Minutes:10 Aug 2016 Board Meeting Agenda

AHA Mission Statement
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.

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Board Meeting Protocol

* Standing Committee Reports - Individual Updates by Assigned Director/Officer presented in the time allotted.

* Open Time: For anyone to bring anything up to the Board. IF the Board agrees the item requires action, it will be put into New Business and addressed at the end of the meeting.

Follow up

Corey - Did you schedule a marketing meeting? How is the monthly marketing email coming along? Any progress on content for the blog? Alec - Did you get blog access from Nate? Tyler - Made John H. volunteer manager of the staff list at Alec's request. Nate - Did you get a cost number back to Dan for the HAM class?

(15m) Open For All

• All Are Worthy. All Are Welcome.

Minutes Approval

• July 2016 Board Minutes

Education - Nick R.

Upcoming:

• Advanced Learn-to-Solder (surface-mount) using Penguicon badges.
• Amateur radio General license review class -- Do we have enough people to open on Saturday morning, and should we charge for use of AHA? Need to resolve these questions ASAP.
• Professional Development opportunity (i.e. AHA training educators) via middle school teacher Rebecca B.

Finances/Membership - Alex W.

• Member meetings
  • This month good.
  • Next planned for October.

Mailbox

Fundraising - Greg G.

AHA Grant update:

SPARK Tour w/ Bill Mayer of Spark on July 19th - How did it go?

Marketing/Events - Corey T.

Recap:

• Art Fair
• Penguicon

Upcoming:

• Participation in Milan Flyers Open House
• Fall Open House

Operations/Volunteers - Tyler W.

Door lock on main room is working better!

Nate updated the square footage on insurance

Mailbox is ordered.

Laser Cutter Update:

Computers - PC restoration continues.

Tinker offered to fix the loud noise room door.

Jason plans to swap the loud noise room and the laser rooms. He will coordinate the move and volunteers to help. Waiting on Greg's information about the laser cutter.

Skylights have been cleaned - This is about as good as they get.

Member meeting held on 8 Aug 2016. Minutes/Notes:

• Good turn out
• Lots of food, special thanks to Pritpaul
• Some cleaning and organization done
• Found organizer for loud noise and laser room switch
• Josh suggested using room across the hall as temp storage
• Stage the space for open house
• Need to set day for open house and work towards it to get marketing and signage right

Volunteers:

• Trained 2 more volunteers and one scheduled to train on Thursday. Elsie has access. Waiting to get her schedule before signing her up to run shift.

(30m) Unfinished Business

Alec wants to have some kind of long-term agenda of "things to do" (recurring events), viewable in the minutes. - Happened 16th of June need to circle back. Alec said open house.

Alex W. - Working on a Google Form for membership signup to replace current paper form. - July 30th deadline?

Alex W. - Drafting a Storage / Clean Tabletop Policy - Still working on it. Alec suggests also having a cheap "storage box" solution, you could rent a cardboard box to put your projects in for a limited time.

Tyler AHA phone number switch. Working on it but want to order device that works with Chip and Pin since iPad was lost.

Recycling - City is still getting their act together. Cost is supposedly included in our rent but not the up front cost for the bin.

Harassment policy - Alex has a wonderful draft done.