July 17 2017

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
  • Immediate Past President - Logan Pajunen

• Members
  • Curt Gridley
  • Tracy Hoover
  • Tom McGuire
  • Jeremiah Burian
  • Dean Day
  • Mike Barushok
  • Mike Hutton
  • Matt Pogue

Standing Items

• Approve previous minutes June 19 2017
  • @TODO (Kip, no date): Send out minutes that need to be approved to the board.
• Treasurer’s Report
• Membership Report -366 members?
• MakerFaire
  • Need more volunteers
  • Need way to verify MakeICT members
    • @TODO (, On July 21, 2017): Export spreadsheet of current members from WA.
  • Need members to go to MakeICT booth to check in
  • Need wrap up meeting for MakerFaire
• Maker Academy - committee has until September to make recommendations, but will give an update today if time allows

New Business

• Society of Creative Anachronism partnership (time period 600-1600)
  • SCA is a 501 non-profit
  • Per the partnership agreement, if SCA offers a class, they’ll let us know and MakeICT members may participate.
  • Tanna(?) is offering a pinch pot class and there were some issues with the fees for nonmembers, as most of the SCA members are not members of MakeICT.
    • Tom made it a flat rate for everyone
    • Because of the number of people expected, the class may be held in the classroom instead of the ceramics room
    • Concern about registrations
    • Dean Day - liaison between SCA and MakeICT
  • Motion to authorize Tom to waive the facility fees for SCA members attending an SCA workshop, due to the Collaborative Agreement with SCA.
    • Motion passes
  • @DECISION: Tom can waive the $5 facility fee for SCA members attending an SCA workshop, due to the Collaborative Agreement with SCA.

• Security policy - if security revokes your key access, how do you get it back?
  • Must complete new member key application and submit to board, or a separate meeting
  • Membership is not tied to key access
    • Need to determine refund policy for 6month and 1yr memberships
  • No formal method to notify member that his/her key was revoked
    • Security LEAD to notify to person, with board CC’ed
    • Possibly add an amendment to the Key Policy that states: The Security Lead, or designated alternate, will notify the member by email within 48 hours if key privileges are revoked for reasons related to policy violations.
  • @TODO (Matt Pogue, Before the next Board meeting.): Write an amendment for the Key Policy that can be voted on by the Board.
    • @TODO (Kim, On August 21, 2017): Generate e-mail to notify key being disabled.

• Discussion about the member discussed at the last board meeting
  • @TODO (Mike H., no date): Setup a meeting with the member and Kez to discuss the member’s actions.

• Electric Bus - committee needs a lead, bus has no seats, motion to be okay with that.
  • Relaunch the bus meeting?
  • Issue of Logan throwing away the bus seats without Board approval.
  • Needs inside cleaned
  • Mike Barushok is willing to head up a committee to work on the bus.
  • Still paying for insurance
  • Parking lot up for rent across New York St from MakeICT
  • Bus does have tag and (maybe) a valid Kansas title
  • James L is willing to renew the tags this week

• Class pricing policy
  • Need to put out a poll for additional fees to non-members

• Director email list cleanup
  • Going to clean up the list to only include current board members and program directors tonight

• Maker Academy update
  • Kim has been going to the meetings
  • Have talked about some good things
  • Two main questions that they’re attempting to answer
    • “What educational program does Wichita need?”
    • “What are our capabilities and capacity to provide?”
  • Kim requested a focus group with K-12 teachers
    • Laura is supposed to provide contacts for the committee

• Drum Sander
  • May be more maintenance
  • Would be restricted use
  • Will skip on this opportunity

• Security Deputies
  • Board to approve security officers with Matt Pogue’s approval

• Why is it so hot in here
  • Not discussed

• Committee signup - review job descriptions (Kim will present)
  • Not discussed

• Member survey - know where to read ([1])
  • Not discussed

• Where Do You Live survey review ([2])
  • Not discussed

• Annual Calendar - review upcoming events
  • Not discussed