Minutes:08 Jul 2015 Board Meeting Agenda
AHA Mission Statement |
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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. |
- Meeting attendees:
- Meeting starts at: 19:11
- Meeting ends at: 21:00
Board Meeting Protocol
* Standing Committee Reports - Individual Updates by Assigned Director/Officer in the time allotted.
* Any NEW issues from Member Open time will be added to New Business, addressed and/or assigned, at the end of the meeting.
SPECIAL ITEMS - Until these items are resolved, no reports will be taken, no other business will be conducted.
- DD - Suggested and Board Approved that "The first order business at the July Board Meeting will be "Should Member computer usage be "kid-friendly"?"
- GG - Call for Censure of Board Member Larry W.
(15m) Open For All
- All Are Worthy. All Are Welcome
Standing Committee Reports
(15 min) Financial - from Larry W./Deirdre D.
- Jun 2015 P&L -REPORT LINK GOES HERE
(15 min) Fundraising - Greg G.
- Monthly Fundraising Report - REPORT LINK GOES HERE
(15 min) Governance - Larry W.
- Monthly Membership Update - REPORT LINK GOES HERE
- Business cards for DD, GG, LW require individual Director Information: Name, Phone, email
Operations & Facilities - Nick R.
- Display Case - Gamestart declined (too heavy) - to be disassembled and tossed out.
- Where will a 30 gallon fish tank go?
- Where will the Sand Blaster go?
- Small laser cutter relocated not yet hooked up.
- Exterior door sign now lit w/ LED's - Thanks Donnie J., Nate Y., Alex W. and Tyler S. (still needs buttoning up)
- Kossel rewired -- No longer eats black filament but needs new stepper motor
- Tyler Dence is working on setting up 1 Desktop to run 3D printers
- Lockers contents purged exterior cleaned
- Street door now fixed. Closes completely
Volunteers - Tyler S.
- New Volunteers will be scheduled for staff training.
- Tyler would like to schedule something for all volunteers so that he doesn't have to train them individually.
- After that training is done, will schedule a FULL VOLUNTEER meeting.
- Shift Staff - we should ID a few volunteer benefits (ie. 1 FREE water/shift)
Tyler will start a volunteer snack bin! Everyone seems to be OK with volunteers getting a free beverage per shift.
Outreach/Events/Education - (Donnie J.)
- Class Schedule - TBD (adding Bike Fix Night to New Business)
- Art Night has a pulse again - Need theme for July Art Party...
ANNUAL EVENTS
- AAHOM TechTwilite - Done but very rough compared to previous years
Donnie would like to plan this better -- it was too disorganized this year. BYB microscopes was popular.
- A2 MiniMaker Faire - Done. All Rhino Badges gone, demo'ed 3D printer, showed off scorpions
- Detroit Maker Faire - July 25-26 9:30am-6pm (deadline 6/1 to submit) - application submitted 6/7/15
Zach S. to do open source furniture?
Jacob M. submitted his race team application on time -- cars are just about raceable. Joined forces with "Team Tebo" (Corey T.'s "team"?)
- No other events shown on the AHA Google Calendar
- AHA has been invited to participate on a panel discussion of Maker activities at ConClave a Dearborn SciFi Con - minimum 2 hour time commitment but costs $25 to participate.
(15m) Unfinished Business
Director & Officer Assignments:
- All Conflict of Interest forms have been signed by new Directors.
- COI statement received 6/10/15 from Greg Gage (owner BYB)
- Transition letter delivered to new Board Members along with Member Survey Results
* Reminder: Board Directors starting a new term must submit Board Pledges to Financial Director (confidential) * Previously approved at May Board Meeting
- Director Assignments: Volunteer = Tyler S., Governance, Ops/Fac. = Nick R., Financial = Larry, Fundraising = Greg G., Outreach/Events - Donnie J.
Proposal to use the above Board assignments: Board votes 4/4 (Tyler S. absent)
- Treasurer Assigned: Deirdre Devlin
- Email proposal to restructure to fill all Director Assignments (Nick over Governance - except Membership, Larry over Financial) was rejected by Greg G. via email.
- Last Board meeting there was a short discussion re. Conflict of Interest (tabled until Greg G. could be present)
- 4/5 Directors needed to agree on assignments.
- Emails for Directors? i.e. gagegreg@allhandsactive.org
Donnie J. and Larry W. also want one. Makes more sense to just set up role-based email addresses (governance, etc.) -- Nate Y. will set these up.
(45m) New Business
* IF a new item needs work (the Board decides) a Director/Officer or Member must champion it and ensure the work gets done.