Board Meeting Notes 2012-02-14

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting started at 07:05 pm

Attendance

• Tim Saylor
• Patrick Callahan
• Shawn Blaszak
• Ishmael Rufus
• Eric Stein
• Steve Finkelman
• Dan Meyers

Agenda

Old Business

• Did Eric ever get access to our dedicated server?
• Update on the space hunt
  • Status of LOI?
  • Status of Lawyer hunt
• Budget for moving

New Business

• Financial/membership report full starving members in total
• Flourish Workshop
• The compressor for the laser is broken. Do we need anything more to fix the big one? How should we pay for new/fixing compressor?

Minutes

• Eric found out that we no-longer have a dedicated server and are being hosted on Ryan's server service.
• We have received a response to the LOI for the new space.
  • 90 day wait for move-in (May 1st)
  • need to hire a lawyer to look at it
    • we have a list of potential lawyers from the mailing list
  • ask about whether, or not, he's going to be storing the van in the garage area
  • make sure the following is written into the lease:
    • being able to build out and move things into the new space before the lease starts.
    • some provision to cover 'no answer from landlord on something that the lease requires us to request permission on, equals permission.
  • would he be interested in leaving his shelving?
  • we need to hire someone to do an inspection, the lawyer we hire may be able to make a recommendation.
  • Moving budget
    • moving truck
    • moving accessory
    • table building supplies
    • bribing the members to help (pizza & beer?)
    • Tim will propose the vote for the moving budget and to authorize the move tonight
  • Do we want to start a Kickstarter for the move?
• Ish has a solution for tracking memberships and will present it next meeting
• The compressor for the laser cutter is, apparently, not broken and just needed more oil
• Flourish workshop (flourish is March 30-31)
  • Ed is organizing it
  • Ed will be teaching Arduino
  • Patrick will be teaching soldering
• Geoffrey purchased a gas cylinder for the welders - $212.00
• Dan purchased two carts for the gas tanks and the welders - $208.00
• Dan wants to buy another gas cylinder for Aluminum welding - $171.00 + gas cost
• Dan needs to buy 2 solenoids for the welders

Meeting adjourned at 07:55 pm