BoardMeeting202303

Board Meeting: March 19, 2023

Time & Location

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

Minutes

• Where is Bryan - no one knows when he works
• Russell says start anyway
• Sue's Financial report
  • Everything is about the same
  • What Sue learned about investing our money
    • The banks she looked into will only do CDs for individuals, not businesses
    • Our current bank has high-yield money market for businesses - with a disappointing 0.75% interest :/
    • Sue will keep looking for business CDs
  • What Sue has learned about P-cards
    • Talked to our bank - they had two types and Sue is following up this week
    • Tracy will now be "in charge" of our P-card policy
• Grant stuff
  • Due date of April 1st to send in our last bit of paperwork for grant reimbursement
  • Do we want to submit again this year? For what? AV equipment? It's due soon - we need to think about it but quickly
• News about Spark
  • Talked a bit about this in the last meeting - they are asking that we pay for the dumpster - Issac will follow up this week
• Membership - Tracy needs to follow up with people have been around for longer than a month
• Website wording - should we add another webpage that prompt people to Affirm that they are taking the Student/Senior Discount because they need it
  • Would this cause people to switch back and forth and be a problem for accounting
  • Lets try it anyway
• Maker Faire
  • There was an initial meeting with the committee - Sean and Laurie will head it up
  • Maybe Dogwood Arts will help because they have a lot of experience putting on large events
• Mayor's Maker Council - short meeting because it was recap of Whats the Big Idea and prepping for Big Ears
  • Not much uptake on the Big Ears parade - Sean will try Mattermost
• Transforming Western - there is a meeting coming soon and who can be there
  • What even is it? Who knows.
• Maintenance Issues - the toilet is acting up and we have let Spark know
• Next meeting April 16th

Votes

• Voted unanimously to renew our Arts and Alliance membership this year
• Voted unanimously to raise the booth price for the Make Sale to $40/$20