Regular Member Meeting 2016 11 08

Time and Location

Date November 8th, 2016

Called to order at 8:07 pm by Enrique

Members present: Enrique, Bobby

Members remote: Julia

Others present: Jeff

Quorum

Quorum met? Noooo.

New Members

Jeff D. was voted in as a new member.

Project Awesome Reports

Project Electron Microscope (SEM)

The gauge should arrive this month.

Project CRISPR

The first real CRISPR event should be in early-mid December once Nancy is back. It will be a Saturday.

Director Reports

President's Report

HacDC will be a founding member of Nation of Makers. Julia has been nominated for the NoM board of directors and will be asking members to vote for her there. Julia is also going to CCC this year, although not presenting. She'll probably return, with t-shirts.

Treasurer's Report

I haven't done the math this month, sorry. I was out of town all last week. However I did talk to DCRA and verify we are registered as a non-profit with DC. But we probably lack a solicitation license that we ought to have. It's a $420 fee but worth it to get everything in order if we want to get grants or support from the DC government, etc, so we'll do it. We should expect the rent to go up around this time of year, as usual.

I'll add numbers after the meeting: Revenue $1181. Expenses $1125. +$55 in the black. However revenue includes $160 earmarked donations to project SpaceBlimp and doesn't yet include the expense ($157 worth of Helium). We have a little over six months worth of reserve funds and about $100 in bitcoins, which are ...quickly gaining in value tonight...

Secretary's Report

VOTE-POCALYPSE-GEDDON!

It's (potentially) the end of our Republic.

Adjournment

Adjourned by at 8:42pm by Enrique