Regular Member Meeting 2024 05 14
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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