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| | Previous YYYY-MM-DD= 2016-03-15 | | | Previous YYYY-MM-DD= 2016-03-15 |
| | Next YYYY-MM-DD= 2016-04-13 | | | Next YYYY-MM-DD= 2016-04-12 |
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| == Attendance == | | == Attendance == |
| * Board Members | | * Board Members |
| **Justin Conroy | | ** |
| ** Lyn Cole
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| ** Michael Skilton
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| ** Simon Pyle
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| * Other Members | | * Other Members |
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| * Check RT queue | | * Check RT queue |
| * New business | | * New business |
| ** Lease
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| * Old business | | * Old business |
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| === Discussion on previous minutes === | | === Discussion on previous minutes === |
| * N/A
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| * Previous meeting minutes approved unaninmously
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| === Consent Agenda === | | === Consent Agenda === |
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| Reports from [[Committees]] | | Reports from [[Committees]] |
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| ====Space Committee====
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| * Working on three proposals
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| ** Considering wall moves
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| * Not recommending adding new area hosts
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| * Everett meeting with Maria to make changes
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| * Three plans to be presented by end of March to membership
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| * Currently ~$15,000 cost for buildout
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| * How will the vote to run?
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| ** Ranked choice voting, two rounds, or something else
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| * Suggestions: longer than a week for review of plans
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| ====Safety Committee===
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| * Waiting for a lease date
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| * "Landlord works addendum" - items we need the landlord to fix
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| ** Needs to be updated in current lease draft
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| ====Bylaws Committee====
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| * Formed but not yet met
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| === Mail === | | === Mail === |
| * Letter from the IRS
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| ** '''We got 501(c)3 status!''' Thanks to everybody who worked towards making this happen.
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| * Returned check from Adams Refrigeration
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| ** Justin to write a new check to Adams Refrigeration
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| === Financial Report === | | === Financial Report === |
| * '''Chase Checking:''' $48,412.35 | | * '''Chase Checking:''' |
| * '''Chase Savings:''' $73,644.66 | | * '''Chase Savings:''' |
| * '''PEX:''' $1,727.12 | | * '''PEX:''' |
| * '''PayPal:''' $2,537.24 | | * '''PayPal:''' |
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| * No transactions in quickbooks other than Paypal since the last meeting
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| === Membership Report === | | === Membership Report === |
| * '''Starving Hackers:''' 271 | | * '''Starving Hackers:''' |
| * '''Full Members:''' 112 | | * '''Full Members:''' |
| * '''Total Members:''' 383 | | * '''Total Members:''' |
| * '''Quorum:''' 38 | | * '''Quorum:''' |
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| === Member Leaving Reason Reports === | | === Member Leaving Reason Reports === |
| (Covers past 4 weeks)
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| * Didn't take advantage of the space, didn't have a project
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| * Negativity towards people who are not authorized on equipment
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| * Live in Libertyville, drive was difficult; difficult to get trained on laser & makerbot
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| * Moved away
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| * Too busy
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| * Didn't have need for tools, would have liked to have more table workspace
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| * Moving to Evanston, saving money
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| * Lives far away. ID check was annoying - took 4 trips. Too many places to check for authorization information.
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| * Didn't visit often enough, not enough free time
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| * Can we share member leaving reports in a way outside of the meeting?
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| === RT === | | === RT === |
| =====Member Point Requests====
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4405 4405] Ryan requests points for 3 blog posts and office hours with 7 attendees
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| ** Vote to grant 4 points
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4397 4397]] Jesse requests member points
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| ** 2 points
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4362 4362]] Anna requests point for Jason
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| ** 1 point
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4361 4361]] Ray requests point for laser authorization
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| ** 1 point
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| * Vote for all member points passes unanimously
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| * Side note: our budget for member point is 4 per meeting
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4407 4407]] Ryan requests spend 2 member points
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4385 4385]] Jason requests spend the rest of his points
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| * [[https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4354 4354]] Spend request
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| ** Michael to handle spend requests
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| Member spend point process:
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| * Make a comment approving the point. Make a note in the ticket of whether you updated the member point balance on the member site. Add it to the Treasury queue, and Brian will handle it from there.
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| ** Michael to handle member point spend requests
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| === New Business === | | === New Business === |
| ====ADA Compliance====
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| * Space planning committee has asked us to seek professional opinion about what ADA regulations we may need to comply with
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| ** Ask our current attorneys?
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| ** Maybe the landlords can
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| ** Justin to ask lawyers for an opinion on ADA compliance
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| * Michael to talk to Jennie about donation forms
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| ====Open Suspended Payment Tickets====
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| * New status on member payment queue - for tickets that we need to followup on in the near future
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| ** Ask Dave to add a new status
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| === Old Business === | | === Old Business === |
| ====Liability Coverage====
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| * Michael to share information about liability coverage to Director's Google Drive
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| * We have about $77,850 of coverage
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| * Michael has identified roughly $122,000 of assets based on wiki values and receipts
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| * Rough guess of assets is $175,000
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| * Brian will contact insurance company to get a quote
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| ** Michael has a number of locks with similar keys
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| * Ray to order business cards
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| == Votes == | | == Votes == |
