10/13/2021 Board Meeting

Location: Google Meet and in person at the lab

'''Attendees: Joe Kim, Arjen De Jong, Harold Morales, Joe Stilin, David Choi

Input from members

 * Create a form for members to submit comments, requests

Town Hall style meetings

 * Make regular meetings Wednesdays 7pm as town halls.

Membership Drive

 * Ideas short term:
 * Change open house to be hybrid
 * Refer a friend program
 * Meet with Lisa (Arjen’s wife) to talk about marketing and content.
 * Work with members to create content - ads on social media, youtube videos featuring projects.

Items to purchase

 * Wifi dongle (for Win10 computer) - $30
 * Multimeter - purchased
 * Vacuum filter - $55
 * 36” x 36” Vacuum former: Arjen heading, ~$300 with up to $500 for extra parts
 * Approved, with Arjen submitting updates to the board on the vacuum former project expenses.

Items to Sell

 * Welding machine - Thermal arc fabricator 18li, 220V, MIG
 * Sell on Craigslist $500.

Class Instructors

 * Official reply to teachers: We are going with no compensation or barter agreements.

Machine Maintenance

 * Should it be volunteer run? Yes! We’re a makerspace, people should learn to fix the machines. We have the ability to maintain laser, CNC, and 3D printers.

Civicrm and emails broken

 * Joe Kim will fix

Make Slack fun again!

 * Projects, shout outs in slack - cultivate maker community.

Special Lectures

 * Arjen’s contact, Doctor with 3D printing - hybrid meeting, stream online.

Meeting with Hack Manhattan

 * Tomorrow night. Goal to help them. Arjen: Symbiotic relationship.

Storage boxes

 * Create a policy and enforcement for items left in bin after membership is ended / expired.

Member Conduct

 * Create a policy and procedure for dealing with member misconduct.
 * Meeting(s) with affected member(s) and warnings for member(s) performing misconduct.

VOTE: Naming of members
Vote on naming of Arjen De Jong, Harold Morales, and David Choi as Acting Secretaries. OUTCOME: APPROVED

ACTION ITEMS

 * Create comment and request form for members
 * Sell welding machine on Craigslist
 * Update / create new FCFL policies draft
 * Add all non chair and secretary as “Acting Secretary”
 * Fix Civicrm email system (new members can’t join)
 * Recharge fire extinguisher, laser room (y), metalshop (?), woodshop (?)
 * Recover PayPal (work w/ Cellar Dog, not easy)
 * Recover Venmo (not easy)
 * Follow up on Board Insurance
 * Recover Lyft (easy)
 * CPA MIA
 * Create / update new policies document
 * Start up an asana
 * Put all this in Asana

NEXT GENERAL MEETING DATE

 * Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 7:00pm ET