Rules and Consequences

Proposed Rules and Consequences

Proposed Bylaw change

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

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14. Operation Guidelines

14.1 Rules

• The rules must be posted publicly in physical form and maintained on the wiki Rules_and_Consequences
• The Officers and Directors 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 via the member mailing list for examination for a minimum of 7 days, and, if no unresolved objections, can be instituted without a vote of the membership.
• If three full members object to a rule already in effect within 7 days the officers and directors must submit the objection to the members mailing list for a simple majority vote of the membership at the next weekly meeting so far as the next meeting is greater than 3 days away.
  • Proxy votes are accepted if they are received by the secretary before meeting start.
• Consequences can be assigned to the infracting person or persons by majority vote of the Officers and Directors
  • if 3 or more full members call for a review of an incident the issue will be presented to the membership by the members mailing list by a member of the Officers and Directors within 24 hours for a simple majority vote via the members mailing list to be concluded at the end of 24 hours.

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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
   • Ask before touching another person or entering their personal space. Interpret the absence of a clear “Yes” as a “No” and abide by it.
   • When community members and guests express a limit to the amount and type of socializing they wish to engage in, abide by that limit.
   • You are encouraged to express any socializing limits you may have.
   • When you question whether a joke, question, statement, or other communication would be considered inappropriate, do not proceed to communicate.
   • 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 regular meeting with 7 day notice.
7. No storing of projects, materials or trash in public work areas.
   • Woodshop
   • Classroom
   • Metal Shop
   • Main room
   • Walkways
   • Boneyard
   • In front of Electrical Panels, Thermostats, light switches
8. Member personal shelf must be clearly marked with their name.
   • This shelf may not be a pallet rack shelf
   • Space limited to 63L bin(hope that this doesn't need to be define to a single bin but hey people are greedy jerks)
9. Limit all projects stored at lvl1 to 30 days unless it fits on your personal member storage shelf.
   • This includes group projects
   • This limit can be extended by simple member majority vote at a regular meeting with 7 day notice.
   • 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)
       • 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.

• Private notification of grievance
• public shaming
• Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 24 hours
• Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 7 Days
• Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 30 Days
• Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for 1 Year
• Loose Ability to store Projects or use member storage for Permanently
• Loose Tool or area access for 24 hours
• Loose tool or area access for 7 days
• Loose tool or area access for 30 days
• Loose tool or area access for 1 year
• Loose tool or area access permanently
• Loose Membership access for 24 hours
• Loose Membership access for 7 Days
• Loose Membership access for 30 Days
• Loose Membership access for 1 year
• Loose Membership access Permanently
• Loose Total access for 24 hours
• Loose Total access for 7 Days
• Loose Total access for 30 days
• Loose Total access for 1 year
• Loose Total access for Permanently