boardmeetingagenda:2017-03-16
Milwaukee Makerspace Board of Directors Meeting - March 16th, 2017
Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace craft lab
Attendees
Present
Keith McMillan
Harvey Matyas
Dan Jonke
Tom Klein
Erich Zeimantz
Absent
Guests
Minutes
Meeting was called to order at 7:02 PM by Keith.
Review and approval of the Minutes of the previous meeting
Reports of Boards and Standing Committees
Treasurers Report
Gained 2 family, lost 2 members - membership stayed the same at 281 members
Made aproximately $3,000 last month
Large amount of area funding, no area spending last month
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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
No update
Building Maintenance/Issues
Reports of Special (Select) Committees
Space Projects Update
Wax sculpting for casting area
Last status
Board discussed if we need another champion.
Keith is of the opinion that not enough people can be independent in the area, requires advanced skills and only a few people have them.
Update
Wood shop dust collection
Unfinished Business
Property tax exemption
Utility rates
New camera system
Previous Status
8 cameras online
Second new system awaiting installation
One exterior camera will be installed after awnings are installed
Bill would like one additional camera in the wood shop
Currently have three camera systems, will be adding a fourth. Do we need or want to consolidate?
Update
Willy's Boat
Signs & Awnings Outside
Previous status
No Update
Long-term Budgeting
Previous Status
Create a list of “house projects” to establish funds for
Sit down with Tom G about price points that have previously been estimated
Call out to 3rd parties for getting estimates
Adrian and Dan to work on it
No update
Member Free Storage Space
Second Building
Last Status
Tom has presented an analysis of adding a second space
February Treasurers report doesn't appear to support rent on a second building with current cash flow
Tom and Dan to come up with some proposals to membership
Lance suggested a grant to another group to start a second space
Chris remarked that other makerspaces only give people a tote for member storage
Keith suggested we ask the members if they would pay a higher dues rate to support a second space
Lance suggested a sliding scale for rental space, with the rate going up over time
A suggestion was made to time limit rental space explicitly when the space is rented.
Dan to create a new survey for the membership
Update
New Member Sign-ups
Last Status
Require Google Groups subscription to match Wild Apricot
Board discussed automatically adding members to the members only list as web-only - add link to group to Wild Apricot
Film Dan doing The Spiel and play on a loop - filming completed on 2/28
Announce during meetings that applications need to be in before 8:30
Board agreed to ask for address verification on signups
Keith will prepare a “how do you become a member” card/sheet to include address stuff, DL says she has one
Update
Access server
Weld area champion
New Vacuum Cleaners
There's been discussion of needing new vacuums, but the board doesn't have a proposal in hand
Rick has proposed vacuums for carpet cleaning
Update
There was concern that a filtering vacuum might not work as well as a bagged one with all the debris the space has
Keith has a Kirby he can donate, he will bring it in to see how it works for the space.
New Business
Good of the Space
Tom Gralewicz brought in a bunch of industrial can shop vacuums.
There has not been interest in the vacuums yet.
Tom Gralewicz to send reminder/last notice. If no interest, Tom Gralewicz to remove.
Dan asking to bring hydraulic press from Tom. Board voted to approve, Dan abstained
Adrian asked about getting more Ryobi drills. Board voted unanimously approving Adrian to buy 3 more drills.
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