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Board Meeting Notes 2022-02-15 (view source)
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== Attendance ==
== Attendance ==
* Board Members
* Board Members
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** Paul Ocampo
** Nathan Upchurch
** Joe Mertz
** Tim Bielawa
** Jesse Seay
** Donzell Gordon
* Other Members
* Other Members
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** Andrew Morris
** Chris Iacullo
** Lydia Miller
== Agenda ==
== Agenda ==
=== Discussion on previous minutes ===
=== Discussion on previous minutes ===
oops we forgot these because the secretary was on an airplane.
=== Consent Agenda ===
=== Consent Agenda ===
Reports from [[Committees]]
Reports from [[Committees]]
General Ops:
* Not Much to report.
* Heat was not working much on the CM/General Side
** Andrew M. Topped off the boiler with some more water. Seemed to help
* New garbage bags were topped off.
=== Area Host Update ===
Arts Area:
* Lydia and Vero would like to reorganize the computers, she will contact Sky to ensure there were no issues.
* Discussion about how to do new capital purchases for Arts Area.
** Want to get an embroidery machine
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=== Mail ===
=== Mail ===
=== Membership Report ===
=== Membership Report ===
* '''Number of Members:'''
* '''Number of Members:''' 476
* '''Quorum:'''
* '''Quorum:'''47
=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
=== Review the PayPal and banking transactions ===
* tbielawa - A recent member suspension could have been handled with more grace and finesse
* tbielawa - A recent member suspension could have been handled with more grace and finesse
** Paul says Jennie will talk to Scott about how to handle this better in the future.
** Member should never have been suspended in the first place. Paul made a mistake.
** Going forward we are going to try to do better due diligence into the veracity of a claim before acting.
** We need to get all of the new board members on freshdesk, Sky has been asked for guidance.
* Individual project plan updates
** Donzell would like to turn the lounge into a gallery.
*** Paul would like Donzell to document some breakdown of how this would be achieved and how the board can help.
** Jesse would like to help in as neccessary
** Tim wants to help reform tidy space
** Nathan would like to do a few things. He is putting together a document and will send it over this week.
* Scholarship status update
** Didn't post them in January this year. We are supposed to do this twice per year.
** Nathan will put together the scholarship applications for this spring.
** We need a scholarships officer position on the MMT again. Paul will talk to the MMT or we will put an open call out to the membership.
** Would be nice to better document this process for the MMT
* DRC Team update
** New Board Members on DRC
*** Donzell
*** Jesse
*** Jennie
* Member meeting leadership
** Board is willing to.
** Joe would like to encourage more community growth at the member meetings, a la 300 seconds of fame
*** Member meetings should be made more appealing.
* Area host reviews have been added to action log.
* Diversity and Inclusion
** Last year we attempted to get a diversity and inclusion team together.
** Got dragged down by red tape
** We would prefer to make this as straightforward as possible.
** Donzell said last year that the position should be on the board to have teeth.
** Joe volun-told Donzell into making D&I his board priority for the year
*** Donzell and Paul were both on board.
*** Jesse had been the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officer at her work place.
*** She expressed concerns that having a minority at the helm of the effort makes it harder for the effort to succeed
*** Nathan thinks that we need there to be a full committee to avoid this problem
*** Lil street "makerspace" is predominantly run by women in Ravenswood.
**** Protohaven in Pittsburgh as well.
*** We should look into other ways to deal with diversity issues and schedule a board meeting around it.
=== Old Business ===
=== Old Business ===
