Board Meeting - April 10th, 2023
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Time: 7:30 PM
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Agenda
Review task items from last meeting
- Vote on proposed Termination of Matt Ziegler's Membership with cause.
- Lease Negotiations - a brief update
Reports
- Update on funding efforts for a Cincinnati Council of Makers by UMA - Urban Manufacturing Alliance
- Treasuer's report by Jim Dallam
- This is the link to the Hive13 2022 Year-End Financial Report
- This is the link to the Hive13 2023 Proposed Budget
- This is the link to the March Year-To-Date 2023 Financial Report
- COO report
- "Monster spreadsheet" has changed significantly to accommodate the new approach to budget reporting
- It's going to be a work in progress for a while
- Cleanup and making it much more accessible is the next major step
- Spy camera input from wardens
- Most wardens have now contributed
- "Monster spreadsheet" has changed significantly to accommodate the new approach to budget reporting
- Hive computers are getting scarse
- We've had three requests for computers (laptops) in two weeks
- The remaining laptops are in so, so shape
Area/Warden Reports
- March Wardens meting
- Lisa Crump asked to lead it and did an outstanding job
- Woodshop
- Automatic dust collection for the table saw is getting to be an urgent need.
- Project has been given priority
- Automatic dust collection for the table saw is getting to be an urgent need.
- Laser
- The big laser seems to be back to being fully functional
- Massive thanks to Dave Velzy and Brad
- The big laser seems to be back to being fully functional
- Machining
- Brad is back to making major progress on LathYBoy
Thoughts on the recent thefts
- Hive laptops now have multiple labels, top and bottom
- A minimal step but at least a step
- A few have been secured (locked up)
- We need to stop assuming that nothing could or would ever happen
- Members should be advised not to be forgetful about any expensive items, like laptops
- Also to keep an eye out for potential concerning behavior (moving laptops around)
- Other ideas, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Parking Lot for carry over assignments
- All leadership: start thinking about how we should improve vote procedures. Study the new financial stuff to get acquainted with it.
- Paul Vincent: organize/help work on setting up a wiki workday
- Kate Cook: Schedule next Dungeon Masters meeting
- Jim and Kevin: moving forward with repair budget procedure talk to find a resolution
- John and Paul: continue to lead the effort about vote procedure improvements with a thread in Slack/committee/whatever you want to call it
- Chris Davis: find out more about the intern program at DAAP
- Jack: continue work with Jim on getting banking details imported into Redbubble
Classes & Certification
- Kate will reschedule the short class on "How to structure a class for HIVE13"
Attendance
- Jack Margeson
- Chris Hodapp
- Dave Velzy
- Jim Dallam
- John Clark
- Kate Cook
- Kostas Perentesis
- Paul Vincent
- Ryan Anderson
Minutes: 7:30pm–9:05pm
Review Items
Vote on proposed Termination of Matt Ziegler's Membership with cause.
- Notes taken from meeting with Matt posted in leadership channel.
- Leadership vote to terminate Matt Ziegler's membership with cause:
- 8 yesses
- 2 nos
- The vote passes.
Lease negotiations update
- Chris and Velzy met with current landlord—they sent the "updated lease".
- They're ready to play out their part on our current lease
- We need more member storage so that might be part of the build out
- Lets get it cleaned before the summer bakes the dirt and cigs into the floor
- Velzy started moving things around and shelves need to be moved between
- Dungeon cleanout:
- We need to do a blast to the leadership to do the dungeon cleanout
- March 11th dumpster thing fell through because of... other things we're doing
Reports
CFO
- Check slidedeck for more details.
- We're over 200 members! Hooray!
Area/Warden Reports
- March's Warden Meeting
- Lisa's version of the warden meeting went very well
Agenda Items
Thoughts on recent thefts going forward
- Punting this to next month.
Classes and certifications
- Punting this to next month.
Action Items
- All leadership:
- We're through the storm. Please keep the two following agenda items in mind for next month's meeting:
- Thoughts on recent thefts going forward
- Classes and certifications
- Kate:
- Will start the document for informing Matt & document for informing membership online and send in leadership discussion.