Minutes:16 Mar 2015 Board Meeting Agenda

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  • Meeting attendees:
  • Meeting starts at: 7:00
  • Meeting ends at:

(15 min) Open For All!

Old Business

Action Item Status

  • Updated Membership Forms for Household membership (Draft created) - Larry
  • Inventory Status - Nate Y.

- about 1/3 done, electronics, loud room, and craft area need to be done.

  • Need to finish sales tax by end of Feb - Zach

- Sales tax filing done, we owe nothing.

  • Comcast and DTE now autopayment - Zach

- Done

  • Lease scanned into Google Drive - Zach

- Done

Standing Committee Reports

(10 min) Financial - Zach S.

    • Should we consider downgrading Comcast?

- Comcast seems a little high, probably two months' worth. Zach is going to check the invoice to make sure it's not super expensive.

    • What were the Amazon purchases?

- Larry bought soldering equipment.

  • AMF Nano Situation
  • Need to start working on income tax filing (due May)

(20 min) Governance - Ken

  • Membership Update (Larry W.)

- Gained 8 members since February!

- AMF given two weeks to pay balance or vacate.

  • Review Updated Membership Forms

- Major change is household member-related, updates to the process to use Monthly Task List.

  • Elections coming up in April

- Important dates: 3/23 - Board nomination period starts, 4/13 - Board nomination period ends, 4/23 - Board Elections

- A couple of membership behavior issues have been officially resolved.

(10 min) Facilities - Nick

  • Working on the urinal!
  • "New" computers (2 desktops, 2 laptops)
  • Improvement Projects (small laser cutter, redo front desk, kitchen improvement, sand blaster)

(10 min) Staff - Larry

  • Updated Staff Training Documents
  • Th-Sa Shifts are now fully staffed.
  • Almost all staff trained (Isaac B., Michelle S., Nick S. remaining)

(10 min) Fundraising - Larry

  • Encore sold another piece of equipment
  • BYB Grant - what it would mean...

(15 min) Outreach - Larry

  • Class Schedule - having trouble keeping up to date and promoting
  • Silvia Lindtner UMSI - no contact this year (sent email yesterday)
  • Barry Belmont - no response re. BioMed team usage of AHA (sent email yesterday)
  • Ann Arbor Film Fest 3/24-25 - not this year, no gaming computer for OR2 but there will be Oculus at a Satellite exhibit

New Business

LASER CUTTER RATES

  • Propose 2 Tier Flat Rates (Member - ??, General Public - $1/min.?)


ANNUAL EVENTS - How do we get people interested and committed in helping out?

  • FoolMoon - 4/11 Dusk to Midnight
  • FestiFools - 4/12 4pm-5pm
  • GameStart Spring Festival - 4/18 10am-2pm
  • Penguicon - 4/24-26 (no soldering support that we're aware of this year)
  • AAHOM TechTwilite - 5/15 6:30pm-9pm
  • A2 MiniMaker Faire - Saturday 6/6 10am-4pm
  • Detroit Maker Faire - July 25-26 9:30am-6pm


FORMAL EVENT REQUESTS

  • Emily Canosta - Japan Week - requesting Cosplayers (in costume) to attend Animania screening event (6/16-20)
  • Zach Alexander - Makerspace Development Blogger has contacted AHA for positive storyline.
  • Daniel Dugan (past member?) contacted us on behalf of Penguicon - wants to borrow 3D printers for Enabling the Future.
  • Amanda Paige - Exposing Inner City Kids to Engineering/Making at the U of M Natural History Museum (day/time TBD)


SURVEY REQUEST - from Make: Media

  • 10 minute survey about AHA's Maker/Hacker activities.
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