Board Meeting Notes 2016-10-04

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start: 7:04

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Justin
  • Lyn
  • Simon
  • Brian
  • Ray (post-votes)

• Other Members
  • Will
  • Adriana
  • Andrew

Agenda

• Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
• Consent Agenda
  • Trygve member point request
  • Ray requesting member point for laser auth
• Committee Reports
• Read mail
• Financial/membership report
• Review the PayPal and banking transactions
• Member leaving reason reports
• Check RT queue
• New business
• Old business
  • Select second CNC authorizer
  • Tool area plans followup
• Old Todos

Minutes

Consent Agenda

• Trygve member point request
• Ray requesting member point for laser auth
  • Both pass unanimously

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

Bylaws Committee

• Getting ready for legal review
• Will will send a pdf of bylaws to Justin to send to lawyers
• Justin will send the pdf of bylaws to lawyers for review

Buildout Committee

• "Everything is F'ing awesome"

Mail

• Insurance is not renewing coverage.
  • Brian is following up with Paul on new insurance. If that doesn't work out, we can follow up with contact of place that SSH using
  • TA Cummings is shopping around for new insurance

• Notice that water bill has not been paid. It's still in Tony's name.
  • Turns out water bill was actually paid.

Financial Report

• Chase Checking: $18,117.67
• Chase Savings: $113,664.82
• PEX: $6,222.00
• PayPal: $6,827.76

Membership Report

• Starving Hackers: 292
• Full Members: 124
• Total Members: 416
• Quorum: 42

Review the PayPal and banking transactions

• Reimbursements for buildout and truck rental

Member Leaving Reason Reports

• Not enough time, no car, too far
• No free time, new baby
• Had trouble getting authorized, but did get authorized, not enough time
• Traveled away
• Saving up money, dropping down to starving hacker

RT

• Daniel redeeming two points for dues
• Andy redeeming points for full member
• Arturo redeeming one point
• Simon to handle redeeming points

• Trygve member point request
• Ray requesting member point for laser auth
  • Passed in consent agenda

• Approve blog post
  • Justin to handle

• Plasma cutter
  • Issues with the seller, Andrew working on it.

New Business

• Kitchen renovation vote
  • Adriana presented the Kitchen Renovation Vote to the board. Vote announcement will go out on Thursday for following Tuesday vote.

Old Business

CNC Authorizer

• Vote to name Rob as new CNC authorizer passes unanimously

Tool host

• Wait until the new space buildout is further along before reviewing needs

Closed session

• Discussed member issues in closed session

Old Todos

• Jennie will give the member points for RT 5333 & RT 5312
• Justin will do the transfer for RT 5298
• Review tool proposals for next meeting
• Justin will talk to Aushra about Small Metals Area Host position
• Ray (and Jennie) will advertise the position of full-time small metals host

New Todos

• Simon to handle redeeming points for
  • Daniel redeeming two points for dues
  • Andy redeeming points for full member
  • Arturo redeeming one point

Brian to handle:

• Trygve member point request
• Ray requesting member point for laser auth
• Justin to handle Approve blog post
• Will will send a pdf of bylaws to Justin to send to lawyers
• Justin will send the pdf of bylaws to lawyers for review