BoardMeeting202505

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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!

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