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+ | 1. Board Report | ||
+ | * Adric: | ||
+ | * Board meeting today, 3 - 5 | ||
+ | * Looking at changes to the By-Laws | ||
+ | * Clarifying banned members | ||
+ | * Same household members would not be able to serve as Directors | ||
+ | * Looking into a bank account switch, but should be transparent to most all members | ||
+ | * Trying to work on resuming welding classes | ||
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+ | 2. Officer Reports | ||
+ | * President' | ||
+ | * Working on BoD election | ||
+ | * Nominations close next Saturday | ||
+ | * Election a week after that | ||
+ | * Using OPAVOTE for electronic voting | ||
+ | * Treasurer' | ||
+ | * 21K + in checking & Savings | ||
+ | * Got the Electricity bill for the last six months | ||
+ | * Also for Jan & Feb Rent | ||
+ | * Those two are about 3 - 4 K in bills payments | ||
+ | * Bank switch upcoming, which will include getting away from SQUARE & STRIPE, using a bank service for payments processor | ||
+ | * Education: position currently vacant | ||
+ | * Events Officer: position currently vacant | ||
+ | * Membership: John “JT” Benedetto, acting officer | ||
+ | * January did a verification of student process. | ||
+ | * 104 active members: | ||
+ | * (78) Sustaining | ||
+ | * (9) associate | ||
+ | * (17) Student, though that number will go down with the verification process | ||
+ | * Outreach: Charel Morris | ||
+ | * This Saturday is STEM day at the Nuclear Museum | ||
+ | * Reach out to Josh for info - josh@quelab.net | ||
+ | * Social Media: Rebecca Snyder | ||
+ | * No Report | ||
+ | * Donations: John “JT” Benedetto | ||
+ | * Processing the previous donations; most of things being put on the up for grabs shelf | ||
+ | * 2nd Donated air compressor needs a plug, will probably move to the metal shop | ||
+ | * Nice donation of BluRay player, Tormek Grinder, Biscuit Joiner, Compressor | ||
+ | * AFRL donation of multi machine | ||
+ | * Facilities: John Murray | ||
+ | * Still a leak in the welding area | ||
+ | * For requests, send him an email facilities@quelab.net | ||
+ | * Rental: Darren Moody | ||
+ | * We’ve recovered one of the lost spaces from last month, and there may be another person interested in rental. | ||
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+ | * Area Captains | ||
+ | * 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen | ||
+ | * Printers are printing | ||
+ | * Blinky is good, with Octoprint set up, with Morgan doing training | ||
+ | * Orion is printing as is the PrintRBot | ||
+ | * Arcade - Troy Ross | ||
+ | * Not too much, but he will be setting up DMX controlled lights under the shelves | ||
+ | * Still looking at maybe building a couch | ||
+ | * Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim | ||
+ | * Some stock came in, really accurate resistors | ||
+ | * Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker | ||
+ | * Don’t just dump stuff in there | ||
+ | * Some untagged items will be purged in the next month or so | ||
+ | * Laser: Craig Goldsmith | ||
+ | * Cooling fan is down over the main board | ||
+ | * Metal Shop: Eric Lee | ||
+ | * No injuries, all lathes & mills operational | ||
+ | * Welding: John Murray | ||
+ | * Brought in some gas & welding wire, all operational | ||
+ | * Woodshop: Gonner Menning | ||
+ | * Adric reported that Gonner got new parking tickets, please make sure your stuff is properly tagged | ||
+ | * Stained Glass | ||
+ | * One of the nice glass cutters has gone missing | ||
+ | * Cleaned out the toolbox & will work with Adric for tools trays | ||
+ | * Digital Arts Lab | ||
+ | * Printhead path error - the error went away (eventually) & is now clear. | ||
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+ | 3. Old Business | ||
+ | * Star Wars Fest 6 | ||
+ | * Last Saturday we attended the Rio Rancho Loma Colorado Library’s Star Wars Day | ||
+ | * A big thank you to all that represented Quelab & a special thank you to Craig & Sully for coming out | ||
+ | * We did something new - making 100 small Tie Fighter model kits for adults to do, and got nice feedback on it. | ||
+ | * We are looking into collaboration with the 501st. | ||
+ | * Got a possible lead on a CNC Plasma cutter | ||
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+ | 4. New Business | ||
+ | * Mini Maker Faire | ||
+ | * April 21 & 22 | ||
+ | * Fewer volunteer meetings this year | ||
+ | * Bi-weekly maker orientations at different locations | ||
+ | * Quelab people can be in the Quelab tent or separate, in their own | ||
+ | * All are encouraged to sign up as makers, regardless of where they will be | ||
+ | * Board of Directors Election | ||
+ | * Josh, Celeste + volunteers helping | ||
+ | * Nominations close 2-10, final announcement of nominees on 2-11 | ||
+ | * Election afternoon 2-18 | ||
+ | * Electronic only voting, can vote “none of the above” | ||
+ | * Membership voting is required & we need to make quorum | ||
+ | * Some of the nominated were given a chance to talk. These people gave a brief speech: | ||
+ | * Charel Morris | ||
+ | * Don “Gonner” Menning | ||
+ | * Craig Goldsmith | ||
+ | * Jesse Trujillo | ||
+ | * Cleaning | ||
+ | * Cleaning will be of the bathrooms, the entryway room, and the main classroom | ||
+ | * Everything in the core needs removed from the main classroom | ||
+ | * Access to the space Monday will be via the Annex door | ||
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+ | Adjourned 6:41 p.m. | ||
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