Minutes:13 May 2015 Board Meeting Agenda

• Meeting attendees:
• Meeting starts at: 19:00
• Meeting ends at:

==(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!

Formal Event Request Status (Ken L.)

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

• GameStart Spring Festival - Successful, manned by Jacob M., 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)

(10 min) Financial - Zach S.

• March 2015 P&L - [2]

- Lots of money from donations again. We are good into the black this month!

- Zach will check into iQguys debt. Believes we are close to retiring this debt permanently.

(20 min) Governance - Ken

• 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 production. - Larry

• Nate Y to initiate recurring payments w/ AMF

- Doin' it!

• Elections coming up in April

- Ken will send a reminder with the current Board Nominees.

- Important dates: 3/23 - Board nomination period starts, 4/16 - Board nomination period ends, 4/23 - Board Elections

- CRM (ie. Salesforce) - Need tasks mapped to AHA processes for testing.

- Larry and Ken will meet about Salesforce by May 15th.

(10 min) Operations & Facilities - Nick

• Display Case soon to depart for Gamestart

• 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.

(10 min) Staff - Larry

• Staff being proactive getting Shift replacements.

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(10 min) Fundraising - Larry

Monthly Fundraising Report

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(15 min) Outreach - Larry

• Class Schedule - April posted any minute now, Website and Social Media updated

- Larry will sit down with Nate and show him how to do the schedule stuff.

• FYI - I'm organizing a Washtenaw County Wide Meeting for Maker/Hacker Leaders as follow-up to last October. Emily P-R is too busy and we plan to rotate it through the spaces themselves. Date/Time - TBD

- Emily has passed on the torch to organize this event since she has too many commitments. AHA will be the next place this happens when it happens. Supposed to be a quarterly event. There is another event which focuses on kids, driven by UMSI/AADL/Brainmonkeys, etc..

- Zach suggests an "Ann Arbor Makes!" day at such a meeting, that encourages city-wide making, and moves around between various places.