Board Meeting Notes 2016-12-06: Difference between revisions

From Pumping Station One
Esp (talk | contribs)
Created page with "{{Board Meeting Notes | Previous YYYY-MM-DD=2016-11-15 | Next YYYY-MM-DD=2016-12-20 | YYYY=2016 }} Meeting Start: == Attendance == * Board Members ** * Other Members ** =..."
 
Esp (talk | contribs)
 
(5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 9: Line 9:
== Attendance ==
== Attendance ==
* Board Members
* Board Members
**
** Justin
** Jennie
** Brian
** Lyn
** Michael
** Ray
** Simon


* Other Members
* Other Members
**
** Adriana


== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==
Line 25: Line 31:
* Check RT queue
* Check RT queue
* New business
* New business
** Meeting with Insurance broker
** ADA assessment
** Membership audit / doorcode change
** Closing out Q1 - Q3 books / receipt submissions
* Old business
* Old business
** IT systems group followup


== Minutes ==
== Minutes ==
Line 32: Line 43:


=== Consent Agenda ===
=== Consent Agenda ===
* Previous minutes are approved


=== Committee Reports ===
=== Committee Reports ===


Reports from [[Committees]]
Reports from [[Committees]]
Expenses
* Some things have been spent against the tool cage budget and need a board vote approval
** Socket set purchased by Ron for hot metals was billed to tool cage is only expenditure post tool cage dissolution
* Buildout committee
** Vote funding expires the 31st
** Plan to dissolve the committee in our first meeting of the new year
* Bylaws committee
** Lawyers can't review anything until January


=== Mail ===
=== Mail ===
* Junk and Tony


=== Financial Report ===
=== Financial Report ===
* '''Chase Checking:'''  
* '''Chase Checking:''' $102,236.29'  
* '''Chase Savings:'''  
* '''Chase Savings:''' $35,670.37
* '''PEX:'''  
* '''PEX:''' 9,608.62
* '''PayPal:'''  
* '''PayPal:''' 11,370.42


=== Membership Report ===
=== Membership Report ===
* '''Starving Hackers:'''  
* '''Starving Hackers:''' 311
* '''Full Members:'''  
* '''Full Members:''' 133
* '''Total Members:'''  
* '''Total Members:''' 444
* '''Quorum:'''
* '''Quorum:''' 45


=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
* Gas, Comcast, Adobe, Waste Management, Comed, Rent, reimbursements


=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===
=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===
*


=== RT ===
=== RT ===
* Michael requests a member point [https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5675]
** Vote passes, Michael abstains
** Jennie to grant member point to Michael


=== New Business ===
=== New Business ===
* Insurance broker
** We have a new policy proposal for insurance
** $3346 for annual insurance policy
** $575 for liquor license
*** Votes pass unanimously to approve the policies and for Justin to sign and submit agreements as of Friday afternoon
* ADA assessment
** Three quotes:
*** Individual architect quoted $1000 for a survey
*** $680 dollars for an assessment from a company that
*** LCM architects proposal is about three thousand
**** came recommended by a number of people
** Ray will put funding for ADA assessment to a member vote
* Should this be a committee?
** Possibly for implementation
* Membership audit / doorcode change
** Simon will work on the audit, maybe with some help from Dave
* Closing out Q1 - Q3 books / receipt submissions
** Ray will submit his outstanding receipts by tomorrow
* Administrative budget
** Michael put together a draft of the administrative budget
** [administrative draft https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/2017_Administrative_Budget_Vote]
** Large laser remaining budget - $2240.59
** Plasma cutter vote - $1804 (maybe?)
* Old business
** IT systems group followup
*** Justin will email the list to get a group together working on systems
* School project building autonomous vehicles
** Patrick has been working on this
** Demo of autonomous technology will happen in Oakland
** Requesting fiscal sponsorship
*** i.e. acting as an umbrella, processing donations and providing benefits to donors of nonprofit donations.
** Board would need more information about the board and organization's responsibilities and liabilities
** Why not form your own nonprofit organization?
*** Alignment of organizational goals, and starting up a nonprofit is overhead
* Membership management software
** Gymmaster
*** Bring that to Daniel and Ray


=== Old Business ===
=== Old Business ===
 
==== Old Todos ====
* https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5578
** Jennie to grant two points, Justin to transfer three points from Burton to Jason - Done
* Justin to text Dave re: IT systems - Done
** Justin will email list to ask for volunteers for systems group after touching base with Dave - still to do
* https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5508 Jason requesting member point
** Simon sent email following up
== Votes ==
== Votes ==