Attendees: Katrina Rogers (Chair), and Board, Susan Golightly, Sam Henderson, Robert Breunig (CEO), and staff, Tracy Anderson, Sat Best, Ann Deegan, Marlene Lloyd, and Stefan Sommer.

The meeting was convened at 8:07 AM.

The agenda was to review the retreat schedule to be held January 6 and 7, go over facilitation process, and any logistical details involved in the retreat.

Several people made minor corrections to the retreat schedule, such as proper spelling of names and adding staff who had been participating on various committees.

Robert asked that we discuss the content of the retreat itself. How will it work? Both Sam and Ann said that the overall goal of this board/staff retreat will be to establish our goals and objectives within each key issue area. Each committee will have 5-10 minutes to describe their key goals (which will be sent to the Board and staff in written format by the end of the week, we hope---there are two reports outstanding). Then, the facilitator, Susie Garretson (Board Chair), will ask the full group for input. Have we identified all the key goals? Are we in agreement about what we have identified? How should we prioritize them?

Robert and Susie met last week to discuss her role as facilitator. She and Katrina have been reading up on facilitation and she feels ready to assume her role. Katrina asked the committee for input as to whether we should consider hiring professional facilitation. A couple of Board members have indicated that professional facilitation can be excellent; it would allow Susie to participate (rather than remain neutral) and could be very helpful to us. Several expressed concern that a facilitator would need to know the Museum well and might be very expensive. Others felt that Susie would do a terrific job as facilitator and at this point, we should move forward with what we have already decided. Katrina agreed to meet with Susie after the retreat for a full debriefing of her personal comments and reflections.

Regarding logistics, MNA staff will bring everything we need (two computers, one for notetaking and one for the powerpoint, flipcharts, markers), etc. We now have staff and Board RSVPs—Katrina will consolidate and send information to Marlene, Ann, and Alan at La Posada. We will have people take turns being note takers at the meeting. Also, the meeting shall be recorded. Our written report shall be transformed into PowerPoint for the meeting as well.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 AM.
Respectfully submitted,
Katrina Rogers
Next IPC meeting: Thursday January 26, 2006, 2:00-3:00 pm at Pearson Hall