Naper Settlement Museum Board — Naperville, IL
Date: 2022-02-11

400 S. Eagle Street
 City of Naperville Naperville, IL 60540



 Meeting Agenda

 Naper Settlement Museum Board

Friday, February 11, 2022 8:00 AM Municipal Center - Meeting Rooms A & B




A. CALL TO ORDER:

B. ROLL CALL:
 22-0146 Introductions of appointed Student Representatives.


C. PUBLIC FORUM:

D. OLD BUSINESS:
 20-1308 Receive an update on grants.

 22-0145 Receive an update on capital projects: Herman & Anna Hageman
 Memorial Thresher Hall, Benck Family Agricultural Interpretive Center, and
 Innovation Gateway.
 22-0141 Receive a building design update.


E. NEW BUSINESS:
 22-0147 Receive an update on the Unvarnished grant program.


F. REPORTS:
 22-0142 Receive and approve the minutes from the November 05, 2021 Naper
 Settlement Museum Board meeting.

 22-0143 Receive and approve the Naper Settlement financial report as of October
 31, 2021.

 22-0144 Receive the attendance and demographic report through December 31,
 2021.




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G. ADJOURNMENT:
 Any individual with a disability requesting a reasonable accommodation in order to
 participate in a public meeting should contact the Communications Department at least
 48 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting. The Communications Department can
 be reached in person at 400 S. Eagle Street, Naperville, IL., via telephone at
 630-420-6707 or 630-305-5205 (TDD) or via e-mail at info@naperville.il.us. Every effort
 will be made to allow for meeting participation.




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City of Naperville

 400 S. Eagle Street
 Naperville, IL 60540




 Meeting Minutes - Final

 Friday, February 11, 2022

 8:00 AM



Municipal Center - Meeting Rooms A & B



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A. CALL TO ORDER:

 Councilman Paul Hinterlong called the meeting to order at 8:03am.


B. ROLL CALL:

 Also Present: Donna K. Sack, Vice President and Chief Program Officer; Kimberly
 Grazulis, Development Associate; Marcie Schatz, Deputy City Manager; Macarena
 Tamayo-Calabrese, President and CEO (on conference phone)
 Present 7- Paul Hinterlong, John Koranda, Bridget Kozlowski, Lee Quillinan, Julie Schremser,
 Susan Taylor Demming, and Greg Waite
 Absent 2- Steve Chirico, and Al Zucco


 Introductions of appointed Student Representatives.

 No student representatives were in attendance.


C. PUBLIC FORUM:

 There were no comments in the public forum.


D. OLD BUSINESS:

 Receive an update on grants.

 Tamayo-Calabrese summarized that she is still waiting for a decision on two grant
 applications that were submitted for funding for Innovation Gateway. One, from
 the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, should have decisions released
 within the next month. The other, from the National Endowment for the
 Humanities (NEH), will release decisions in the late spring. If the NEH grant is
 awarded, construction on Innovation Gateway will not be able to begin until July 1.
 Two grants are wrapping up in 2022 - Unvarnished and Museums Empowered.


 Quillinan asked about a private gift towards Innovation Gateway that had been
 mentioned at the last meeting. Tamayo-Calabrese responded that a gift totaling
 $250,000 was made by a private donor. With this gift, the brick and mortar for
 Innovation Gateway is 100% funded. The grant funding that we have been seeking
 would go towards interior elements including the digital experience.



 Receive an update on capital projects: Herman & Anna Hageman Memorial Thresher
 Hall, Benck Family Agricultural Interpretive Center, and Innovation Gateway.
 Tamayo-Calabrese informed the board that construction on the Ag Center and
 Thresher Hall is moving along as scheduled. Foundation have been poured and
 structural elements will be going up between now and April. Tamayo-Calabrese is
 hopeful that the Thresher Hall will be complete by May or June. She summarized

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 that the capital campaign has entered Phase II which focuses on the interior
 elements of the buildings. Staff are meeting with the Illinois Soybean Association
 and have reached out to other private corporations, including the National Science
 Foundation, in hopes of securing programmatic funding. She added that the
 Learning Experiences team has started incorporating more Ag programming into
 this year’s summer camp offerings.




 Receive a building design update.

 Sack reported that most of the decisions being made about building design at this
 point are about small finishing details.


 Schatz asked for clarification on the timeline for construction of all three buildings.
 Tamayo-Calabrese explained that the Thresher Hall is on track to be finished by
 June, with the Ag Center finished later this summer. The Innovation Gateway
 groundbreaking will take place in July or August.


 Tamayo-Calabrese added some details about the design of the interior of
 Innovation Gateway, including a designated entrance for school groups. It will be
 divided into two main areas - one section with the digital experience and ticketing
 kiosks, and a large room that can be used for numerous educational purposes,
 including a lunchroom for students or a space for teacher workshops and lectures.
 The digital experience will have both indoor and outdoor components.


