Time and Location:

February 26, 2020 at 7:00PM at 785  S.20th Street, Purcellville, 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".

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Prior minutes

Officer Reports:

Chairman 

Secretary 

Treasurer

Financial Statement

Member Reports:

Committee Reports:

New Member Orientation Committee (Chairperson Jessee Maloney)

Membership Committee (ChairpersonMark R Millsap)

Membership Committee meeting on Wednesday, Feb 12 was poorly attended; only John D. and myself attended.  No new business was conducted.  Well besides some suggestions from John that Tee Shirts be distributed to New Member Orientation attendees at New Member Orientations (which, in theory, is OK idea, but has proven difficult to execute because of logistics).

Next New Member Orientation workshop is scheduled for 2/25 at MS-L.

Current agenda: 

1. Complete cover letter to members to accompany survey form of members skills, abilities, knowledge of maker techniques/technologies, and interests, with the intent of compiling survey results into printed form to facilitate matching new member (or existing member for that matter) interests with existing member skills.  It is our objective to facilitate 'matching' in order to make a sponsor/mentor program viable and effective.  Sponsor / mentor programs have been proven to result in higher percentage of 'sticky' (long term) members.   (Anthony)
2. Distribute a selection of Tee Shirt Sizes to each location so New Member Orientation attendees can try on and order tee shirt from Makersmiths WA 'store'.    Also need photo(s) of tee shirts to accompany store items.  (John and Bryan)
3. Capture Slack metrics and share with membership (John)
4. Create Membership Badges and document process.  (Jen, John and Ed)
5. Export membership database to Excel / Sheets spreadsheet for Committee to review (Mark) done
6. Get 'store' items ready for photos of tee shirts (Mark) done
7. Social Outreach Committee:  (Chairperson Jessee Maloney)

Leesburg Facility Committee (Chairperson Brad Hess)

Purcellville Facility Committee (Chairperson Tom Hill)

Scheduling Committee (Chairperson Diane DeMott Painter)

Special Projects Committee (Chairperson Mike Werling)

Welding Committee (Chairperson Arthur 'Skip' Smith)

Newsletter Committee (Chairperson Erin Werling)

IT Committee (Chairperson Michael James)

Video Committee (Chairperson Adam "Squirrl" McClintock)

Environmental and Safety Committee (Chairperson David Lang)

Custom Frame Shop Committee (Chairperson user-17f4a)

Radio Club Committee (Chairperson David Lang  )

Ceramics Committee: (Chairperson Jen Netsch )

Old Business:

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New Business:

NB1 What are Makersmiths Goals?  And, to follow on, what is the plan to reach those goals? (Mark R Millsap )

Problem:  Diane Painter and Melissa Kowalski proposed to apply for $10,000 Infy Maker Award grant.  They've stopped this and future grant application effort(s) due to a lack of a defined plan for Makersmiths.  So, I ask the Board, what are Makersmiths goals?  And what is the plan for reaching those goals?   Is it the Boards role to formulate goals and plans?  If it is the Boards role to formulate goals and plans, who on the Board will lead in the effort to formulate goals and plans?   If it is not the Boards role to provide leadership in the effort to formulate goals and plans, who will they delegate that task to?  If the Board is satisfied that Makersmiths doesn't need or want goals or plans, does that then result in curtailment of any future grant applications?

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Adjournment

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