Board Meeting Notes 2019-03-19

Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start: 7:00pm

Attendance

• Board Members
  • Andrew Camardella
  • Alisha Ciardi
  • Jennie P.
  • Andrew Sowa
  • Sky Nova
  • Alex Berkowitz
  • Molly Adamski
  • Mark Creasy

• Other Members

Agenda

• Check talk page for board meeting notes, see if any discussion on the agenda took place
• Consent Agenda
• Committee Reports
• Read mail
• Financial/membership report
  • PEX:
  • Chase Savings:
  • Chase Checking:
  • Paypal:
• Review the PayPal and banking transactions
• Member leaving reason reports
• Check Freshdesk queue
• Member Point Review
  • 2 New Member point Nominations for review
• New business
  • Review DRC Candidates
  • Member Management Team Candidates
  • scholarship application
  • Area Host Team

• Old business
  • board task list review
  • discuss how we might move member points to WildApricot
  • discuss implementation of change to membership dues
  • parking issue with people leaving cars in the back of the building
  • discounted memberships for : the Board? Officers (in case we ever create any)? Area Hosts?
  • discuss the new project to streamline communication at PS1
  • discuss the Area Host Team proposal
  • discuss adding additional meeting times for project/team/scholarship management
  • Camera Install Status
  • Door Code Change Status
  • Air Quality
  • Spray Booth Vent Hole

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

• Unanimously Approved

Consent Agenda

• None

Committee Reports

• None

Mail

• None

Membership Report

• Starving Hackers:410
• Full Members:135
• Total Members:545
• Quorum:55

Member Leaving Reason Reports

• None

Member Points

• Unanimously Approved - Ashley Borg
  • Made Tidy Space Posters
  • Fresh Desk #14

• Unanimously Approved - James Lamken
  • Helped with camera install
  • Fresh Desk #15

• Unanimously Approved - James Lamken
  • Ran network cables
  • Fresh Desk #13

New Business

• Project to Streamline Communication
  • Some of this will be MMT
  • Need to improve some Wiki docs
  • Google groups vs Discourse

• Area Host Team
  • Need more people to help keep areas organization and training
  • worried about filling all new volunteer slots
  • Moved to after MMT DRC work

Old Business

• Board Task List Review
  • List was cleaned up outside of meeting
  • No pressing issues

• Fix Hot Metal Door
  • Andrew and Ron
  • Exit sign taken off
  • Still needs metal grate welded

• DRC
  • Interviewing Candidates
  • Vote on 4-2-2019

• MMT
  • Interviewing Candidates
  • Vote on 4-2-2019

• Moving Membership Points to Wild Apricot
  • A lot discussed but no clear way to do it yet

• Discuss Change of Dues
  • Need to get a plan together asyncronously

• Parking in Back
  • Signs already up
  • Need to let people work on car but not block loading unneccesarily

• Camera
  • Two New Cameras installed
  • One in Server Room and One by Woodstock Backdoor
  • All exited covered now

• Door Code
  • Not done due to technical problems
  • Ron and Andrew working on it

• Air Quality
  • Need to follow up with existing projects
  • Hole in roof is waiting on roofer coming back from vacation
  • Woodshop was waiting on approval to move equipment for ducting
  • Still need someone to sign up to update laser exhaust

• Spray Booth
  • Roofer is on vacation

Votes

• Unanimous for Joe Mertz to lead member management committee
• Unanimous to block non-member from public google groups for behavior violation