Board Meeting Notes 2012-11-20

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting start: 07:00 pm

Attendance

• Tim Saylor
• Shawn Blaszak
• Steve Farkas
• Steve Finkelman
• Eric Stein
• Dan Meyers

Agenda

Old Business

• Tim
  • Status of money owed by the old landlord.

• Patrick
  • Status of process server.

• Dan
  • Welding area status
  • Status of personal member issue

• Steve Finkleman

• Shawn
  • Find a new maid service

• Eric

• Steve Farkas
  • Audit status
  • finance tracking going forward
  • Tax exemption letter
  • Organization of the PS:1 banking records
  • Tally of missing money
  • invoice from Pete's Heating for the air compressor and thermostat changes status.

• Unassigned
  • Pay the electric bill.
  • Change address update.
  • We need to verify the code status of the fire door in the metal shop
  • We need to improve our implementation of the tool certification process.
  • inventory and ownership status of old landlord's stuff left on our side.
  • Status of bylaw re-codification; scanning/drop-boxing of official PS:1 documents; and getting copies of those documents to the lawyers
  • Insurance status
  • Lighting in the warehouse area
  • Status of Jordan's motorcycle?

New Business

• Financial/membership report
• Status of repayments?
• Vote to select metal shop Area Host. Currently the only interested volunteer is Mike Warot.
• FYI: space fed call in tomorrow night.

Minutes

• Patrick told Tim that we can't hire a process server until we have started a lawsuit
  • Tim will try to deliver it himself
• Dan hasn't been able to get to working on the welding area yet but is happy with the new lighting.
• T12 fluorescent lamps have been discontinued so we may have to replace all of our light fixtures with either T5 or T8.
• Shawn has requested a quote on maid service but hasn't received it yet.
• No one has seen the member we discussed last week.
• Steve is still working on an audit
• Steve has gotten a final quote from the first insurance guy
  • it came to $2111.00 which also covers non-owned equipment
  • Steve will have all of the documentation after Thanksgiving
  • Steve has investigated and found that we can't sell alcohol and we can't provide alcohol to members at functions without an event permit.
• Steve will be paying the new electric bill.
• Steve has clarified how to add people to the bank account.
• Dan has started a discussion on the mailing list about improving the tool certification system.
  • Changes might be made to make the wiki easier to edit.
  • Terminals might be set up in the space to help people have access to the wiki
• Shawn gave the financial report
• No one else has nominated themselves for metal shop areas host.
  • The board voted to make Metal Mike the metal shop area host
• There is a Space Federation hangout tomorrow night on Google Hangout

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

Meeting start: 08:10 pm