Minutes:08 FEB 2023 Members Meeting Agenda

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Agenda

• Announcements/new business - 10m
• Operations
• Financial
• Membership
• Outreach
• Education

Minutes

• Announcements/new business:

• Operations:
  • Tool checkout spreadsheet to keep track of who is allowed to use our training-required tools - Joe D. (actually happening this month) - DONE!
  • Sink Update - Lyn will fix it "this week", knows about the code issues - Joe D. - As of today, now postponed to "this week"!
  • Cricut Working! - needs a permanent computer - working on getting a dedicated mac mini - David G. (will have it done this month)
  • Laser Cutter upgrade updates - Andrew C./Joe D./Nate Y.
  • Monitor assessment updates - Andrew C.
  • Classroom lighting - ideas for less-ouchie lights? - Nate Y., Andrew C.
  • Removal of hazardous/toxic liquids in the classroom
  • Signage/SEO updates?

• Financial:
  • Financial health outlook: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MTjgdvGJI9-FI7OFxkDdw-hJbirdUaxwBpERWVGVSQs/edit#gid=0
  • Current Profit and Loss https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyFGgMt1vwGwDnciNzjhT5_X7A4ackqJ/view?usp=sharing
  • Q4 2022 financial reports?
  • James and Nate met about County/MEDC grants
    • Need to write some basic proposals
    • Nate Y. started an attendance-tracking doc for all events. Idea is to have hard data on how many folks we've helped. This will be something we can point out in all grant applications!

• Membership:

• Outreach:
  • 2022 Fundraiser wrap-up
    • Nate was able to get access to the non-profit features of GFM, now we have access to donor data; but the terms of its use seems to suggest we won't be able to use it for sending out thank-yous. Given this is the case, what's our plan to get this done?
    • Joe will do the GFM/social media updates
    • Wiki article to do fundraising - Everybody
  • Gentle volunteering nag - author an email - James K. and Joe D.
  • 2023 Ann Arbor Art Fair - Double booth -- do we want to do this? - Nate Y. - DONE (requested a 10'x10')
    • Do we think we'll need a bigger tent for this?
  • Bringing more people into AHA - James K.
  • Cahoots happy hours! Seem to be monthly? We should attend these more often.

• Education:
  • Get some more non-training-related classes on the schedule! Brainstorming - Nate Y.