Minutes:13 July 2016 Board Meeting Agenda

AHA Mission Statement
We seek to establish, build, and support a collective of individuals organized around the principles of community-driven education in the arts and sciences, and to ensure ready access to the tools needed to pursue the realization of those principles.

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Board Meeting Protocol

* Standing Committee Reports - Individual Updates by Assigned Director/Officer presented in the time allotted.

* Open Time: For anyone to bring anything up to the Board. IF the Board agrees the item requires action, it will be put into New Business and addressed at the end of the meeting.

(15m) Open For All

• All Are Worthy. All Are Welcome.

Minutes Approval

• April 2016 Board Minutes -- Was not approved in June because 2 directors were missing.
• June 2016 Board Minutes

Education - Nick R.

Upcoming:

• Advanced Learn-to-Solder (surface-mount) using Penguicon badges.
• Amateur radio General license review class -- Do we have enough people to open on Saturday morning, and should we charge for use of AHA? Need to resolve these questions ASAP.

Discuss fee structure for classes and use of AHA's space.

See more notes from discussion around classes and planning here: 19_June_2016_Planning_Meeting

Finances/Membership - Alex W.

Greg (BYB) raised concern that he's yet to receive payment for laser use. We should compensate BYB for the member laser use as per the original agreement. They have invested significant money in the laser and it's installation for member use.

Do we try to restart regular Member meetings? They have been poorly-attended in the past, but good to have opportunity outside of Board meetings to raise concerns.

Marketing/Events - Corey T.

Upcoming:

• Art Fair - What do we do?
• Makerfaire - We have a in for the learn-to-solder event. Current plan is to sell the Penguicon badges.
• Fall Open House

Operations/Volunteers - Tyler W.

Door lock on main room is working. Nate started administering cards. Plan to expand and place similar system on new room. Nate ordered the parts.

NAS is up and LDAP is running. We'll start bringing all PC's back online soon. Need to order monitor mounts still. Network work is almost complete and service should be expanded to new room by 7/8.

Working to find donors for purchase of a California tools upright silent air compressor. 70 Db. Keeping an eye out for a new glass front beverage fridge or donors to just grab a new one (~$150).

Laser cutter install is waiting for city approval for changes to exterior of historic building.

Paint work continues as time allows.

Volunteer meeting held on 30 June 2016. Minutes/Notes: 30_June_2016_Volunteer_Meeting

Many showed up but only 2 volunteers scheduled on the roster. We should give notice and terminate any other members listed as volunteer at this time. Presently Brian Morse and Demure are the only two volunteers. Demure has offered to essentially run the space on all open days until he starts classes again in the fall. We'll need to recruit new volunteers before then.

(30m) Unfinished Business

Alec wants to have some kind of long-term agenda of "things to do" (recurring events), viewable in the minutes.

- Donnie, Nate and Alec will put this together. Nate will send an email to coordinate -- going to do this in May.

- Nate didn't do this, suggests an offline meeting, set for June 19th at 3:00PM.

Nick R. mentions the Milan R/C Club has restarted, trying to get a non-profit status. Nick would like to see some cross-pollination between these groups. Interesting things coming up with that group includes a drone racing track.

Milan R/C club has invited AHA to attend their open house event in August. Nick floated the idea to build quadcopters at AHA, then bring them to the Milan R/C field to fly at the open house. Nate will possibly provide a generator for power at that event.

Nick wonders about cleaning the acrylic skylights and what the plan is for that.

Alex W. - Working on a Google Form for membership signup to replace current paper form.

Mostly done, could use more feedback, and we need to come up with new rules for this new space (bathroom use, loud noises before 3pm, etc.).

Alex W. - Drafting a Storage / Clean Tabletop Policy

Would like to leave the main classroom table clear, and the black tabletops in the back as well. Members would be free to move unattended items if found on tables.

Alec suggests also having a cheap "storage box" solution, you could rent a cardboard box to put your projects in for a limited time.

Tyler brings up the AHA phone number switchover. This needs to happen because we use our phone number on a few places. Josh is on the Comcast bill, so he needs to be the one to authorize the transfer. Josh and Tyler will tentatively do this Thursday (tomorrow).

Follow ups from landlord about new building

Mailbox - Q: Do we have a centrally located mailbox somewhere? If not, does the mailman generally just leave mail outside suite doors? A: The mail carrier delivers to the suite.

Recycling - Q: The recycling bins behind the building are reserved for Afternoon Delight use. Is it acceptable if we get our own small bin from the city and place it there or do we have a shared recycling location somewhere? A: Yes you may get recycling bins, I would suggest labeling them as AHA.

Bathrooms - Q: We have keys to the bathrooms on the lower floors. Are they intended to be reserved for employees or is it okay for customers to use them also? The upstairs restrooms are open during the day, but we weren't sure if they were reserved for Afternoon delight customers. Would it be acceptable to direct handicap/wheel chair users to the upstairs bathrooms if needed? A: The lower level restrooms are intended for tenants and their guest. We just ask that they are mindful of the others in the building. The upstairs restrooms are common area restrooms. However, they may be locked after 3pm by Afternoon Delight.

Utilities billing - Q: Utilities billing for the locations are shared between tenants. How will we receive the bill for that? A: Each of your spaces (soon to be leased spaces) are separately metered. If you have a share of the common area utilities you will be billed monthly for an estimated usage based on your pro rata share. I know we are currently working on an amendment to your lease to incorporate the new spaces and should have that information for you soon.

(30m) New Business

Tyler would like to introduce a formal harassment policy that allows us to directly deal with issues when they occur. Tyler feels the existing "3 strikes" policy takes doesn't go far enough. Some members have left the space because we don't take this issue seriously enough. Ana suggested a formal progression for persistant issues. Tyler wants to make sure that the board always has the option of instant banning if it's needed. Our membership entrusted the board with maintaining our space, so they should mediate between the two parties in a discrete fashion. Any retaliation to an action taken because of this policy should be an instant ban. The way i3 deals with it might be a good start: https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/Harassment_Policy