BoardMeeting202010

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Board Meeting: October 25, 2020

Time & Location

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

Attendees

Board: Issac Merkle, Tracy Homer, Bryan Howard, Suzannah Alexander, Sean Simoneau, Sue Joslin, Billy Huddleston, Jondale Stratton Members: DeeDee D., John N.

Minutes

  • Financial report
    • Paypal takes a lot of money but there is no other option?
  • Membership report
    • Up to 194 members!
    • New join form is great - let's talk more about it
  • New Join form
    • Should force people to upload photo?
    • Should give option for people to start trial month right away
    • Tracy will write and submit verbiage for new page
  • Should we introduce a super-cheap rate for supporters and should we give them some perks?
  • Talked about best way to notify the membership of a new trial member - perhaps a post to mattermost
    • And also congratulate people that have become full members
  • KM/Spark ventures
    • If we create an adaptive technology should we or can we sell those things to the general public
    • Everything would be open and documented so people could replicate it instead of purchasing
    • We'll see what our attorney says
  • Welding workshop concept
    • The idea is to set up a program where some of our welders could teach teens in foster care some welding skills and prepare them for the workforce in this way
    • Can we formally endorse this program so it can move forward officially
  • Issac has found a few volunteers who would be willing to write grants for us
  • Emergency exit is janky looking and needs to be fixed.
    • Snakes!
  • Lease agreement
    • Sign or send to lawyers?
  • Updated COVID-19 regulations?
    • Should we allow members to bring guests in the shop? Yes
    • Should we allow general public into classes? Yes with a cap on classes of six students
  • Tracy has gotten a "demerit" from Issac for failing to email Jay about the aircon
  • Next meeting TBD


Votes

  • Voted 7-1 to require people to send a photo along with their membership form
  • Voted unanimously to change membership rules to remove Accepting New Members: Point 2 from the membership rules: (The membership will be notified via email at least 5 days in advance of all probationary member's impending upgrade to keyholder status.)
  • Voted unanimously to sign the lease after looking once more to make sure no added confusing verbiage has been added since the last iteration