Board Meeting Minutes 2021-09-20
Fat Cat Fab Lab Board Meeting
9/20/2021
Attendees: Joe Kim, Arjen De Jong, Joe Stilin, Harold Morales, David Choi
MEETING NOTES
Officers Selection
Harold volunteers as Treasurer, Joe Kim as Chair, Joe Stilin as Secretary, and Arjen as Vice-Chair
[Vote on officer positions]
OUTCOME: All four board positions APPROVED
Bylaws
Board discusses proposed bylaws
Proposed: maximum number of board members set to 7
Discussion of how Chair can be removed: with cause or with or without cause
Discussion of board meeting prior notification: 8 days for normal meetings, 48 hours for emergency meetings.
Discussion of quorum for voting: decision for ½ board size, rounded up.
Notice of board member resignation: must give one week notice.
Transparency of books and accounting: update bylaws later (See todo’s)
Amendment of bylaws: vote requires majority vote by minimum ⅔ of the board.
[vote on adoption of bylaws]
[Arjen abstains]
OUTCOME: Bylaws APPROVED
Board Members
Vote to add David Choi as board member
OUTCOME: David Choi APPROVED as member of the Board
Lease
Discussion of new lease offer from Ed
Joe K to talk with Ed to negotiate lease terms re: electricity and water bills
‘Hazardous Materials’ portion of lease: what does hazardous material mean?
Electricity billing: we want meter installed by a specific date, after that we don’t pay the $500 a month.
Water: $4000 water bill mistake. Add stipulation that Ed pays for this.
Accounting
Joe Kim signed on to Chase Bank Account, Peter still on the account.
Fab Lab Member Relations
Email to members: draft to show David Choi joined board on 9/20/021
Current misconduct policy to be modified in the future to include a slack members channel moderation policy
Joe Kim proposes to lead the charge on making online experience for members better / fully transparent
Keys and locks: Ask Peter and Woody to give back their physical keys to locks, including locker
Delegation of tasks to members: plan to ask for volunteers to help with onboarding, programs, etc.
[vote on giving Joe Kim duty on online accounts / member online experience]
OUTCOME: Approved
Onboarding
Joe Kim to make onboarding process smoother so the work and needing to physically be at the lab can be shared amongst the board and volunteer members.
ACTION ITEMS
Update bylaws with requirement to make books and accounting public later, after we are fully able to publish our books.
Update purpose section of bylaws more tailored to Fat Cat Fab Lab
Joe Kim to talk to Ed about our electricity and water amendments to the lease on Wednesday
Modify and send out email to members
Joe Kim to ask Peter and Woody for to hand in their mail keys
David to work with Dana on independent study
Next Meeting
Tomorrow, 7pm
Agenda for next meeting: Events and Programs
Decision on restarting classes/ how to teach
Create W9/1099 contract for instructor(s)
Prior verbal agreement with Woody
Open house
Who will host
We need access to meetup account from Peter
Update on sponsored membership program Cleaning out the lab
Large garbage pickup progress?
Decide / vote on initiative to clear old projects / material from the lab [with care, given recent events] (Vote from Members?)
Brief Discussion on current events Deploying a Wiki
Establish Open Docs Policy
See Hack Manhattan Wiki for something we should aspire too
Publish ByLaws/Rule of Board Meeting Minutes/Notes Google Accounts
Discuss upgrading google account to business g-suite
Mostly want ability to deploy a shared drive for company
Going to for 2FA for Google accounts
Want to buy a 1password account
Need to change passwords everywhere
Easier to share and change all passwords for everyone