Board Meeting Notes 2024-02-06

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Joe M. (remote)
  • James L.
  • Donzell G.
  • V
  • Peter
  • Ilya

• Other Members
  • Andrew M.
  • Ron O.
  • Andrew W.
  • Carl
  • Jim L. (remote)
  • Sam P.
  • Tyler
  • Mia
  • Sky

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

• No comments

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

• Gen Ops
  • The paper towel nightmare has been resolved.
  • Lights are humming and possibly on fire in arts, we are gonna work on that.
  • Not much else to report
  • Donzell asks about garbage?
    • Cans are all full and dumpster is full.
    • How often is the current pickup schedule?
      • Sam is pretty sure it is not 5x / week
      • It is 3 x a week currently, Carl confirms.
        • We are clicking the more days button.
        • Will be updating to M-Tu-Th-Sa
    • Can it be more? Can we do bigger?
    • James is gonna look into the options
• James asks about the "general air nozzle" has been off for a couple of weeks, looks like it has a leak
  • Andrew M. looks into this
• James wants to once again suggest looking into CINTAS for a quote for paper towels / paper products stocking
  • a new volunteer might want to take this on, Andrew W. brings up?
• James asks to audit the gen-ops volunteers, to make sure they are all still doing things.
  • Jim L. asks that everyone remember to bring their towel with them.
    • Ilya is a hoopy frood.
• Andrew suggests infinite roller towel again!
  • But no one will change them...

• Tech Team
  • Meeting regularly on Saturdays
  • Built a proxmox cluster in the member rack
    • Looking at how to give members access to it for fun and profit?
  • Exploring proxmox as an alternative to vmware
  • Looking at some maintenance projects
  • Sky has been getting some weird reports of member issues, but she thinks it has been addressed with a WA -> AD update.
  • V has seen an issue with automatic discourse provisioning, he will show it to sky.

Mail

• So far mostly just ads.
• A few days ago our tax paperwork from Chicago came in
• Paypal 1099-K has come in.
• A box for "Cox"
• A letter for the landlord

Financial Report

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

Membership Report

• Number of Members: 638
• Quorum: 63

Freshdesk

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

• • Tickets have been light recently.

New Business

• Sam asks us to vote in Tariq as a woodshop volunteer
  • Sam says he has been great and frequently helpful!
• Vulture asks us to vote in Uwe as a arts volunteer

• Jim has ordered the pencils from the pencil vote. The order is confirmed. They should ship in March.
  • White eraser, Gold Ferrule, Red Pencil, White Type

Votes

• The Board votes to approve Tariq Dababneh as a W.I.L.D. volunteer for the Woodshop.
  • For 6 / Against 0 / Abstain 0

• The Board votes to approve Uwe Grosse as a W.I.L.D. volunteer authorizer for graphic arts and textiles as the embroidery machine authorizer.
  • For 6 / Against 0 / Abstain 0