October 2024 - Member Meeting

October 26, 2024 - Member Meeting

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

Financial

• Overall Financial Health: Dave read report from meg (see email)

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Financial update email from Meg - 2024 September.pdf

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• Investment Committee: Nothing new to report

Membership fees discussion

• 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

Discussion RE tool fees

• 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

State of the Space

• Membership: 79 total

  • 24 full

Discussion

• 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

Tool Areas

• 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.

Vote to promote Supporting members to Full members

• None requested at this time

Election for 2024-2025 Board of Directors

• 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

Housekeeping

• 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?

Miscellaneous

• Upgrading and adding more cameras to Security System; maybe upgrading the PC for them also

• Next meeting is January 25th at 3 PM.

Meeting Adjourned

Adjourned at 3:37pm

“I has 5 proxies, I have a lot of power, I change my title to El Presidente” - Dave