Held at the Milwaukee Makerspace Entrance

• Markus
• Kathy
• Carl
• Adrian
• Sarah
• Faith

• Tim

• Tony
• Dan J

• Meeting called to order by Markus at 7:04PM

• Previous meeting minutes were approved by 4 in attendance.

• Find the current treasurer report here.

* Update

• Spend area funding!
• Paid insurance
• Tax assessor forms

• Redoing the kitchen floor with laminate tiles on space improvement day
• Redoing the flooring in the laser lab
• Issues with air compressor copper pipe will be dealt with on Saturday

• 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. Updates will start at the beginning of 2020

• Update
  • Carl talked to Mayor about who is running the DNC Host Committee to see if we can get some tours for the candidates to see what we have available
  • Carl continuing to find similar places like ours to find interest in doing joint classes
  • Make-a-thon is on November 29 next week
    • Dan J company will donate food for the event
    • Kathy C in in charge of this event
  • 5 vote YES to make Sarah co-champion to the laser lab

• 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
    • Do we want to add a space for upcoming classes in the Tuesday meeting notes?

• Updates

• 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
  • we have laminate tiles that will be put down on space improvement day. The carpet has been torn up, floor leveled, and the wall partially painted

• 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
  • Kathy H, Carl and Pete will research on how to move forward with this
    • What we need
    • What will be painted
• Update
  • Sarah’s idea: collect large doodles from members to create patterns out of stainless or aluminum sheeting

• Last Status
• # Attendees
• Update

• Last Status
  • Move Maker Faire, Make-A-Thon, Power Wheels supplies to self storage unit
  • Storage Masters unit is approx. $106/month
  • 18 months of storage.

• Update
  • Moved items to storage units with about 2 pallets of space still available
  • Markus has pictures of everything that is in it and will update it on the wiki
  • Keys for unit are in the cash drawer

• 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
  • Carl has made tour notes on topics he tries to cover while on a tour

• 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
• 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
• 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

• Update
• Updates as weather provides

• 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 is electronics lab area champion.
• Dan and Markus have been spending the funds

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

• Update

• 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
  • Insurance has been paid

• Board retreat or weekend to discuss the changes with the new building and the structure of how we’ll be handling it
• Sarah 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

• The :( topic of this months misbehaviors
  • excessive drinking at the space
• Updating area champion message board members

• Meeting was adjourned at 7:57pm