Revision as of 20:22, 18 April 2019

AGENDA

Roll Call

Board Members

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

Members

Dean Day
Mark Satoria
Mark Springs
Alysa Bumgarner
Kevin Bumgarner
Jerry Carpenter
Angelita Mejia
Jeff Eck
Philip Fraser
Doug Wilson
Terrence Laurendine
Jens Torrel
Christian Kindel
Shannon Fisher
Logan Pajunen
Nalini Fraser

Standing Items

Thanks & recognition
- Kim Burton for help with the Explorer Post! (& Rustin for setting it up)
- Thanks Barb & Kim for running a girl scout camp
- Thanks Dean for lots of great work on the jewelry lab
- Thanks RAT & Rustin for helping to get sheetrock up
- Thanks to the SWE expo helpers - Rustin, James, LaDeana, Barb, Kim, and all the helpers!
Safety and security
- Reminder - when you sign a key form make sure you’re comfortable with this person!.
Treasurer's report
- We need to inventory our stuff with photos and serial numbers!
- Kim to plan an Inventory Party
- Monthly report can be reviewed at : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t4UpYXW7YWUJRWSlvY1ii_0-8ASJ-PQs

New Business

Strategic planning

Top 5 things Strategic Initiatives

Establish MakeICT as a regional leader in non-traditional education
Increase member value, diversify and fully engage the membership
Raise MakeICT’s reputation and prestige locally, regionally and nationally
Fostering technical, creative, entrepreneurial, job creation
Build core organizational capacity
Encourage making in Wichita

Further discussion will be in the forum

Proposed policy discussion

Member meeting procedures
- Who else should have the right to call a member meeting?
  - Petition of ten members
  - Or the board, whenever we want
  - Seven calendar days in advance
  - Leads can call meeting
  - Kim/Ken to write up a policy http://makeict.org/wiki/Standing_rules#Membership_Meetings

Educational Program Updates

May 23 - How to teach a class

Statistics posted to https://talk.makeict.org/t/education-stats/3084

Upcoming Events

Makerfaire

What's needed for makerfaire?

Friday, April 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Barb - Windtunnel booth

- Kim will help Saturday
- Alysa will help Friday

Malissa - Bags (Saturday only)

- Josh is helping Saturday
- LaDeana, Angel,

Rustin - Dragons

Riverfest

STEAM city - 1st Sunday Kids Corner - Barb still needs a schedule Barb to get the final schedule and tell them we need ~10 buttons Last day for button discount is May 4

NOMCON funds (June 14th-16th‎)

Who wants to go? (Chattanooga Tennessee, ~12hr 37min drive, 15hr by train)

Kim, Malissa, LaDeana, James, Rhonda
Kim moves that we set aside $1000 maximum to reimburse for NOMCON tickets
- Whoever’s going will decide how to split this if more than four people are going
- Must bring a report back before being reimbursed
Barb seconds the motion
Discussion:
- Questions about the value of NOMCON and their activities, cost/benefit
- Good chance to network with other spaces (did form MidWest Maker Alliance last time)
- Only way to get into the solar prize
- Takeaways from last year - Magic Wheelchair support
  - calling for a vote one in favor, four opposed, two abstaining

Annual Meeting

Last year's proposal was:

May 18 call for nominations & questions (actually happened May 11, people were antsy) [1]
June 9 deadline for questions
June 16 Annual Meeting

Kim is working a partnership with Museum of World Treasures to trade for space.

Avoid Father's day June 16, NOMCON June 14th-16th‎, avoid Riverfest May 31-June 8, Kim will be out of town June 22 and on

Election committee needed two weeks out, per Voting policy.

Old Business

Is the bus on auction yet? - No, still looking at ebay option or a straight sale

Strategic Planning

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1uLySAcB2aZiHrW3O-PAsyNQb7d5h77Nj

Other

Committee Reports

Requested items from each committee:

Accomplishments this month
Upcoming goals
Where do you need help/how to get involved?

IT - Tom Bloom

Decision last month was to pay for wild apricot for a year

Membership (and Community outreach) - Shannon Fisher

Shannon requested a few minutes to discuss volunteer recruitment

With help from LaDeana
Continue to have same members volunteer
Would like more/different members helping
Suggest a minimum volunteer hours per year
We do have a seperate volunteer calendar
Need help contacting members and getting them involved
Shannon would like access to more emails (Christian/David to help)
Need a better way to hold accountability over people attending orientation
Should have a workshop to brainstorm more ideas
(Cleanup day was awesome)
Suggest having teachers plug volunteer opportunities
May need to put up signage to get people to help around with small things like taking out the trash

Creator Showroom - Dean Day

Communications (and Wikibrarian) - LaDeana Dockery

Security (and Safety) - Ken Steadman

Scholarships- Nick Endicott

Outreach (and Education) - Daryl Goad

Fundraising- Meghan Iacuzzi

Special Projects (and Makerfaire) - Nicole Kirkhart

Building committee

David Springs’ brother Mark is involved in the process and he will be excusing himself from discussion and any voting on the elementary school near Mt Vernon.
Jens briefed slides (attach)
Mark Springs is now the owner of the facility. Cash price is $155K with contents or $170K and owner carries. Wants MakeICT to have it.
- Going with a bank would not change those numbers
School tours and task list
Would have 30 calendar days from tonight (4/18/2019) to come to a decision on the building
Letter signed by 24 members was provided to board supporting the acquiring of Mark S. property on Mt Vernon.
Add standing Rule
- A member meeting may be called by Jens Torell (the building committee lead) and 3 members of the board in April or May 2019. This shall cease to be a standing rule after June 1, 2019.
- James Lancaster made motion to accept standing rule, Ken Steadman seconded the motion
- Motion passes. 7 approved, 0 against, 0 abstained

@DECISION: A member meeting may be called by Jens Torell (the building committee lead) and 3 members of the board in April or May 2019. This shall cease to be a standing rule after June 1, 2019.

Tasks:

Schedule a board meeting (May 5)
Need to advertise the discussed location (keep it internal, e-mail and printed around 1500 Douglas)
Schedule a member visit day (April 28th, 1pm to 7pm)
Schedule a member meeting to vote (possibly the next day
Jens is meeting with realtor and will work with property inspectors
Board Meeting on May 5th.

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 Top 5 things
 Strategic Initiatives
-. Establish MakeICT as a regional leader in non-traditional education
+# Establish MakeICT as a regional leader in non-traditional education
-. Increase member value, diversify and fully engage the membership
+# Increase member value, diversify and fully engage the membership
-. Raise MakeICT’s reputation and prestige locally, regionally and nationally
+# Raise MakeICT’s reputation and prestige locally, regionally and nationally
-. Fostering technical, creative, entrepreneurial,  job creation
+# Fostering technical, creative, entrepreneurial,  job creation
-. Build core organizational capacity
+# Build core organizational capacity
-. Encourage making in Wichita
+# Encourage making in Wichita
 Further discussion will be in the forum

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