Board Meeting Notes 2022-11-01

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

• Board Members
  • James Lamken
  • Joe Mertz
  • Paul Ocampo
  • Jesse Seay
  • Fidel Galano
  • Donzell Gordon

• Other Members
  • V (Remote)
  • Books
  • Tam
  • Jim L.
  • Alicia
  • Brian B.
  • Andrew W.

Minutes

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

• PR
  • Nailing down a brand strategy
    • Pull together brand attributes during the next 5th Tuesday Potluck as part of early exploration phase.
      • The hope is that all the area hosts will show up.
    • Paul asks what the end goal is?
      • Final product would be a brand document, so that there is a clear starting point to avoid false starts for future PR efforts.
  • Will start posting videos of the makers with the goal of posting one per month.

• Treasury Team
  • First (only?!) budgeting meeting for 2023 will be scheduled in the next couple of weeks. Current estimated time November 12th.
  • Donzell asks about the COVID EIDL loan
    • Last we heard "we were approved but the federal agency that was running the loan program disbanded"
    • Donzell and Joe think this is a good thing.

Membership Report

• Number of Members:'491'
• Quorum:'49'

Freshdesk

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

• Nothing of interest
• V and Scott will both be out of town for two weeks.

New Business

• V is the scholarships person. They talked about scholarships
  • 8 People have scholarships that have expired, but are still "active" in WA
    • None of them have logged in to WA
  • 14 Vacant Scholarships, in theory
  • V will reach out to all of the current applicants, and all of the expiring scholarships, and see who is still interested.
    • The board will vote to approve / not-approve members at the next board meeting.

• Fidel wants to know about the budget for the February PS:1 - Black Edition event
  • Team for the event will be meeting next week to discuss.

• PS:1 Annual Meeting of the Membership to be held on Tuesday, November 29th at 8:00PM in the Lounge.

• Jesse is ready with a thing to do, and is irritated that Paul is not going around the room shaming people.
  • Jesse has an event she wants to do, but is worried about getting people to attend.
  • Paul punts the getting people to the event to Alicia.

• TVs can be damaged by flying candy.
  • Jesse contests this "fact"
  • More experimentation required