Board Meeting Notes 2025-06-03: Difference between revisions
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Created page with "{{Board Meeting Notes | Previous YYYY-MM-DD= 2025-05-20 | Next YYYY-MM-DD= 2025-06-17 | YYYY=2025 }} Meeting Start: == Attendance == * Board Members **James **Lindsay **Nick ** * Other Members ** == Agenda == * Consent Agenda * Committee Reports * Read mail * Financial/membership report * Review the PayPal and banking transactions * Member leaving reason reports * Check Freshdesk queue * New business * Old business == Minutes == === Discussion on previous minutes..." |
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=== New Business === | === New Business === | ||
*The meeting began in a closed session | *The meeting began in a closed session | ||
*Eric, Ian - building purchase negotiations | *Eric, Ian - building purchase negotiations | ||
**Eric sent a counteroffer to Dan | |||
***He just got a notice back, that our contact is now Tony | |||
***He got a text from our attorney, that they countered 1.25 (our offer was 1.2) | |||
***Carl suggested offering a lower down payment, like 18% | |||
***The board is generally in favor of accepting the terms as offered | |||
***We will put together a member vote, targeting to begin voting 6/12 and close 6/17 | |||
*Wingate, Lindsay, Carl - financial reporting | |||
**Lindsay has put together a dashboard, consolidating information about our income and spending. | |||
**It is generally excellent | |||
**She says she can easily run it before every board meeting | |||
**We discussed a discrepancy between Stripe income and Quickbooks income | |||
***This will be dug into later | |||
**Carl has also put together a presentation | |||
***It say that after making a 250k down payment, we will have 84k left. (334k total at the end of may 2026) | |||
**Wingate also has a graph to show us | |||
***It also says that we are basically trending OK - currently ~13k above the building + contingency funds | |||
*Books - WCARS field day | *Books - WCARS field day | ||
**Going to be an event at the end of June | |||
**Anyone can do radio stuff which is cool | |||
**PR should advertise this | |||
*Books - grant writing donations | *Books - grant writing donations | ||
**Books has secured funding, specifically to be used to write more grants with | |||
***Total of $2400 for 2 grants, with more available | |||
**The biggest concern is the legal implications of paying members to write grants on an ongoing basis | |||
***We have paid members for certain tasks in one-off scenarios, but this would become part of our regular course of business | |||
**Eric suggests looking into external consultants | |||
**Locke does grant work professionally, can help oversee but does not want to write them. | |||
**Wingate says that his grant has still not said no, they are still deciding. | |||
=== Old Business === | === Old Business === | ||
