Board Meeting Notes 2017-02-01

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

Meeting began at 7:45 pm

Financial goals (Brian):
- We need to keep 400 members for the whole year.
- 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 physically 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