January 18 2018

Roll Call

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

• Members

Standing Items

• Approve previous minutes
• Treasurer’s Report
  • Finance Committee Report

New Business

Metalshop access policy

Proposal to add to the machine access: Advanced tools require demonstration of safe and correct operation to an approved authorizer, as listed on the Wiki, or attendance in an instructional class. These tools are: Welders, Plasma Cutter, Forge, Lathes, Manual Mill, CNC Plasma, Powder coating equipment, Oxy / Acetylene torch, and the Tormach CNC Mill.

Committee lead selection

Gallery, Consignment, Special Projects, New Building

No decluttering committee at this time, Christian will appoint volunteers/assistants as needed.

Investment Account

Finance committee requests authorization to open a TDAmeritrade investment account to invest the bulk of our checking account funds. Officers would be directed to carry out the process without further delay.

Class pricing policy

As proposed https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kugCV31JPNFda9FLPW1ROOZgDaMuqs0dfE-zOneWI3g/edit?usp=sharing

Program Reports

• Makerspace
• DevICT
• Maker Academy/Outreach - SWE Engineering Expo is March 10
• Kansas Linux Fest will not be in May, leads are looking at schedule

Committee Reports

Committee signup is at http://bit.ly/makeict11

Committees

• Finance (David)
• Membership and Events (LaDeana)
  • Kansas Day party on the 5th Monday January 29
  • Next general meeting is March
  • Membership report
    • Jan 2018 - 29 new members (so far)
    • Dec 2017 - 8 new members
    • Nov 2017 - 16 new members
    • Database change is causing issues with our pull of lapsed members.
• IT
  • Discourse transition plan in work
    • Backups
    • More people with more access
• Security (Matt P)
  • Exits in the classroom - David/Christian to explore the need for this
  • Outside lighting - Waiting on cameras
  • Security cameras - Waiting on David's hanging party
  • Unsupervised children - Reminder to follow policies. No policy changes to be discussed
  • Christian will re-write badge policy for February approval
• Scholarships (Kim)
• Outreach (Barb)
• Makerfaire (James S)
• Fundraising/Donor recognition (Paul M)
• Communications (James L)
• Strategic Vision (Malissa)
  • NOMCON June 9-10 Santa Fe New Mexico
• Special Projects (David)
  • Electric Bus - David to work with the state and original donaors to re-issue the title