Rules and Consequences

Proposed Rules and Consequences

These are currently only proposed rules and consequences these will need to be activated by a bylaw change.

Proposed Bylaw change

The board may set uncontroversial rules in order to protect equipment, maintain the lease, and protect the existence of LVL1. These rules must be submitted to the membership for examination for a minimum of 7 days, and, if no unresolved objections, can be instituted without a vote of the membership. The rules must be posted publicly in physical form to be in affect. If three full members object to a rule already in effect, it must be submitted and announced by mailing list to the membership for a vote at the next weekly meeting.

Rules

1. Be excellent to each other
2. No illegal activity as laid out by local and federal laws
3. When you make a mess it is your responsibility to clean it up, including taking out the trash.
4. No Harassment as laid out by the harassment guidelines, local and federal laws Bylaws#Harassment_Policy
   1. Ask before touching another person or entering their personal space. Interpret the absence of a clear “Yes” as a “No” and abide by it.
   2. When community members and guests express a limit to the amount and type of socializing they wish to engage in, abide by that limit.
   3. You are encouraged to express any socializing limits you may have.
   4. When you question whether a joke, question, statement, or other communication would be considered inappropriate, do not proceed to communicate.
   5. When you are asked to stop any harassing behavior, comply immediately.
5. During normal business hours we need to be careful about noise and especially careful about fumes/odors. If a neighbor complains about either of these issues the activity causing the complaint must be ceased immediately. Loud and dirty projects should be confined to the Bunker area.
6. All tool "improvements" that are not immediate repairs to bring equipment back to normal operation must be approved by the board of directors or superseded by membership by simple majority vote at a regularly meeting with 7 day notice.
7. No storing of projects, materials or trash in public work areas.
   1. Woodshop
   2. Classroom
   3. Metal Shop
   4. Main room
   5. Walkways
   6. Boneyard
   7. In front of Electrical Panels, Thermostats, light switches
8. Member personal shelf must be clearly marked with their name.
   1. This shelf may not be a pallet rack shelf
9. Limit all projects stored at lvl1 to 30 days unless it fits on your personal member storage shelf.
   1. This includes group projects
   2. This limit can be extended by simple member majority vote at a regular meeting with 7 day notice.
   3. After 30 days all abandoned projects can be thrown in the trash.
10. ALL Stored Projects not on members personal shelf must be tagged must include
    1. Owner or responsible party Name
    2. Contact Number and Email address
    3. Start Date (not date last worked on)
       1. Extended storage date expiration if appropriate
11. No purposeful abuse of the Equipment or hackerspace facilities
12. No purposefully going against a consequence assigned to you.

Consequences

Without Consequences Rules are useless

These are not in order of how they should be implemented, each grievance should be looked at on its own severity.

1. Private notification of grievance
2. public shaming
3. Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 24 hours
4. Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 7 Days
5. Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 30 Days
6. Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 1 Year
7. Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for Permanently
8. Loose Tool or area access for 24 hours
9. Loose tool or area access for 7 days
10. Loose tool or area access for 30 days
11. Loose tool or area access for 1 year
12. Loose tool or area access permanently
13. Loose Membership access for 24 hours
14. Loose Membership access for 7 Days
15. Loose Membership access for 30 Days
16. Loose Membership access for 1 year
17. Loose Membership access Permanently
18. Loose Total access for 24 hours
19. Loose Total access for 7 Days
20. Loose Total access for 30 days
21. Loose Total access for 1 year
22. Loose Total access for Permanently