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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
Update
Several conversations have been had about selling for scrap or donation or place it in the front yard.
Carl will continue the conversations with 3rd parties interested end of next week
If betty brin is interested
yard sign
scrap
unamous vote for this line up
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
Unfinished Business
Eye wash stations
Previous Status
BOD approved funding for eye wash stations July 2015
BOD and Tom disagree on what kind of station to use and where to install it
Meanwhile we don't have a short-term fix in place
Added to agenda by BrantH
Update
vote to buy portable statoins by sinks unanimous
Property tax exemption
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.
Tom moving forward and is ahead of game
Update
vote to have steph to orgnize unamious
Utility rates
New camera system
Previous Status
All wiring runs pulled, some need termination
Board will look at a retention period after the camera system comes fully on line
Kathy thought up the idea of placing small monitor by one entrance so members can see who is outside and better determine who we are allowing in the the building.
board prioritized the following areas for cameras
pottery area / vault area
door 4 “smoking area” by dumpster
public entrance door / door 1
when funds available - east room
Update
Update on update
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
Update
brant is moving forward with CAD picture
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
make list of things to establish funds for
sit down with Tom about price points for fixing these things
call out to 3rd parties for getting estimate
Maker Faire
Update
survey results received - MFM will be talked closer to date
Member Free Storage Space
Previous Status
DL expects to have all the space inventory wrapped up in the next few weeks
we're running short again
bathroom storage needs to be looked over
DL will look over storage
new spaces to be added to wild apricot
Tom look for lockers at auctions
Add to survey questions regarding storage vs new facility
Update
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