tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994988846355883285.post5694267839977845008..comments2024-02-25T09:45:56.860-08:00Comments on Mineral Museum Madness: Historical Society struggling with recent historyDickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17717447541461745969noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994988846355883285.post-2193511479543833962015-09-03T07:51:24.792-07:002015-09-03T07:51:24.792-07:00'Arrogant" is a very mild word to describ...'Arrogant" is a very mild word to describe AHS's closure and destruction of the MMM to honor our Centennial. The illegal and needless closing of the MMM has never been explained by the Board or key personnel of AHS. Other words that describe this agency are Self-Serving, Egotistical,<br />and others that are less printable! Above all, they do not care about the effect of their actions on their victims--in this case the 40,000 science students and their teachers who used the MMM each year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994988846355883285.post-62384270890274964972015-08-29T09:16:37.487-07:002015-08-29T09:16:37.487-07:00Those might be good starting changes, but this org...Those might be good starting changes, but this organization has years of changes needed to comply with consistently poor reviews. At present the board of directors is undergoing a serious change and the state is looking for people to be on a new board. A financial audit is forcing compliance with state rules, historically ignored by AHS. Programaticaly, AHS has been told more than once that their organization plan is awkward and expensive, and they need to be raising money to self-fund like other state agencies. The big change needed is to get AHS back to working on history, and listen to the overwhelming vote from the legislature to return the Mining and Mineral Museum to a scientific agency and give the empty building to them. I hope the new President wants to listen and the supporters of the MMM need to stick with the effort to get the problem solved legislatively and free themselves from any involvement with AHS, and the destruction of a great science museum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994988846355883285.post-22067807847911281162015-08-27T09:39:56.077-07:002015-08-27T09:39:56.077-07:00The only changes that AHS needs to make is to repl...The only changes that AHS needs to make is to replace Dr. Ann Woosley and Bill Ponder. The sooner the Board President figures that out the better it will be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994988846355883285.post-84262196233340595862015-08-26T11:11:20.081-07:002015-08-26T11:11:20.081-07:00I don't think it will hurt for you to meet wit...I don't think it will hurt for you to meet with the new AHS President--he did indicate that he knew AHS needed that AHS needed to make changes during a hearing on SB1200. I agree that the issues require legislative action and that the two of you cannot resolve them without such action. AHS is not going to get 2+million to remodel the MMM building into some fancy museum with a high dollar staff when the MMM could easily and cost-effectively use the building as they had, but under good scientific management. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994988846355883285.post-91799531030848892542015-08-24T00:43:33.821-07:002015-08-24T00:43:33.821-07:00Why would you want to meet the AHS Board president...Why would you want to meet the AHS Board president. he does not even get a chance to vote for such issues as the Rio Nuevo Museum development. .....that development cost the taxpayers $1,400,000. They got nothing. And he and his board never got to vote for the Centennial Museum and all of the other stupid forms that it took.<br />Maybe the AHS Board President needs to have coffee with his pwn board and Dr. Ann Woosley. Lots of questions I would think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com