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Board Meeting: August 15, 2021

Time & Location

  • Meeting Located virtually on Big Blue Button
  • 2:00 PM

Attendees

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

Members: Andrew, DeeDee, John N., Amos, Russel, Tony


Minutes

  • Pre-meeting-czar-meeting
    • Talked about the planer that everyone loves to kill
    • Talked about electrical situation in the Blacksmithing Building
    • Looked again at new layout - the date is approaching!
  • Sue's financial update
    • Lots of spending this month but good stuff
    • Discussed proposal to disburse funds to zones, especially in the wake of adding new bay (see vote below)
  • Fundraising
    • Meeting with possible help for Welding Project
  • Member update - at 234!
  • Tracy will make an effort to look at languishing members who have stopped paying and we have forgotten about them
  • Mayor's Maker Council update by Sean
    • Maker Fair plans are getting going - should meet soon at KM
  • Issac brought to attention the hobo camp situation next door - plan is to email Stanley with any issues
  • Western Heights project may or may not contact us in the future but have not thus far
    • We can still submit our ideas to them to see if it works for them - let's do that over dinner
  • Trademark Infringement? Sean can not get in contact with anyone
  • Classroom ducting guy was out of town, Billy is going to re-contact
  • DME container - shopping around for a decent priced one
    • Issac is also working on figuring out where the container will go and get approval from building owners
  • Should we go back to requiring everyone to mask?
    • Maybe we only do masks on Tuesdays and classes?
    • It seems we are not in agreement about any of this yet
  • KM has been asked if they want to host a vaccine clinic - do we want to do that?
    • Lets give that opportunity to SPARK
  • Amos wanted to talk about the automated dust collection system

Votes

  • Voted unanimously to disburse $500 to each zone from the general fund
  • Voted unanimously to increase the possible budget for the ridiculously expensive shipping container to $5000