October 2024 - Member Meeting
October 26, 2024 - Member Meeting
Last updated
October 26, 2024 - Member Meeting
Last updated
Area 515 - Member Meeting Minutes - October 26, 2024
Call to order 3:05 pm
Note: Many thanks to John W for taking notes as the Secretary was unavailable.
Attending full members and proxies: 17
Quorum required 12 Full members, and so was reached
Overall Financial Health: Dave read report from meg (see email)
Investment Committee: Nothing new to report
Per Bylaws: Fees for full and supporting members shall be set by a vote of the full members at the yearly meeting by a simple majority. (Link)
Vote to continue at current rate
Yes: 16
No: 0
Absent: 1
Result: No change to membership rate
Discussed changing to monthly with a subscription option
Lots of agreement that monthly would be better than annual
Discussed some areas needing to raise fees, I.e. woodshop
Membership: 79 total
24 full
Nov 14th, Maker of things in Iowa event. We should present at.
Present at DMWA in March
Farmers Market
Need members to engage with the spaces social media
If members post something, then they are @ area515 and we will repost
Woodshop
Trying to keep up with repairs
Very high usage this year
Need to keep things clean going into the holiday season
Need to report broken or missing tools ASAP
Parking tickets went out this week
Please remove longer term projects to person storage
Lasers
Are stable
Did not get the recent grant
Looking for more grants to get a 100W
Electronics
Glass station is in progress
Thanks for printing the new bins
Textiles
New bench is finished
Knitting machine is for sale
Missing some parts
Sold As Is
Make any offer
Comes with lots of books as well
Bobbin winder also for sale
Is working and is $200 firm
Metalshop
Is there
Wants to add a metal dust collector
RFC is ready to be tested
SFC could be donated on 10/28
3D printer
Things are working
New HEPA filter
Autoshop
New safety tools on order
Tell David to move his cars out whenever
CNC
LEAD back up and running
Took lots of hands to get it going.
None requested at this time
Nominations:
President - Dave
Vice President - Jake
Treasurer - Meg
Secretary - Brad
Nomination for general Director Positions:
Chris Krohn
John Whiteman
Matt Amue
As there was one nomination for every position, the whole slate of nominees was voted on a yes/no basis.
Yes: 17
No: 0
Result: All candidates are now members of the 2024-2025 Board of Directors
Work nights
Promote to the new members
Classes
Felting, Bailey to contact instructor
Belts, Jason to lead maybe next year
Game night
This fall
Iowans of Things
Partnership event
HAM Radio class / group
Renewed interests after Helena and what happened in SC
If you’ve never used one before you need to practise before trying it in an emergency
Member Competitions:
Chair making?
Upgrading and adding more cameras to Security System; maybe upgrading the PC for them also
Next meeting is January 25th at 3 PM.
Adjourned at 3:37pm
“I has 5 proxies, I have a lot of power, I change my title to El Presidente” - Dave