City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2011 06 14

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Number of artifact donors, by year4248 Number of individual items 450 individual items 2,450 (estimated 1,700 donated, by year slides plus 750 other individual items) Estimated total number of items in 15,00014,500 vi collection as of 12/31 i The Historical Museum experiences usage in terms of visitors to the Museum itself, attendance at off- site programs, and readership of its quarterly publication, and also in terms of reference questions that are communicated by email and telephone. Due to time constraints, the Museum staff member does not keep track of the numbers of these additional inquiries. However, it has been observed that since the Museum public hours were reduced on December 1, 2009, inquiries by email and phone have increased. ii For the year 2010, .5 FTE was budgeted for the management of the Museum and .23 FTE was budgeted for historic preservation work. In 2010, this historic preservation work began to include the new landmarking program and the Jefferson Place survey research. iii For the months of January through November 2009, the Museum staff member both managed the Museum and conducted research on the histories of historical buildings for the City of Louisville as a .73 FTE employee. For the month of December 2009, this was changed so that .5 FTE was budgeted for the management of the Museum and .23 FTE was budgeted to come from the Historic Preservation Fund for historic preservation work. iv These 1040 hours represent the budgeting of .5 FTE for Museum staff. In addition, there is .23 FTE to do historic preservation work. This consisted of 468 hours spent on historic preservation work in 2010 in addition to the 1040 hours for the Museum. v These 1463 hours included historic preservation work in addition to the management of the Museum for the months of January through November 2009 because there was no differentiation made at that time. For December 2009, there were an additional 45 hours (.23 FTE for the month of December only) budgeted for historic preservation work that are not included in the 1463 hour figure. vi This category was revised in June 2011 to reflect the discovery of additional items in the collection. 9