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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
- NA
Guests
- Dan J
- Charlie P
- Jake B
- Adam P
- Steve P
- Mike T
Cheers
- This month's libation of choice: Gin and Tonics
- Provided by: Marcus S
Previous Minutes
- Meeting called to order by Tim at: 7:03 PM
- Last months meeting's minutes approved unanimously
Current Financial Projections
- Update from Jeff M
- Membership is currently 375 (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 tours of both buildings 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
- 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
Update on Lease
- Need final updated total leases sqft
- Will inform membership that all future lease signings will be considered
Maker Faire Milwaukee
- Call vote to reallocate remaining $3000 of budget
- Ayes:
- Nays:
- Abstains:
Make 48
- Proposed dates in July, 2022
- Membership given primer via sizzle reel in recent newsletter
- Early support from Area Champions
Space Improvement Day
- Move to January
- Focus on Lenox
- Move board desk to increase clean craft space
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
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)
- Feedback on mission statement
Neon Sign Bending Area
- Jake set up area, first class when?
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
Member Topics
President's Minute
- Make48
Close
- Meeting was adjourned at: : pm
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