at a Daughters of the American Revolution meeting next year and invited all to
attend.
Commissioner Blitz commented that the 20' Anniversary for the Gilb Museum was well attended.
The Friends of the Arcadia Museum board have postponed their next meeting until Tuesday,
November 9.
Councilmember Verlato reported that there was a City Council meeting the previous night. The
Anita Baldwin statue was unveiled on October 25. There will be a new ordinance set in place that
bans smoking in common areas of multi -family residences, as well as the entryways of
commercial businesses. This also bans the use of e-cigarettes. An ordinance was approved to
ban restaurants from using Styrofoam to -go containers, and plastic utensils will not be made
available unless requested. Additionally, food waste will need to be put in green waste containers.
REPORT FROM THE DIRECTOR
Director Bradley thanked the Commission for those who helped or attended the 2 01h Anniversary
Celebration. She also mentioned that next Wednesday, November 10 there will be a redistricting
meeting, which is open to the public. This will also be the last Museum Commission meeting of
this calendar year.
REPORT FROM THE CURATOR
Curator Acevedo reported that the 2 oth Anniversary celebration was well attended and thre is also
a new 20th Anniversary exhibit in the Museum's temporary gallery. Some exhibits in the Museum
have been updated, specifically the Rancho section, which now includes replicas of Santa Anita
Rancho cattle brands. The Gilb Museum currently has a volunteer, Tola Livesey, who is digitizing
the City of Arcadia newsletters, Hot Sheets, and the AUSD News and Views. The Museum also
had several donations from community members, including Denice Gilb, who donated her
mother's President of the Tournament of Roses scrapbook, and items from April Verlato. Ms.
Acevedo attended the Hugo Reid Elementary Back -to -School picnic. She also submitted the final
narrative reports for the Getty Marrow Multicultural Undergraduate Internship and informed the
Commission that the Museum was awarded the Digitization and Preservation Assistance Award
for the Arcadia Women's Club Collection, which is now available on the California Revealed
website. She also mentioned how the Museum has been active on social media, including the
#20Years 1 n20 Days social media campaign and a Curator's Corner episode, which was therned
around #AskACurator Day. Ms. Acevedo also attended the Arcadia Women's Club luncheon and
completed the Museum's Annual Report for 2020-2021.
REPORT FROM THE MUSEUM EDUCATION COI DINATOR
Education Coordinator Alberto reported that the Gilb Museum continues to give away educational
kits every month in the year 2021. In September kits were themed around scrapbooking and
highlighted the Arcadia Women's Club, and in the month of October kits explored dinosaurs. Ms.
Alberto attended Baldwin Stocker Elementary's Grandparents Day. Staff also participated in the
Downtown Arcadia Halloween event, where they distributed about 220 kits to the community. Ms.
Alberto has also been presenting the Baldwin Series virtually, in conjunction with the Arcadia
Senior Services Department. This series explores different members of the Baldwin family, and
has been well attended. Ms. Alberto has been busy with the recruitment of volunteers. Currently,
the Museum has 36 volunteers, including teens and adults. The Museum also has two interns for
the fall semester, Eva Baudler, who is a Collections and Curation Intern, and Daniela Bedolla,
who is a Museum Education Intern. Eva and Museum volunteer Jonathan have been creating
custom boxes for some of the Museum's artifacts. Several teen volunteers are also participating
in the Faces of Arcadia Oral History Project, in which community members are interviewed by
Museum teen interns. Currently the Museum's volunteers have completed over 2,000 cumulative
hours in the year 2021.
CONSENT CALENDAR
a. Approve the Reqular Meeting Minutes of Se tember 1, 2021
Recommended action: Approve
Commission Member Ayala moved to approve Consent Calendar Item "a", which was seconded
by Commission Member Carter, and carried on a voice vote.
AYES: Chair Roy, Commissioners Tone, Blitz, Ayala and Carter.
NOES: None
ADJOURNMENT
Chair Roy adjourned this meeting at 5:38 p.m. to January 5, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Darlene Bradley, Di rectorL-i bra ry and Museum Services
Prepared by Brittani Alberto, Museum Education Coordinator