Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace craft lab

• Lance Lamont
• Adrian Volden
• Keith McMillan
• Harvey Matyas

Meeting was called to order at 7:00 by Lance.

The meeting minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

• Previous status
  • DL has barcode software, Harvey has offered to help inventory

• New donations from previous Kuka owner
  • Previous status
    • Adrian to contact Gerry and get more details on items, or visit and determine what we can use

• Dumpster Pad needs repair
  • Previous status
    • Lance suggests we make the current spot into a parking space
    • DL trying to set up a time to have Advance come out and move the dumpster
    • Tom suggests we determine if we can add additional parking spots
    • Tom and DL suggest the ramp and bollards be looked at when this is done
    • Tom will get some quotes on having the concrete done

• Welding wall and power drops
  • Tom got the metal studs for the wall for free
  • We discussed a suitable recognition for Tri-Star Recycling who contributed the metal studs - Keith suggested a plaque cut on the lasers
  • Lance suggested a blog post too

• Current target for completion is End of August
• Previous status
  • Steve and Marc making progress, need slats from one of the metal shops in town, or to cut their own

• Previous status
  • Previous owner wants the pendant, and possibly a board from the cabinet back if we dispose of the Kuka.
  • Jake is using the Kuka until August for his project
  • Lance told Jake that he needs to pay for the floorspace. Jake is paying $10/month for the space.
  • Vishal needs the space for his Maker Faire project
  • Lance to follow up with Jake and reinforce that he needs to take up the smallest footprint when he's not using the robot.

• Previous status The board approved a competition to create a new poster for the space, with a cash prize of $25 - Lance to lead
• No update

• Previous status
  • Steve Pilon is working on a plan and will be sending it to the board, estimating less than $2,000
  • UPDATE: Steve and Brant coordinating on getting discount materials for the system
    • Quote 1: $3,715 before tax/freight
    • Quote 2: $3,550 before tax/freight
  • Dust particle counter - Brant
    • Unit assembled and tested OK
    • Will fabricate an enclosure for it and start taking readings every few days

• Previous Status
  • Tom Gr. provided the forms to the board
  • Dan and Keith to review the forms and provide feedback to Tom
  • Dan and Tom suggest perhaps having the lawyer review, after the board reviews

• Previous Status
  • Ongoing sales tax exemption secured
  • Lance to pursue getting past sales tax back from State of WI

• Previous Status
  • All cable drops in place EXCEPT
    • Two to the meeting room
    • One to the craft lab
    • One to outside Door 1
  • DL to put up the signs letting people know they are on camera

• Previous status
  • 911 phone is now mounted at the front desk
  • Keith has all additional the phones from Shane
  • Adrian will be bringing in more of the boxes for mounting phones during space improvement day
  • Still a space improvement project
  • Lance to follow up with police and see if we can register the phones as being at the space address

• Previous status
  • The board will continue to request updates and monitor the progress
  • DL spoke with Willy and he hopes to be done in July

• Previous status
  • DL will provide a draft communication for the board to review

• Previous status
  • DL will send out the draft of the new policy for review before next meeting

• Previous status
  • Keith stated there seemed to be evenly divided opinion on whether the board or the membership should do this. The easiest solution would be to not revise the bylaws, but allow the board to immediately suspend a member if there was reasonable suspicion of illegal activities. Keith also proposed that violence or threats of violence also be cause for immediate suspension.
  • Keith provided a draft revised the code of conduct to the board for review
  • Online vote to be held on the revisions to the code of conduct
• Inter-meeting update - Vote held - code of conduct revised

• Previous status
  • Lance will coordinate a new member survey

• Previous status
  • Tom Gr and DL checking into ordinances and requirements for awnings and signage

• Previous status
  • Tom Gr provided some new chairs for the meeting areas
  • Deferred until Carl is available next meeting

• Previous status
  • Deferred until Carl is available

• Appoint Co-treasurer(s) from outside BOD
  • Previous status
    • Keith proposed an amendment to the bylaws to allow named board members to appoint support committees, subject to a veto by a majority of the board
    • Board discussed how to do a special meeting to discuss several bylaw changes - targeting 7/12 for the initial discussion of revisions, followed by a vote from 7/19 thru 7/26
• Revisions to bylaws to account for family membership
  • Tabled for a meeting specifically on bylaws
• Revisions to bylaws to allow hardship suspension of membership
  • Tabled for a meeting specifically on bylaws

• Previous status
  • The board discussed possibly making a larger area comprised of some of the smaller current areas.
  • DL suggested maybe not allowing more than one shelf for a single member, or making the top shelves available for this
  • Daleks moved from the East room
  • Hal organized the screen printing area
  • Powerwheels have taken over the spot in the East room vacated by the Daleks, until July, when Maker Faire gets it

• Previous status
  • Google group, front page of the wiki, and the area champions page are inconsistent and duplicative.
  • Dan installed the plugin to include pages in other pages - Keith to fix this now
• Intra-meeting - single page created areachampions and included in both areas page and front page

• Tom Gr asks for end-of-year balances for the accountant - Dan to provide
• Dan provided information

• Adrian suggested we should be setting aside a budget for large building expenditures

• Adrian to send out an email to the membership asking if someone would champion an open house at the space on Saturday of Maker Faire
• Adrian to send out a survey to determine if we are going to fund Maker Faire, and at what level
• Vishal sign wave
  • He will need 2 weeks of clear space to finish the project, when will Jake's Kuka be moved?
  • He can start working on it anytime after July 10. - see items earlier on the Kuka

• Inventory done by DL, needs to sync with Dan on some people who she can't reconcile
• There are open spaces, DL to update with “EMPTY” stickers and send an email
• Board to re-evaluate storage space at next meeting

• Lance mentions that some vaults don't seem to have any activity, and there seems to be very low turnover. Perhaps we should find a way to inquire if they are being used. The board agreed Lance should put notes under the door of the vaults and ask for “are you using this vault”?

• Can a member on the vault storage list “pass up” a vault and stay in the same position on the list? For instance, if they really want a large vault and a small vault comes available, can they let the next person on the list take the small one, but stay at the top of the list?

• Calendars are a challenge, only board members can update the GCal, the groups aren't well suited to signing up for classes, not everyone has access to update the Wiki (or the knowledge about how to do so)
  • DL mentions Wild Apricot might work for events for this
  • Carl is digging into the Google APIs and we might be able to automate posting to the calendar

The meeting was adjourned at __