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== Board Meeting: ==

=== Time & Location ===
March 16, 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====
*Building purchasing situation
**Someone contacted Spark to ask if KM was interested in buying the building. We are still wondering who the owners actually are
**We have a meeting to talk to the person (he's a realtor) to find out what the deal is - he wants to represent us to buy
**We have also been exploring different financing options and have some promising leads 
**We are in a position to actually move forward in a meaningful way finally
**We were also encouraged to go look at a former Dollar General by KCDC, we didn't really like it much for various reasons (smaller, needs a lot of work)
**We were still glad to go look at the DG and learn the process and possibly work with KCDC in the future
**Issac is *also* looking at 625 Collective situation - maybe too fancy for our budget and possibly only a lease, but they are excited to talk to us so Issac is going to do that
*Documentary - they are done shooting and beginning editing, looking for photos
*Interview with Cityview Magazine - the writer visited last Tuesday and did all the things (even NMO) - she wants photographs and to interview a few people
*Maker Education Meetup - we hosted the last meeting and the group was excited to tour and made some connections
*Vestival is coming up on May 10 - we will be parking (they'll have a shuttle) and have demo booths and tours - little responsibility and good payoff
*Steps House - seems to have petered out

====Sue: Treasurer====
*Income looks less than normal but last month was a bit inflated for various reasons
*Expenses are pretty normal - nothing special
*The Board decided to cover the cost of welding gas and BS propane - do we want to continue that? It's a lot of money! We'll keep watching.
*Sue is setting up ACH (bank transfer) available for our members - will save a lot in bank fees to Paypal (last year we had over $5k in fees)

====Tracy: Membership Director====
*351 members
*Tracy did her quarerly purge this month and only had a few - most of them just had not noticed that their paypal stopped paying and fixed it immediately
*If paypal fails once, it just dumps you so if people don't notice, they just aren't paying
*If you get an email from me about your dues - I'm not mad and she hates sending them! 

====Russell: Community Director====
*Tuesday night talks and crafts - staying full at least a month in advance - good job Russell
*Tool instruction - Russell has made a few and is ready to put them out on Tuesday
*Newsletter... he's working on it

====Jondale: Tech Director====
*MeshCentral - All done yay - if people have machines in their zones and want access to them from home let him know
*Single Sign-on - it takes about 2 hours to do a migration to new Mattermost so some night, everyone will be logged out - so make sure you sign up for the SSO
**The fix for people who have not registered, is to 1. Register 2. Jondale run a script to update them to new MM
*HaxDB refresh - have not started, but will work on after moving some stuff more locally hosted
*Mayor's Maker Council - Dogwood Arts Festival coming up (April 12th) - they've moved us to a different (smaller) location (boo)
**Quite a few KM people to do workshops and demos - if anyone wants to help, talk to Jondale
**Council now has two subgroups, Jondale is in the Makerspace group
**Hey look its us - https://themakercity.org/maker/knox-makers/

====Daryl: Communications====
*Website situation - slower going than he'd like but he's working on it
*Took some photos with Michael Bellamy, need more action-y ones still
*Looking at making it easier for Sue and the website playing well with Qbooks
*Also trying to get SSO implemented - working with Jondale for a good plugin
*How much data migration do we want? (probably don't need everything)
*Exploring a plugin to expand payment options also

====Sean: Creative Director====
*Scholarship program - would Sean like to take this over? 
*Sean will put his branding document up for the board for commentary
*Podcasts: Sean has contacted a few media updates around town but has not heard back 
*Tomfoolery - [Mr._Wrenchy] and [Nutso]
*Looking at some accounts management platforms to streamline all of the socials
*Issac has a silly idea - selfie station in the shop?
*Future contest - make the best small thing to put in the Mystery Maker Machine

====Billy: Facilities====
*Tages and tickets are being given out and hung about the shop for czarsa nd members
*Sue submitted the proposal for the air compressor system - that is moving forward
*Has to get quotes for a power drop because it's more complicated than a normal thing

===Other stuff====
*We have maybe had an uptick in people leaving the space unsecured, do we need more cameras
**Perhaps a better lock system - it's kind of jank if no one has noticed
**We have to be better at making sure people keep up on locking up and making sure the next person has a key
**All good ideas but you can't use technology to solve people problems
**Please think about it on how to encourage and push the importance to our members how vital it is to keep things secure
*Next meeting date: April 20, 2025
*Come to the cookout on Tuesday!



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