January 2016 - Board Meeting

Financial update - Bailey

• Tim updated the membership prices on our website

• Need to remind people to update their PayPal subscriptions

• Dwolla sucks

• Paypal sucks

Member meeting - 19/20/26/27

Tim to send out a “when is good”

Safety update - Nabil

• Have had a request for training sheets on the power tools in the back area

• Ray offered to do it tonight

Re-visit potential corporate members -- is it still too soon to approach some of them?

• SCI

• Simpson College

• Twisted Vine Brewery - after they've moved into their location

  • Late spring, early summer

• Pillar Technology

• Walker Coen Lorentzen Architects

  • Have requested

  • Need to prepare contract for them

Garage buildout

• How much money are we willing to spend, given we don’t know how long we’ll be in this building?

• What costs would be investments that we can take with us, as opposed to investments into this building?

  • Walls to secure the area (chain link?)

    • Corrugated sheet metal?

  • Black pipe etc for the air compressor

  • Electrical runs

    • $???.??

  • More shop lights (may be able to get some old fluorescent lights donated)

    • Possibly free

  • Welder & equipment

  • Welding bench (Ben has offered to build one)

Landlord relations

• Status of cleanup reimbursement?

• Heater resolved?

• Steam coming out of FLOOR in garage?

  • lol

    • Pretty sure the kittens did this.

• Still sneaking rent checks into the rent slot in locked resident stairwell