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Board Meeting Notes 2021-01-05 (view source)
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=== 1. Discuss & Approve previous board meeting minutes ===
=== 1. Discuss & Approve previous board meeting minutes ===
- Rob will pull together 12/8/20 meeting minutes as the previous secretary was not available to take notes due to private reasons.
=== 2. Member Count & Financials ===
=== 2. Member Count & Financials ===
- xxx members
- 422 members
- Savings:
- Savings: $114,170.39
- Checking:
- Checking: $21,852.71
- PayPal:
- PayPal: $5,147.11
- PEX: $19,652.00 (Outdated)
=== 3. Mail Check ===
=== 3. Mail Check ===
a. ComED overpayment check (made out to the landlord)
a. ComED overpayment check (made out to the landlord) -- Rob will send follow-up to Treasury
b. Insurance claim reply
b. Insurance claim reply
=== 4. Votes ===
=== 4. Votes ===
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- Director at Large Vote will take place on Thursday. Current nominees are Jennie Plasterer and Ed Bennett. This vote will go out on Thursday night (1/7/20) and close the the next Tuesday (1/12/21) at 8:30pm.
=== 5. Officer & Team Lead Updates ===
- CTO/Tech Team: Getting an electrician to fix server electrical issues. Sky needs access to Quickbooks.
- PR: Sean investigating potential for Advertising campaign in the Chicago Reader. Sean will send details of the campaign, including cost. Sean had budgeted $600 for something like this. https://www.chicagoreader.com/general/mediakit/pdf/Media_Kit_ChicagoReader.pdf. Sean was also concerned with the woodshop and there not being enough woodshop authorizers. Also concerned with cleanliness of shop. Board will bring up with area host during annual area host review, at the latest.
- CTO
- MMT/Scholarships: Nathan brought to our attention that we had two additional scholarship applicants. Was having issues accessing applications in the old Google form. Sky to look into. Previous Covid scholarship members have expressed that they had trouble getting authorized and their experience wasn't great because covid. Board will revisit this issue on slack to see how we might address this in the future. Nathan wants to send out questioner to scholarship recipients.
- PR: advertising campaign
- GenOps - Roofer is looking to fix leaks above cold metals tomorrow 1/6. Joe Mertz and Andrew Morris will communicate on slack to have someone at the shop when the roofer shows up. Sean has gotten approval from the area hosts to convert the unused bathroom into a tool cage with RFID door controller.
=== 6. Updates from outside board meetings ===
=== 6. Updates from outside board meetings ===
=== 7. Discussion Topics (new & existing) ===
=== 7. Discussion Topics (new & existing) ===
a. roof leak in cold metals
a. roof leak in cold metals - Gen Ops has a roofer coming soon to fix leaks. Joe and Andrew to be available for the roofer at the shop.
b. MMT volunteers needed - The MMT is missing many volunteer positions as three are now currently on the board. The board will reach out to John Papiewski, Max Rashes, Daniel Martinez Olivas, and Lilly Corr
c. Bandsaw left on - Bandsaw in the Woodshop was left on (1/4) around 7pm and a member Brian posted in the google groups letting members know on 1/5. Shortly later, a member used wet sappy wood on the bandsaw causing the blade to be gunged up. Board discussed if we should access cameras for this particular occurrence, and we were in agreement that we will not be accessing cameras to determine who it was. Board will be posting to the communications channels.
d. official policy crafting for volunteers/canvas course - Board will add to Action log to create a volunteer policy per advice from the Lawyer. We will revisit this as a board at a later date.
e. Scholarship policy - Current policy is split up by percentage of budget. David expressed interest in updating this. This has been added to the Boards action log.
