Talk:2015 Budget Vote: Difference between revisions

I think it's worth keeping a close eye on consumables. In a few areas that I am aware of that have consumables that the space helps fund -- Electronics, Cold Metals, Hot Metals, I think it's been working out rather well. A while back we began suggesting to area hosts that it would be ok to keep some supplies available if it made sense to the area host. We wanted to see if it went on small scale.

* '''Electronics''' -- The area keeps a supply of available components. I think this has helped further the goals of the organization in project completion, and the ability to mass purchase at discounted prices

* '''Cold Metals''' -- The area has a supply of small stock. I think it's been useful for the membership to have small stock available, since similar stock is small quantities is prohibitively expensive to acquire and the space has better bargaining power than most individual members would. (Thanks go out to Dean for that)

* '''Hot Metals''' -- We used to require people to supply there own propane. This was highly problematic. A communal supply makes sense to me here. Additionally, communal supply of welding materials also makes sense to me

* '''Kitchen''' -- I'm not a fan of this one. Supplying snack foods doesn't seem to be in line with the organizations goals. Certain cooking components could make sense: oils, spices, seasonings, etc.

* '''Arts''' -- I don't think Arts/Crafts purchases supplies, as most people are able to purchase there entire project's material without making mistakes, and there is often a lot of donated material around. I could be convinced that some shared supplies here would also make sense

* '''General/G&A''' -- supplies may be misleading, but toilet paper, paper towels, cups, pencilsm paper, that sort of thing make sense to me.

* '''Tool Cage''' -- Not sure what would be a "supply" here, other than nails/screws. Actually, a supply of nails/screws does make sense.

* '''Woodshop''' -- Supplying raw wood would be difficult to manage. I wouldn't be opposed to a trial run.

* '''CNC''' -- We supply filament and vinyl. I suspect that if we didn't, we would have the same propane problem -- where do we put all of these partially used collections of material that we can't use? For large projects, people still bring in there own supply.