December 2015 - Board Meeting

Review Action items from last meeting

• Dust collector is being installed

• Membership system is automated

  • List is updated at 4:35 every day and will cut people off 7 days after their membership expires

  • Jan 1, 2016 is the cutoff date for the old system

    • Founding membership will be cut off as of Jan 31

    • Actually enforcing bylaws with founding members so we can get quorum

    • Full membership has voting privileges, ability to schedule,

Financial update - Bailey

• Utilities were down again, so we are in the black

• # of members- all current

• Inventory plans

Review Meeting with Jay Byers - Tim

• Emmaly Burkland is someone to talk with about STEM education

• Review family memberships

  • They will be created - 1st member is full price with each afterward half price. Family has up to 2 votes per family (1 per adult)

  • Family is defined as sharing address or dependency as defined by IRS

• Safety efforts, safety committee update - Nabil

  • Safety good

  • Table saw training was held for one member

  • Create sheets for each electrically operated tool similar to laser and 3D printer

• Software update

• Events

  • Gravitate event on Jan 9 ($5 to get people to actually show up) is on and tickets sold

  • Art show on for Jan 30 at the Space - Andy made posters

  • Review

  • Upcoming

  • Posting to calendar?

    • Tim can as president@area515

• Other topics

  • Ray and Tom requested accounts as ray@ and tom@