How do we give us a hug Um sure and everyone make sure you have your mics pointed towards you and green light on if you're speaking in.

Um Chair Kimsey.

Here.

Vice Chair O'Neill.

Here.

Commissioner Fullop.

Commissioner Mukowski.

Commissioner Caldi.

And Commissioner Evans.

Here.

And Commissioner Turgeon has notified us that she will not be making it today.

So we'll note that Ken Burley Turgeon is absent.

And we have a cornerman from staff.

We have Brian Edwards Library and Museum's director and assistant library director, Melissa McHia.

And I can just note for uh members of the public that would like to comment today, please raise your zoom hand on the screen when notified.

And if you're also attending uh by phone, dial star nine if you'd like to raise your um zoom hand during that appropriate section.

I'll turn it over to the chair.

So we have our first presentation, the update on museums.

Yeah, so this is just a kind of a verbal presentation we could do.

We could show it on the screen if if you prefer, but the uh once of update that we have changed the museum tour fees schedule as was approved by council during the master fee schedule.

This is in an effort to get cost recovery in terms of the museum tours.

So we have increased the base tour fee to a hundred dollars for four people as of July one.

So any tours that come in, and these are for our tours for, these are for private tours.

So this is sites like Pacific Biological Laboratories, Colton Hall, as well as Pacific Biological Pacific Biological Laboratories, Presidio Monterey Museum, and Colton Hall.

We do a private tour.

The museums are still free to open free to access at different public hours and time.

So if you go to the Presidio Monterey Museum Saturdays and Sundays 10 to 4, you're welcome to go in there and go into the museum.

But if you're scheduling a time for us to bring in a private tour, we will charge for that.

And then we started adding a 100 school fee, and that was because we get a lot of when we have schools, we end up having to have generally multiple staff kind of help out to facilitate those school visits.

And we do have a we've increased some of our other uh fees, which we haven't started yet.

There we'll come back to the commission later.

One of those was one that we talked about at one of the earlier meetings was to have a booking fee.

We have to come up with kind of a procedure and policy with that, but that would be 250 dollars an hour minimum.

It used to be $30 an hour when they used to do Pacific Biological Laboratories.

So this would allow some use of some of these facilities once we create a policy.

The policy would have to go through our city attorney as well.

So that's why we would we're waiting on that, but created the fee schedule so that we could create the policy to match it later on.

Outside of school tours, uh, do we get many private tours?

Yeah, so I could say, for example, um, I won't put in the people's uh, what do you call it?

I won't put in there um things on the screen because it's you know a lot of private information.

But so, for example, this month um we have a so tomorrow we have a Presidio Monterey tour, we have a Colton Hall tour, we have a Colton Hall tour on Monday, we have uh two Pacific Biological Lab tours next week.

Um the following week we have two Pacific Biological Lab Tours.

We then also have the the clampers coming for Colton Hall and the Presidio Monterey that week.

The following week, we have another Pacific Biological Lab Tour, a Colton Hall School Tour, and another Pacific Biological Lab Tour.

So that's to say right now this month, it's not every day, but we have six Pacific Biological Lab Tours.

Um we have four Colton Hall tours and two Presidio Monterey museum tours.

So we have increased our tours, and part of that is because that we uh, thanks to Melissa for working on this was to add a book a tour web page.

And one of the things before was you had to contact somebody by email or phone, and it was hard for people to figure out how to do a tour.

So we put it on there that this is how you could book a private tour.

So that has helped.

We don't have a lot of um, we rely heavily like Presidio Monterey on our docents, which are retired veterans at the Pacific Biological Laboratory.

We have people from all different parts of life, as well as um myself or Brianna, Melissa, we also host tours over there too, as we can.

Um and same thing with uh Colton Hall.

You know, we do we're kind of uh all in, so we're kind of limited in terms of like we're managing it as we can with limited staff to get in there, but having it online has helped our schools be aware of how they could contact us, where they can do it, and then we send them usually a payment link.

They pay either by credit card or mail us a check.

And this, in our opinion, is helping will help to increase the cost recovery for uh staffing of the part-time staff for museum operations and also help with uh just support and help with getting people into the museum doors.

Um I also wanted to highlight that we have recently opened Colton Hall back to seven days a week.

Um, and I know that was something that speaking with Commissioner Evans uh multiple years that was a big thing that we're trying to do.

And so there are some times when we are low on a staff member, but we have our uh museum attendants who have been great in us providing that daily um increase of hours.

We had done a quiet opening of Mondays, and Mondays was actually a good day because a lot of state park sites are closed on Monday.