Board Meeting Notes 2012-08-14

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Meeting start: 07:15 pm

Attendance

• Tim Saylor
• Patrick Callahan
• Shawn Blaszak
• Eric Stein
• Steve Finkelman

Agenda

Old Business

• Ishmael
  • Follow up on receiving the sawstop
    • Sawstop received.
  • Have we received a bill from Waste Management yet, and does it include the extra pickup that never happened?
    • need to pay bill.
  • Invoice for laser cutter job
    • Sent.
  • before this meeting is over, pay for the bagster pickup!
    • Scheduled for Wednesday
  • Pay mitch for the arduino class
    • Paid.

• Tim
  • inventory and ownership status of old landlord's stuff left on our side.
  • Calculate electric bill and give check to Tony
  • Status of money owed by the old landlord.

• Patrick
  • Cleaning service quotes

• Steve
  • AC repairs
  • Install shop air valve
  • Install filter for laser

• Eric
  • Have we received the new access points?

• Unassigned
  • electricity is expensive
  • Change address update.
  • Geoffrey to receive the table saw shipment
  • We need a new area host for graphic arts / textiles

New Business

• Financial/membership report
• Buy stuff to finish the open access system

Minutes

• Ishmael will not be attending but there are updates for his items.
• WM has billed us but not charged us for the missing extra dumps
• Mitch has been paid for the Arduino class
• Ishmael has re-ordered the wireless equipment from another company that is local
• Tim's inventory has not been done yet
• Tim has resolved the electric bill with Tony and Ish will handle it
• Steve the old landlord still has not responded about the missing money
• Patrick is getting cleaning service quotes
• Steve is done with the AC
• Steve is going to coordinate with Tony to add a filter and valve to connect the laser cutter to shop air
• Since a number of present area host positions need to be re-filled, we will be having a discussion about what positions are still needed; what positions might need to be added; and who should fill them all.
  • Sacha has posted a message about this on the mailing list where discussion will continue.
• Rhys wants to buy a door strike and power supply; Tim said OK.
• Steve wants to buy another door closer; Tim said OK
• Sacha wants to run more beginning hacker sessions in the future and would like some help
• Member report
  • Full Members: 66
  • Starving Hackers: 84
  • Friends of PS1: 1

Meeting End: 08:05 pm