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| | === Old Business === | | === Old Business === |
| − | * E-Waivers
| + | * AC Install |
| − | ** Done. Thank you Daniel!
| + | ** Now underway |
| − | ** Collecting data on people visiting the space so we know who we're serving
| + | ** August 8th install date set |
| − | * New Membership Management System
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| − | ** 1/3 of membership on the new system
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| − | ** Auditing membership with the new system; some people thought they were members but weren't paying
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| − | ** Daniel needs help processing back failed payments
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| − | ** Question: do they need to back pay dues? No. BoD never officially suspended these memberships
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| − | * AC installation | |
| − | ** Equipment is here
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| − | ** Need to tear out old green pipes
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| − | ** Nathan will make it happen June 1's Mend it Monday
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| − | * Makership
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| − | ** Past month had 5 applicants
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| − | ** Enthusiasm for the makership among visitors
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| − | ** Probably coming from word of mouth and shared enthusiasm
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| − | * Workshops
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| − | ** Mend It Monday a mild success for teaching folks how to use tools
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| − | ** Workshop du Jour: Persistence is key
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| − | ** Terry's working on workshops
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| − | ** If Tiny House project comes through then that will provide upwards of 20 workshops over a 2 year period
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| − | ** Requests for lockpicking workshop: June 27th target
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| − | ** Charles is going to order components for surface mount soldering 1-on-1 basis
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| − | * Business Cards
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| − | ** Need these desperately! Easy for maintaining relationships
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| − | ** Card mostly done still, need to add wiki.lvl1.org link and print
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| − | * Member Generation & Retention
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| − | ** Numbers moving up: current count 68
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| − | ** Excitement is building among visitors
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| − | ** Daniel asks people who've visited a few times about their feelings about membership, good conversion rate
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| − | *** "What would it take to make you a member?"
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| − | ** Raj's tours are working well
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| − | ** Need short info sheet on membership benefit fliers
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| − | *** Daniel has these made and up front
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| − | ** Need vinyl cutter camera signage
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| − | ** Meetup account still up; needs a few more organizers/managers
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| − | *** Ben will make this a priority
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| − | * Renter Responsibilities & Neighbor Respect
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| − | ** Canoe team has cleaned up and no news is good news
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| − | ** Landlords dodging window & door issues
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| − | ** May need to leverage renter's agreement to get these issues resolved
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| − | * Fixing Broken Things Fatigue?
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| − | ** Mend It Monday is working to an extent
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| − | ** Put list on whiteboard
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| − | * Budget
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| − | ** Need to run reports
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| − | ** Biggest expense is rent and weather has been weathered
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| − | ** Electric cost is great during the non-winter months
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| − | ** Need weatherizing in order to build up coffers to spend on FAPs
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| − | ** Sean is handling winterizing of the space
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| − | ** Insurance Bill is coming up in June
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| − | *** Need to consider equipment coverage and take inventory
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| − | *** Wiki update-a-thon might help with this effort
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| − | *** Need to label things better
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| − | *** Mackenzie is slated to inventory the tools
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| − | * Unsafe Working Conditions
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| − | ** Nothing major noted
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| − | ** Need more lighting under couches in main room | |
| − | ** Need to figure out ballast health | |
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| | === New Business === | | === New Business === |
| − | * Grants
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| − | ** give502
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| − | *** Daniel applied for $25000 grant for shopbot, makership, and education opportunities
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| − | *** Also working with SBA on a $50000 grant
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| − | *** Info available on director's google drive for reusing for grants
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| − | *** Eventbrite has stats on attendance and post workshop surveys
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| − | *** Danielle is going to work on making a generic feedback form
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| − | ** Tiny House
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| − | *** Building House on site
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| − | **** "Permanent" parking space
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| − | *** Registration
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| − | **** Utility trailers are not registerable in KY until you take it out of state
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| − | *** Liability
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| − | **** Sean says person's car insurance covers towing the trailer
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| − | **** What about liability for children?
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| − | **** Rider from Jesse on insuring the project
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| − | **** What about people going through house? Need to check liability of this at events
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| − | **** $50000 on low end of requesting
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| − | *** Gheens likes LVL1's mission
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| − | ** Kroger's Giving
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| − | *** Sean has everything filled out for this program
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| − | *** LVL1 apply once. Get people to go to Kroger website to register their giving
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| − | ** Amazon Smile
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| − | *** BUY THINGS FROM HERE
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| − | ** Eligible for Community Foundation for Louisville this year
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| − | *** Check for August rollout
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| − | *** Capacity building grant
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| − | *** LVL1 was the source for the most number of unique donors for their program
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| − | ** Day of Giving in October
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| − | * Vehicle Purchase?
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| − | ** Insurance liability is too prohibitive
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| − | * Selling equipment
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| − | ** Sell at fair market value; offer to members then public list then to the market
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| − | ** Daniel will be the point man
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| − | ** Need to show that we're disposing the asset for common sense rules
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| − | * Events: Maker Faires
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| − | ** Jared is willing to take on organizing events
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| − | * Signage
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| − | ** Sean has talked to a number of govt offices about painting the flood wall
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| − | ** Might need to track a grant for getting public art that is a sign for LVL1
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| − | ** Art can be covered up if/when LVL1 moves
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| − | * Birthday Party on July 8th; 5 years old!
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| − | ** Needs to happen the weekend after July 4th
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| − | ** Might need to solicit a food truck
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| − | ** Conmen will begrudgingly organize this event (aka surprise Jared)
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