O’Fallon Museum Board – Meeting Minutes January 29th 2025

O’Fallon Museum Board
Minutes
January 29, 2025

Present
Toni Reetz, Trustee
Linda Rost, Secretary
Traci Bruha, Assistant
Curt Williams, Chairman

Absent
Ken Griffith, Trustee
Cheyanne Dame, Trustee

Convene:
The meeting was called to order by Curt at 4:08 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 as read and Curt seconded. Minutes approved.

Old Business
Deaccessions Update from last time
● Brown buttons will be given to Gini Knipfer.
Train Grant update
● Grant is funded, train is ordered – through Historical Society
● Hoping May delivery – Melissa is in charge of getting that in
● Smoke stack, smoke machine, PA system, engine, coal car, three passenger cars, runs on gasoline
● If other organizations want to use it, they could give a free-will offering to use it

Accessions:

Toni made a motion to accept these items as references and Linda seconded it. Motion passed.
● Fallon County Times Newspaper – June 30, 1983 – on Baker High School Burning – we will use it as a reference material but not accession it.
● Fallon-Carter Counties – December 1979 telephone – use it as a reference and not accession it.

New Business: Toni made a motion to accept and Curt seconded it. Motion passed.
● Deaccessions
○ CM Russell Calendar Pages
○ Plastic flower
○ One blue Superman glove
○ Deaccession the album and retrieve the tintype and original photos.
○ 28 City Report Books
○ 40 telephone directories
■ Keep: 1916 Carlyle/Ollie, 1945 Baker/Ekalaka, 1955 Baker/Ekalaka, 1965 Baker/Ekalaka, maybe others that Traci thinks should be kept

Discussion of Curator’s Report:
● Traci went through the entire Past Perfect System.
○ Clean up information, update locations of items.
○ Made a list of unknown items or those without pictures.
○ Also added items to Past Perfect.
○ Cleaning inside heated buildings.
○ It would be good for the assistant to keep track of how much time was spent on each activity to justify asking for more hours.
● Six visitors since 24th of December
● Tomorrow 6th graders are coming for scavenger hunt
● Found some items to deaccession – should be deaccessioned (notes are above in New Business to Deaccession).
○ Traci has a list – all are accessioned individually
○ 40 telephone directories – upper level of block building
○ 2 sets of encyclopedias – unknown location
■ There are 16 total sets – Traci will go through and look for repeats, or any that can be deaccessioned.
○ 3 dictionaries – unknown location
○ 33 typewriters/adding machines – upper level of block building
○ 28 City Report Books – in the basement, upstairs block building, or unknown – 1911-1930 – Register of warrants

Next Meeting: February 19, 2025 at 4 pm.
Adjournment: 5:02 pm

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