2019-11-05

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Contents

Nov 5, 2019

Agenda

  1. Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
  2. Highlights From The Past Year
  3. Consent Agenda
  4. Old Business
  5. New Business
  6. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
    5. At-Large
      1. Member Relations
  7. Member Reports
  8. Coming Events
  9. Adjournment

Minutes

  • Approve minutes from Oct 1, 2019



Highlights From The Past Year

  • What’s new at Splatspace? Some highlights of the past year
    • A review of what tools are new, fixed, and updated.
    • Review of recent workshops
    • Hebocon
    • Solstice event
    • Public game nights
    • Another fire-free year
    • RAD lab outreach
    • Passed code of conduct document
    • Signed 3 year lease at current location



Member Attendance

50 Dues-paying members
Quorum = 13 members

Consent Agenda

  • Proposed Membership dues increase:
    • New members - dues: $60 for Full membership, $25 for Associate
    • Current members: voluntary dues increase

We are voting on the following proposal:

"Effective November 6, 2019, dues for new members will be: Full Members - $60, Associate Members - $25, Student Members - $35. Current members are asked to consider voluntarily raising their dues to the new rates."

Old Business

  • We're still interested in income ideas to fill $500 / month gap


New Business

  • Safety Policies: during discussion of the Code of Conduct, decision made to move safety concerns to a separate Safety document
    • A Slack channel has been created for this discussion
    • Need guidelines listing the tools minors are permitted to use, even with adult supervision. (Mark)
      • eg 3D printers vs table saw
    • Tasks
      • draft a document
      • Research Trauma Kit (jc)



Someday Business...

(Items carried forward from previous meetings, but not up for discussion this month. Recorded here so we don't forget about them.)

  • Plan needed to allow members to recoup costs on consumables they provide to the space.
  • Woodshop RFC Air filtration (Ryan B)
  • Website plans
  • New Member orientation (Dawn)
  • Large format printer (updates?/volunteers?)
  • Training & Accountability
    • Equipment training guides (need volunteers)
      • Mini 3D printer (Jeff)
      • Roland vinyl cutter (Jeff)
      • Other ?


Officer Reports

President


Vice-President


Treasurer
  • Account balances as of 11/01:
+ BB&T + Cash Total - Outstanding - Escrow - 3 mo reserve Non-committed
  $3731.03     $139.00     $3870.03     $0     $112     $7500     $-3741.97  


  • This month's income:
Member Dues Donations Other Total
  $1867.50     $50     $0     $1917.50  
  • This month's expenses:
UDI Rent Linode.com Spectrum Misc Total
  $2400 + $550     $20.00     $84.99     $200     $3254.99  
  • Income - Expenses =   $-1337.49
  • Back dues owed = ~$600


  • Active Member count as of 11/01:
    (Active = paid dues within past 60 days)
Membership Type # Members Expected Dues
Full 35 (+1/-0) $1750
Associate 15 (+1/-3) $300
Student 0 (+0/-0) $0
Total 50 $2050
Monthly Expected Expenses = $2505
Deficit = - $455/mo

Departing Members: Nicole B, Brian L, Gabby S

New Members: Ben D, Charlie H


  • Comments: membership appears to drop during summer months, rise in the fall/winter
    • Jun 2018 - 42 members
    • Feb 2019 - 57 members


Secretary


At-Large
  • Member Relations
  • Other


Annual Election

The roles of the SplatSpace board are defined in the Bylaws

  • Establish Quorum of one quarter of total membership (~13)
  • Last minute nominations of any voting member.
Andrew Stowell
Others?
  • Announce candidates for each office and count votes
Vote for Board Members
President - Ryan Patridge
Vice President - open
Secretary - Lewis Scaife
Treasurer - (Dawn Trembath)
At-Large - (Aaron Averill)
At-Large - open
At-Large - Tom Randall

Member Reports

Events



Trash/Recycling Volunteer

Adjournment