Board Meeting Notes 2023-01-03

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Meeting Start:

Attendance

  • Board Members
    • James L.
    • Joe M.
    • Jennie P.
    • Jesse S.
    • V. (Remote)
    • Donzell G. (Showed up halfway through)
  • Other Members
    • Andrew M.
    • Andrew W.
    • Grace (New Member)

Agenda

  • Committee Reports
  • Read mail
  • Financial/membership report
  • Review the PayPal and banking transactions
  • Member leaving reason reports
  • Check Freshdesk queue
  • New business
  • Old business

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

  • James needs to send these to Joe

Consent Agenda

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

  • General Operation
    • Roof is leaking like a sieve.
      • Jennie is sending email to the landlord
    • Cleanup efforts on-going
      • Need to properly account for Coffee Roaster and NMR.
      • Collect loaned tool agreements
    • James wants to "remove tidyspace" to improve how storage management happens.
      • Milwaukee has a better ticketing system that James wants to adopt. He and Andrew will work on this.
        • Milwaukee has a multi ticket system. Including "group project tickets" and the "free stuff ticket"
        • This led to a discussion about what the difference between trash and salvage is.
        • Sometimes red tickets are broken in their current execution.
          • Joe brings up that the wut zone removal may have exacerbated this problem.
          • Making salvage clearer might help the issue.
          • A discussion was held about the red ticketing over New Years.
            • Nothing untoward seems to have happened.
      • Lot's of discussion will be ongoing about this.
      • Editor's note: Maybe something will happen xD
    • Pawel has been helping address cubbies on the catwalk
    • Andrew still needs to replace the motors in the heater blower units.
      • Motors are in hand for this.
    • Heat is generally working okay!
    • Air plan is working.
    • MMT Storage
      • Storage registration is kinda confusing.
        • Maybe just allow members to self register in WA
        • More tech team input required.
        • Will review further, all agree we need to document this procedure better.
  • Treasury Team
    • Looking good to have the 2022 bookkeeping done in the next couple of weeks
    • Everyone has been very cooperative.
    • Mike Riggs (the usual accountant) has been very slow this year.
      • Might start looking at other options
    • Someone from the woodshop has put some interest into joining the treasury team
      • The treasurers are getting tired of training people that go on to do nothing. They are hoping this year will be better.
    • Treasurer will start reminding people that you need to ask for your budget before the last 20 mins of the year.

Mail

  • No Mail of note.

Financial Report

  • Chase Checking:
  • Chase Savings:
  • PEX:
  • PayPal:

Membership Report

  • Number of Members: 509
  • Quorum: 51


Freshdesk

Login link: https://pumpingstationone.freshdesk.com

New Business

  • Jennie will send email about roof leak.
  • Canvas access ongoing problem?
    • There are a bunch of problems
    • Vero has stepped down as Co-Arts area host.
      • We do not need to replace her.
  • We need to MMT Leader Questions
    • We will need to ask for volunteers.
    • Donzell will post asking for volunteers.
  • We need to checkup with the PR team.
    • James will reach out to Alicia to schedule a time to chat with the board
    • New board training day will happen
      • We are moving away from lastpass and on to Bit Warden. (Tech team is on it).
      • Will schedule a day to bring everyone on.

Old Business

Votes