boardmeetingagenda:2021-11-18

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Milwaukee Makerspace Board of Directors Meeting - November 18th, 2021

Agenda

Intro
1. Take Attendance
2. Cheers:
3. Previous Minutes:
4. Financial Projections
Updates on Ongoing Business
1. Marquette SAE Team
2. Norwich Lease
3. Maker Faire
4. Make48
5. Space Improvement Day on 11/28
6. Membership Engagement
7. Pottery Area Proposal
8. Neon Area Proposal

New Business
1. Member Topics
  1. Open for guests
President's Minute

Introduction

Attendance

Present

Tim C

Absent

NA

Guests

Cheers

This month's libation of choice:
Provided by:

Previous Minutes

Meeting called to order by Tim at:

Current Financial Projections

Update from Jeff M
Membership currently (Maximum was 380); Minimum was ~240 during Covid.

Ongoing Business

Marquette SAE Team

Marquette SAE received clearance for 4 months of rent + memberships
Tim provided two tours to ~16 Marquette students
- Bill and Tim signed up ~16 new members on 11/7!!!
Marquette provided payment for 21 members and 350sqft of storage for 1 month
- Once approved, they will provide a check to cover through end of February

Norwich Lease

Lease to increase some amount (0.01s per square foot)
Vote for 3 year lease?

Maker Faire Milwaukee

Total Expenditures
- Power Wheels: $1,7000 paid for, amount outstanding paid for by Jeff?

Make 48

Membership given primer via sizzle reel
Next steps: sell the vision (easier said than done)

Space Improvement Day

Sunday, Nov. 28th
Food TBD
Major projects identified?

Membership Engagement

Storage Proposal

Proposal by Tim: all new members must attend space improvement day before being allocated storage
- Encourage new members to interact with current members and the BOD
- Helps ensure large groups of volunteers
- Adequate persuasion/reward for volunteerism
- Will be done on the honor system.
- If current members want storage space, they must have participated in an SID within the last 2 to 3 months.
Vote to change rule to reflect the above proposal
- Requires alerting the membership
No action yet taken, vote should occur in December, take effect in new year

Event Proposal

Date of Trivia Night
- November proposed

Membership Signup Materials

Tim 7/8ths through script
- Upon completion will do rough recording for commentary/feedback
- Will break up information between tours and signup video

Pottery Area Expansion

Jeff M for expansion of Ceramics Area
- Requesting 491.5 SQFT of space, or $184.31/mo
- Member Donation vs. Area Space
- Proposed Area Map:pottery_area.pdf
- Proposed Timeline:
  - 4 weeks to move Dan L to another location.
  - 2 weeks to resurface, wash, and epoxy the new area
  - 1 week acquire and erect pallet rack and move/rearrange equipment into new space.
  - Additional work that might have to be done would include electrical drops for new wheels as required. This would not be necessary from the initial plan but be needed as time continues.

Call to Vote to Expand the Area:
- Ayes:
- Nays:
- Abstains:

Neon Sign Bending Area

Jake Bissen on Creating a Neon Sign Bending Area
- Requesting 55sqft of space, or $20.67/mo
- Between $500-$1000 of startup funding to give a class right away
- neon_area.jpg

Will Call Vote one Week from Today

New Business

Pre-Planned Membership Proposals

Member Topics

President's Minute

Newsletters. Who's read them?
Business cards are outdated, need new ones
- Vote to spend up to

Close

Meeting was adjourned at: pm

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