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boardmeetingagenda:2015-02-19

February 19, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting Time: 6:30pm
Location: Lenox, Meeting Room

  • All members are welcome to attend, and non-board members can join the conversation when invited

Meeting Minutes 2015-02-19_bod_meeting.pdf

Legal/Financial

Secretary's Report (January)

Last Months Minutes.

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR ALL: Begin sending topics to Vishal for use in digest-emails
  • ACTION ITEM FOR VISHAL: Begin collecting and posting regularly scheduled digest-emails to Announcements List

Treasurer's Report (January)

  • ACTION ITEM FOR BRANT: Update billing spreadsheet with Square account info
    • UPDATE: Square says the account cannot be transferred to someone else, it would need to be closed and a new one opened. There's no more info for Brant to provide and he doesn't have access to the billing spreadsheet. *

Quicken, accounting software progress

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR VISHAL: Continue research on new member software

Building ownership/purchasing shares report progress

Last Months Action Items;

  • OLD ACTION ITEM: Tom and Joe to continue researching ways that MoMI could buy the building if the members decide to do so

Non-profit, 501c3 status

Policies and Procedures

Area Champion Updates

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR TIFFANY: Revise Area Champions Duties Document as noted in this meeting

Vote of No Confidence

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM: Lance to contact 2-3 mediation services and get quotes to proctor a vote (Emails sent, awaiting responses)
  • ACTION ITEM: Lance to email members and request VONC no longer be discussed on forums (This has been completed)

Building Topics/Projects Update

Metal Shop Reorg

Wiring

Last Months Action Items;

  • OLD ACTION ITEM FOR TOM: Work on wiring for general outlets for Meeting Room and Wood Shop
  • OLD ACTION ITEM FOR JOE AND TOM: Work on wiring for Red Dragon CNC

Welding Exhaust Filter Box

  1. Frame completed and installed
  2. Group needs to purchase filters for it
  3. Tom and Brant are proposing (10) of these: http://thd.co/17pUY7e

Tickets

  1. who can ticket storage
  2. who can ticket?
  3. Red ticket pre-shopping, members marking red ticket items as theirs before items go to hack rack.

Member Storage Labeling

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR BRANT: Work on labeling storage designations and names
    • UPDATE: Completed on 1/31/15

Proposed East/West Room Changes

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR TIFFANY: Rewrite proposal and floor plan for West/East Room Reorg

Temporary Vault Hallway Overflow Storage

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR TIFFANY: Add floor storage to the spreadsheet

Impound Lot Area

Relocating Watch Parts

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR TIFFANY: Email MattJ and Charles about remaining watch parts
  • OLD ACTION ITEM FOR CHARLES: Determine how to give empty watch part cabinets away to those who are interested by Jan 7, 2015
  • Complaint from member Jake on 2/17 who wanted to use the photo studio.

Long Materials Storage Proposal

Electric Kiln

  • Brant and Tom working to add exhaust fan in pottery area
  • No other progress at this time

Last Vault Hallway Lockers Moved

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR TIFFANY: Email DL and offer filing cabinets for pottery area

Member Request for Electronics Lab Supplies

Member/Space Projects Update

4x8 CNC Plasma Cutter

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR JOE: Complete wiring and tweak motion along axes, complete project

4x8 CNC Router

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR STEVE: Tweak motion along axes, complete project

Kuka

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR MATT: Complete demo project with Lance, get two trainers, update wiki

"Red Dragon" RA-1F Vertical Mill update

Cold Saw

Induction Furnace

Large format plotters

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR STEVE: Email EdH about removing the photo printer from the space, copy info@ account

Floor sweeper

Last Months Action Items;

  • OLD ACTION ITEM: Tom to follow up with the BOD once an offer is received

Leather working tools

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR VISHAL: Tiffany asked that Vishal add a reminder to not bogart the flat bed carts when he sends out the first digest email on the Announcements List

Machine shop desk/tooling space request progress

Last Months Action Items;

  • ACTION ITEM FOR TIFFANY: Contact Robert H. about moving his stuff to its new home (This has been completed)

New equipment/donations

Request to provide funding for new laser computer.

Events

New Business

Any topics from members who are present

- JR. helped to fill dumpster by putting seat from his van in to dumpster. Should member be using dumpster for personal dumping of large items?

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Meeting ending time noted

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