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Small museum seeks more staff hours, proposes touch table to digitize local history
Summary
The museum asked the council to increase two part-time positions from 19 to 25 hours to sustain tours, school programs (about 400 students last year) and weekend outreach; staff also proposed a touchscreen digitization station estimated at $5,000–$7,000 to make yearbooks and photo archives accessible.
Elena, the museum presenter, asked the council to increase two part-time museum positions from 19 to 25 hours so the education specialist can manage Saturday tours, school programs and special events. "To be able to open the museum 25 hours a week would be great," she said, adding that an education specialist reached 400 schoolchildren last year and that weekend tours currently fill quickly and require a waiting list.
Elena also described a wish-list item: a touch table (an interactive digital table) to host digitized yearbooks, scrapbooks and historic maps so residents can access photographs and archives that are currently stored and not publicly available. She estimated such a device costs between $5,000 and $7,000 and said the museum could consider saving in its budget over multiple years if immediate funding is not possible. Council members signaled support but asked staff to confirm line-item options for saving funds across the combined museum/historic-preservation budget.
