Board Meeting Notes 2023-01-17

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Joe M.
  • James L.
  • Donzell G.
  • Tim B.
  • Fidel G.
  • V
  • Jesse S.

• Other Members
  • Sam P.
  • Brian B.
  • Kitschwitch
  • Adam
  • Jim L.
  • Alicia
  • Books (Late)
  • Paul O. (Late)

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

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

• PR
  • Slowly but surely getting onto Instagram
  • James has the twitter account and can help Alicia get in.
  • Planning to do an art exhibit event (Feb 11 or 17/18)
    • Music?

• MMT
  • Next meeting Feb 2.
  • New potential lead Clair) will be attending
  • Light email. Few issues.

Mail

• Hacky New Year card from Hack Lab Toronto
  • The punchcard is well printed.
  • Perhaps we should respond with a groundhogs day?
    • Alicia suggest ground symbol

Financial Report

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

Membership Report

• Number of Members: 508
• Quorum: 50

Freshdesk

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

New Business

• Showing off sample from new Large Format Printer
  • Super high quality and super exciting

• Office Hours
  • James has had people asking about office hours.
  • Kitschwitch wants to do office hours in the Kitchen.
    • She wants to know when it should happen?
  • James will be drafting up an email to all the area hosts to pick a time for office hours.
  • Sam likes the idea of adding a separate office hours for the woodshop
    • He will give it some thought
  • Adam is thinking one day a month for ICNC
• GenOPS seems seemingly generally confused about who the general area host is, generally.
  • Board will be scheduling a meeting with GenOPS
• Donzell asks if the emails with the landlord can be made more public to the board
  • James will forward the one email that hasn't been.

• West Loop Library Email
  • V will get in touch with the membership and see if anyone is interested, and then will respond to the email. Assuming they can find it.

• Adam brings up Area Move stuff
  • The shapeoko got moved across the hallway by coldmetals and left in an awful state.
  • ICNC would like some physical "area" to be a part of their area.
    • They propose taking over the back corner of woodshop behind the Shopbot.
  • Adam has two fanless pc's in his budget.
    • One for the Shapeoko and one for the Shopbot
    • James will let Adam know about the next tech team meeting to discuss computer purchasing.
• Sam would like to get rid of the useless woodshop computer
  • Sam would also like one useful computer in the space if possible.
• Sam will be physically unavailable most of February due to hip replacement.
  • He will be working with the woodshop team to make this not a problem.
  • Everyone at PS:1 wishes him well!

Old Business

• MMT
  • New Lead. One application. We will bring them up next week.
• Kitchen Cameras
  • Have they been purchased and installed? Donzell asks.
  • James has been put in charge of running the cables.
  • Should be installed in the next week

Votes

• The board votes to allocate the physical space east of the dust collector on the south wall of the woodshop, and extending out until the end of the Shopbot, not counting the area of the panel saw, to the Industrial CNC Area.

7 Aye / 0 Nay / 0 Abstain