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With our current Membership & Expenses, we can pay bills through 12/2020
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With our current Membership & Expenses, we can pay bills through 3/2021
  
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* Talk with our landlord to seek temporary rent forbearance/forgiveness in order to stay in operation.
 
* Talk with our landlord to seek temporary rent forbearance/forgiveness in order to stay in operation.
** Proposal - Ask to revert to our old rent of $1900/month for 6 months.
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** Proposal - Ask to revert to our old rent of $1900/month through 12/2020.
  
  

Revision as of 22:16, 7 July 2020

Contents

July 7th, 2020

Agenda

Summary
  1. Minutes
  2. Member Attendance
  3. Consent Agenda
  4. Old Business
  5. Action Items
  6. New Business
  7. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
    5. Public Relations
    6. At-Large
  8. Guest Introductions
  9. Member Reports
  10. Upcoming Events
  11. Trash/Recycling Volunteer
  12. Adjournment


 

Guest Introductions

Minutes


Member Attendance

43 Dues-paying (voting) members
Quorum = 11 members

Consent Agenda

1) Approve meeting minutes from

  • Jun 2nd



Old Business

  • Investigate door-duino problems (10 second delay on credential scanning/door unlock).


ToDo Action Items

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

  • Establish a process (proposal?) for holding votes with membership electronically, to allow us to accomplish votes without establishing quorum at/during meetings.
  • Establish a process (ie. sending a two-sentence announcement with a link to the agenda to the Google Group, Slack #announcements) for announcing to SplatSpace membership important meetings, votes, and events, in the case where there has been a board member meeting and agenda prepared at least 3 days in advance.

* Plan needed to allow members to recoup costs on consumables they provide to the space. (who?)

* New Member orientation (Dawn)

* Training & Accountability (need volunteers) [create doc with list of tools, include people & doc links as we start making equipment training guides]

* New Storage Shelves (Scott + volunteers)

* Audio/Visual install & configuration (Scott + volunteers)

* Splat server upgrade (Scott)

* Laser cutter soundproofing


New Business

  • Website plans (update)
  • Formalized (?) a process for people who are willing to provide access to Associate or Student members when they need it. Andrew Odum and Scott both volunteered some interest in facilitating access this way.

Officer Reports

President


Vice-President


Treasurer

Note: numbers not yet updated

  • Account balances as of 7/01:
+ BB&T + Cash Total - Outstanding - Escrow - 3 mo reserve Non-committed
  $2729.46     $174     $2903.46     $0     $1008     $7500     $-5604.54  
  $2729.46     $174     $2903.46     $0     $1008     $0     $1895.46  


  • This month's income:
Member Dues Donations Other Total
  $2429.45     $50.00     $0     $2479.45  
  • This month's expenses:
UDI Rent Linode.com Spectrum Misc Total
  $2400     $20     $104.99     $0     $2524.99  
  • Income - Expenses =   $-45.54
  • Back dues owed = ~$300


  • Active Member count as of 7/01: (Active = paid dues within past 60 days)
Membership Type # Members Expected Dues Target # Members Target Dues
Full 18 $1080 24 $1440
Full (Legacy) 14 $700
Associate 4 $100
Associate (Legacy) 6 $120
Student 3 $105
Total 45 $2105 53 $2555
Monthly Expected Expenses = $2505
Deficit = - $400/mo (was -$555 on 6/1/20)

Departing Members:

New Members:


With our current Membership & Expenses, we can pay bills through 3/2021

https://wiki.splatspace.org/images/0/0e/ReserveProjection07.pdf

  • Talk with our landlord to seek temporary rent forbearance/forgiveness in order to stay in operation.
    • Proposal - Ask to revert to our old rent of $1900/month through 12/2020.


TODO:

  • Connect with Nation of Makers to see what other makerspaces are doing to address funding and membership issues, operational challenges. (who?)
  • Get the previously formulated list of ideas/brainstorming for fundraising and membership engagement, find members willing to pursue these. (who?)
  • Consider/brainstorm ways that SplatSpace might engage with community, especially with the ongoing challenges presented by COVID-19. (Engagement with children, educational or pastime). (who?)
  • Update the website (highlight PPE projects, video from workshops, other activities and resources that SplatSpace offers as Durham's makerspace). Offer a curated list of others' activities, relevant events and opportunities. Standard things on Instagram, Facebook, Wordpress, etc. (who?)


Secretary


At-Large
  • Member Relations


  • Other


Member Reports

Upcoming Events

Trash/Recycling Volunteer

Adjournment