Member Meeting Minutes for Sept 19, 2017
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- HackPGH Member Meeting 9/19/17
- Started @ 7:30
- 17 people showed up
- Started @ 7:30
- Chad: Motion to table the typical meeting agenda and instead discuss the moving/expansion
- James: Seconded
- James: Discussed finances, showed some graphs.
- Currently we can't differentiate between revenue streams. Swithcing to Wild Apricot will fix that.
- Chad: We've been losing (some) money on snacks and/or the laser cutter.
- Going to be adding a log book to the laser cutter.
- Not going to be buying any more snacks/drinks until vending capability is in place.
- @ 7:39
- Chad: Talking about the space next door and membership/dues
- They came to use w/cost of $2k/month, Chad proposed $1500/month, they came back (unofficially) with a sliding scale suggestion between $1.5-2k/month, waiting to hear back.
- Chad talked about project opportunites to help offset rent
@ 7:44 Rob: Talking about the committee and what was discussed
- Revenue needs to be constant in order to expand
- Raising dues to $50 sooner than later would put us on a better footing
- Looking at some different memebership tiers for supporting/sustaining members
- Discussed some of the details of a supporting memebership level, day passes, etc...
Misc People: Talking.
- Chad is going to talk to the Milwaukee space this week to see how they use Wild Apricot
- Some are against tiered membership, talking more about a patron type arrangment
- Geno/Dave: Talked about schedule load of Artisan's Asylum
- Talked about lowering bar to membership, possibly eliminating volunteer hours and 30 day wait period
Chad: Using whiteboard to discuss revenue streams
- Rent project to space to members
- <misc talking>
- @ 8:54
Chad: Motion to eliminate the 30 day wait period, 10 minutes for discussion
- A few expressed concern about people we don't know having immidiate access
- <misc talking>
- Moved to close discussion @ 9:04
- Move to vote on eliminating wait period @ 9:05
- Motion passes, 15 in favor, 2 abstained
- @ 9:06
Chad: Motion to raise rates to $50/month starting October 1st, 2017 @ 9:06
- Seconded by James
- Discussion on pre-paid memberships. Those who pre-paid at $30 are good for that period.
- Discussoin on discounts, <misc talking>, deferred to board.
- Motion passes
- @ 9:17
Chad: Informal vote on cost for space next door. All comfortable @ $1500/month, most @ $1700/month.
- Steve move to vote on letting board move forward @ $1700/month if possible @ 9:23
- Seconded
- Motion passes
- @ 9:25
Rob: Motion to adjourn.
Notes by Adam Casto