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== Board Meeting: April 26th, 2020==

=== Time & Location ===
*Meeting Located virtually on Big Blue Button
*2:00 PM

=== Attendees ===


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

== Minutes ==

*Treasurer's report
**Not much activity since no one is doing anything
**Still coming out ahead
**Since it is so late in the month, sue shared this months totals and we're still squeaking by ahead for the month
**Membership dues are holding steady

*Big blue button report: the server is holding up pretty well - except this past Tuesday the recording was a bit raggedy
*Maybe upgrading the server would be good idea - reboot on Tuesdays
*Are members using this on their own?  do we know?
*We've had couple hundred people watch on Facebook and our face shield post has been very popular
*Maybe asking people for likes and shares on our video show and share will increase our reach
*Suzannah is willing to help with the facebook things

*The virtual show and shares has been going well
*We could use a more variety of people
*Except Issac should keep sharing every week
*Voted almost unanimously to have Tracy's mom do a show and share next week
*Is it intentional that people's show and share's have gone too long?  Sometimes it gets a bit out of hand but how do we deal with that?
*We can remind people or rely on the moderator to move things along

*Suzannah has a mystery snail that is behind her and she showed us all on camera
*Sean's cat is loud
*We took a small break to talk about pet snails

*As far as the building building - there has been no work on it so the roof is half done and people are antsy to start working on it
*Hopefully as soon as the stay at home order expires, we will get back at it

*There should be a press conference tomorrow in Knoxville about guidelines for reopening the city

*Billy just joined and his hair is amazing

*If the mayor reopens everything - we pretty much agree that we would reopen for members only but not have public events quite yet
*Do we require people to use masks in the shop?
*That brings up the issue of enforcement.
*Maybe we'd get more buy-in if we "strongly encourage" instead of enforce.
*We should put it upon ourselves to make sure soap and paper towels are available for members.

*Can we amass a small stockpile of cloth masks that we can make available to our members?
*Yes we probably can.

*We should be prepared to to send a member email as soon as we get word about the press conference.

*How can we better promote Knox Makers through this?
*We could ask people who have worked on things to shoot small videos of themselves working on things and sending it public.



=== Votes ===
*Voted unanimously to strongly encourage members to wear masks while in the shop, for when we reopen to members.