O&D Meeting 11/18/2025

Agenda

Old Action Items

• Revision of the Wavier Stuff - Raj

• Intercom - Joe

• Batteries and door stuff - Joe and Lock a Dock

• Handrail. - Joe

• Sump Pump - Kevin F.

• Update Signage for Battery Policy - Kevin F.

• start member's list water heater discussion. - Kevin C.

Old Business

• Budget Committee
  • JimD, as treasurer, is obligated to chair the committee (to be established tonight).
  • The committee is then tasked to submit the 2026 budget to the membership by November 30th for comment and adjustment.
  • The first committee meeting (to last 10-15 minutes) will be held tonight, immediately after the member meeting with all nominated committee members.

• New Fap for Shop Bot

• High Schooler's needing Hours - JIM?
  • JimD 11/17 email to (Kentucky Country Day School) Tim Rice and his two students (Tyler Michael and Tyler Herman) inviting the students to apply for LVL1 Makerships.
  • The current goal for their makerships would be to address residual dust level monitoring and mitigation to enhance the as-is dust collection systems in our wood and metal shops.

Membership Report

Our October membership stands at 68 souls. It is down one since last month and we reimain below our goal is to grow to 76 members by December.

• Two members seem to have missed recent monthly payments.
• AJ Lewis started his Makership in October.

We continue to need our OOPS activities to bear fruit and GROW our membership. This is the link to the October report: <LVL1 - Membership Trend 202510.pdf>.

Treasurer Report

The month of October 2025 brought further welcomed financial improvements, making it six months in-a-row. We are on a roll! Here is the link for the <LVL1-FinancialSummary-202510.pdf< with the following values:

• October 2025 REVENUE was $6,996.72 which is up signficantly, thanks due to two anonomous members' two generous donations of $200.00 to the pizza fund and a wopping $2,000.00 for use at O&D discression.
• October 2025 EXPENSE was ($3,866.11) which remains on track at minimum levels and included ($111.00) as reimbursement to September workshop organizers.
• October 2025 NET was cash positive at $3,866.11 (best month of the year). We are now cash positive year-to-date at $7,885.89.
• The 2026 budget committee confirmed tonight will be tasked to strategically decide how we can spend some of this NET in a way that will GROW our membership by year end, and in next year's budget.

New Business

• December Pitchin - Holiday Stuff Take 3
• Confirm 2026 budget committee nominees and participants by the end of tonight's general meeting and then immediately conduct the first (brief) meeting tonight to receive marching orders.

Round Table

Member Shelves - need to update.

Winterization - Windows cling material

Lighting in Bone Yard - Kevin C

Action Items for Next Meeting

Kevin C drill a weep hole!

Start Nominations - Everyone

Member Shelves - Tim