EMSBoDMeetingMinutes050224

Eugene Maker Space Board of Directors meeting May 2nd, 2024

Note: This is a draft of the minutes until accepted at the next BoD meeting

Call to order

7:13PM

Attending: Karen, Ben, Beata, Sam, Andrew Also present:

Approve this agenda

Motion: Ben moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the agenda as presented.

The motion was seconded by Karen.

Motion passes, the vote was Unanimous.

Approve previous minutes

Motion: Karen moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the minutes from the April BoD meeting as submitted.

The motion was seconded by Andrew.

Motion passes, the vote was Unanimous.

Reports

President's report

Nothing to report.

Secretary's report

Nothing to report.

Shop status

Sam reports that the benches have become and stayed messy for the last couple weeks. There is a mismatch of chargers and devices. He has rewired the dust collector for 220 because it draws too much at 110. We will need to adapt a high voltage plug.

The metalworking space is slightly cleaner than it was last month because of things that have been removed, but we still do not have a functional welder. The effort to create a replacement forge has not moved forward as far as we know.

CNC Alley is still being used more for storage than anything else and access to some tools back there is limited.

The Pick-A-Part has become more cluttered.

The Clean Room is in pretty good shape. He advocates that we label the containers of liquids used for cleaning there.

Dakota asked about a shop sink. Ben has a sink that might be usable. We will review the available hardware and space.

The ShopBot needs a home. The bandsaw blades have gotten dull and one of the tires got torn up. Sam ordered blades, Ken will fix the tire. We have some scanners to take to NextStep for recycling. There's a chop saw by the bandsaw that needs to be set up.

Sam requested labels, Andrew said we have some and he will provide guidance when he can.

Old Business/Action Item Review

Ben will implement 24x7 access plan as discussed by the board

Done.

Piotr to coordinate with Andrew on Paperless-NG instance

In progress.

New Business

Member suspension

A member was found in violation of several rules and their membership was suspended for six months with the ability for them to re-apply in six months (no sooner than November 1st, 2024). The member was given at least two warnings before this action was taken. The board vote to suspend their membership was unanimous.

Implementing new membership rates

Piotr will add new tiers and hide the old ones

Done.

Updating web page

Done.

Review upcoming events

We have Public Access nights scheduled through the end of June.

We will be planning a cleaning event in about a month, details to be defined.

Adjournment

Motion: Karen moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors adjourn.

The motion was seconded by Beatt.

Motion passes, the vote was unanimous.

The meeting was adjourned at 08:02PM.