Minutes:10 Sept 2014 Board Meeting Agenda

Meeting attendees: Missing: Larry

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Contents [hide] 1 (15 min) Open For All! 2 Standing Committee Reports (Outlined in p. 3 of Standing Rules) 3 (15 min) Financial - Zach S. 4 (15 min) Governance - Nate Y. 5 (15 min) Fundraising - Larry W. 6 (30 min) New Goals - Create the next 6 Months Goals - Board 7 (15 min) Upcoming Business

[edit] (15 min) Open For All!

[edit] Standing Committee Reports (Outlined in p. 3 of Standing Rules)

Reports to be reviewed at the Board Meeting can be found here: [1]

Review last months Minutes for old action items. 

[edit] (15 min) Financial - Zach S./Emilio T.

Filed 990N at the last GSD 
We got a sales tax license - should start charging it on kits (and not membership or concessions) 
Zach needs to talk with Emilio to get monthly status! 
Zach needs to figure out TCF account signer status 
Need to square up on Penguicon badges 
Need to square up for last 2 Costco runs 

[edit] (15 min) Governance - Nate Yost

Review AHA Governance Status (shared in advance) 
Address Non-Membership Activities  Dana will update staff and non-member 

How can we grow the membership?  Friday, September 19th AHA open house for students coming back to campus? 
Float down the Huron river? Day after open house? 
Add-on membership for Standard members suggested at $15/member. Need to clearly define "add-on", "kids", key policy, etc. Discuss on August 20th? 

At next GSD put together meetup.com page with two or so events to promote? 
Operations (under Governance)  Dana helping get keys made 
Dana needs codes made for staff (Nate Y will help) 

Guest intake process upgrade - Nate Y.  Quick summary: collect visitor's names, optionally ask for e-mail address to get our mailing list 

Membership update: 48 total / 38 paying  With summer ending, some BYB members will be dropping 

[edit] (15 min) Fundraising - Larry

Summarize Fund-raising report (shared in advance) 

How can we restart the educational revenue stream?

Review Upcoming AHA Events.

We Make Health Fest - Nate Y. 

Review Upcoming Classes (Slim pickings for August - who wants to take any of these for August? [2]

Space race at Elk's Lodge? (from Nate Y.) 

[edit] (30 min) New Goals - Create the next 6 Months Goals - Board

How can we create a sustainable financial model to meet the vision of AHA of being Ann Arbor's Friendliest Hackerspace?

[edit] (15 min) Upcoming Business

Things to do at the next GSD (All Directors Should Participate)  Restart the newsletter! 

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