O&D Meeting 04/19/2022

Lawsuit Update

LVL1 was served with a summons to appear in small claims court on May 11, 2022 at 1:00pm. The claim was filed against us by Kenneth Butler. He claims LVL1 did not allow him sufficient time or access to the space to remove his personal property. He also claims ownership of a drink vending machine donated to us by FirstBuild. (See March O&D minutes for our letter to him requesting he remove his property and how to do so.)

Butler arranged to come to the space April 15, the last day of the period we allowed him, to retrieve his items. He was met at the space removed a snack vending machine only leaving several other items. He did not remove refuse he emptied from his vending machine, or gunk that has oozed from the machine and solidified on the floor. He was not allowed to remove the FirstBuild-donated machine.

Board members are working on various tasks to prepare for court including collecting documentation, and obtaining estimates on refuse removal, spill cleanup, and replacing the bill changer and controller on the FirstBuild-donated vending machine (Butler changed out these components). We are following the advice of an attorney Raj consulted two years ago when issues with Butler first arose.

Sean: what will we consider winning? Board: complete severing of our relationship with Butler, recognizing that winning in small claims court may or many not achieve that result.

Raj, Andy and Tiffany will represent LVL1 in court.

Financials

• Financially healthy
• 77 members
• 1 makership awarded last month, 2 more apps coming up for review

Tiffany suggested we should look at spending some marketing /advertising budget money on stickers, pens, badges, . . . Bill is lasercutting personalized VL1 keychains.

Sean asked if we have a more efficient way to count current members for FAPs and such? Not yet. Tiffany and Daniel will explore Pike13 alternatives in May.

March Snapshot

INCOME
Dues - Pike13	$3,250.81
Dues - PayPal	350.00
Total	$3,366.81
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Space Improvements

• Andy will reach out to Patrick about his large member storage plan since it just passed.
• The boneyard clean out is complete.
• There is a month-long open dialogue that will take place on the member's list for the reconfiguration of the boneyard. Post your ideas for viable uses. At the end of that period, we will compile suggestions, determine the next use for the boneyard space, and put an action plan in place to make it happen.
• Opening Floor and Forming the committee

New Business

• Shopbot parts and furnace filters came in and installed
• Quickbook update – our version will soon be non-supported. Andy and Tiffany will upgrade to latest version. Approx. $40.
• Amy's Tea Party happened
• Membership sign-ups -our member count is up to 77.

Roundtable

• Andy – would like to do a mini-hackathon to get members back engaged with the space. Asks us to think about it.
• Tim – started discussion about doing a real hackathon soon. Possibly Useless Thing or Pandemic hackathon. Tim will talk to Patrick and Charles about firming up a topic and date.
• Michael – looking for better ewaste resource. Andy: great, that but should be a one-off effort – we need to get out of having to deal with ewaste and ‘donations’ at all.