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 == Attendance ==
 * Board Members
-**
+**Nick
+**Lindsay
+**Ian
+**Uwe
+**Donzell (remote)
+**Eric (remote)
+**Peter
+**James (arrived late)
 * Other Members
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+**Sky
+**Illya
+**Morris
+**Locke
+**Rubin
 == Agenda ==
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 * '''PEX:''' 28,433.36
 * '''PayPal:''' 2,412.97
-* '''Building Fund:''' '''135,000'''
+* '''Building Fund:''' '''-135,000'''
+*'''Contingency Fund:''' -$40,000
+*'''NET:'''$23,724.38
 **Note that the building fund is within the other accounts, not in addition to them
+===Ian's numbers===
+* '''Chase Checking:'''   $68,836.49
+* '''Chase Savings:''' $100,007.63
+* '''Credit Card:'''   $924.96
+* '''PEX:'''   $18,276.99
+* '''PayPal:''' $3,816.72
 === Membership Report ===
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 === New Business ===
-*Rubin has done a bunch of work on the auth sections of the wiki
+*Rubin wants to know something awesome that everyone has done in the past month
-**He wants area hosts/authorizers to update stuff
+**Lindsay helped fix the grizzly lathe
+**Ian talked to men on the phone
+**Donzell hasn't done anything this month, but did a high voltage pyrography demo
+**Uwe repaired sewing machines and gave auths
+**Nick fixed the planer and then broke it
+**Locke also worked on the planer
+**Carl showed up last night
+**Peter held the door open
+**Morris hasn't done anything (so he says, others doubt this)
+**Illya made a PR kit
+**Sky ordered stripe readers for donations
+**Rubin set up a project management system (for all us fuckers)
+*Sky has some donated iPads, and will trial a donation kiosk downstairs. In the future it could be part of the signup process.
+**She has room in her budget to pay for this - it is small potatoes.
+*Uwe would like to know how much money is in the bank
+**Carl does not want to tell us
+***The board argues with Carl for a while
+***The secretary does not have the patience to document a blow-by-blow for this bullshit. Carl feels that he is under no obligation to provide financial information. Most other people at the meeting feel that he should.
+***Carl says he will put PDFs of the bank statements on the google drive more regularly
+***Peter feels that everyone asking for bank information is being disingenuous, because the numbers alone do not answer all of the questions
+***Carl says that if the board asks him to provide all of the bank balances at a routine interval, he will quit.
+**Ultimately, the budget discussion boils down to a question of: "Are we on track to purchase the building?"
+***Several people are concerned that we are simply moving money from savings to the building fund, not actually increasing the balance by $15k per month
+**The board votes to set up a HYSA to keep the building fund in.
+***Carl resigns as treasurer as he feels that the board is making him jump through hoops.
+***Carl asks the board to rescind the vote, promising to retract his resignation.
+***The board votes to rescind the requirement of an HYSA.
+***Carl un-resigns as treasurer.
+*As a brief intermission, Donzell is angry that someone red ticketed his basket of turnings in the safe.
+**He wants everyone red ticketing stuff to refrain from adding comments to the tickets, because he finds it insulting.
+**Nick suggests that he go call the person who wrote the red ticket and yell at them. (as that strategy has worked for him in the past)
+**Donzell leaves to go give a tour.
+*The money conversation continues
+**Nick requests Carl to provide the remaining amount of authorized spending for the year.
+***Carl says he will not require this request to be made in writing.
+*Sky is going to do network maintenance
+**It will result in downtime, but it will be fine
+*The radio club wants to put an antenna up
+**The board wants to have a trusted volunteer present
+**Ian will do it
+*Rubin built a cool authorization thing on the wiki
+**He'd like authorizers to contact him with any questions, corrections, etc
+*The meeting is adjourned
 === Old Business ===
+*Discuss genops budget, high dusting
 *Update on roof quote/building negotiation
 **the roofers and glaziers will provide written estimates tomorrow. Ian will send them to the Board and Building Purchase channels as soon as they come through.
-*Discuss genops budget, high dusting
+**Expectation is that they may be a little bit lower than we thought - one quote is $9k for windows and $7.5-8/sqft for the roof (8800sqft roof)
-*Discuss Sky's new onboarding plan
 == Votes ==
+*The board votes to set up a HYSA for the building fund. The vote passes.
+*The board votes to retract the previous action. The vote passes.
+*The board votes to check the cameras Wednesday April 30th around 5am in General, to find bearings that went missing near arbor press. The vote passes.
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