Milwaukee Makerspace Board of Directors Meeting - December 15th, 2016
Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace craft lab
Attendees
Present
Kayla
Carl
Tom
Dan
Keith
Harvey
DL
Absent
Guests
Minutes
Meeting was called to order at 7:01 by Keith
Review and approval of the Minutes of the previous meeting
Reports of Boards and Standing Committees
Treasurers Report
Current Funds $66,423.01
Estimated 6 month Operating Expenses: $6,413.54
Current Committed Area Funding: $6,413.54
Current funds less reserved and committed: $15,009.47
YTD Cash Flow
Income:$124,124.69
Spending: $95,078.78
Net: $29,045.91
Space Equipment Inventory
Previous status
Inventories from areas coming in, DL has been working with the procedure - will have done by end of year
Intends to involve area champions
pictures of equipment slowly coming in
New Equipment/Donations
Building Maintenance/Issues
Reports of Special (Select) Committees
Space Projects Update
Wax sculpting for casting area
4x8 CNC Plasma Cutter
Kuka
Wood shop dust collection
Previous status
“Green” dust collector online
Bill C /brant will create budget for updating collector
BoD previously authorized $500, approximately $250 used so far
Update
Bill and Brant discussed Bill's concerns and agreed on a course of action for the Green collector
White collector hookup not started
Steve will communicate with Bill will and take on job if Bill is unavailable
Unfinished Business
Eye wash stations
Property tax exemption
Utility rates
New camera system
Willy's Boat
Member Survey
Signs & Awnings Outside
Previous status
Tom has proposed some awnings
Question added to the member survey since the cost is close to $1000.
Mockups given to Tom Gr.
Kayla draft up bay doors design
Update
Members approved expense to add awnings
City has requested dimensional drawings for the awnings, Keith has asked Brant to help in AutoCAD
Craft Lab II: Trade Craft!
Previous status
The board discussed possibly making a larger area comprised of some of the smaller current areas.
Area reorganized November 6
Who's the area champion for the combined area? Wiki updated?
Jon H pointed out the vacuum former needs more room to be used, current location is by the electric source
Update
Long-term Budgeting
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
Adrian will work on this more after Maker Faire
Update
DL will make a list of expensive things to budget for (e.g. new roof, new furnace)
Ask Tom if he can easily give us a guesstimate, otherwise split up the list among board members to call some contractors for a ballpark estimate
Maker Faire
Update
survey results received - MFM will be talked closer to date
Member Free Storage Space
Calendars / Class Signups / Events
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)
Dan says the next version of Wild Apricot may very well have some help for us
Update
Website redesign proposal
New Business
Discussion of member survey results
How do we get more trainers? - Keith
Gamify space improvement day - Keith
Update
Good of the Space
Announcements
Close
The meeting was adjourned at 9:09