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==(10 min) Financial - from Zach S. == | ==(10 min) Financial - from Zach S. == | ||
* April 2015 P&L - [https://goo.gl/Uw1iZy] | * April 2015 P&L - [https://goo.gl/Uw1iZy] | ||
* AHA continues to be in a strong financial position. | |||
* Even without donations and Penguicon we would have about broke even in April, but with them we were able to have a healthy profit in April (although much of this is spoken for, because...) | |||
* We are done paying off the iQguys purchase agreement! | |||
* We went through our books and iQguys did the same and we determined there were 4 outstanding monthly payment, so we wrote them a check for $988.08 and can now scratch off the monthly expense of $247.02 from our obligations. | |||
* GREAT JOB! | * GREAT JOB! | ||
Revision as of 08:48, 13 May 2015
- Meeting attendees:
- Meeting starts at: 19:00
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==(15 min) Open For All
- All are worthy, All are welcome.
Old Business
Action Item Status
- Inventory Status - Nate Y. - still going on (being folded into Workplace Worksheet in Google Docs)
- Monthly Task List posted on bulletin board for Volunteer Hours. [1]
- Nate Y to initiated recurring payments for AMF and BYB (AMF has done it, BYB hasn't yet)
- Tachometer on the Ryobi drill press is dead. Nate Y. to check into...did he?
- Art Fair booth...not FREE (min. $600)
- Spring Clean Began on Sunday May 3rd! - the following Members helped out; Gareth F., Ed V., Nate Y., Nick R., Larry W., Tyler S., Este T., Alec M.,. Thanks!
- Last month Zach S. suggested an A2 Make Event that moves around - thoughts?
April Election Results & Member Surveys
- Very high turnout - of 59 eligible to vote, 35 did so.
- New Directors are; Donnie J., Greg G. and Tyler Soohoo (Congratulations to all)
* Tentative Director Assignments as follows;
- Donnie J. - Outreach & Classes - Greg G. - Fundraising & Financial - Tyler S. - Volunteer Coordinator - Larry W. - to assume Governance and retain Membership - Nick R. - to retain Operations/Facilities
* Director assignments require formal Board Approval (4/5 required)
- Survey Results (35 members participated) show
- Top 5 reason members are here;
- to gain access to tools, equipment, the internet - be part of a community of people like me - to gain new knowledge - to relax in a friendly environment - to be inspired by others
- Top things that need improving
- have more social events - add more classes - create partnerships with more small businesses - pay someone to do the cleaning - invite artists, makers and hackers to speak here
- Biggest thing to fix? Our workspace (8 members called some area the biggest problem);
- Not enough space in a basement. - Move above ground (mentioned twice) - Visibility - people seeing the space. - No windows - The bathrooms - No natural light - Back room shop is too small.
Formal Event Request Status (TBD)
ANNUAL EVENTS - How do we get people interested and committed in helping out?
- GameStart Spring Festival - Successful, manned by Jacob M., Tyler W. and Nate Y.
- Penguicon - Soldering brought in $1185, Dropped the ball on the Raptor hands (still don't know where they are...)
- AAHOM TechTwilite - 5/15 6:30pm-9pm (still need to submit invitation - forwarded to Donnie J.)
- Nick suggests running a special ham radio station that night.
- A2 MiniMaker Faire - Saturday 6/6 10am-4pm
- Need to submit if we're going to do it.
- Detroit Maker Faire - July 25-26 9:30am-6pm (deadline 6/1 to submit)
Standing Committee Reports
(10 min) Financial - from Zach S.
- April 2015 P&L - [2]
- AHA continues to be in a strong financial position.
- Even without donations and Penguicon we would have about broke even in April, but with them we were able to have a healthy profit in April (although much of this is spoken for, because...)
- We are done paying off the iQguys purchase agreement!
- We went through our books and iQguys did the same and we determined there were 4 outstanding monthly payment, so we wrote them a check for $988.08 and can now scratch off the monthly expense of $247.02 from our obligations.
- GREAT JOB!
(20 min) Governance - Larry W.
- Membership Update (Larry W.)
- Monthly Membership Update [3]
- 51 members this month, just prior to election we were up to 59
- Finalized Membership Forms are in now production. - Larry
- Wiki and website laggin behind...
(10 min) Operations & Facilities - Nick R.
- Display Case soon to depart for Gamestart - anyone want to coordinate this move?
- Improvement Projects (small laser cutter, redo front desk, kitchen improvement, sand blaster coming as soon as space is made for it)
Monthly Maintenance report [ADD MAY LINK HERE filed here].
- Toilets still a problem (bubbling waste water)
- Kossel rewired -- Alex has an extruder in the works.
- FYI - the AHA Wiki now has tags for determining currency of pages (thanks Demure)
(10 min) Staff - Larry W. (this month only)
- Staff being proactive getting Shift replacements.
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(10 min) Fundraising - Larry (this month only)
Monthly Fundraising Report
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(15 min) Outreach - (this month only)
- Class Schedule - FB API has broken Google push to Twitter and FB from Google Calendar (back to manual entires)