BoardMeeting201802

Board Meeting: February 23, 2018

Time & Location

• Meeting Located at 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN
• 7:00 PM

Attendees

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

Members: Andrew Messersmith

Minutes

• 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?

People that Doug shot with the marshmallow gun

• James
• Tracy
• Issac
• James again

Votes

• Andrew's member vote was up, so we awkwardly voted for him in front of him