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+Meeting start: 7:05
+=== Attendance ===
+'''Board Members'''
+* eric
+* Bry
+* farkas
+* Hailey
+* Josh
+* Jesse
+* Ed
+* Adam
+'''Other Members'''
+=== Agenda ===
+* read mail
+* Financial/membership report
+* Review the paypal and banking transactions.
+* Check the money@pumpingstationone.org inbox weekly.
+* Member leaving reason report
+* Review Trello board, report progress made.
+* new business
+* old business
+==== New Business ====
+==== Old Business ====
+* Tony also pays "equipment license" fees per device he has plugged in. He got assessed a $900 fine at one point for not having that all taken care of. We need to determine what that means and if it affects us. Maybe this is http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/progs/inspectionspermitting/manufacturing_establishments.html
+* Minors joining
+* Audit status/ Status of repayments / New historical books ('''Indiana Steve''')
+* Get all of the tax returns from School Factory ('''Steve''')
+==== Backburner ====
+* Status of money owed by the old landlord. ('''Eric'''). We are working on sending information to a separate attorney.
+* move the annual meeting to december in the bylaws.
+* Go over the "Things the next board should deal with" list from the meeting of the 15th, it has a lot of stuff we have to be aware of.
+==== Minutes ====
+* no mail
+* went over membership numbers
+* steve reviews weekly financial report
+* discussion on how to make things better for members thinking of leaving
+* fixing meetup - no progress - asking for help from members
+* cameras- no progress
+* paid job board- no progress
+* safe space agreement - could not get reviewed
+* tomorrow we're going to have another working session about the bylaws, those of us that can't make it will submit our comments beforehand
+* 501c3- we have taxes to do first - we need more help from lawyers- also need to know from lawyers which of the two 990 forms we have to do
+* pitchfork from last year- steve talking to school factory
+* minors as members- we discussed what's been going on on the mailing list, what our own feelings about it, what the worst case scenarios would be for several just options
+* limited debit cards for area hosts- chase says they are daily limits, not limits on totals, so we need to open separate area host accounts
+* takeaways from mwe call - discussing after board meeting
+* paypal bouncebacks - wont talk to steve because ish's name is still on the account
+** we talked about exploring options for using something that doesn't suck like paypal
+* steve will buy a water test for lead and what not
+* liability insurance review- we need to ask lawyers to further address our questions
+* Complaints @ signs- will is working on it
+* adding members to trello - eric is adding members on demand - will add en masse soon
+* wiki migration, has been delayed while josh is busy with RFID's
+* secretary of state - in progress - bry/farkas
+* loom/shop smith sales - got check for loom, still need one for shop smith
+* eric is still waiting for quote from electrician, he's working on a specific list
+* waivers box- bry is going to install it
+* form box- steve bought one - bry bought two, now we have three because they forgot to talk to each other yaaaaay
+* getting money from old landlord - talking to a property lawyer
+* josh talks about his ID card idea - running out of time
+* Membership Report -
+** Full Members: 74
+** Starving Hacker: 151
+** Friends of PS1: 2
+** Total: 225
+Meeting end: 8:05