Board Meeting - January 15th, 2018
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Agenda
- Finances and Membership
- Ian has 99% of the PayPal membership report completed.
- Go over what's there and what to do thence.
- Are there any data that could be added to the report?
- Spending General Funds
- https://hackaday.com/2018/01/01/how-hackerspaces-spend-money/ has a neat idea to let members give a monthly budget to things.
- Upcoming Tool Purchases
- With the membership audit complete, what should happen to members with lapsed payments?
- Anyone who has not accessed the space since intweb took over, which is March 11, 2017, will be deactivated without any other action
- What to do about other lapsed members
- Ian has 99% of the PayPal membership report completed.
- intweb
- Abilities
- Storage Requests
- New Member on-boarding
- PayPal Links are now in intweb
- Uploading member photos
- Group and permissions
- Future
- Go over the (now much smaller) list of issues (which includes new features)
- Farther out in the future, we'll have new member applications submitted there
- Use GitHub to report bugs when you find them
- Go over the (now much smaller) list of issues (which includes new features)
- Abilities
- The annex
- Heating
- Electrical Improvements
- What to do with the space
- Re-invigorating Hive Culture
Attendees
Minutes
- Jim - open finance is current through end of december
- Pending memberships - Caine
- Jim would like to propose a new hive special account for the proceeds from powertool drag racing
- we have a little north of $7000 - would like this to be used for "special projects"
- $450 check from breakthrough cincinnati (check is from UC)
- keep outreach sustainable
- keep gifts from other nonprofits separate
- Annual filings for the last 3 years are current
- The threshold is $50k in income to report.
- Jim would like to work on the asset list.
- He has compiled a 100ish item list.
- Jim would like to work on the asset list.
- The threshold is $50k in income to report.
- If we ever had to dissolve the hive, what is the plan?
- paypal membership report
- Reviewed list of members whith recent badge accesses who are not making payments.\
- Ian will contact lapsed members to inquire
- Need a standard procedure for each category
- Unpaid account - Inquire on the event. Then at 45 days. Then 90 days and disable after cancelation.
- Unknown payment - Contact and inquire if they'd like a badge.
- No badge - contact.
- Ian will automate this report to send on the first of the month.
- Intweb
- Intweb is taking over paperwork duties at the hive.
- Storage space tracking features are nearly complete.
- Brief discussion of credentials
- Paypal links are now on intweb. To be removed from blog.
- Next up - membership applicatons
- Annex
- Heating
- Greg changed the filter. It was more of a brick.
- Greg will clean the heater.
- Electrical Improvements
- We have approval from garden street to work on the electrical
- Once greg is done with the air lines, he will resule work on the electrical
- one 220
- 3 110 circuits
- What to do with the space
- Fablab, Lounge Crafts, Electronics.
- Fablab and lounge to be a combined meeting area.
- Greg to inquire with garden street before formalizing our plan.
- Re-invigorating hive culture
- Group Projects (3d printers, shapeoko)
- Looking for people to host more group activities.