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== Attendance == | == Attendance == | ||
* Board Members | * Board Members | ||
** V. | |||
** Donzell G. | |||
** James L. | |||
** Joe M. (Remote) | |||
** Jesse S. (Remote) | |||
** Fidel G. (Remote) | |||
** Tim B. (Remote) | |||
* Other Members | * Other Members | ||
** Andrew Morris | |||
** Andrew Wingate | |||
** Jim L. | |||
** Julia | |||
** John J. | |||
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Reports from [[Committees]] | Reports from [[Committees]] | ||
* Gen Ops | |||
** Upstairs AC working again | |||
** Still working on issues w/ downstairs AC | |||
** Still helping with Jointer in woodshop | |||
*** replacing capacitor | |||
* Kitchen Area | |||
** Last two mondays there has been a lot of reorganizing | |||
** Continue searching and organizing through utensils | |||
** Working on plan to move coffee roaster to right of oven by end of the month | |||
** Hood fan isn't working too great, might look into replacing | |||
** Added a bluetooth amp to the speakers | |||
** Pex card should arrive this week | |||
** purchasing some cleaning supplies when it arrives | |||
* Electronics Area | |||
** Pile of junk is gone! | |||
** AC is working! | |||
** This years project is new table and some cool stuff, spruce up the area | |||
* Tech Team | |||
** migration is done from old super micro onto new blade servers | |||
*** Super micros have been shut down and powered off. | |||
*** decomissioning timeline tbd | |||
*** noise is quite reduced | |||
*** door off for now is better with less noise while working on permanent AC solution | |||
** Bitwarden transition is happening from LastPass | |||
*** Hoping we can abandon soon | |||
*** James has taken over the project since he hates LastPass | |||
** Discussion spirals off for a bit about HVAC ducting again. Nothing novel here that hasn't been documented elsewhere. | |||
=== Mail === | === Mail === | ||
* No mail. | |||
=== Financial Report === | === Financial Report === | ||
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=== Membership Report === | === Membership Report === | ||
* '''Number of Members: | * '''Number of Members: 553''' | ||
* '''Quorum: | * '''Quorum: 55''' | ||
=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions === | === Review the PayPal and banking transactions === | ||
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Login link: https://pumpingstationone.freshdesk.com | Login link: https://pumpingstationone.freshdesk.com | ||
* Nothing of note. Under control. | |||
=== New Business === | === New Business === | ||
* Preferred method of contact for treasury | |||
** Send an email to treasurer@pumpingstationone.org | |||
* Proportional scholarship count | |||
** V proposes tying scholarship count to current member count | |||
** He proposes 5% | |||
** Joe agrees, and offers to co-sponsor a membership vote. | |||
* Newsletter game plan | |||
** Can WA be used to send the newsletters, V asks? | |||
*** That is rough. - James | |||
*** Not elegant - Joe | |||
*** Looking to use Mailgun, which we use already for discourse | |||
** Are we looking to replace WA? | |||
*** Yes, but not anytime soon. | |||
** Where is new member email sent from? | |||
*** WA. | |||
* Fidel: A couple of months ago we talked about financial concerns. Should we be more concerned now that we have these infrastructure projects? | |||
** We have chilled out vote spending, so it shouldn't be a problem. | |||
** Sam has been talked into a less industrial drum sander - Donzell | |||
** We have had a good membership gain over the last couple of months | |||
* "Be the planer you want to see in the world." - James | |||
* One issue w/ volunteer stressed out with the tasks they had. - Donzell | |||
** Donzell suggests reaching out to volunteers to make sure they are doing okay, and asking if they need anything. | |||
** "we've got good volunteers, we don't want to lose them" - Donzell | |||
** James suggests asking Lyn if she would be interested in helping organize the volunteer appreciation party | |||
*** We can send out the invitation and then in the same email invite feedback and requests for support. | |||
** Donzell will reach out to Lyn to discuss planning the party. | |||
** Julia counts 67 WILD volunteers in WA. | |||
** Jesse asks if there are specific volunteers of concern. | |||
*** This has been moved to board slack for closed meeting | |||
* Donzell raises an objection to spending money on loaned tools | |||
** James and Joe don't see that as a problem, as we do that regularly for loaned tools | |||
** It encourages tools being loaned into the space to help fill niches we don't have | |||
** James does caveat that the order of magnitude of spending should be taken into account. | |||
** Donzell thinks Joe is awesome, but only some days. | |||
*** Joe thanks him :) | |||
** Jesse would like Drew R. or someone to move her art piece back into the lounge, so it doen't get damaged. | |||
