Minutes:11 June 2014 Board Meeting Agenda

• Meeting attendees: Josh W., Ken L., Larry W., Zach W., Dana N., Nate Y., Nick R.
• Meeting starts at: 1920
• Meeting ends at:

(15 min) Open For All!

• Zach and Nick are part of local company AMF Nano. Zach wants to set AMF Nano up with a commercial membership at AHA for $150/mo.. AMF wants us to shut up and take their money -- no other requirements beyond. They need access to the 3D printer, minor space requirements for small electronics projects. Arrangement is currently just for the two of them -- if they add more engineers we will renegotiate the rate. Board unanimously agrees to this arrangement! (4 members present). Dana volunteers to be the liason for AMF Nano.

• Zach suggests the possibility of changing our document management to another castle.

Standing Committee Chairs

• Financial - Zach S./Emilio T.?
• Governance - Nate Y.
• Fundraising - Larry W.
• Operation - Nate Y.
• Events Coordinator - Larry W./Josh W.

• AMF-Nano & AHA - zwick and Nick Ristow
• Hosting documents somewhere else in addition to Google Docs - zwick

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

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

(15 min) Financial - Josh Williams

• Review AHA Financial Status (shared in advance)
  • Josh shows the projected finances document. We are losing around $433/mo. currently. This does not include things like AMF Nano, BYB interns, other new members; so maybe we're not too bad off.
• Update Board with June member status (shared in advance)
  • Memberships are slowly increasing!
  • Larry will look into concession pricing at GFS.

(15 min) Governance - Nate Yost

• Review AHA Financial Status (shared in advance)
• Facilities Status Update - Josh (reports to Governance Chair)
  • Back door finished.
  • HVAC leak needs to be addressed still.
  • Poo smell needs to be addressed still.
• Status of Transitioned Activities from Josh (Accounts- Nate, Staff-Dana, Events-Larry)
  • Emilio has been learning the ropes in accounting. Dana is rocking out staffing! She will be finding a replacement for James H..
  • Do we have a way of paying rent other than via check? If not, we need to determine if Emilio will be authorized to write checks.

(15 min) Fundraising - Larry

Summarize Fund-raising report (shared in advance)

(45 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?

How can we grow the membership?

How can we put the fun back into AHA?

How can we restart the educational revenue stream?

(15 min) Event Status - Larry

Review results of recent past events AHA participated in.

Review Upcoming events AHA is participating in.