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Minutes: Board agenda items (Special meeting May 11 to deal with backlog)

Tim calls meeting to order at 6:04 p.m.

Present: Hannah, Tim, Alden, Geoff, Jon, Hapto arrives for discussion about survey. Callie absent

Guests, Tony W., Steve P., Eddie, Kathy L., Dan J., Tom G., Chuck E., Wally

DEFFERED FOR LACK TIME at April 20 meeting:

• Auto repair area.

Proposal, 189 sq. foot area. Would be $74/mo. Problem: Cars parked in aisle in front of loading door. Tim: Needs to be an area. Work should be done in a single visit, limited to 12 hours? Dan J: May be better management of auto-related tools. Steve P. Should be no commercial work. No liquids can be involved. Hannah proposes rule for now to prohibit any auto work at Lenox. No auto work at Norwich in fire lane. Consensus, Hannah will email membership re. rules including no motor vehicle work indoors at Lenox, no auto work in fire lane at Norwich, limited to 24 hours (except in private space or with private authorization). EVs OK. Seeking area champion, where we can have auto bay.

• Woodshop Issues tabled, resolved by Rick M., area champion.
• Rent open table space at Norwich to provide working area for members. Currently rented from Makers Village, MMS will rent 489 sq feet, $190/mo. and rent to members. Need to alert membership because it's $1,000. over 12 months. Will alert members today, can vote next week.
• Lenox mortgage payment plan. Balance: $143,200 Monthly payment: $3,000. Would save $16,000. Rate 5%.

Consensus: Get sense of membership regarding paying off or aggressively paying down Lenox mortgage. Tim will include in survey.

• Password management. Experts (Reicherts) not here. Will defer.
• Donation policy. Hannah what on the website now, Jon will work with Tony to change home page “classes” to “Donations.”
• Member survey: Questions discussed. Incentive (e.g. gift card) discussed. Ways to communicate/nag discussed. Tim hopes to finalize survey after next board meeting. Hope to send by May 25.

Items for next regular Board meeting.

• Michael as bike area co-champion.
• Make Carl co-comm. director.

- Minutes submitted by Jon D.