Time and Location:

January 30, 2019 at 7:00PM at 106 Royal Street NE, Leesburg, VA

Consent Agenda

Newly proposed agenda items appear in the consent agenda. Any member present at the meeting may pull an item out of the consent agenda for discussion, at which point it goes under "New Business". If nobody objects to the solutions presented by the consent agenda, everything in the consent agenda passes by consensus. Items that have more than one proposed solution should be moved to the "New Business" section.

Any member may edit this wiki page and place an item on the agenda. However, discussion of agenda items should be done via Slack. The cut-off time for addition to or revision of the consent agenda items is 48 hours prior to the meeting. Please note, agenda items (Consent, New, or Old) that request spending $250 or more must include a section on "Relevance to our tax exempt purpose".

CA1 Discontinuing Meetup Subscription (John Dubelko)

Problem: Meetup is one of three electronic scheduling platforms that Makersmiths uses to post events and classes. The scheduling committee has been struggling to keep all three synced. Eliminating  one of the platforms would significantly save the committee time and effort. Meetup is the committee's choice to be dropped since is does not have several of the features like discount pricing that the organization is using with the other platforms.  A vote at the Dec membership meeting was favorable in dropping our subscription and supporting only two platforms for scheduling.  Those remaining platforms would be  Makermsith.org and Facebook. 

Solution: Discontinuing Meetup would reduce the committees work load and would save $15 a month in fees.

Relevance to our tax exempt status: none

Motion:  Discontinue the Makersmiths Meetup subscription.

CA2 Request for Temporary Storage for Two Different Week Long Art Camps (Jessee Maloney)

Problem: Memebers are not allowed to store projects or supplies for an extended amount of time. I would like to offer two art based summer camps over the summer to bring in a new crowd of families. One is a dollhouse camp in July and the second one is a paper mache camp in August. Both require 8-10 large projects to be stored for 4 days each (monday afternoon thru thursday night). 

Solution: Give me temporary permission to store these items in either the classroom, or another suitable room during the week of each camp.

Relevance to our tax exempt status: none

Motion: Give Jessee temporary permission to store student projects during the week of each class, and no longer.

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Prior minutes

2018-11-29 Meeting of the Board of the Directors - Agenda/Minutes

Officer Reports:

Secretary

Treasurer

Financial Statement

Member Reports:

  None

Committee Reports:

New Member Orientation Committee (Chairperson John Dubelko):  None

Membership Committee (Chairperson Mark R Millsap):  None

Social Outreach Committee:  (Chairperson Jessee Maloney):  None

Leesburg Facility Committee (Chairperson Brad Hess):  None

Purcellville Facility Committee (Chairperson Tom Hill):  None

Scheduling Committee (Chairperson John Dubelko):  None

Special Projects Committee (Chairperson Mike Werling):  None

Signage Committee (Chairperson Mark R Millsap):  None

Old Business:

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None

New Business:

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CA1 Discontinuing Meetup Subscription (John Dubelko)

Problem: Meetup is one of three electronic scheduling platforms that Makersmiths uses to post events and classes. The scheduling committee has been struggling to keep all three synced. Eliminating  one of the platforms would significantly save the committee time and effort. Meetup is the committee's choice to be dropped since is does not have several of the features like discount pricing that the organization is using with the other platforms.  A vote at the Dec membership meeting was favorable in dropping our subscription and supporting only two platforms for scheduling.  Those remaining platforms would be  Makermsith.org and Facebook. 

Solution: Discontinuing Meetup would reduce the committees work load and would save $15 a month in fees.

Relevance to our tax exempt status: none

Motion:  Discontinue the Makersmiths Meetup subscription.Proposed Motion:

Adjournment

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