2014-08-05

August 5th, 2014

Agenda

1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
2. Consent Agenda
3. Officer Reports
   1. President
   2. Vice-President
   3. Treasurer
   4. Secretary
   5. Public Relations

Meet The Mill event

1. New Business
2. Old Business
3. Member Reports
4. Adjournment

Minutes

Initialization

Member Attendance

• 5 new people and 22 total

Consent Agenda

• Vote to reimburse Jeffrey Crews $1500 from the tool fund for the physical Assets of FabLab Carolinas, as follows:
  • 5th Gen Full Spectrum Advanced Hobby 40W Laser (working)
  • Laser rotary attachment for glasses, bottles, etc
  • Air filters for the laser cutter
  • Roland 24" Vinyl Cutter (working)
  • Replicator1 dual extruder printing (working, having firmware and interface updated for ease of use)
  • OpenPCR thermocycler (not used yet)
  • 2 Arduino Basic kits
  • 5 rolls of 1.75 mm plastic for printer
  • 2 rolls of sign vinyl
  • 3 butane torch/solder irons
  • Various tronix bits like ATTinys, batteries, LEDs, etc
• Passed with no opposition

Officer Reports

President

• Looking at new locaitons
  • Looked at space within the new Scrap Exchange in Lakewood
  • Going to visit other vacant space in Lakewood mall next week

Vice-President

• JD not here
  • PR talking on JD's behalf about Engineer's day at Museum of Life and Science
    • looking for people with projects to present
    • Aug 16th, 10am - 4pm

Treasurer

• Account balances:
  • BB&T balance as of 8/5/14: $12,370.40
  • WePay balance as of 8/5/14: $0
  • Total balance as of 8/5/14: $12,370.40

• This month's income (7/1/14 - 8/4/14):
  • WePay - $864.86
  • Square - $408.45
  • BB&T Deposits - $535.00
  • Total: $1,808.31

• This month's expenses (7/1/14 - 8/4/14):
  • CREH-Snow (rent) - $1,450.00
  • Steve Hausman (metalworking equipment) - $250.00
  • Total: -$1,700.00

• Income - expenses = $108.31
• Maintenance fund ($161.01 + $20) = $181.01
• Tool fund ($3,811.33 - $250 + $54.16) = $3,615.49

• NOTE: rent check to Snow Building has been sent but has not cleared, yet. It is included in this this month's statement (above) in order to give an accurate sense of our finances.

• Interesting info this month:
  • Membership notes (as of 8/4/14):
    • 37 active members
    • 25 have paid dues for August (THANK YOU!)
    • 12 are late in paying dues, and 7 of those 12 are more than 1 month behind in dues.

Secretary

• Took ownership of our meetup
  • Payment coming directly from out BB&T
  • Possibility of collecting dues via Meetup
    • Higher fees and only one fee amount allowed
    • Uses WePay as the payment processor

Member Reports

• JSC
  • visit to Asheville space, Processing class at DCL
  • brought in cordless drill
  • plastic brought in for replicator to help keep hot
  • meet the mill event - made bottle openers and have about 10 kits remaining
  • looking for a replacement rocker switch for the rotory tool
  • more events and training on the tools
  • Scavenger hunt quill pen
• DH
  • Bunch of spare materials brought in
• SH
  • bash/cli workshop
  • group buy for RPi B+ coming in shortly and new group buy will probably happen to
• DTB - Looking for stainless steel box and av cables that went missing
• JW
  • Trying to build a bicycle power generator looking for assistance
• BH
  • Allamance maker faire
  • Apr 25th, 2015 next faire and would like to push for more, bigger exhibits
  • Blogging for Make mag, get in contact to get your projects featured