Board Meeting Notes 2012-09-11

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Meeting start: 07:15 pm

Attendance

• Tim Saylor
• Shawn Blaszak
• Ishmael Rufus
• Dan Meyers
• Steve Finkelman

Agenda

Old Business

• Ishmael
  • Have we bought the stuff Rhys needs for access control.
  • Have we paid the electric bill?
  • Have we paid Dan the remainder of the September rent?

• Tim
  • inventory and ownership status of old landlord's stuff left on our side.
  • Status of money owed by the old landlord? (Steve's letter formally asking for the deposit back)

• Patrick
  • Cleaning service status

• Dan
  • Install shop air valve between our area and Tony's

• Shawn

• Unassigned
  • Change address update.

New Business

• Financial/membership report

Minutes

• Ishmael has order the supplies for Rhys' access control project.
• The first electric bill has been paid but the second bill hasn't yet.
  • We want to try and find an easier way to pay the bill on a regular basis.
• Ishmael paid Dan the rest of the September rent.
• Tim hasn't completed the landlord equipment inventory.
• Tim hasn't sent the rent deposit letter to the old landlord yet.
• Dan hasn't been able to get to installing the shop air valve.
  • Steve suggested that we might just want to attach our compressor to the system as-is.
  • We agreed that Dan will connect our compressor to the shop air system and, also, install a valve between our side and the landlord's side.
• Member Report -
  • Starving: 81
  • Full Members: 74
  • Friends of PS1: 2
• Ishmael gave the financial report.
• Ishmael has created four gift cards for the area manager to use for access to their budgets.
• The cleaning service was unable to get access to the space last Saturday.
  • Geoffrey has said that he is willing to be here during the day to let them in.
  • We decided that we would like to have them come in at least once before we consider giving them a key to the space.
  • We need to make sure that the cleaning people either signs the waiver or equivalent legal protection is implemented.
• Tim discussed the plans for further build-out of the wood shop and metal shop.
  • We need to create a bill-of-materials for the build-out.
• We need some replacement part for the laser cutter. (a belt and the auto-focus spring)
• We need to verify the code status of the fire door in the metal shop
• We need to improve our implementation of the tool certification process.
• Will suggested we hold a Halloween party.
• There have been reports of possible theft of space equipment.

Meeting End: 08:00 pm