Contents

Time and Location: 

Call to Order: 

Approval of Prior Minutes. 

Consent Agenda. 

Officer Reports. 

Committee Reports: 

Unfinished Business. 

New Business. 

Open Discussion. 

Closed Session. 

Adjournment 

Time and Location:

Makersmiths Leesburg Lower Classroom and on-line

7pm ET, Virtual Meeting at https://meet.google.com/cih-ehxi-wbc

Call to Order:

Meeting called to order by Evin Grano at x:xx  pm.

Approval of Prior Minutes

2025-02-25 Meeting of the Board of Directors

Motion by Evin to approve prior meeting minutes

Second: 

Vote:   

Consent Agenda

Any Board Member may make a motion in the Consent Agenda.  The purpose of the Consent Agenda is to propose motions that have been discussed by Board Members in advance and/or are expected to pass without objection.  If the item does not fit this description, it should be proposed in New Business. Discussion of Consent Agenda items should be done via Slack prior to the meeting.  Any Board Member present at the meeting may request that an item be moved from the Consent Agenda to New Business.  The motions in the Consent Agenda (after any items are moved to New Business) may be passed as a group if there are no objections.  Any motion that requests spending $250 or more must include a section on "Relevance to our tax exempt purpose".

CA1: Additional funds for Leesburg Copier

 Issue: Between the proposal, board approval, and attempted order the cost of the copier and toner increased.

Solution: Allocate an additional $150 for purchase of a multi-function copier/printer for Leesburg.

Relevance to Tax Exempt Status: None

Motion: Move to allocate an additional $150 for purchase of a multi-function copier/printer for Leesburg

Consent agenda: 

Officer Reports

Chairperson:

Nothing to Report

President:

Not in attendance

Secretary:

Discussion meeting was held on February 10 on Cost-Sharing and our current method of collection.  8 members were in attendance for at least part of the meeting.  Resultant motion included in this agenda.

Treasurer:

Committee Reports:

Membership Committee (Ken Fuentecilla)

 PDF

Marketing Committee (Vacant)

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Leesburg Facility Committee (John Carter)

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Purcellville Facility Committee (Dave Painter)

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Scheduling Committee (Jennifer Chu)

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IT Report

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Newsletter Committee (Meaghen Flynn - pending)

Newsletter went out March 5^th.

Grant Committee (Jim Waldron)

Christopher Meid is looking into the Loudoun County Grant Training.

Standing Rules Committee (Jonathan White)

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Finance Committee (Mary Waldron)

No Finance Committee meeting was held.  Nick Leshock and the Treasurer worked on updating the Square cost-sharing items and ways to pay through QR codes.

Unfinished Business

 OB1: 

Issue: 

Solution: 

Relevance to Tax Exempt Status: 

Motion: 

Second:

Vote: 

New Business

NB1: Leesburg Wood Shop Dust Collection (Jonathan)

 Issue: Leesburg Wood Shop Dust collection needs improvement.

Solution:

Relevance to Tax Exempt Status: None

Motion: Move to approve $816.20 to upgrade the Leesburg Woodshop Dust Collection with funds to be allocated from the Equipment Reserve budget. Project to be completed by May 31, 2026, with any remaining funds returned to the Equipment Reserve Budget.

Second:

Vote: 

NB2: 3D Shop Expansion (Bo for Bryan)

 Issue:   Additional 3D Printers for our 3D printing spaces in Leesburg and Purcellville.

Solution:

Relevance to Tax Exempt Status: None

Motion: Move to allocate $4,536.00 for the purchase of 2 Bambu Lab H2S w/ AMS Combos and 2 Bambu Lab P2S w/ AMS Combos. Allocate $83.96 for the purchase of 4 0.4 Hotends for machine maintenance. Allocate $190.34 for consumables for a total purchase amount of $4810.30. Funds will be drawn from the Equipment Reserve Fund and will be spent before 04/30/2026 with any unused money returned to the Equipment Reserve Fund.

Second:

Vote: 

NB3: Raspberry Pi Kiln Controller Test (Jim for Glenda)

 Issue:   We currently do not have remote start/stop/monitoring of our ceramic kilns, (or only primitive monitoring by video that does not allow remote control). 

Solution: Bring one of the not operating ceramics kilns (Skutt) into operation.  Use a Raspberry Pi and Kiln software to evaluate this solution for our other kilns.  If this works and is acceptable we will be able to remove start/stop/monitor the kilns.  A control box will be created containing all the electronics.  A keyboard, mouse, and monitor (we expect to find these as donations) will be used to control an almost unlimited number of kiln cycles.  If accepted, this prototype will serve as the sample for construction of additional units for our other kilns.

Relevance to Tax Exempt Status: None

Motion: Allocate $350.00 from the Equipment Reserve Fund to build and test a Raspberry Pi solution as a Kiln Controller.  Funds will be expended by May 30 with any remaining funds returned to the Equipment Reserve Fund.

Second:

Vote: 

Open Discussion

Executive Session

Adjournment

Meeting adjourned by Evan at x:xx

Next Board Meeting will be April 29th.