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(please submit agenda items to membership president by first day of the month)

 

 

Meetings are held on first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 PM, all are welcome

  1. New Faces / New Member Introductions
    1. Bill
    2. Karen
    3. Jake
    4. Jamile

  2. Approval of last month's meeting minutes - See 12-1-2017 Member Meeting Minutes - No objections

  3. Member Submitted feedback/issues/agenda items
    1. Request by Skip Smith to address the meeting regarding where to put new CNC 5'x9'
    2. Skip presented three options.  Discussion going to take place on CNC / General channels on Slack.  Possibility of using Slack Poll feature to take member sentiment.  Brad said he wasn't going to start ordering parts until members decide. (Boo!)

  4. Membership - Mark M.
    1. 75 members (62 last month)
    2. 65 memberships
    3. 65 active members
    4. 15 new members in last 30 days, 5 new members in last 7 days

  5. Vote on new Full Members
    1. Voted on Jamile - Affimative, no objections
    2. Voted on Sean - Affirmative, no objections
    3. Voted on Jake - Affirmative, no objections
    4. Voted on Karen - Affirmative, no objections (Karen needs to sign up as Associate first . . .)

  6. Treasurer's Report - John D.
    1. ~over 20K in bank account.
    2. $2,500 coming in from Amazon for Maker Challenge
    3. Draft 2018 budget has been developed.  See John if you want a copy.

  7. Membership policy updates - Brad H.
    1. BOD has approved, now on wiki; Goes into effect January 1st, 2017
      1. New Bylaws
      2. New Standing Rules
        1. See text on membership levels; full, associate, starving, complementary
          1. Complementary members must apply, and reapply every three months

  8. Community Help Requests
    1. Caitlin Williams - Help with Independent Science Research Project - Hand Hygiene in Hospitals - Kevin D., Project is due end of January.
    2. Powder Puff Durby car cut-outs - Tuesday, January 9th and Wednesday, January 17th and one other day.  Lots of help needed!
    3. ARC help with gavels

  9. First Friday
    1. Successful December on December 1st - Thank you to Christa, Diane, Squirrl, John & Bev
    2. No First Friday in January
    3. Jen asked if we want to participate in Family Fun Days - Saturdays - discussion to migrate to Slack 'special events' channel

  10. Special Events
    1. Maker Faire - Todd has early application, working on, about four months away . . . be thinking of what to do
    2. Leesburg Flower and Garden Show - Mark / Mike W. - 10x10 booth, no selling, but can distribute flyers, etc., and direct folks to Makersmiths, photo booth, cow car, project examples like flower boxes, etc.

  11. Social Outreach Committee - Jessee
    1. Getting results from social outreach efforts
    2. Request for more pictures or short videos
    3. We took one big group photo for posterity!

  12. Makersmiths-Purcellville Status Report - Tom H. / Mike F. / Dave Painter

  13. Makersmiths Leesburg Status Report - Brad / Squirrl

  14. Board of Directors Report - Brad
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