Warden Meetings/February 23rd, 2022

Warden Meetings
Previous Meeting: January 26th, 2022	Meeting Procedure Meeting Time: 8:00 PM	Next Meeting: March 23rd, 2022

Time and Place

Time: 8:00 PM
Place: Virtual (Online only)

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Agenda

Wards

3D Printing

• Resin Printer
  • Safely disposing of 3D resin printer waste?
  • Ventilation?
• Warden Hours Posted?

Lasers & Plastics Forming

• Warden hours posted?

Electronics

• Warden hours posted?
• Is Sparks! in addition to warden hours?

Crafts

• Storage equipment came in. How's it working out?

Hot Crafts

• Hot Crafts Committee
  • First Meeting was February 7th, 2022
  • Next meeting is March 7th, 2022
• Hot Crafts Area Workday Sunday, February 27th, 2022 at 1:00-4:00pm
• Should we post a vote for a reoccurring budget for gas refills? Something like $500/year so that glass and welding gasses don't blow the warden budget for the month every 6 months?

Welding Shop

• Welding Carts - in progress
• ventilation
  • blower and hose make table unusable
  • hose doesn't reach most of the welding area
  • currently have no make-up air
  • It's really not very adequate ventilation
• Air hose may be leaking, air compressor runs much more often now
• Grinding and polishing area
  • need to set up workbenches in nook that has sandblaster
  • needs ventilation/dust collection
  • sand blaster needs dust filter installed, receptacle wired up
• Purge/remove metal storage, replace with a sawing station (like miter station in wood shop)?
• Warden hours posted?

Machine Shop

• Need to add shelves to shelf carcasses and get a bit more organized
• Better work surfaces? Table or Mobile Workbench carts?
• Warden hours posted?

Wood Shop

• Dust Collection Progress?
  • Reportedly very weak at SawStop
• We could use additional help for wood shop certification
• Warden hours posted?

Kitchen

• workday TBD
• Warden hours - use as regular work days to get/keep things moving?

Lounge

• Maybe this role needs to be re-invented.
• ???

General Use & Other Spaces

• Paint booth status
• Photography lounge
• meeting space

General topics

• Warden committees vs sub-wardens or un-titled helpers
  • Alternatives to spread the work and get others involved
    • How do we get others involved at the sub-warden level
  • Kayla asked me for ideas about the warden program (John Clark)
    • I'd like to get the thoughts of actual wardens
• Collecting Certification info
  • Post a list of who can certify which tools near the tools
  • Please post any certifications that you do on Slack
• New warden areas
  • There is currently no process for creating them
    • Isn't it in the bylaws, COO proposes, and board confirms changes?
  • Ideas?