Board Meeting Notes 2013-10-22

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Meeting start: 7:11pm

Attendance

Board Members

  • Eric
  • Bry
  • Hailey
  • Josh
  • Ed
  • Farkas
  • Adam

Other Members


Agenda

  • read mail
  • Financial/membership report
  • Review the paypal and banking transactions.
  • Check the money@pumpingstationone.org inbox weekly.
  • Member leaving reason report
  • Review Trello board, report progress made.
  • review complaints@pumpingstationone.org
  • new business
  • old business


New Business

  • Board vote: $100 for fire extinguisher brackets. https://trello.com/c/KjVOYodR/53-fire-extinguishers
  • Should we up our garbage pickup to 3x a week? MWF? How much would that cost? We have an issue where we can't throw things out as fast as we want to, which is making a mess.
  • do we need to reassert the existence of the area hosts after the Area Hosts and Volunteer Positions Vote passing last week?
  • use volunteer positions vote to create volunteer positions?
  • Did the soul binding agreement for tucker get written yet?
  • Trello Done
    • Research Albert Decker leaving reasons
    • Beagle Bone Challenge Winning Prize
    • Report from ps1 systems working group on automatic systems for billing/access.
    • Give Kevin Caughlin member point for code compliance work.
  • Trello To-Do
    • Equipment loan agreement
    • Create and send out language for our last member banning to mailing list.
    • Tool cage area host applications
    • Write soul binding agreement for Tucker
  • Trello Doing
    • Get accounting software and use it
    • Limited amount cards with names for area hosts, up to their budget limits
    • fix address on liability waiver, other problems with liability waiver
    • Audit status/ Status of repayments / New historical books
    • Special projects queue wiki
    • Flourish wrapup paperwork for donation from Flourish 2013
    • Liability Insurance review with Goldstein et. al.
    • Fix Amazon Payments
    • Get building electrical systems to a good state
    • Corporate Filings
    • haskai llc can't be registered at our address

Old Business

Backburner

  • Status of money owed by the old landlord. (Eric). We are working on sending information to a separate attorney.

Minutes

  • read mail
    • more haskei LLC stuff -- lots and lots of stuff
    • chase junk mail
    • various other junk mail
  • steve went over financial report
  • we have over 260 members and we are at 20% lady folk for the 1st time ever, or at least in a long time
  • membership leaving reports
    • joined just for equipment- didn't like that our stuff wasn't reliable
    • all the others were financial reasons
  • Trello Done
    • Research Albert Decker leaving reasons
      • Bry hasn't gotten a response
    • Beagle Bone Challenge Winning Prize
    • Report from ps1 systems working group on automatic systems for billing/access.
    • Give Kevin Caughlin member point for code compliance work.
  • Trello To-Do
    • Equipment loan agreement
      • no progress
    • Create and send out language for our last member banning to mailing list.
    • Tool cage area host applications
      • waiting on seeing what Geoffrey thinks about it
    • Write soul binding agreement for Tuckerc
      • Josh wants it explicitly said that it must say it's $4,000 or under and we are not liable for any payment above that because only $4,000 was approved by membership
  • Trello Doing
    • Get accounting software and use it
      • we're starting to use it- integration is slow- steve has enlisted people to help- britanny and someone who is a bookeeper
    • Limited amount cards with names for area hosts, up to their budget limits
      • No progress
    • fix address on liability waiver, other problems with liability waiver
      • no progress
    • Audit status/ Status of repayments / New historical books
    • Special projects queue wiki
    • Flourish wrapup paperwork for donation from Flourish 2013
    • Liability Insurance review with Goldstein et. al.
    • Fix Amazon Payments
      • no progress
    • Get building electrical systems to a good state
      • some progress both eric and michael skilton have been working on it
    • Corporate Filings
    • haskai llc can't be registered at our address

votes

  • present board votes unanimously to purchase a shredder for the space, or reimburse steve for the purchase of a shredder up to $40 in price
  • present board votes unanimously to spend up to $100 or reimburse whoever spends up to $100 for purchasing brackets for all the fire extinguishers in the face
  • Board votes 6 in favor, 1 present for approving the text in the buying the mill agreement for tucker
  • Membership Report -
    • Full Members: 85
    • Starving Hacker: 181
    • Friends of PS1: 1
    • Total: 267

Meeting end: 7:47