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Milwaukee Makerspace Board of Directors Meeting - December 16th, 2021

Agenda

  1. Intro
    1. Take Attendance: Tim, Marcus, Alden, Jake, Faith, Mike, Tony, Jeff, Chris + Guests, Dan joined after first vote: Sean & Charlie (not Charlie a.k.a. Otis)
  1. Cheers: Faith - Peanut Butter Whiskey
  2. Previous Minutes: - 6 yeas to ratify
  3. Financial Projections: + 42 members in December, 21 of which are the Marquette team
  4. Updates on Ongoing Business
  5. Marquette SAE Team
    1. Paid month invoice, prob will ask for training in new year, not clear exactly what they'll want/need.
  1. Norwich Lease
    1. Have updated lease for 19593 ft^2, includes space for Neon Area
    2. 100% yeas voted to expand Neon for lease, not including Bill (absent)
    3. Vote for expansion of lease pending, straw poll shows positive votes
  2. Maker Faire
    1. Question on why the delay of final numbers; answer is pledged money has been delayed from several sources(e.g. ROTC, who didn't hit their target numbers for signups is now withholding their pledged money)
    2. Gearbox is currently in the red- One suggestion is to pay Gearbox $3000 (which puts MMS expenditure at upper limit of what MMS budgeted for Makerfaire) with the caveat that MMS would stay involved in MakerFaire in some capacity, but will not be paying additional funds beyond our purchased agreements again.
    3. Vote to reallocate $3000 originally budgeted for MakerFaire signage, to Gearbox Lab, voluntarily, as investment in the long term relationship with Gearbox Lab.
      1. Vote passes 6 yeas to 1 nay
  1. Make48
  2. Initial communication to area champions positive so far. Expecting more info around February 2022
  3. Space Improvement Day on
  4. Move to January 2nd. Suggestion is to have formal SID on Jan 2nd at Norwich, and also move the end of January SID, during which the meeting room long table will move to craft lab area, tall storage moving, etc.
  1. Storage proposal -
    1. vote initially suggested to tie storage to participation in SID/needed SI actions; SOFTEN WORDING AROUND “REQUIREMENT”; perhaps do trial run and evaluate at a later date?
    2. Need to communicate with those members with low activity (6 mos without coming into either space) but that have rented space (which is at a premium at Lenox), as “wellness check” email to be sent automatically to those members.
  1. Membership Engagement
  1. Neon Area Proposal
  1. New Business
    1. Merch?
    2. Prusa Partner Program
    3. Member Topics
      1. Open for guests
  2. President's Minute

Introduction

Attendance

Present
Absent
Guests

Cheers

Previous Minutes

Current Financial Projections

Ongoing Business

Marquette SAE Team

Norwich Lease

Update on Lease

Maker Faire Milwaukee

Make 48

Space Improvement Day

Membership Engagement

Storage Proposal

Final Storage Proposal Voting Terms (need to agree on this to be sent membership-wide)

  1. Any member who wants to add storage space will be required to attend a space improvement day, or have already attended a SID in the past 2 or 3 months
  2. If the member cannot make it to space improvement day, they will be required to find and take on a general improvement task around the space (anything from cleaning to working with an area champion on specific tasks). We are leaving this pretty open. As long as people are being excellent and doing what Mr. Rodgers would do, we leave it to individuals to determine what they view as “adequate” effort based on skill, time, etc. This will extend to community-centered tasks as well, like running a workshop, training, or hands-ons for members or the community.
  3. There will be minimal tracking. Like with most rules and regs, the space relies on us keeping ourselves and each other honest

Membership Signup Materials

Neon Sign Bending Area

New Business

Pre-Planned Membership Proposals

Member Topics

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