2018-03-21 meeting minutes
From Bloominglabs
2018-03-21 Blabs meeting agenda / minutes
Agenda:
- Treasurers report presented - prepared by Heath
- Workshop planning for spring and summer
- The new parking ticket stickers provided by Adam
- Pete provided dust collection system maps for people to submit their preferred layout
Hidden agenda: Post meeting activities organized after 7pm:
- Secure member storage area setup with shelves
- Air compressor moved to final location in wood shop
- Upper deck of storage unit cleared of all Blabs stuff
- Good progress in moving smaller stuff back into space
- Discarded some junk which made the move.
- Car lift stood up in final location
Treasurers report - all for prior month
| Expenses (monthly) | |
|---|---|
| Rent | $1360.75 |
| Electricity | $255 |
| Dumpster | $38.72 |
| Internet | $69.95 |
| Gas | (won't pay till insulation installed) |
| Total monthly | $1724.42 |
Discussion occurred about the high electric bill, no determination was found for this. (Note after the fact: the April electric bill was only about $180, still about $60 higher than the S. Rogers location for bare minimum usage of the space.)
| Income | |
|---|---|
| Member Dues | $1520 |
| Outstanding dues | $1760 |
| Current Bank funds | |
|---|---|
| Checking | $5987.04 |
| Savings | $2377.79 |
| Buildout Funds Report | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting balance including GoFundMe | $3824.67 | |
| Spent: | -107.16 | |
| -55.87 | ||
| -9.83 | ||
| -341.29 | ||
| -82.31 | ||
| -358.66 | ||
| -141 | ||
| -582 Paint purchase | ||
| -1150 Furniture (Pinnacle) | ||
| Total remaining as of today | $996.55 | |
It's important to note that the electrical buildout in the metal fab area is going to cost quite a bit yet to finish.
Workshop discussion notes:
- Blender 3D Modelling and Animation - $150 - April Alex - Tuesdays 7-9pm
- 9 weeks, 2 hours per week
- Needle Felting - $15 - April 7th - Dan & frieind - 2 hours
- Soldering - $15-20 - April 20th - Gavin & Nathan - 2 hours x2
- 2nd date - July 30th Monday
- Laser Cutter - $40 per person + $25 materials = $65
- April 21 and 28, 2018 - Dan - 4 hours x2
- Machining - Nathan / April days
- Retr0bright Day - $TBD May 5th /
- Welding Day - Nathan, Adam, Neal - June 23rd, Sat
- / Adam unavail June 8-10th
- Arduino - $30
- Steve and Jenett - April 21st / Saturday / 3-4 hours / Dates changed after the meeting
- MicroPython & microcontrollers — $TBD - Vic - July / 2wks / 3-4 hours / Tuesday evenings
- July 10th & 17th
- Rain Barrel/Planters - Heath - April, TBD
TBD workshops and other notes: ones which did not yet have solid dates lined up.
- Neopixel/IoT or Addressable RGB LED - anytime after Arduino, followup in May - TBD
- Dan would like to help with a workshop on this
- Oscilloscope workshop - Gavin - Later, maby August - TBD
- Video Editing - Jason - Summer - TBD
- Powerpoint Roulette - Jason - TBD
- Amateur Radio - Gavin / Shelved until antennas back up, TBD
- Full Stack class / Joey / July - TBD
- Encryption class like we tried last year and failed - Jimmy/Steve/Nathan
- August Laser workshop - Dan - TBD
- Pete - wanted 4 workshop slots held for auction at Girls Inc
