7/19/05.

In attendance;
Eunice Kahn
Tom Kennedy
Martin Link
Rhonda Ray
Evan Williams
Michele Ellis
Kent Roberts
Jesse (Vista)
Roy Howard


We convened to learn from Evan Williams the status of the 75k which was
supposedly allocated to the Network in the 2005 State Legislative session.
To date, the money had not been received by COG and Evan was not certain
when it would be liquid.

The group of us agreed that the 75k could be used in several ways. 1) as a
match to any formal grant we wrote to support our budget 2) to pay for staff

manning the Network on a continual basis.

Evan Williams offered to go to Patty Lundstrom and ask that he be our staff
person as the Network gets off the ground as an organization. We were
relieved by his offer as our $ would be processed by COG anyway. He could
absorb our fundraising efforts into his daily COG responsibilities in this
initial phase of our formal Network.

The group agreed that our outreach and support for one another should extend

beyond "museums" to include "cultural enterprises" such as national parks,
tribal parks, generic cultural events, etc. Our Network would encompass the
Four Corners region rather than just McKinley County.

Evan also was interested in applying for an NEH Grant to the tune of 3
million dollars which would be dispersed over a 3 year period. The group
asked that he get us the details required in the grant so each of our
institutions could provide him the required supportive materials. While the
grant may be a long shot, it will help us organize even more effectively as
separate entities merging now as a whole.

Roy Howard suggested that our core group become an "executive committee"
until more enterprises from the Four Corners join our ranks. Consequently,
we voted to elect Tom Kennedy and Zonnie Gorman as Co-chairs of the Network,

and myself as Secretary.

We each have an email list we share info with, but apparently they differ
from communicator to contacts. Evan includes the new Grants Museum for
instance who are very interested in being a part of us. As we hone our
Network participants I should be provided with a comprehensive list of
interest groups so everyone is addressed at once.

Martin Link suggested we invite Carol Cooper of New Mexico Arts to a future
meeting as a politically correct and saavy move. Mimi Roberts (formally of
TREX/Santa Fe) is also a supporter of our effort and could be a valuable
liason somehow, somewhere.

A brochure is necessary to marketing our goals for the region. Tom Kennedy
has voiced having ideas about this and I have been gathering sample
brochures from other places and from previous times.
We need to write a mission statement; ascertain instituions who want to be
part of the Nestwork, etc.

We have much work ahead of us but that means new ground to break! Very
exciting.

Our next meeting is Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at the Cultural Center
upstairs.

Respectfully submitted, Michele Ellis 8/16/05