Regular Member Meeting 2024 05 14

Time and Location

Date 2024-05-14

Members present:

Members remote: Obi, Liz, Chris, Gabe, Sven

Others present: Brock, Tony, Deb, Maddie

Quorum

Yes

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Obi Moves to approve, and Liz seconded

Recognition

Chris for Google Workspace "spring cleaning" Shoutout Liz for getting Sven into radios, Sven got his Callsign!!!

New Members

Brock - Approved! Maddie - Approved!

Old Business

May make a purchase proposal areas - before this, our options have been Discord or the dry erase.

Other options:

AirTable
Google Forms

Christopher will make a Google Form that will export into a spreadsheet

Callie is asking for a 3d printed casting setup. Liz recommends: Make a furnace?

Collect cans to melt and recast
Can also be used on the CNC milling machine

Sven's community help ideas:

Recycle/remake scooter batteries - Side project?

New Business

Policy in place for using dangerous equipment:

Possibly assign a person to each piece of equipment to approve
Restrict to members
- Restricting members for this meeting and requiring a release form, Obi will draft up a policy for approval and a release form for the future.

Make Open Project Night more visitor-friendly

Add some structure
Make sure people feel welcome, nametags, introducing ourselves
Make sure there are two people in the space (Going to be Christopher and Liz, Sven when possible)

Update Bylaws for Membership to clarify requirements for other membership tiers

Qualifying Life Events that can cause monetary hardship.
Revisiting next month

The parking lot will be inaccessible sometime this year due to construction in the neighboring lot (The church is unsure of dates, should let us know when ``they`` are updated)

TLDR: Comcast pricing sucks - Gabriel reached out to check pricing, no discounts for nonprofits, business line only. We will look into Astound, highly recommended by Chris and Kyle

Adjournment

Adjourned by Obi (Seconded by Christopher) at 8:39