BoardMeeting202211

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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


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