Board Meeting Notes 2023-11-07

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Meeting Start:

Attendance

  • Board Members
    • James L.
    • Joe M. (Remote)
    • Donzell G.
    • Vulture (Remote)
    • V
    • Tim B. (Remote)
    • Fidel G. (Remote)
    • Jesse S. (Remote)
  • Other Members
    • Carl K.
    • Ron O.
    • Andrew M.


Agenda

Minutes

Discussion on previous minutes

No notes.

Consent Agenda

Committee Reports

Reports from Committees

  • MMT
    • In a good rhythm with tickets.
  • GenOps
    • Heat seems happy
    • No pressing issues
      • Other than needing to get more trash bags and paper towels.
  • TechTeam
    • No updates.

Mail

  • Certified mail for Dan (the landlord) that is spam.
  • 2021 tax thing from the State of Illinois
    • We need to pay a late fee for $250.
    • They had been sent a check that was wrong.
    • Treasury team is investigating.
  • Otherwise just spam.


Financial Report

  • Carl says we have money
    • More than last time.
  • Chase Checking: $30,490.67
  • Chase Savings: $34,208.58
  • PEX: $8,882.28
  • PayPal: $8,069.74

Membership Report

  • Number of Members: 612
  • Quorum: 61

Freshdesk

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

New Business

  • 2000 Pound Machine?
    • Stirling or weight?
      • weight
    • It is a plastic shredder, tldr.
      • Books brought it in.
      • Came from the Haddon space, was evicted.
      • Dave has given it temporary permission to be in Cold Metals while it gets reduced in size.
    • Joe asks if it is a loaned tool or a donated tool?
      • It is a member project.
    • It is quite dangerous, possibly, if it works.
      • "It looks angry" - James
    • Fidel asks how many signs we have on it?
      • Not enough. But its fine it doesn't work yet.
    • Carl would like to be clear that anything that sounds like encouragement from him has been misconstrued. This is *not* another coffee maker.
    • Ron didn't even know it existed until he was asked to help. He was very happy to see the camaraderie that happened to get it unloaded.
      • Special mention to Sam who helped weld on fork pockets while it was still on the truck!
        • That also means it is easier to get back out.
  • Votes on hold
    • Survey monkey got stupid expensive
    • We are working on replacing it with a new vote tool that Carl, Weasel, and Ron have been working on helping a DePaul professor update.
      • should be ready soon.
      • Some discussion ensued about the answers.
  • Need to post threads asking Director at Large nominations.
    • Joe will take care of it.


Old Business

Votes

    • The board votes to appoint Tyler Dehority to a W.I.L.D position on the Treasury Team.

For 8 / Against 0 / Abstain 0

    • The board votes to appoint Osi Van Dessel to the position of Small Metals Area Hosts, succeeding Aly Reza.

For 8 / Against 0 / Abstain 0