BoardMeeting201802

Board Meeting: February 23, 2018

Board: Doug Laney, Tracy Homer, Issac Merkle, Jondale Stratton, Bryan Howard, James Broyles, Laurie Kay

Members: Andrew Messersmith

Went over last month's meeting minutes
Reviewed financial status, as painlessly as possible
Went over Board todo list
Discussed upcoming grant opportunities
- Letter of Intent submitted to East Tennessee Foundation - will hear back April 2nd
- Application submitted to City of Knoxville
- Bailey Opportunity Grant - this might be our last year to apply due to Annual Gross Revenue (application due March 18)
Discussed having a standard "kit" for doing outside events
Doug told us not to have a Knox Makers booth at the local Nazi rally
Talked about Killswitch and how best to proceed with repairs and competition
Issac said that Killswitch without competition would be a "fucking Gallagher show" and that crushing watermelons is sad
Discussed whether things like metal or woodworking filters should be paid for out of the general budget or the zone budgets
Briefly mentioned membership subsidies to zones and whether to segregate the metal zone into smaller zones
Bathroom break!
Laurie will eat weird things for money
Jondale updated us on updating the legal documents - with handouts!
- Still needed: Membership Agreement, Leased space agreement, waivers for minors, media release
- Can we have a TL;DR for our documents?