Board Meeting Notes 2017-02-01

Board Meeting Minutes
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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 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 physically 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
• 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