November 2014 - Board Meeting
Agenda items
Financials
Membership status - how are we doing? What should we do to bring in new members?
Do we want to have Jeff under our lease?
The door-parts are actually on order
Plan for the garage
Bylaw review-example would be procedure for removing members
Call to order: 18:15 members present: Ray, Tom, Nabil, Sean, Barry, Bailey
Financials
rumors of 3 new members
ideas for recruiting
gift to iowa bike coalition
gifting to corps
ray has concerns about practicality, and fitting in with the culture - no vetting of the recipient
classes / merch
sparkfun plans on hold, need to decide what lines to carry
there were further concerns about the $1000 minimum, it was decided to go with adafruit until we know demand
another arduino class planned for Feb.
need help for website content
now that we're official, we can do kickstarter / crowdfunding campaigns
donations
tom has a meeting with his corporate "head of global donations"
Jeff
tom mentioned we have refusal on existing space, jeff would prefer to sublease from us
the majority opinion was that the risk was not worth the reward vs. him taking on his own lease
sean advocated that expanding into that area would allow us to claim the middle area
vote to take jeff under our lease failed, but we'd be happy for him to come in on his own
Door parts
parts still on order, no further status update
tom will contact
if they keep failing, do we pass?
that would be bad as it may limit large tool availability - repurpose the current front room as the heavy area?
could we trade for the rest of the space?
Garage plan
security
contact emma from tikly about the sets from lovejoy
pallets / chain link
layout
needs cleaning
determine what's ours and what's not
need to scare off the oldsmobile that parks in our spot
Whittier
cleanout
plans are afoot tonight
if the keys work
Bylaw review
tabled for next month
Actions for next month
review bylaws - https://area515.org/wiki/index.php/Bylaws
meeting adjourned: 19:05
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