BoardMeeting202004

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Board Meeting: April 26th, 2020

Time & Location

  • Meeting Located virtually on Big Blue Button
  • 2:00 PM

Attendees

Board: Issac Merkle, Jondale Stratton, Tracy Homer, Bryan Howard, Suzannah Alexander, Sean Simoneau, Sue Joslin, Billy Huddleston

Minutes

  • Treasurer's report
    • Not much activity since no one is doing anything
    • Still coming out ahead
    • Since it is so late in the month, sue shared this months totals and we're still squeaking by ahead for the month
    • Membership dues are holding steady
  • Big blue button report: the server is holding up pretty well - except this past Tuesday the recording was a bit raggedy
  • Maybe upgrading the server would be good idea - reboot on Tuesdays
  • Are members using this on their own? do we know?
  • We've had couple hundred people watch on Facebook and our face shield post has been very popular
  • Maybe asking people for likes and shares on our video show and share will increase our reach
  • Suzannah is willing to help with the facebook things
  • The virtual show and shares has been going well
  • We could use a more variety of people
  • Except Issac should keep sharing every week
  • Voted almost unanimously to have Tracy's mom do a show and share next week
  • Is it intentional that people's show and share's have gone too long? Sometimes it gets a bit out of hand but how do we deal with that?
  • We can remind people or rely on the moderator to move things along
  • Suzannah has a mystery snail that is behind her and she showed us all on camera
  • Sean's cat is loud
  • We took a small break to talk about pet snails
  • As far as the building building - there has been no work on it so the roof is half done and people are antsy to start working on it
  • Hopefully as soon as the stay at home order expires, we will get back at it
  • There should be a press conference tomorrow in Knoxville about guidelines for reopening the city
  • Billy just joined and his hair is amazing
  • If the mayor reopens everything - we pretty much agree that we would reopen for members only but not have public events quite yet
  • Do we require people to use masks in the shop?
  • That brings up the issue of enforcement.
  • Maybe we'd get more buy-in if we "strongly encourage" instead of enforce.
  • We should put it upon ourselves to make sure soap and paper towels are available for members.
  • Can we amass a small stockpile of cloth masks that we can make available to our members?
  • Yes we probably can.
  • We should be prepared to to send a member email as soon as we get word about the press conference.
  • How can we better promote Knox Makers through this?
  • We could ask people who have worked on things to shoot small videos of themselves working on things and sending it public.


Votes

  • Voted unanimously to strongly encourage members to wear masks while in the shop, for when we reopen to members.