O’Fallon Museum Board – Meeting Minutes August 2024

O’Fallon Museum Board

Minutes

August 1, 2024

Present Absent

Toni Reetz, Trustee

Linda Rost, Secretary

Melissa Rost, Curator

Curt Williams, Chairman

Ken Griffith, Trustee Cheyanne Dame, Trustee

Convene: 

The meeting was called to order by Curt at 4:11 pm at the O’Fallon Museum metal building.

Public Comment:  Time limit 10 minutes per subject.

Minutes: Read by trustees. 

Toni made a motion to approve minutes and Ken seconded. Minutes approved.

Accessions: (Motion to accept made by Curt and Toni seconded.)

• Trish Rost – Fire hydrant – Traci’s husband said he’d put a stand.

Discussion of Curator’s Report:

• PAR final zoom with Brandon and Kelsea
  • Will have a digital and print copy
  • Next steps – Need engineers to design it $220,000
  • Maybe find someone cheaper
  • $2.3 million – There may be ways to cheapen it by not needed the fire sprinklers.
  • Could do it in stages. 
  • Grid United – up to $50,000 — for engineering?
  • Commerce grants – Vaughn might know
• History Walk – Vaughn, Lew, Stacey, Melissa –
  • Lew Price wrote up information on businesses on his family. 
  • Need 10 metal signs at ten locations
  • Put a bench at each sign
  • Each stop would have multiple buildings, whatever you can see
• Summer help – Jaeda – fast, focused, knows what to do
  • Getting a lot done
  • Women in Blue Jeans
  • Good help on STEM camps
  • Maybe do an honorarium for help
  • She will be done in a few weeks
• Camps
  • Record numbers
  • Art walk had normal numbers
  • Rec Dept asked for donations – $1,300 for STEM camps and Preschool Playtime
• Lego contest – Midrivers gave $1000
  • Bought glass case 
  • Bring in the “build at home” on Aug. 9 or 10
  • Can built on site at Aug. 10
• Derrick – outdoor maintenance
  • Fixed screen doors, got new glass displays for steel building and bedroom in jail
  • Moved sewing stuff downstairs
  • Need to move over bones and taxidermy to metal building
  • Talked to Bob the Tree Guy to remove trees – $9300
    • Military stuff left at Jackson Village
  • Kenny can take them out for $300
• Summer programming:
  • Summer School: Oceans 6/6; Summer Olympics 7/18; STEM 8/8
  • Moms of Baker tour 6/13
  • Toybox tour 6/18
  • Olli Group Tour 6/25
  • Camps: Art July 8-11; STEM water July 15-17; STEM space July 22-24
  • Taiwan group tour 7/17
• Grants with Carter County
  • MOMSI study
  • Sabre Moore and April Wills – Education project 
• June visitors – 587
• July visitors – 536
• Mid-year summary –
  • Attendance: 1815
  • Volunteer hours: 450
  • Donations: $1500 (plus $1300 Rec Dept and $1000 Midrivers)

New Business:

Next Meeting: 

Adjournment: 

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s\ Curt Williams, Chairman     a\ Recording Secretary, Linda Rost, Trustee