Board Meeting Notes 2018-01-02

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Jennie
  • Ray
  • Ed
  • Carl
  • Simon

• Other Members
  • Sky
  • Erik
  • Ron

Agenda

• Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
• Consent Agenda
• Committee Reports
• Read mail
• Financial/membership report
• Review the PayPal and banking transactions
• Member leaving reason reports
• Check RT queue
• New business
• Old business

Minutes

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

Financial Report

• Chase Checking: $28,204.61
• Chase Savings: $110,699.41
• PEX:
• PayPal: $12,711.80

Membership Report

• Starving Hackers: 380
• Full Members: 137
• Total Members: 517
• Quorum:46

New Business

• Authorizer applications
  • Board votes to make Bhairavi and Marlena our new volunteer authorizers in Small Metals
  • Touch base with Ash about applications for CNC
• Board member position descriptions
• Potential committees & working groups
  • Social media
  • Computer infrastructure group
  • Budget/insurance/bylaws
  • Lawyer recommends we add:
    • Tool maintenance and record-keeping
    • Authorization and education
• Bylaws review with lawyer
  • Lawyer will share a review of the bylaws
  • When bylaws are ready for review
  • Ed will host a town hall meeting or two, possibly on a Tuesday member meeting and a Sunday

Old Business

• Budget voting
  • When are budgets voted on?
    • Theoretically next week. Are they ready for a vote?