20170521 BOD Notes

May's Board of Director's meeting scheduled for Sunday May 21 was postponed to Monday May 22 and held via conference call/google-hangout

Attendees:

Review Last Month's notes
Maintenance Review
- Front door lock box code revised. RFID cards. Security Cameras
- 3D printers
- Light in back shop still out.
- General Space clean up
- Oil Rags and turpentine
Treasurer Update
Membership Update and Report
- Volunteer rules
- Received a request for Sister Makerspace Discount reciprocation/dual memberships
Ikea grant request. We need to finish what Alan started for us
Upcoming Events
- HAM Radio Fest coming up
- MakerFaire
- Other Events?

Maintenance discussion:

Security Cameras installed. Chris suggesting building out a lockable cabinet for the security camera dvr and RFID camera. Making it an organizational space. Board approves Chris buying an Ikea cabinet and taking the lead on it.
- the DVR system is an 8 camera system, 7 are currently installed. One pending. TJ to follow up with Steve to finalize the location
Light in back shop still out. Chuck Kenny had mentioned volunteering to do it, but hasn't done it yet. Joshua also volunteering to do it if we can get a ladder. Need to check with Shaheen maintenance to see if they have a cherry picker.
Paper towel dispensers to address the recent oil rags issues. Chris has order two paper towel dispensers: one for bathroom and one for the back

Membership discussion:

Currently have right about 40 members
Sister makerspace discount is still pending. Jay will look at getting the discount added to gumroad payment processor
Joshua has issued all of the current RFID cards
Need to update the welcome letter from gumroad removing the lockbox notes and instructing member to join Slack and request an RFID card

Financial update:

As of Apr 30, we're currently in good shape with a small(~$300) monthly surplus and a rainy day fund in the bank. We are good to spend some funds on the cameras and getting more organization fixtures in

Upcoming Events:

HAM Radio Fest - June 3rd. TJ will likely set up a small table. Previous participation two years ago was ok, but didn't seem to generate any new members out of if. TJ to follow up Alan.
DragonCon - hoping to have same participation as last year
MakerFaire... no further updates heard yet. No word on powerwheels race status