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== Board Meeting: October 25, 2020==

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

=== Attendees ===

Board: Issac Merkle, Tracy Homer, Bryan Howard, Suzannah Alexander, Sean Simoneau, Sue Joslin, Billy Huddleston, Jondale Stratton
Members: DeeDee D., John N.

=== Minutes ===
*Financial report
**Paypal takes a lot of money but there is no other option?
*Membership report
**Up to 194 members!
**New join form is great - let's talk more about it
*New Join form
**Should force people to upload photo?
**Should give option for people to start trial month right away
**Tracy will write and submit verbiage for new page
*Should we introduce a super-cheap rate for supporters and should we give them some perks?
*Talked about best way to notify the membership of a new trial member - perhaps a post to mattermost
**And also congratulate people that have become full members
*KM/Spark ventures
**If we create an adaptive technology should we or can we sell those things to the general public
**Everything would be open and documented so people could replicate it instead of purchasing
**We'll see what our attorney says
*Welding workshop concept
**The idea is to set up a program where some of our welders could teach teens in foster care some welding skills and prepare them for the workforce in this way
**Can we formally endorse this program so it can move forward officially
*Issac has found a few volunteers who would be willing to write grants for us
*Emergency exit is janky looking and needs to be fixed.
**Snakes!
*Lease agreement
**Sign or send to lawyers?
*Updated COVID-19 regulations?
**Should we allow members to bring guests in the shop? Yes
**Should we allow general public into classes? Yes with a cap on classes of six students
*Tracy has gotten a "demerit" from Issac for failing to email Jay about the aircon
*Next meeting TBD

=== Votes ===
*Voted 7-1 to require people to send a photo along with their membership form
*Voted unanimously to change membership rules to remove '''Accepting New Members: Point 2''' from the membership rules: (The membership will be notified via email at least 5 days in advance of all probationary member's impending upgrade to keyholder status.)
*Voted unanimously to sign the lease after looking once more to make sure no added confusing verbiage has been added since the last iteration

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Tracy: Created page with "== Board Meeting: October 25, 2020== === Time & Location === *Meeting Located virtually on Big Blue Button *2:00 PM === Attendees === Board: Issac Merkle, Tracy Homer, Bry..."

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