Meeting 2024-08-28

Consensus Agenda

• Install Space Cameras with local storage and access.
  • Motion passes 5-3

New Business

Sponsored Members Induction

For each prospective member, please confirm no later than Thursday before the meeting:

• Has the member visited 3 times at the regular Tuesday and Thursday open nights?
• Has the member received the briefing? When, and who was the briefer?
• Has the member's bio and photo been circulated on the members list? (not just Discord)

Member Reports

Board Reports

President's Report

• No report.

Treasurer's Report

• Net Income is a bit lower because of the T-shirt purchase, but despite the fact we haven't sold all of them yet, the cost from that has been just about made up for.

July Totals:

• Number of Active Members: 48
• Operating Expenses: 4,171.56
• Rent: 3,120.99
• Utilities: 425.39
• Other: 625.18
• Total Income: 5,058.40
• Income from dues: 4,035.00
• Income from donations: 1,023.40
• Net Income: 736.16

Secretary's Report

• Apologies for a delay in posting July's member meeting minutes

Directors-at-Large's Report

• No report.

Member and Project Reports

• Cat: planning on making a
• citybadger: volunteer opportunity to sort fabric scraps at fab-scrap in Brooklyn
• citybadger: the water lead test has been sent out this morning, results are due in a week or less
• Clyde: Long Island Retro Game Expo was a success and a ton of fun! Shotouts to Nick, former member Devin, and open-house regular Matthew. Six consoles were sold! Met with some members of the TASBot team and the guy who does NESMaker. The GameTank swag store is no more, and has been replaced by the GameTank store. New revisions of the controller and flasher are underway
• Shway: Shway is building an outhouse for the Makerfaire outhouse race
• Nick: Nick asks for an update on the Coney Island Makerfaire sponsorship situation. We've asked for legal opinions on the proposed contract and it appears to place too much liability with HackManhattan. A revised contract would be required to make sponsorship acceptable
• citybadger: Asking if there's been any progress on repairing the AC (there hasn't been). If you know anyone who can do HVAC, please get them in touch with us!
• citybadger: citybadger brings up the mice situation. Hannah has gotten traps and such. We should clean up the kitchenette area
• Mihir: Mihir asks for interest in a trivia night. People are interested

Meeting Meta

• Members in Attendance: Ellen, Clyde, citybadger, Robin, Cat, Mihir, Shway, Hannah, Pidge, Amanda, Michelle, Luna, Mars
• Visitors: None
• Called to order at 19:45 by Pidge.
• The meeting was adjourned at 20:29 by Pidge.
• Minutes taken and submitted by Nick.