August 28 2017

Roll Call

• Board Members
  • President - Kim Burton
  • Vice President - James Lancaster
  • Treasurer - David Springs - Late
  • Secretary - Rustin Atkeisson
  • At Large Director - LaDeana Dockery
  • At Large Director - Kip Landwehr - Absent
  • At Large Director - Malissa Long
  • At Large Director - Kez Cook - Teleconference
  • Immediate Past President - Logan Pajunen - Absent

• Members
  • Curt Gridley
  • Tom McGuire
  • Jeremiah Burian
  • Paul Baseberg
  • Christian Kindel
  • James Seymore
  • Mike Hutton
  • Tom Bloom
  • Matthew Pogue

• Members

Decisions between board meetings

• @DECISION: Susan is authorized to go forward with gallery lighting project, expenses apporoved up to $900 (email vote August 12 2017)

Standing Items

• Approve previous minutes July 17 2017 - Approved
• Treasurer’s Report
• Membership Report

New Business

• Approve items tagged for removal - Approved
  • Break room recycling tower
  • Classroom Extra doors
  • Classroom Racetrack boards (4)
  • Classroom/Textiles Cutting table
  • Metal shop spare bandsaw
  • Metal shop broken Welder
  • Metal shop Forge
  • Metal shop Bike stands
  • Metal shop automotive tool lot
  • Metal shop Hydraulic tool set
  • Metal shop chain hoist
  • Wood shop Chop saw
  • Wood shop Bandsaw
  • Lounge brown couch
  • Outreach closet roll up signs
  • Classroom Heavy red chairs - From United Way, Cannot be sold, must go back to United Way

• New request: Classroom requests $3000 for new tables
  • Should this be a member build project?
  • finding ‘In Kind Donation’ for table material
  • Lewis is the responsible area lead
  • current tables work, but could be better
  • Contact local aircraft companies for materials
  • Move to increase class room budget to $1000 - approved 4 of 7 board members approved

• New request: $360/year for mailchimp pro account - 7 of 7 approved

• Garage sale - first week in November
  • Can members sell stuff too?
  • Need garage sale permit - David Springs volunteered to get permit
  • Will our removal processes survive this?
  • Any left overs are hauled to dump

• Art Auction - final Friday in October
  • What should the money be allocated for? - list to be generated for area tools
  • Put out a call for artists
  • Random draw to see which area gets X-amount donation

• Security policy - if security revokes your key access, how do you get it back?

• Are email votes allowed?
  • Kim feels that the admin list should be categorized as an ongoing board meeting
  • If email votes are NOT allowed, how do we approve expenses for emergency maintenance?
  • There are several examples of times we've already done this.
  • Kez C. to establish process for e-mail voting

• Electric Bus - committee needs a lead
  • James L was tasked to renew tags (Note: Information was not provided to enable that, hopefully have that now)
  • David Springs volunteered to get tags (to work with Barb D. to get paperwork)
  • Mike B has volunteered to lead it.

• Class pricing policy
  • Review survey
  • Majority agreed that teachers/instructors should be compensated

• Director email list cleanup
  • Done, but it caused some permission issues, let's review

• Security Deputies
  • Board to approve security officers with Matt Pogue’s approval (Barb Davis, Mike Barushok)
  • 6 of 7 board members approved

• Makerspace program director - start lining up the next one
• Committee signup
• Building committee
• Partnerships
  • Possible: Lake Afton Public Observatory
    • Possibly shared workshops, such as Astrophotography, and others
    • Membership cards was one thing (which make sense, as they are limited and fixed duration, 1 year)
      • Per David: Costs about $1 for NFC cards, NFC not necessary.
    • Permission to pursue this, along the lines of other agreements with groups
  • Prototyping requests $625 for a 3" button making kit

Decision Summary

@DECISION: Susan is authorized to go forward with gallery lighting project, expenses approved up to $900 (email vote August 12 2017)