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== Attendance ==
== Attendance ==
* Board Members
* Board Members
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** Andrew
** Brian
** Ray
** Carl
** Ed
** Jonathon
** Simon


* Other Members
* Other Members
**
** Wolf
** Anna
** Tom


== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==
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=== Consent Agenda ===
=== Consent Agenda ===
* Last meeting's minutes were approved by the board


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


Reports from [[Committees]]
Reports from [[Committees]]
==== Report from Insurance Committee ====
* Met with Paul at law firm
* They are working on providing analysis of our policies, bylaws, insurance, and assessing potential risks.
** Specific insurance policy recommendations - coverages, riders, policy limits, possible exclusions.
** Contact information concerning reputable insurance providers in the nonprofit space.
** Review of PS1’s current member/participant waivers.
** Assessment of PS1 current equipment and facility use protocols, training, and related safety considerations.
** Consideration of PS1’s egalitarian, democratic, sociologically “flat” culture vis a vis the growing need for structural oversight and direction by the Board of Directors.
** Liability considerations related to leaders, directors, officers, teachers, equipment lenders
** Clarifying language to clarify the ways we qualify as a 501c3


=== Mail ===
=== Mail ===


=== Financial Report ===
=== Financial Report ===
* '''Chase Checking:'''  
* '''Chase Checking: $53,526.90'''  
* '''Chase Savings:'''  
* '''Chase Savings: $85,678.79'''  
* '''PEX:'''  
* '''PEX: $18,110.25'''  
* '''PayPal:'''  
* '''PayPal: $9,905.23'''  


=== Membership Report ===
=== Membership Report ===
* '''Starving Hackers:'''  
* '''Starving Hackers: 331'''  
* '''Full Members:'''  
* '''Full Members: 135'''  
* '''Total Members:'''  
* '''Total Members: 466'''  
* '''Quorum:'''
* '''Quorum: 45'''


=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
=== New Business ===


=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===
* Sign IL-990 and get check for $15
 
==== Scholarship Organization ====
=== RT ===
* Ray to clarify policies and consult with people interested in the process (Skilton?)
 
==== Cash boxes ====
=== New Business ===
** We're short a key. Maybe Jennie has it!
==== Analytics Lounge ====
* Looking for help and partnership. They need space / funding.
* Could we help bootstrap? Offer Analytics Lounge membership as an add-on to our membership.
==== Cleaning ====
* Check in on current plans
==== Member management syste ====
*CTO is in touch with the folks in Dallas. Putting together a test.
==== Gift Certificates ====
* Ray is going to put together a process for gift certificates.


=== Old Business ===
=== Old Business ===
== Votes ==
== Votes ==