Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace Entrance

• Markus
• Kathy
• Pete
• Faith
• Steff

• Billy
• Carl

• Peter
• Dan L
• Steve P
• Dan J
• Tony
• Jake

• Meeting called to order by Markus at 7:07PM

• Previous meeting minutes were approved by 5 in attendance.

• Find the current treasurer report here.

* Update

• Carl is in contact with the Milwaukee Makers Market people and we are on the list for being a 2020 venue. He will continue to talk to them about holding a Milwaukee Makers Market at our location.

• Previous Status
  • Remember to suspend members before archiving them
  • Ideas:
    • Increase knowledge on classes available online or throughout space
    • Area champions sponsor events in their area with area funds
    • Makerspace facilitate classes by purchasing materials
    • See if members want to teach specific classes
    • Grillers night out has been going on every week, need to post on calendar

• Updates
  • Kathy will be doing another painting class

• Last Status
  • all 6 vote approval for flooring
  • 700 dollars for flooring est.
  • * Kathy found someone who is donating vinyl sheet flooring. Waiting to see if it will be dropped off or if we have to pick it up
• Update
  • roll of vinyl in kitchen area. Gets us about ⅔ of th way. Cathy asking if they have more so we can complete it

• Last Status
  • Tom G was issued a Letter of intent
  • Rezoning and drawings in progress
  • Waiting on City to determine how they will handle land situation
  • City Council has voted yes to giving us the building for $1
• Update
  • Things are moving forward with St. Francis building. Closing schedule in next 1-2 weeks.

• Last Status
  • Idea of a mural for the outside wall
    • need approval from city
    • Carl and Steff heading this
• Update
  • Kathy talked to Dylan about what we can and cannot do
  • We can do what we want as long as its nice art and we can check with the facing neighbors ourselves

• Last Status
  • Tom G. said we can use his truck. If we need another, Pete can get one for probably less than $300

• Maker Faire funding requests
  • Forms will be made for requests for funds - https://goo.gl/forms/FTlhPLpWlrLUWRwI3
  • how do we handle the budget with the outreach committee
  • discussion of funding flat amount or a match rate from fundraising
  • 6-1 vote to notify membership of a proposal requesting putting 5k toward outreach programs
  • Waiting on the plan for the 5K toward the Outreach Program until there is a budget outline
  • Actual Payouts so far, totaling $1883.42 - Dan J:
  • Adrian - Sculptures 300.00
  • Akron Makerspace Travel Funding 200.00
  • Jake - Crossbow 500.00
  • Karen - Makerfaire MMS Booth 50.00
  • Kathy H - Party Food 109.37
  • Kathy H - Party Liquor 106.05
  • Kendra - Party Food 83.00
  • Mark - Truck Refuel 35.00
  • Sam - Tesla Coil 500.00
• Need to approve at least $335.08 in general fund transfers to Community Outreach fund.
• Outreach Program*
• we need to find someone to head this group, mention at the meeting and through email
• Robert Massey(ping pong ball thing) - Payout $80
• Put $1,963 in the Outreach Fund
• Markus will send out member notification

• Last Status
• # Attendees
• Update

• Last Status
  • Move Maker Faire, Make-A-Thon, Power Wheels supplies to self storage unit
  • Tom recently started renting 1000sq.ft
  • Billy talked to Bay View storage and is waiting for hear back
  • We can also ask if members have any extra personal storage for Maker Faire/Powerwheels supplies
• Update
  • Markus asked about pricing for MMS to get unit at storage masters (scroll saws, folding chairs, powerwheels, etc) less than $1/sq.ft. ($106/month)
  • 18 months of storage. Markus will email the membership

• Last Status
  • similar to wood shop
  • encourage and boost confidence for more members to give tours
  • more consistency of topics covered
  • cover more of our culture and what to expect (training, storage, behaviour)
  • Do we want a bulleted script for tour guides
  • Steff and Kathy C will survey new members
  • Do we want a quiz after becoming a new member for the simple/everyday things?
• Update

• Many people more likely to read and remember printed things
• Gives new members something to do while waiting to sign up
• Include something like a quick start guide of how to get trained?
• Markus will look at handbook and edit it
• Give each new member a copy
• Give handbook at first tour, then have the new member verify that they read it: quiz potential
• Face to face instruction instead of the video
• Carl will come in 30 minutes before Monday class for new member orientation
• Slide deck in wiki for new members
• Solves: FAQ, Training questions, Cleaning, Lights, First aid

• Adding a new line on the sign up sheet to check off if they've been a member before
• Markus wants to add a list of members who we should be wary of signing up again
• new procedure write-up for signing up members

• Update
  • Markus added the list of members who we should be wary of in the Wild Apricot add a member

• Remove old pad and replace with compacted gravel for an additional parking spot
• It’ll be in the fall when Cathy’s dad has slow time at work
• Update

• See 9. d. for background/history
• Implement a “High Score” board to help expose tool usage data to the membership at large
• Dan J.
• I think it would be helpful for member engagement if we could expose more data about tool usage.
• I would like to send out an automated email once a month, like the area funding email, containing “Most productive maker” awards. That shows who has been using each tool the most.
• I would also add a page to the website that contains “High Scores”, for the current month, the highest ever month, and the highest cumulative all time usage.

• Markus or Andy becoming Electronics Area Champion to spend the money and stock things that are missing

• Increasing Our General Liability insurance limit. -Dan J.
  • Our Policy renews next month. Our current limit is $1m/$2m incident/total. I have requested a quote to double this to $2m/$4m
  • They have automatically added “DATA DEFENDER COVERAGE” Which protects against computer hacks/identity theft. This is $186
  • Our renewal cost is $4,515 a year, this is an increase of a few hundred dollars.
• The :( topic of this months misbehaviors
  • Private warning in person and email
  • Email to the membership about our anti-harassment policy
• Do we want Tom G can cuber for demonstration purposes in the hallway by sinks
  • You’re not supposed to crush the cans you’re going to recycle
• Steff: Milwaukee Magazine Event
  • Never voted as a board to approve the event happening
  • We should have all the information about events before we agree to them
• We want to remove the picnic table
• Adrian will talk with the snowplow people

• Meeting was adjourned at 8:43pm