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Board Meeting Agenda for November 29, 2012

Meeting Time: 7pm

Location: Lenox

  1. Order more Business cards
    1. How Many?
    2. Who want's em? (general space cards, and also some board cards?)
    3. Which one, Who will order them, and when?
  2. Organizational changes (non-stock corp, Space Fed membership, etc.)
    1. The role of Communications Director
    2. The role of President
    3. Weekly “Board Reports” for Members at Tuesday Meetings
      1. Who will do this?
    4. Forming committees and special interest groups
    5. The big vote! and timeline estimation.
      1. Who will be listed as members of our non-stock corp?
  3. Update on checklist and timeline of items to complete before the move to Lenox
  4. Membership Software and data entry update
  5. Review Lease Terms
    1. Who can sign, and when must it be signed?
    2. Is a security deposit really necessary?
  6. Garbage Pickup Service Decision: Brant
  7. Internet Connection update?
    1. who is in charge of this?
    2. When will the service start
    3. how much is reasonable to spend?
    4. If we join the Space Federation can we get discounted service?
  8. Rental Space/Member Storage
    1. Determine how much storage is free for full and part time members
      1. How to record which types of storage each member has
      2. How to label all the storage areas (pallet, square, shelf, vault)
        1. Use laser cut tags / signs
        2. or, Use the parking ticket system that Brant was suggesting
    2. Are there different space rental prices for full or part time members?
      1. A discount in storage price for full time members may encourage full time membership (and hence more making!)
    3. Cost per square foot for 'squares' or areas w/o walls
      1. Does this include extra pallet storage? - (4'*3.3'=13.3 sq')
      2. How and where to keep track of non-standard square pricing and physical location (i.e. with a map hung in the office)
    4. Cost per square foot for vaults
    5. How to prevent spread of materials out of 'squares'
      1. One-third height cube walls could work, but may be anti-community, as they look like walls.
    6. How to mark the 'squares' on the floor in a reconfigurable way
    7. Will all squares be located in one room, and the other remain empty?
  9. Floorplan decisions:
    1. Is the Office to remain an office?
    2. pallet rack quantity and location to allows forklift access w/o huge waste of space
    3. member storage shelving location
    4. Will we build many uniform looking storage shelves?
      1. Who will design them?
    5. laser cutter location
    6. Kitchen
    7. Will one 4000 sq foot room be empty?
    8. New furniture / chairs / couches
      1. Will we bring all of our junky tables and filthy chairs?
      2. Where could we get non-filthy ones from?
    9. Will we build many work benches?
      1. Who will design them?
      2. How large will they be?
      3. How many do we need?
      4. Where will they be located?
  10. Make a list of expenses our move-in and set up incur
  11. Floor sealing plan/budget/approval
  12. Document / Signup process cleanup
  13. Should we wait until occupancy permit to move any “storage” items?
    1. Good idea in case the move in date slides out two months (again)
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