Board Meeting Notes 2012-10-09

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting start: 07:05 pm

Attendance

• Tim Saylor
• Patrick Callahan
• Shawn Blaszak
• Ishmael Rufus

Agenda

Old Business

• Ishmael
  • Status of gas being billed to us before the 28th.

• 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)
  • Bill-of-materials for the workshop build-out
  • Status of e-mail to the membership regarding electronics lab area host selection
  • Tim White IRS receipt

• Patrick
  • Cleaning service status

• Dan
  • Install shop air valve between our area and Tony's and attach our compressor to the system.
  • Donation of oxyacetylene torch setup and tanks (welding and cutting)?

• Steve
  • Status of replacement part for the laser cutter. (a belt, auto-focus spring, board)
  • Status of new mill bearings
  • Donation of oxyacetylene torch setup and tanks (welding and cutting)?

• Shawn

• Unassigned
  • Change address update.
  • 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.
• Dust management in the shop

New Business

• Financial/membership report
• Reimburse Jeremy for welder

Minutes

• Ishmael
  • Will be setting up gas service
  • Membership Report -
    • Full Members: 73
    • Starving Hacker: 86
    • Friends of PS1: 2
    • Total: 159

• Tim
  • has not done inventory
  • will be sending legal letter to old landlord's new address
  • Kevin is working on a BOM for build-out
    • we will be trying to consolidate voting to one day a month
    • we will try to buy the lighting stuff before the next two days is up
  • The electronics lab area manager position has been announced
  • Tim White and Kathy Whistler both have been provided access to the form for receiving IRS tax deductions for stuff the donated.

• Patrick

• Dan

• Steve
  • He will be brining in some gas welding equipment
  • The TIG welder is up and running
  • Steve wants to sit down and compile a list of all of the things that need to be addressed in training for the bigger tools
  • Laser cutter is up and running
  • The mill is up and running

• Shawn

• Unassigned
  • Tim has been working on coming up with ideas for improving the tool certification process
    • Anna suggested a sign behind/around each tool with the certification info and other tool related info
    • Steve suggested creating multiple layers of certification for major tools.
    • Someone suggested logging when someone uses a tool and who that person is so that we can know how often certain people are using certain tools.

• New business

Meeting End: 07:42 pm