EMSBoDMeetingMinutes070220

Eugene Maker Space Board of Directors meeting July 2nd, 2020

Note: These minutes have not been approved by the BoD yet, this is a draft

Call to order

XX PM Attending: Ben, Karen, Beata, Piotr Also present:

Approve this agenda

Motion: XX moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the agenda as amended.

The motion was seconded by XX.

Motion passes, the vote was Unanimous.

Approve previous minutes

Motion: XX moved that the Eugene Makerspace Board of Directors approve the minutes from the May BoD meeting as amended.

The motion was seconded by XX.

Motion passes, the vote was unanimous.

Reports

President's report

Nothing to report.

Secretary's report

Nothing to report.

Treasurer's report

Everything is currently paid up. Bank: $1,602.40 PayPal: $48.30 Patreon: $119.82 Total: $1770.52

Karen has $105 in cash an $140 in checks on hand pending deposit.

We're in an ok shape barring insurance because it will be ~$300.

The payments from Broadcom for employee matching haven't been deposited yet.

Shop status

A member reported poor shop conditions last month. Karen went onsite and did some cleaning. Ben got parts of an electric leafblower and figured out a way to use it to blow a bunch most dust out. A regular cycle of vacuuming and blowing may be a sustainable model going forward for values of sustainable. Karen reported that the level of dust in the shop wasn't as bad as she'd expected, she suspects it was in part due to some cleaning done by other members following an egregious possible plexiglass cutting session that left plastic 'snow' in the woodworking area.

Old Business/Action Item Review

Broadcom employee matching deposits

At June meeting, we agreed to revisit the status of this in July.

COVID-19 status review - Open Hack closure status

As of 6/5, Lane County has been approved for Phase 2 re-opening.

Ben suggested we get a box of courtesy masks and hand sanitizer to place by front door and then subsequently re-activate Open Hack as able.

Karen and Piotr suggest

Karen's concern is that we may not be able to assure staffing under the current conditions.

Piotr expressed similar concerns and added that he there was a risk we would be unable to maintain safe spacing especially while the caseload is rising. He also suggested that we define acceptable criteria for hosting Open Hack for other members of the community to host if they wanted because between Ben's health issues and her and Beata's transportation challenges, guaranteed core staffing is difficult to guarantee but there may be some members of the community who are up to the challenge.

We discussed the recent uptick in cases and considered whether pushing to re-open at all was a wise decision.

Beata shared that he feels we should have something and volunteered to staff Tuesday.

With Beata's offer, Piotr suggested we do a test run on Tuesdays for 2 hours under the new COVID-19 aware guidelines to see what happens.

Karen and Ben endorsed the plan.

Karen will schedule bank trip with Piotr, Ben, and Beata

Unable to continue at this time due to COVID-19.

Ben will follow up with Lightburn re: non-profit license for second laser

On-going.

Ben will reach out to the membership to let them know about the laser and to coordinate to give some lessons

On-going.

Adjournment

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

The motion was seconded by xx.

Motion passes, the vote was {{{4}}}.

The meeting was adjourned at XX PM.