Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2019 05 15

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Cityof I Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: May 4, 2019 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report By the date of the May Commission meeting, the two new Museum Technicians will have both started in their positions at the Museum. They are Lizzie Reinthal and Jason Hogstad, and we're delighted to have them. Also, we're in the process of hiring a new Oral History Intern for this year. We've delayed hiring a second intern for now while we get these new staff members trained and ready for the Museum's summer activities. With these two new staff members, the City will begin to have Thursday hours of 10-3 at the Museum starting in June, so that the Museum will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10-3. As you may have seen in the new issue of the Louisville Historian that came out recently, we have several public programs planned for this summer. These include a Brown Bag, eight walking tours (two each on four topics) and three storytelling events that Commission member Dave Hooley has organized with Boulder Valley Spellbinders, plus the regular participation in the First Friday Art Walks. In July, the Museum will also put on a program that will tie in with the Library's Summer Reading Program. After a few delays due to last year's retirement of the previous Facilities Manager, the City will soon get back to hiring a contractor to work on the structural repairs on the Tomeo House cellar. The funding for this comes from the City's capital improvements budget, and the repairs are to address the deficiencies that were identified in the Historic Structure Assessments conducted in 2017. Louisville Facilities Manager Jorge Calderon is working on this project and we hope to minimize the impacts on Museum visitors while the work is being done. Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): January visitors: 102; February visitors: 131; March visitors: 209; April visitors: 181; YTD: 623.