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May 2005 Regular Meeting Minutes (Draft)
Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation
May 12, 2005
Attendees: Lavone Archer, Stan Celestian, Susan Celestian, Shirley Coté, Steve Decker, Darrel Dodd, Cynthia Grant, Ray Grant, Glen Hoffman, Jeff Johnson, Harvey Jong, Chuck Kominski, Paula Liken, Phil Richardson, Dana Slaughter
Ray Grant called the meeting to order.
Minutes of the March Meeting
Ray asked for corrections to the March Meeting minutes, but no changes were suggested. Dana Slaughter moved to approve the minutes. Phil Richardson seconded the motion. The motion passed.
Treasurer's Report (Darrel Dodd)
Darrel Dodd provided a brief summary of the Foundation's accounts and asked for any outstanding bills.
Committee Reports
1. Collection Committee
Bill Yedowitz was unable to attend, so Phil reported on the committee's activities. Phil recognized Bill's efforts in rearranging the mineral cases in the Gallery. He mentioned that the committee has been focusing on future Collection directions/acquisitions. One possible area involves building a suite of Mexican minerals. The Collection currently has two cases of Mexican minerals, but is missing some significant specimens, such as an adamite, legrandite, grossularite, orange creedite, fluorite, pyrite, galena, etc. Creating a suite of 79 mine minerals is another option given this mine is being actively operated. There was some discussion on how these additions would fit in with the overall Collection goals and priorities.
Phil also described the committee's criteria for buying specimens in special situations, such as mineral shows. Such purchases would require approval by two collection committee members and one board member. There was some discussion on the amount per specimen along with the total amount to allocate for these short term buying opportunities.
Phil moved to establish a special limited budget for purchasing specimens on the committee's priority list and subject to the approval of two collection committee members and one board member. Dana
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