Board Meeting Notes 2013-06-11

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting start: 7:10

Attendance

Board Members

Other Members

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

• underage members:

Can the board enact a policy that states that 18 and over is required? How things are you shouldn't be here underage perhaps. This should be discussed. Relevant https://trello.com/card/underage-members-issue/510877428ebe664a210056e5/84 https://trello.com/card/liability-insurance-review-with-goldstein-et-al/510877428ebe664a210056e5/71

• Duns EIN report. To get our own report is 189.00. if wanted Steve will acquire. Should we? Must we?

• Shop mess. Seriously getting bad right now. Non-full members are leaving projects in the shop, big projects.
• Non members have been using tools.
• People are misusing areas such as the kitchen and using tools improperly, not fixing or returning them.
• Can we get a WYSIWYG editor for the wiki now that josh is migrating it? Some people are resisting using the wiki.

• Go over receipts with steve. Eric has them. How is kitchen budget?
  • Did we get skilton's? ~$40.

• Is New events and official policy, especially Re: Cost?
• Reimbursements, now that we have more than one person with working banking rights can we fix that? Sometimes it is taking a long time.
• Evidently there's a fire inspection in the later part of the year. Tony told James on Monday.
• Tony also pays "equipment license" fees per device he has plugged in. He got assessed a $900 fine at one point for not having that all taken care of. We need to determine what that means and if it affects us. Maybe this is http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/progs/inspectionspermitting/manufacturing_establishments.html

Old Business

• Minors joining
• Audit status/ Status of repayments / New historical books (Indiana Steve)
• Get all of the tax returns from School Factory (Steve)
• briefly discussed having members maybe not register their businesses as being here at our address. do the bylaws allow it? is this okay? do we have liabilities from it? At least one company is doing it.

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

• Membership Report -
  • Full Members:
  • Starving Hacker:
  • Friends of PS1:
  • Total:

Meeting end: 8:??