Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace craft lab

Meeting was called to order at time by chair.

The meeting minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

• Previous status
  • Inventories from areas coming in, DL has been working with the procedure
  • Larry volunteered to take pictures if needed, DL to communicate that to the area champions

• New donations from previous Kuka owner
  • Previous status
    • Adrian needs to send tax forms to Gerry
    • Items are in the East room, and we need to clear the items - Adrian coordinating, and it will be ready to be cleared on space improvement day

• Dumpster Pad needs repair
  • Last status
    • Quotes received from two companies to repave the lot. Board selected the Poblocki Paving concrete quote as being more durable and requiring less maintenance ($27,000)
    • The board elected to budget monies for repaving, with a target of next year.
    • This will be added to the member survey

• Previous status
  • Current ETA for completion is October
  • The board discussed that the project has gone on for a very long time, and the tolerance for additional extensions is thin. All members of the board present voted unanimously to require completion of the CNC plasma cutter by November 17. If the plasma cutter is not complete, and two members trained to use it, it must be removed by the end of November.

• Previous status
  • Jake is using the Kuka until August for his project
  • Jake is paying $10/month for the space.
  • Adrian spoke with Jake, and he intends to move the Kuka the weekend of 8/20-8/21. There will be a few days of filming, then the Kuka would return, but none of the rest of the material he has been keeping for filming. He may need it for a few days for Makerfaire.
  • When the Kuka returns from Makerfaire it will be sold or disposed of

• Previous status
  • Brant has a revised proposal that would cost $500
  • The board discussed the three proposals and asked Brant to proceed with his plan

• Previous Status
  • Our lawyer (Stephanie) has agreed to help us, but we have missed the window for this year. Tom and Stephanie will work on this later in the year for next year.
  • Keep on agenda and nag Tom (per Tom)

• 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
    • One to the craft lab
    • One to outside Door 1
    • Network cables need jacks and punchdown in the cable closet
    • One new camera installed (CNC room)
  • Larry requests that a camera be pointed at the Tormach
  • This will be a priority item for space improvement day
• Update
  • All wiring runs complete - need termination and cameras installed

• Previous status
  • The board will continue to request updates and monitor the progress
  • Lance spoke with Willy and he believes he is two months behind
  • Project continues to be live

• Previous status
  • Keith will work with Lance on the member survey

• Previous status
  • Tom has proposed some awnings
  • Tom and Carl to work on the application to the city including a drawing
  • Tom and Carl to add this to the member survey since the cost is close to $1000.

• Previous status
  • Couch to be painted
  • Carl presented a design for the lounge/lobby to the board. Attendees had questions and suggestions on the proposed idea.
  • Carl will continue this as an individual project, or if he feels he needs more authorization or to request funds.

• Previous status
  • The board discussed possibly making a larger area comprised of some of the smaller current areas.
  • Board to look at this again in September/October

• Our CPA has retired, and is not returning calls
• Dan and Tom to work on filling in the forms, Adrian to help if required
• We are late in filing our forms, and Dan is addressing this

• Previous Status
  • Adrian suggested we should be setting aside a budget for large building expenditures
  • Board discussed how to operationally do this, agreed we need to determine what costs to forecast

• Last Status
  • The board agreed to have a question on supporting Maker Faire 2017 on the annual survey
  • The board 5-1 to approve the position of area champion for maker faire (Keith voted no)
  • All the board members present voted unanimously to approve 4 stipends for other Maker Spaces at $250/per to reimburse actual travel expenses to send a representative to Maker Faire
  • Additional stipends can be made by individual donation by members

• Previous Status
  • Pallet racking donated by Tri-Star - awaiting installation
  • DL expects to have all the space inventory wrapped up in the next few weeks
• Pallet racks installed 8/28 - need plywood or other “floor”

• 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.
• Last Status
  • The board agreed Lance should put notes under the door of the vaults and ask for “are you using this vault”?

• 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
• Keith will look in to this
• Dan says the next version of Wild Apricot may very well have some help for us

• Last status
  • Carl to continue with his new design ideas and put up a parallel version next to our current site for further feedback.

• Last status
  • A FAQ should be put out to clarify that it is illegal to manufacture firearms at the space.

The meeting was adjourned at time