Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace Entrance

• Markus
• Kathy
• Pete
• Faith
• Carl

• Steff
• Billy

• Jake
• Tony
• Tim
• Billx2
• Dan J
• Hapto

• Meeting called to order by Markus at 7:01PM

• Previous meeting minutes were approved by 5 in attendance.

• Find the current treasurer report here.

* Update

• Unusually good month
• Next month may take a big dip but for the insurance payment

• 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.

* Update

• There won’t be an update until the end of the year when their list comes out

• 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
    • Kathy did another 2 painting classes

• Updates
  • add a space for upcoming classes in the tuesday meeting
    • The area champion or class holder could update the on the wiki

• Last Status
  • all 6 vote approval for flooring
  • roll of vinyl in kitchen area. Gets us about ⅔ of th way. Cathy C asking if they have more so we can complete it
• Update
  • possible 200 sq ft from Dan L, vinyl planks

• Last Status
  • Idea of a mural for the outside wall
    • Carl and Steff heading this
  • Kathy H 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
• Update
  • Kathy H, Carl and Pete will research on how to move forward with this
    • What we need
    • What will be painted

• Last Status
• # Attendees
• Update

• Last Status
  • Move Maker Faire, Make-A-Thon, Power Wheels supplies to self storage unit
  • 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
• Update
  • Markus calls a vote
    • Pete: YES
    • Markus: YES
    • Kathy: YES
    • Faith: YES
    • Carl: NO
    • Billy:
    • Steff:

• 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
• Update
• On Markus’s to do list
• Need to print a small run of the brochures

• 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
• Markus drilled into the pad and suggests that we just let winter and the ice break up the pad
• Tim will see if there are any Milwaukee Tools that can help

• See 9. d. for background/history
• Implement a “High Score” board to help expose tool usage data to the membership at large
• Dan J.

• Markus or Andy becoming Electronics Area Champion to spend the money and stock things that are missing
• Markus and Dan have been spending area funds for the electronics lab
• Kathy make a motion Markus to be area champion
  • Pete, Kathy, Faith, Steff = Yes
  • Markus= Abstains
  • Billy, Carl = Missing

• Need to vote on replenishing the outreach fund to $1,963
  • Vote:
  • Markus: YES
  • Pete: YES
  • Kathy: YES
  • Carl: YES
  • Faith: YES

• 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.

• Update
  • Waiting on the insurance to come back

• 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

• Markus:
  • Board retreat or weekend to discuss the changes with the new building and the structure of how we’ll be handling it
  • Hapto is willing to help us plan this retreat, she has experience with this kind of stuff

Need to look into dates after the fall elections

• Meeting was adjourned at 7:42pm