BoardMeeting202211

Board Meeting: November 13, 2022

Time & Location

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

Attendees

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

Minutes

• Financial update by Sue
  • Net income way down because we spent a lot - but hopefully will be reimbursed by grants soon
  • Our General Fund is not as large as Issac wants it to be and now he is sad
• Issac has also forgotten what he wanted to tell us about Spark
• Grants - starting to get reimbursements yay - next one is in a few months
• Membership report: 298 as of this month
• Maker Mingle was at KM a few weeks ago in conjunction with Spark
  • Maker council was impressed with us so that's nice to hear
• Mayor's Maker Council - retreat was this past Thursday
  • Lots of new members so a good intro to people
  • Someone could step in as a proxy until Sean's term is done - but it has to be one single person - Issac will ask specifically about that
  • Maker Faire was brought up - more enthusiasm with new people
  • But who will pay? It would be a large burden for us but not too much the city
• Toy Tech - what is going on?
  • We need more info as soon as possible
• TVA Energy Audit
  • Jondale and Billy were there - walked around, mainly interested in HVAC and lighting - not so interested in downstairs stuff except maybe changing lights to LED
  • Report incoming 2-4 weeks
• Maintenance issues - unexpected water feature discovered and repaired
  • There's a slight chance that the parking lot might someday be repaved
  • The bathroom fan sounds terrible
• Tracy wants to know why we don't use digital waivers and Issac said because laws
• Next board meeting is December 21, 2022 - 7pm