BoardMeeting202505

Board Meeting:

Time & Location

April 20, 2025, 4pm virtually via Big Blue Button

Minutes

• This year each person on the board will report on their individual projects so we can keep everyone on task

Issac: President

• Spark news: We were recently told by Spark that we have a new fee (about 60% of our rent) and we told them we would not be paying it, as is is not in our lease agreement
• Update on the building purchase - we are talking to fancy people and getting ducks in a row
• Maker Education Meetup - Issac could not make the last one but Daryl went
• Maker USA - they are partnered with TCAT currently but we might get more involved in the future - Issac will go to yet another meeting
• Vestival has passed and went about as we expected...
  • We had 13 volunteers and 22 guests over the course of the day
  • We could have done better promoting it ourselves but we also had hoped for more support from the main organizers
• Larry updated on Killswitch
  • A canopy has been delivered and almost all put together
  • Robot classes hopefully next month to get people excited!

Sue: Treasurer

• Average income, average spending - nothing special
• Gotten ACH payments set up so if people want to pay that way it would save KM in bank fees

Tracy: Membership Director

• 354 members
• Nothing else to report

Russell: Community Director

• MIA today, but he didn't tell us why.... hmmm

Jondale: Tech Director

• SSO - still getting a few people once in a while, expecting that will continue
• Working on getting everything hosted locally - cluster names are from Firefly
• Mayor's Maker Council - Dogwood Arts Festival is over and it was great, Jondale's is on the data updating team and working on a maker map

Daryl: Communications

• Sadly ill so please DM him some well wishes

Sean: Creative Director

• Looking for a date to bring in City Council member and show him how awesome we are
  • Will invite to next cookout, and explore other dates if that doesn't work
• Branding documents incoming soon
• Sean has not felt up to tomofoolery lately so send him your favorite joke!

Billy: Facilities

• Hang tags and parking tickets are being used, although Billy has not gotten an opportunity to throw much away yet.
• Billy has received all materials for air compressor project and will work on putting together a work group
  • It will be 2-3 days of work, kind of a schlep, but hopefully will happen soon
• Russell found an electrician for the power drop but the price was kinda high - looking for someone new

Other stuff

• Next meeting June 29, 2025 - see you all there!