boardmeetingagenda:2021-11-18
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Milwaukee Makerspace Board of Directors Meeting - November 18th, 2021
Agenda
Intro
Take Attendance:
Cheers:
Previous Minutes:
Financial Projections:
Updates on Ongoing Business
Marquette SAE Team
Norwich Lease
Maker Faire
Make48
Space Improvement Day on 11/28
Membership Engagement
Pottery Area Proposal
Neon Area Proposal
New Business
Member Topics
Open for guests
President's Minute
Newsletters
Business Cards
Challenge Coins
Introduction
Attendance
Present
Tim C
Marcus S
Bill R
Alden H
Chris T
Faith F
Jeff M
Absent
Guests
Dan J
Charlie P
Jake B
Adam P
Steve P
Mike T
Cheers
Previous Minutes
Current Financial Projections
Ongoing Business
Marquette SAE Team
Marquette SAE received clearance for 4 months of rent + memberships
Tim provided tours of both buildings to ~16 Marquette students
Marquette provided payment for 21 members and 350sqft of storage for 1 month
Norwich Lease
Due to rise in price of natural gas and inflation rising at 6%, the price per sq ft in the new lease (current lease expires 12/3/21) needs to be adjusted in the new lease
Proposal: Lease to increase $0.015 per square foot for a 3 year lease (increase of $165/month)
1 or 3 year lease
Tim C will notify the membership
Maker Faire Milwaukee
Make 48
Proposed dates in July, 2022
Membership given primer via sizzle reel in recent newsletter
Next steps: educate the membership
Participation determined by a membership vote in the future as details are finalized
Space Improvement Day
Sunday, Nov. 28th
Food: Chacanabee by Jake and Faith
Beef Chili by Mike T
* Members can bring additional food to share
* Major projects identified
==== Membership Engagement ====
===Storage Proposal===
* Proposal by Tim: all new members must attend Space Improvement Day before being allocated storage space
* 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
* Tim C will alert the membership of the proposed change
* No action taken, BOD vote slated to occur at December meeting, to be implemented in new year
=== Event Proposal ===
* Date of Trivia Night
* 1Q proposed
=== Membership Signup Materials ===
* Tim 7/8ths through script for new member video
* Upon completion will do rough recording for commentary/feedback
* Will break up information between the 2 tours and signup video (goal: have video be ~10 minutes long)
==== 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: 6
* Nays: 0
* Abstains: 1
====Early discussion on expanding the HAM Radio area======
* Mike T paid the rent for the area in 2021
* Request to have MMS pay for the area beginning 1/22 (70 sq ft)
* Mike T requests additional 70 sq ft (Total cost of $54/month for 140 sq ft)
* HAM radio has made >2,600 contacts to date
* FYI, trailing 12 months: net of $3,000. Current net of ~$4,000
==== Neon Sign Bending Area ====
* Jake Bissen on Creating a Neon Sign Bending Area
* Requesting 55sqft of space, or $20.67/mo
* ~$1000 of startup funding requested to purchase (glass, transformers, etc) to give a class right away
* $500 for initial consumables
* $500 to build out the area
* neon_area.jpg
* Allow members to make signs for the Space at no cost
* Will Call Vote one Week from Today (November 25)
====== New Business ======
* MMS Merch
* Alden suggests making the merchandise
* Consider a 2 tier program
* Make some merchandise and use a 3rd party vendor for additional upscale products (fleece pull-overs, etc)
* Or use a third party vendor
==== Pre-Planned Membership Proposals ====
* none?
==== Member Topics ====
*
====== President's Minute ======
* Newsletters.
* Business cards
* Tim updating
* Vote: Spend ~$120 for ~1,000 cards
* Ayes:
* Nays:
* Abstention:
* Initial discussion on challenge coins - BOD can privately provide members for exemplary service to the Space.
* To be discussed in the future
* Business cards are outdated, need new ones
* Vote to spend up to $120 for ~1000 cards
* Ayes:
* Nays:
* Recognition for Awesomeness Challenge Coins
* Discuss their merit
===== Close =====
* Meeting was adjourned at: pm
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