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Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

Board Members

Other Members

Agenda

New business
- Transition check-in, goals
- Party Planner Position
- Cold Metal Authorizer
- CNC Area Host
- Scheduling future meetings
- Member issues
- Dispute Resolution Committee
Old business
- Followup on printer - board statement
- Insurance update
- Ken

Minutes

Meeting began at 7:45 pm

New Business

Board Goals

Track projects that we want to work on
Financial goals:
- We need to keep 400 members for the whole year to
- To keep a cushion of comfort with the given budget, Treasurer suggests targeting 500 members to make 2018 feel comfortable
- This requires both recruitment and retention
  - In additional to being safe, feeling safe. i.e. people feeling comfortable in the space
- Increase safety and decrease danger of injury and liability
  - Record what people are told when authorization
Document all authorizations: the content of an authorization and standardize procedures
Scholarship Program for potential low-income members - Jennie
- Also connect with JARC (Jane Addams Resource Corporation)
- Michael Skilton and Kathryn Born are interested. (Eric Funkhouser too?)
- Could develop a system to donate member points to scholarships
- Folks from JARC could run events like welding 101 or 102 monthly

Ed: Help get the structural documents of the space in order.
- Bylaws, DRC, Membership Agreement, Harassment Policy
Simon: Create non-voting member category
Ray:
- Automate membership profiles, consider an off the shelf system for
- Integrating membership agreement and liability waiver
- Keep a record of authorizations
- Outreach to other spaces - bring people to meetings at SSH and Workshop 88
- have big parties that fill the space
- Ray's PR goals are [[1]]
Andrew:
- Increase communication internally and externally
  - Document and track special projects (like all of these goals)
- Improve onboarding of new members, which includes orientation and new members
Carl:
- Keep the lights on for another year and keep the rest of the board from stressing out
Jonathan:
- Maintain what we have and clean up our systems before adding new features

Old Business

Votes

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 == Agenda ==
-* Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
-* Consent Agenda
-* Committee Reports
-* Read mail
-* Financial/membership report
-* Review the PayPal and banking transactions
-* Member leaving reason reports
-* Check RT queue
 * New business
 ** Transition check-in, goals
 ** Party Planner Position
 ** Cold Metal Authorizer
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 ** Followup on printer - board statement
 ** Insurance update
+** Ken
-Old business
-    Followup on printer - board statement
-    Insurance update
-* Old business
 == Minutes ==
+Meeting began at 7:45 pm
-=== Discussion on previous minutes ===
-=== Consent Agenda ===
-=== Committee Reports ===
-Reports from [[Committees]]
-=== Mail ===
-=== Financial Report ===
-* '''Chase Checking:'''
-* '''Chase Savings:'''
-* '''PEX:'''
-* '''PayPal:'''
-=== Membership Report ===
-* '''Starving Hackers:'''
-* '''Full Members:'''
-* '''Total Members:'''
-* '''Quorum:'''
-=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
-=== Member Leaving Reason Reports ===
-=== RT ===
 === New Business ===
+==== Board Goals ====
+* Track projects that we want to work on
+* Financial goals:
+** We need to keep 400 members for the whole year to
+** To keep a cushion of comfort with the given budget, Treasurer suggests targeting 500 members to make 2018 feel comfortable
+** This requires both recruitment and retention
+*** In additional to being safe, feeling safe. i.e. people feeling comfortable in the space
+** Increase safety and decrease danger of injury and liability
+*** Record what people are told when authorization
+* Document all authorizations: the content of an authorization and standardize procedures
+* Scholarship Program for potential low-income members - Jennie
+** Also connect with JARC (Jane Addams Resource Corporation)
+** Michael Skilton and Kathryn Born are interested. (Eric Funkhouser too?)
+** Could develop a system to donate member points to scholarships
+** Folks from JARC could run events like welding 101 or 102 monthly
+* Ed: Help get the structural documents of the space in order.
+** Bylaws, DRC, Membership Agreement, Harassment Policy
+* Simon: Create non-voting member category
+* Ray:
+** Automate membership profiles, consider an off the shelf system for
+** Integrating membership agreement and liability waiver
+** Keep a record of authorizations
+** Outreach to other spaces - bring people to meetings at SSH and Workshop 88
+** have big parties that fill the space
+** Ray's PR goals are [[https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Ray_Doeksen]]
+* Andrew:
+** Increase communication internally and externally
+*** Document and track special projects (like all of these goals)
+** Improve onboarding of new members, which includes orientation and new members
+* Carl:
+** Keep the lights on for another year and keep the rest of the board from stressing out
+* Jonathan:
+** Maintain what we have and clean up our systems before adding new features
 === Old Business ===
 == Votes ==