 Tamayo-Calabrese said that there are no major updates to the design of the Ag
 Center. Exterior colors have been chosen and the design for the interior is still
 being determined.


E. NEW BUSINESS:

 Receive an update on the Unvarnished grant program.
 Attachments: unvarnished combined file

 Sack explained that Unvarnished: Housing Discrimination in the Northern and
 Western United States will be the first nationally launched exhibit in Naper
 Settlement’s history. She gave background on the grant that was issued by the
 Institute of Museum and Library Services that allowed Naper Settlement, along
 with five partner institutions around the country, to research discriminatory real
 estate practices and sundowning. She showed a preview of the online exhibit that
 will launch in late April. An on-site exhibit will be presented at Naper Settlement at
 the same time. The grant participants are also developing a middle and high school
 curriculum on this history that will be integrated into the website. Sack expressed
 excitement at Naper Settlement joining many other museums that have presented
 virtual exhibits, especially since the start of the pandemic. Sack described
 programming that will tie into Unvarnished, including community workshops about
 how to remove restrictive covenants.
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 A discussion was had about how the collaborative aspect of this grant and how the
 participating organizations worked together.


F. REPORTS:

 Receive and approve the minutes from the November 05, 2021 Naper Settlement
 Museum Board meeting.
 Attachments: DRAFT Meeting Minutes NSMB 11.05.2021

 The minutes were approved with a motion by Lee Quillinan, seconded by John
 Koranda. Motion carried 6-0. Susan Taylor Demming abstained.


 A motion was made approved. The motion carried by the following vote:

 Aye: 6- Hinterlong, Koranda, Kozlowski, Quillinan, Schremser, and Waite

 Absent: 2- Chirico, and Zucco

 Recused: 1- Taylor Demming


 Receive and approve the Naper Settlement financial report as of October 31, 2021.
 Attachments: Financial Reports September 2021 and October 2021

 Tamayo-Calabrese stated that Naper Settlement ended 2021 under revenue and
 under expenses. Salary and benefits were close to plan. Overall, there were no
 major surprises on the financial report. A lot of Naper Settlement revenue comes
 from school tours, which are coming back, but are still not at pre-pandemic levels.
 Tamayo-Calabrese added that numbers for summer programming, including Camp
 Naper, were good in 2021.

 Schatz suggested that the “other rentals” line be segmented to give a clearer
 picture of the financials as the amounts under this line are so large.
 Tamayo-Calabrese explained what kinds of rentals that fall in that category.


 A discussion was had about the exhibit in the lower-level of the Pre-Emption
 House. When the Brushstrokes exhibit was damaged by a flood in 2020, staff filed
 an insurance claim and then renovated and refreshed the exhibit. It will reopen
 within the next month as Building Naperville: Tallgrass Prairie to Today and an
 exhibit reception will be held on March 8. The updated exhibit tells more of
 Naperville’s 20th and 21st century stories, including new displays about the lyceum
 and suburbanization. More seating has been added and the space is more
 ADA-friendly.
 Tamayo-Calabrese praised the work staff had done in refreshing the exhibit on a
 limited budget. She and Sack shared that Dina Spoerl, Exhibits Team Leader,
 recently had an article about some pieces of our collection published that was
 picked up by numerous media outlets around the world.

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 The financial reports were approved with a motion by Greg Waite, seconded by Lee
 Quillinan. Motion carried 7-0.


 A motion was made approved. The motion carried by the following vote:

 Aye: 7- Hinterlong, Koranda, Kozlowski, Quillinan, Schremser, Taylor Demming, and Waite

 Absent: 2- Chirico, and Zucco


 Receive the attendance and demographic report through December 31, 2021.
 Attachments: CY21_Master_Attendance

 Tamayo-Calabrese presented the attendance and demographic report. A discussion
 was had about the ratio of Naperville to non-Naperville residents at events,
 especially building rentals. Sack and Tamayo-Calabrese explained that ideally, the
 visitor ratio to Naper Settlement would be about half from Naperville and half from
 outside Naperville. This would ensure that we are bringing non-Napervillians to the
 downtown area that will support other local businesses and allows us to show on
 grant applications that any awarded funding will affect residents of a whole region,
 not just a single city.


 Tamayo-Calabrese stated that the 2022 Naper Nights lineup would be released
 soon. Kozlowski praised the marketing and Learning Experience teams for their
 cutting-edge digital content.


G. ADJOURNMENT:

 The meeting was adjourned at 8:54 AM with a motion from Susan Taylor Demming,
 seconded by Lee Quillinan. Motion carried 7-0.


 A motion was made to adjourn the Meeting of. The motion carried by the
 following vote:

 Aye: 7- Hinterlong, Koranda, Kozlowski, Quillinan, Schremser, Taylor Demming, and Waite

 Absent: 2- Chirico, and Zucco




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