Board Meeting Notes 2022-04-05

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Paul Ocampo
  • Joe Mertz
  • Fidel Galano
  • Nathan Upchurch
  • Donzell Gordon
  • Tim Bielawa
  • Jesse Seay

• Other Members
  • Alicia J.
  • Andrew M.

Agenda

• Consent Agenda

• Committee Reports
• Read mail
• Financial/membership report
• Review the PayPal and banking transactions
• Member leaving reason reports
• Check Freshdesk queue
• New business
• Old business

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

- Need to update these. Joe will do this after the meeting.

Committee Reports

• Alicia on PR:
  • In talks with Project Invent to have a 1-on-1 mentoring program with high school students.
    • 5 Kids. Aiming to be approved by May. Once per week.
    • Alicia will seek out volunteers.
  • Engaging with people on Slack to come in and video and photograph projects
  • Paul will be working to get her a list of Area Hosts and Authorizers
  • Alicia needs WA access.

• Andrew M.
  • Garbage bag concern has been resolved. We have them, the brand changed.
  • Gen Ops

Financial Report

• Chase Checking:
• Chase Savings:
• PEX:
• PayPal:

Membership Report

• Number of Members: 473
• Quorum:

Freshdesk

Login link: https://pumpingstationone.freshdesk.com

New Business

• Paul will be sending out Area host review questionnaire tonight
• We ran into a communication problem with announcing the board vote on vaccine policy, as the 5th Tuesday thing got in the way.
  • In the future the board will announce policy change votes on discourse when they happen as well.
• Donzell would like a new authorizer for the wood Lathe. He will recommend to Eric B.
• Tech team and MMT met to discuss Freshdesk and WA.
• Nathan has let all of the scholarship applicants know they have been approved.
  • Some of them have a W.I.L.D. component of their scholarship
• Two weeks ago there was a cleaning day, it went pretty well.
  • In the future we will send out an email about these
• Paul wants Fidel to help work on a dust collector monitoring system
• Paul, Fidel, and Donzell talked about tool sharpening
• We will be reaching out to the landlord to talk about what his thoughts are on selling the building.
• Nathan and Donzell will plan a future diversity meeting.
• Discussion about Slack as a communication platform
  • Jesse brings up that it might be contributing to diversity problems.

= Votes

• The board voted unanimously to modify the vaccine card checking requirements to allow for in person vax card checks.