Board Meeting Notes 2013-05-28

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Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting start: 7:08

Attendance

Board Members

  • Eric
  • Bry
  • Hailey
  • Jessie
  • Josh
  • Adam
  • Farkas

Other Members

  • meeting held in crafts area- many members walking in and out

Agenda

  • read mail
  • Financial/membership report
  • Review the paypal and banking transactions.
  • Check the [email protected] inbox weekly.
  • Review Trello board, report progress made.
  • new business
  • old business


New Business

  • Minors joining
  • Kitchen area host - Could choosing one now help speed the kitchen creation process?

Old Business

  • Audit status/ Status of repayments / New historical books (Indiana Steve)
  • Get all of the tax returns from School Factory (Steve)
  • Electrician to fix not-up-to-code issues. How much can we spend on this? It's (in Eric's opinion) a pre-requisite to doing shop improvements including putting up walls for specific areas. Eric can negotiate with the electrician, bring quote back to the board.
    • Board generally approves this. Eric will come back with proper quote (Eric). He's working on the TODO list at 3519 Electrical Work.

Backburner

  • Status of money owed by the old landlord. (Tim). We are having our lawyers work on the bylaws first.
  • move the annual meeting to december in the bylaws.
  • Go over the "Things the next board should deal with" list from the meeting of the 15th, it has a lot of stuff we have to be aware of.

Minutes

  • Talked about minors joining the space
    • we need to talk to insurance about if parents can even sign a waiver for their children- kathy said this varies by state
    • we want to interview them in this case, but we are not sure if we are able take on the legal/financial responsibility of having minors as members
    • Eric will email the parents of the two minors who have recently joined
    • Jesse and Avner will check out Familab and Motherships way of handling their insurance/legal issues and how they made them work in their hackerspaces
  • farkas went over financial report
  • Membership Report -
    • Full Members: 72
    • Starving Hacker: 141
    • Friends of PS1: 2
    • Total: 215

Meeting end: 8:XX

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