BoardMeeting201907

Board Meeting: July 25, 2019

Time & Location

• Meeting Located at 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN
• 6:30 PM

Attendees

Board: Issac Merkle, Jondale Stratton, Tracy Homer, Bryan Howard, Sue Joslin, Billy Huddleston, Sean Simoneau, Andrew Messersmith, Tabby Sheldon

Members: Tony B., Ryan C. (for about 2 minutes)

Minutes

• Don't tell Sean but the next meeting actually starts 15 minutes after the scheduled time.
• Don't tell the city that we have meetings because that is why Sean is late all the time.
• Financial update by Sue:
  • How many sponsored members do we actually have? We don't know because we are bad at keeping up with that record!
  • According to Sue's new report, just our General Fund is up more than $5k for the year.
  • Look at us being successful and all that.
  • Andrew is fussing because we pay for Amazon Prime.
• Tabby updated us on whether the state requires us to keep record of member's addresses.
  • The answer is .. we still really don't know. What does "available" mean?
  • Tracy apologizes for reading the law
  • Tabby will give all the information and we'll keep discussing next month.
• Tracy lays out a lot of stuff about a new insurance policy (see below)
• Issac and Sean wanted to talk about a Promotional Budget Line, but Sue's handouts showed we already had one, so now they're gonna spend the money.
• Jondale made a case for a public IRC that is connected to an External Mattermost channel (see below).
  • Who is allowed in? Should there be moderation? What kind?
  • Tracy will only vote for it if it creates no administrative burden for her personally.
• Andrew and Billy update about codes compliance.
  • New door is getting better and the old door too!
  • Need to pour concrete for egress door
• Andrew also updated on grant projects
  • We need to spend money, stat!
  • We broke Jondale's stuff and we're going to try not break it again while digging better holes.
• Issac's next item is half-baked. (It's that the amp for the sound system is broken)
  • Tabby knows a guy that knows a guy that might donate stuff
• Tracy updated on KILLSWITCH committee stuff
  • Still waiting to hear a confirmation from Token Gaming Tavern
  • Hoping this Tuesday to set some benchmark dates to move things forward in a regular manner
  • How can we best taunt the closest makerspaces into joining in the fight?
• Sue sent out rental bay invoices.
• Next board meeting August 22nd, 6:15pm

Votes

• Voted unanimously to enact the "Issac Plan" which he just stated what his opinion what we need coverage on and we all agreed with him.
• Voted unanimously for Tony as Safety Czar
• Voted unanimously for a IRC bridge in Mattermost, public on the website, and Board only on Mattermost - to see what happens.