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=== New Business === | === New Business === | ||
==== Board Goals ==== | ==== Board Goals ==== | ||
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** We need to keep 400 members for the whole year to | ** We need to keep 400 members for the whole year to | ||
** To keep a cushion of comfort with the given budget, Treasurer suggests targeting 500 members to make 2018 feel comfortable | ** To keep a cushion of comfort with the given budget, Treasurer suggests targeting 500 members to make 2018 feel comfortable | ||
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** Maintain what we have and clean up our systems before adding new features | ** Maintain what we have and clean up our systems before adding new features | ||
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=== Old Business === | === Old Business === | ||
== Votes == | == Votes == | ||
Revision as of 18:03, 7 February 2017
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Meeting Start:
Attendance
- Board Members
- Other Members
Agenda
- New business
- Transition check-in, goals
- Party Planner Position
- Cold Metal Authorizer
- CNC Area Host
- Scheduling future meetings
- Member issues
- Dispute Resolution Committee
- Old business
- Followup on printer - board statement
- Insurance update
- Ken
Minutes
Meeting began at 7:45 pm
New Business
Board Goals
- Financial goals (Brian):
- We need to keep 400 members for the whole year to
- 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 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
- Increase communication internally and externally
- 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