Board Present
Name | Position | Present |
|---|---|---|
Doug Emes | President | Yes |
Hannah Garbacz | Vice President | Yes |
Olivia Snyder | Secretary | Yes |
Paul Ingendorf | Floating Board | No |
Michael Chow | Floating Board | No |
Officers Present
Name | Position | Present |
|---|---|---|
Paul Ingendorf | CTO | No |
Tim Givens | Facilities Coordinator | Yes |
Theo Foster | CLO | Yes |
Leadership Attending | 5/7 |
|---|
Minutes
Time | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
8:34P | Start | Yay welcome everyone. |
| 8:34P | Fencon | The Board would like to recognize our CTO for all his hard work at FenCon. As he is a Lifetime Member, we will find some way to show a token of our appreciation.  |
| 8:35P | Truist Bank | The Board needs to visit the bank to restore electronic access. We NEED a Treasurer desparately. A board working session is needed to assign proper roles for absent positions. Things are being jumbled without singular supervision.
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| 8:40P | Complaints | The woodshop breakers keep getting thrown, causing issues with use. |
| 8:43P | Space/Equipment | The lease is up in 15 months. We need to investigate possible alternate spaces, and contact with the city. Electric is a huge concern with increasing membership. Computing power is also a huge concern. These need to be addressed NOW. |
| 8:46P | Woodshop | New equipment needs to be re-arranged, etc. |
| 8:48P | NTX Giving Day | Possibility to appear on TV appeared, was rejected. We got about $300. Need a fundraising coordinator. Badly. No donations were from non-members. |
| 8:50P | Local Events | WHO in Richardson can we can identify that will help with getting out participation, education, and outreach. |
| 8:57P | First Saturday | Perhaps a quartarly or monthly event could be established to help with local outreach. |
| 9:00P | Individuals | Hannah noted helping folks who have graduated from HS or college have been involved in makerspaces need to know about places like us. |
| 9:04P | Resource Weekends | Hannah suggests "Learning Saturday" for people who are passionate about tools, to teach, learn, etc. |
| 9:06P | UTD | Tim notes that with his new job, he has persons with help designing makerspaces. |
| 9:09P | Equipment Swaps | Doug suggests Tim takes one of our (non-running) printers to UTD in order to help with repair. |
| 9:11P | Full Board Votes | Doug suggests holding several votes in #board for Area Host nominations etc. |
| 9:18P | Classes | Olivia will be posting concise information for folks wishing to host events. |
| 9:20P | Close | Come November, Doug hopes to get back on top of our finances so we have an accurate picture. (We need a treasurer badly.) |
| 9:23P | Mic joins remotely | Doug notes board channel votes that will be placed later on so Mic and Paul can participate. |
| 9:30P | Close for real | Night, errybody. |
Addenda
| Description | Item |
| There are no addenda for this meeting. |