Board of Directors Meeting 2024-10-20

Board of Directors Meeting 2024-10-20

October 20, 2024  Meeting Minutes [APPROVED]

Xerocraft Board of Directors

Monthly  Meeting

Sunday, October 20, 2024  in person at Xerocraft

Meeting called to order at 1:01pm

In attendance:  Mike Runde, Dusty Reyes, Don Cue, Geoff Shafer,  Lisa Grenier, Ben Winkler,  Bob Foster  Guest: Jeremy Briddle and MJ Watz,

  • Approve meeting minutes from September meeting– unanimous approval
  • President’s Report by Dusty
  • Mike will negotiate KMKR deal to add that the new owner must find a new studio. All equipment and antenna can stay at XC. Also add to the contract a line about “no fault” lease and “zero tolerance” ,  ie, lease can be terminated by XC for any reason. 
  • Treasurer’s Report by Ben
  • Inflows are staying slightly ahead of outflows. Showing a slight profit for the year.
  • Jewelry and Welding classes are the leaders, followed by machine shop.
  • Geoff looked at a Money Market account but it pays less than 2% interest.
  • Talk of raising the single monthly rate (not recurring) tabled until next month.
  • Mike to try to make contact with a UA contact about a club membership.
  • Membership Report by Lisa
  • Lisa is working to bring back the Family Membership next month
  • Lisa is slowing down on bringing on more volunteers.
  • Mike is working on finalizing the Bit Buckets deal. 
  • Secretary Report by Mike
  • Mike has to complete the Annual Report to Corp Commission by Dec.
  • Operations Report by Mike
  • WAMO did a complete cleaning of the courtyard and some personal property of a XC member was hauled away by mistake. No action by XC required.
  • Geoff has bought a metal lathe at auction. This will be moved into the metal shop as time allows. 
  • Programming Report by Geoff
  • Jewelry is adding up to 8 more classes by end of year.
  • Lathe training classes and Urban Homesteading are coming back.
  • All-Souls Procession will pay to use XC space to build their float
  • Metal-casting shop is requesting extra money for a furnace. Consider a possible fundraiser. Tabled until next month.
  • Public Relations Report by Dusty
  • Dusty is sending a weekly email to push XC. Usually on Thursday.
  • Experimenting with different times to see what gets the most response.
  • Fundraising Report by Dusty
  • Amir is helping with Facebook content
  • Don has a new volunteer Camille to help with social media.
  • Mike asked about the new law requiring “one click to unsubscribe”.  Webmaster will look into this to make sure we’re compliant. 
  • New Business
  • New BOD duties –tabled until next month
  • Family Membership – tabled until next month
  • Jeremy will sell Video Capture Cards from different computers that he has harvested from donated computers.
  • Executive Session meeting
  • BOD met in Executive Session regarding current XC member


Next meeting Sunday, Nov 17, 2024, 1pm in person at Xerocraft.

Meeting adjourned 3:12 pm.