Board Meeting Notes 2023-11-07

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Meeting Start:

Attendance

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

• Other Members
  • Carl K.
  • Ron O.
  • Andrew M.

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

No notes.

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

• MMT
  • In a good rhythm with tickets.

• GenOps
  • Heat seems happy
  • No pressing issues
    • Other than needing to get more trash bags and paper towels.

• TechTeam
  • No updates.

Mail

• Certified mail for Dan (the landlord) that is spam.
• 2021 tax thing from the State of Illinois
  • We need to pay a late fee for $250.
  • They had been sent a check that was wrong.
  • Treasury team is investigating.
• Otherwise just spam.

Financial Report

• Carl says we have money
  • More than last time.

• Chase Checking: $30,490.67
• Chase Savings: $34,208.58
• PEX: $8,882.28
• PayPal: $8,069.74

Membership Report

• Number of Members: 612
• Quorum: 61

Freshdesk

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

New Business

• 2000 Pound Machine?
  • Stirling or weight?
    • weight
  • It is a plastic shredder, tldr.
    • Books brought it in.
    • Came from the Haddon space, was evicted.
    • Dave has given it temporary permission to be in Cold Metals while it gets reduced in size.
  • Joe asks if it is a loaned tool or a donated tool?
    • It is a member project.
  • It is quite dangerous, possibly, if it works.
    • "It looks angry" - James
  • Fidel asks how many signs we have on it?
    • Not enough. But its fine it doesn't work yet.
  • Carl would like to be clear that anything that sounds like encouragement from him has been misconstrued. This is *not* another coffee maker.
  • Ron didn't even know it existed until he was asked to help. He was very happy to see the camaraderie that happened to get it unloaded.
    • Special mention to Sam who helped weld on fork pockets while it was still on the truck!
      • That also means it is easier to get back out.

• Votes on hold
  • Survey monkey got stupid expensive
  • We are working on replacing it with a new vote tool that Carl, Weasel, and Ron have been working on helping a DePaul professor update.
    • should be ready soon.
    • Some discussion ensued about the answers.

• Need to post threads asking Director at Large nominations.
  • Joe will take care of it.

Votes

• • The board votes to appoint Tyler Dehority to a W.I.L.D position on the Treasury Team.

For 8 / Against 0 / Abstain 0

• • The board votes to appoint Osi Van Dessel to the position of Small Metals Area Hosts, succeeding Aly Reza.

For 8 / Against 0 / Abstain 0