Minutes:11 NOV 2020 Members Meeting Agenda
Meeting begins: 1910
Meeting ends:
Participants: Nate Y., James K., David G., Mitchell N.
Agenda
- Announcements/new business - 10m
- Election update - 5m - James
- Membership update - 5m - Nate
- Financial update - 5m - ???
- Membership processes - 10m - James
- Volunteering - 5m - James
- Laser cutter repairs - 10m - Nate
- Outreach update, November/December classes - 5m - Nate
- Bylaws revision - 5m - James
Notes
- Announcements/new business:
- Nothing new!
- Election update:
- James is at the point where the voting tokens need to be sent out to individual members (an arduous process), just a bit over-committed -- going to try to get it done before the end of tomorrow.
- Membership update:
- 33 members currently, 11 reduced, 22 standard. James says one full-time has since left
- Financial update:
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MTjgdvGJI9-FI7OFxkDdw-hJbirdUaxwBpERWVGVSQs/edit#gid=0
- Just under 9 months remaining before going broke -- not going the right way, but we're not completely doomed. Still need to work hard to grow the membership, run classes.
- Membership processes:
- Create an "exit survey" that can help identify why a person is leaving, but also can try and convince them to stay by pointing out our reduced cost options available.
- Make sure we are on-boarding new members consistently -- specifically we should try much harder to ensure that they join the mailing list (opt-out, even?). This needs to be a specific part of the on-boarding process that is always done, possibly during the point at which we add them to the membership roster.
- Nate will add more columns to address: have we added this person to the member roster, added them to the mailing list, sent them an exit interview if they leave (or at least acknowledged that they left).
- Nate will try to evaluate CRMs to see if one will work at least a bit better than our current spreadsheet.
- Volunteering:
- Lana has done a great job! We have a few more hours with her, and James is trying to figure out what to give her since we're running out of things for her.
- A task that could be done is to pull the list of donors/sponsors (via GoFundMe, Duo, etc.). Also DO for hosting our website, SPARK maybe?
- James would like to figure out how to get our name on the list (presumably through various schools) for future volunteers.
- Lana has done a great job! We have a few more hours with her, and James is trying to figure out what to give her since we're running out of things for her.
- Laser cutter repairs:
- Outreach update, November/December classes:
- Bylaws revision: