- Open: 11:10
- Present: AntonL SKoTM MitchK ChrisHall DaveFaletti DavidO'Meara JennaD BrettD WarrenC ChrisBashall JamesStewart TimGilchrist JasonMuirhead ShayTelfer Jean-MichelMaujean(NM featured artist, next 3 months) NickBannon MatteoVinci BrendanRagan KittyByrne
- 1. Attendance and Apologies, Proxies received
- No apologies, proxies received
- 2. Presentation and Approval of the Annual report of the Management Committee
- Chair's report:
- To be scanned from typewriter!
- Special recognition:
- JasonM
- SkotM vs Vogonic city council
- DanielH: Wrangling Lotterywest grant and favourite toy
- David O'M: Promotional endeavours & outreach to Enkel.co in Freo, first point of call for new members walking into the space during the day
- MitchK: Taking on Laser Monday
- Timbo: Continual support of committee members, following up new members
- WarrenC: Chasing up attractive position in Midland
- Sure there's missed people, but thank you!
- Motion to be moved: That the meeting accept the 2014 Annual Report of the Management Committee
- 3. Presentation and Approval of Financial reports
- Thank you to the GSPA!
- $6872.19 in account, much is the Artifactory minus a few hundred dollars in final GSPA expenses
- Ready to pay September 2014's rent
- Robotics event coming up this month, lump sum coming in
- Treasury numbers since 20140101 (not since last AGM)
- Net Profits for August and the Calendar Year To Date are actually losses of $5,454.50 and $7,119.85
- Net loss: start Jan-end Aug $7148.30: now behind in rent
- August2014 net loss: $706
- The loss for the year to date has been managed through going from being ahead on major payments (rent and power) to being behind
- there _is_ a path forward, we have had good event proceeds lately
- Been holding GSPA ticket money
| TidyClub.com Income & Expenses Report | August 2014 | Total, 01 January 2014 to 31 August 2014 |
|---|---|---|
| Income - SubTotal | $10,192.70 | $47,922.39 |
| Income - Membership | $3,035.50 | $24,864.63 |
| Income - Cash Deposit | $860.50 | $4,801.60 |
| Income - Bond | $203.41 | $850.23 |
| Income - Merchandise | $0.00 | $85.00 |
| Income - Tickets | $6,088.64 | $16,131.73 |
| Income - Equipment | $0.00 | $924.55 |
| Income - Misc | $0.00 | $120.00 |
| Income - T-Shirts | $144.65 | $144.65 |
| Expenses - SubTotal | $4,738.20 | $40,802.54 |
| Expenses - Rent | $4,449.38 | $30,642.26 |
| Expenses - Internet | $79.00 | $632.00 |
| Expenses - Waste | $209.82 | $1,499.79 |
| Expenses - Electricity | $0.00 | $4,591.10 |
| Expenses - Membership | $0.00 | $210.00 |
| Expenses - Insurance | $0.00 | $1,417.29 |
| Expenses - Welding Classes | $0.00 | $1,810.10 |
| Net Profit | $5,454.50 | $7,119.85 |
- Motion to be moved: That the meeting accept the 2014 Financial Report
- Moved: SKoT, second: ChrisHall
- All for? Against: 0; Unanimous!
- 4. Presentation and Approval of the membership fees and schedules
- Motion to be moved: That the meeting accept the current membership fees and schedules
- $1350 for September AudioVault
- 2 metre square for pallet racking
- 32-37 full members (some in arrears), 4 concession
- Move to $75? $80?
- Day memberships: to disscuss in committee
- Studio/Comissioned work/Artist level membership $150/month
- BD precendent when he was doing large commissioned work
- Sponsored membership $100/month with materials
- Student groups?
- Can add a premium membership? $100?
- No usage fees
- No commercial quantity/mass manufacturing purposes?
- Concern: person hogging resources: could be fixed better by user pays
- JD: We are in a hackerspace: We need to be social and share
- “Resource membership” better name?
- In principle general approval
- Separate single month item in tidyclub; “space allowance” item
- Base membership increase
- NB: Move to $80/month; ChrisHall seconds
- BRagan: Leary of raising it above CPI
- Increased CPI+Electricity use
- Tidyclub fees: $1.80+50c
- For: 3
- Against: 14
- Motion: Full to $75; SkotM: $75, Second: BrendanR
- For: Unanimous
- Motion: concession to $45:; move: NB second: ShayT
- For: Unanimous
- Motion: Recommend: That the incoming committee shall consider and implement the “space allowance” item; move: SKoT second: Timbo
- For: Unanimous
- 5. Election of a new management committee.
- Nominate: MitchK: SM; second Timbo
- Nominate: SM, NB, MK, DO'M, JD, BD, WC, JamesStewart, TG, JM
- < maximum of 10 members; no need for formal voting
- Any objections? None!
- Done!
- 6. Other business.
- JasonM, WC: Cornwell House Community Workshops
- Couple of years away
- Artifactory to join them as a member, we will have a vote
- Motion: Join CHCW as a member: Move: WC; Second: SKoTM
- What obligations are on us?
- We are part of the movement attracting funding for the construction
- WC,JasonM will attend their monthly meetings
- For: n-1
- Abstain: 1
- BR: Thanks to outgoing! Continuing! Yay for another year in the space!
- 7. Close
- 12:02pm