BoardMeeting202004

Board Meeting: April 26th, 2020

Board: Issac Merkle, Jondale Stratton, Tracy Homer, Bryan Howard, Suzannah Alexander, Sean Simoneau, Sue Joslin, Billy Huddleston

Treasurer's report
- Not much activity since no one is doing anything
- Still coming out ahead
- Since it is so late in the month, sue shared this months totals and we're still squeaking by ahead for the month
- Membership dues are holding steady

Big blue button report: the server is holding up pretty well - except this past Tuesday the recording was a bit raggedy
Maybe upgrading the server would be good idea - reboot on Tuesdays
Are members using this on their own? do we know?
We've had couple hundred people watch on Facebook and our face shield post has been very popular
Maybe asking people for likes and shares on our video show and share will increase our reach
Suzannah is willing to help with the facebook things

The virtual show and shares has been going well
We could use a more variety of people
Except Issac should keep sharing every week
Voted almost unanimously to have Tracy's mom do a show and share next week
Is it intentional that people's show and share's have gone too long? Sometimes it gets a bit out of hand but how do we deal with that?
We can remind people or rely on the moderator to move things along

As far as the building building - there has been no work on it so the roof is half done and people are antsy to start working on it
Hopefully as soon as the stay at home order expires, we will get back at it

There should be a press conference tomorrow in Knoxville about guidelines for reopening the city

If the mayor reopens everything - we pretty much agree that we would reopen for members only but not have public events quite yet
Do we require people to use masks in the shop?
That brings up the issue of enforcement.
Maybe we'd get more buy-in if we "strongly encourage" instead of enforce.
We should put it upon ourselves to make sure soap and paper towels are available for members.

Can we amass a small stockpile of cloth masks that we can make available to our members?
Yes we probably can.

We should be prepared to to send a member email as soon as we get word about the press conference.

How can we better promote Knox Makers through this?
We could ask people who have worked on things to shoot small videos of themselves working on things and sending it public.

Voted unanimously to strongly encourage members to wear masks while in the shop, for when we reopen to members.