September 20 2018

September 20 2018

AGENDA

Roll Call

Board Members

• President - Kim Burton - present
• Vice President - LaDeana Dockery - present
• Treasurer - David Springs - present
• Secretary - Ken Steadman - present
• At Large Director - TBD - elected Barb Davis
• At Large Director - Rustin Atkeisson- present
• At Large Director - Malissa Long - present
• At Large Director - James Lancaster - present

Members

• Josh Robinson
• Tom Bloom
• Scott Sullivan
• Nick Endicott
• Meghan Iacuzzi
• Patrick Hutchison
• Dominic Canare
• Roz Canare

Standing Items

• Thanks & recognition
  • David Springs & Dominic Canare for his dedication to the Logan’s epic wheelchair project

• Safety and security
  • Member asked for lights out front in addition to the marquee
  • Have lights in the back for the alley and side, could use them for out front

• Treasurer's report
  • Currently have more members than projected
  • At 102% of budget when including fundraisers
  • Made roughly $4K
  • Started working with a CPA to look over finances last month
• Questions to be answered each month:
  • Bank balance compared to last month
  • How much did we make?
  • How much did we spend?
  • Working with accountant - CPA so next month we can go through that

Old Business

Vacancy Filling

• New board member, if the election did not yield a quorum
  • 83 votes in the election, 105 was a quorum so we did not make that
  • Perfect tie between Nick & Barb
  • Flip Coin to see who is the new board member (tails for Nick)
    • Toss came up heads - Barb

@DECISION: Barb has been elected to fill the Member At Large position.

• Metalshop area lead
  • Motion to appoint Josh Robinson by Malissa, seconded by Ken
  • Six for, one abstained, one absent

@DECISION: Josh Robinson has been elected to fill the Metal Shop lead.

• Fablab area lead
  • Will ask for people to volunteer
    • Might ask Steve Thorton

Finance committee

• DevICT/KLF status
  • Might be separate organizations, not necessarily to be associated on next month’s agenda

Education

• no update

Gun/firearms policy

• Ken - no updates

Magic Wheelchair update

• Dom visited Logan and his family and got some insight on how to control the wheelchair
  • It was fun!
  • Chair body and electronics are coming along
• David Springs - Got an e-mail from KSN, will be talking with them and taking video
• Show up on Sunday if you want to help out!

Scholarship policy proposals

Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g9Q4jOpQRPOSLnYfKIEh4LUsI5zg8AfgHuOA2iNWm0Q/edit?usp=sharing Other proposals?

• Kim withdraws proposal
• Dom is happy to see that the proposal was removed
  • If it had been pushed forward, would have recommended trying to get more people involved with the scholarship program

Bylaws re-write

Kim has bylaws draft from SCORE and would like help merging this with our existing bylaws for a January proposal to the membership.

• draft was sent to LaDeana
• draft can also be sent to the admin list
  • Would like to vote at December quarterly meeting

Committee Assignments (7:45)

Signup at http://bit.ly/makeict26 We have volunteer leaders for:

• Communications
• Creator Showroom
• Makerfaire
• Membership
• New Building
• Outreach
• Safety
• Wikibrarian (propose combining with communications)

No one has offered to lead:

• Finance
• Fundraising
• IT
• Scholarships (propose combining with membership)
• Security (propose combining with safety)
• Special Projects

Appointing new leads

1. IT- Tom Bloom
2. Membership (and Community outreach) - Shannon Fisher
3. New Building- Jens Torrel
4. Creator Showroom - Dean Day
5. Communications (and Wikibrarian) - LaDeana Dockery
6. Security (and Safety) - Ken Steadman
7. Scholarships- Nick Endicott
8. Outreach (and Education) - Daryl Goad
9. Fundraising- Meghan Iacuzzi
10. Special Projects (and Makerfaire) - Nicole Kirkhart

• Motion to appoint the above by Ken, Second by Rustin
  • Discussion
    • six in favor, one abstain, one absent

@DECISION: Approve new committees as posted in the 20 Sept minutes.

• Kim Burton to update the descriptions for each smooshed together group
  • Dominic voiced his concern over several parts of the formerly proposed scholarship policy.
• Malissa still working on code of conduct

• LeDeana motion to adjourn; Malissa seconded

Vote-seven to approved, none abstain.