Board Present
Name | Position | Present |
|---|---|---|
Doug Emes | President | Yes |
Hannah Garbacz | Vice President | Yes |
Olivia Snyder | Secretary | Yes |
Paul Ingendorf | Floating Board | Yes |
Michael Chow | Floating Board | No |
Officers Present
Name | Position | Present |
|---|---|---|
Paul Ingendorf | CTO | Yes |
Tim Givens | Facilities Coordinator | Yes (remote) |
Theo Foster | CLO | No |
Leadership Attending | 5/7 |
|---|
Minutes
Time | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 8:07P | Meeting Start | |
| 8:09 | Health and Safety | Maps are green. We be healthy. As an organization, we will no longer be tracking COVID status. |
| 8:11P | Doorbell | Do NOT answer the doorbell unless you ARE hosting an official event or KNOW the member. Other tenants are abusing our doorbell and disturbing members. |
| 8:15P | Room Spaces | Re-allocating room spaces. A further description can be found in the slide deck. Discussions can be found in #make-the-space in Discord |
| 8:20P | Financials | $26,922.52 in the bank currently. We STILL NEED A TREASURER. Later this month: taxes. We are still cash-flow negative. We need 10-20 more members. |
| 8:26P | Votin' | Approve 3D Printing to Laser Room: All Yea Relocating Vinyl, vacating ceramics, and giving area host to authority to : All Yea Approve Lindsay as Fiber Arts area Host: All Yea Move Electronics Benches to back of Classroom and in Atrium; componants in back of classroom: All Yea |
| 8:35P | Code Launch | November 16, Hannah can be reached for free tickets. We would LOVE volunteers to talk about TheLab. |
| 8:36P | Volunteering | Jordan Olshevski: Nominated for laser/CNC, vote withheld while he is absent. |
| 8:37P | Meetup | We pay a few hundred per year for Meetup, our current subscription has expired. Apparently people think a member of meetup is a member of TheLab.ms. Doug argues the reach for Meetup is there, but is not a good calendar solution. Proposal to sunset meetup after 6 months. Need a primary calendar system. Vote to Extend Meetup payment by at least 6 months: All Yea |
| 8:48P | Workshop | We need to bring in our hardware from outside. The shop needs to be re-arranged/tidied up. Tim has plans and a budget. Doug proposes fixing up the front rooms, then initializing work on the workshop. Vote on Tim's Budget for Woodshop revamp +/-$100 and his budget: All Yea |
| 8:59P | Corrective Action | Board to Draft a letter to members James Lincoln and Caethan Raley re: proper use of CNC machine and shopkeeping. |
| Suspension | Former member John Fehler has been expelled due to abuse of equipment. | |
| 9:01P | Closing | Doug proposes member meeting start at 7:30P, to conserve member time. |
| 9:04P | Member Comments | Member Holly notes perhaps we need onboarding stuff? We indicate this exists. |
| 9:08P | Secretary closes document. | |
Addenda
| Description | Item |
| There are no addenda for this meeting. |