O/D Meeting 7/28/2015

Attendees

Officers and Directors present
- Danielle, Ben, Daniel, Nathan, Patrick, Sean, & Jose
Others present
- Joe L., Brad, Charles, Raj, Tim, Trisha

AC installation
- Leg work done
Makership
- Fund needs to be re-upped
Member Generation & Retention
- Website chat thingy works well at getting members
Budget
- Can't sustain another winter while buying tools
- Spending almost as much as we're receiving
- Insurance payment made and we need to increase our coverage
- Tyler checked electric and proved that we're using as much as power as posted
- Meeting with landlords about flooding and door
- Should we consider raising dues cost?
  - Maybe. We'll need to check the costs and benefits.
- Makership: what's the conversion rate?
  - Hard to tell from poor record keeping
- Need to cut down costs of heating.
  - Date set to discuss building insulation
Tiny House Project
- Going piece meal

3D Printers
- Zortrax super reliable but $2000
- FAP to get replacement parts
- Jose can donate some parts
Equipment Repair
- Mend It Monday not very effective
- Need to tackle problem in other fashions
  - More education?
  - Sheets of paper/toe tagging
  - Move Mend It Monday to Wednesday
  - How else can we incentivize
  - Spend first few minutes of Mend It Monday checking equipment status
Grants
- Community Foundation LOI submitted
  - Need more detailed use of funds
- SBA grant happening at end of August
Signage Opportunities
- Meet second Monday every other month (next August 10th, 10AM, Commission on Public Art) for painting the flood wall
Kroger Grant
- Restarts in September so wait until then
Home Depot Foundation Program
- Grant application for weatherization of community groups up to $5000
- Check local Lowes stores for insulation opportunities - especially material donations
Next meeting set for September 29