Board Meeting Notes 2026-03-17

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Board Meeting Minutes
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Meeting Start:

Attendance

  • Board Members
  • Other Members

Agenda

  • Old Biz
    • IRS/CPA/2024 tax filing penalty
    • Q2-Q4 budget
    • SLA area
    • First 90 days - where do we stand on projects from the first meeting of the year?
      • Board/Genops partnership, Including roof planning - Locke and Jennie
      • Member Management: Aaron-membership meetings and helping with Freshdesk. Thomas - Scholarships.
      • Non-Board officer review
      • Area Host review - Ian
      • Volunteer review - Nick James, Locke, and Thomas
      • Q2-Q4 budget - Locke
      • 2030 balloon payment planning / 5 year financial planning - Ian and Lindsay will talk to banks about this process
      • Treasury
  • New biz
    • Car charging policy
    • 2025 tax filing
    • Trash bill
    • Water bill
    • NMR

Minutes

Items for Member Meeting

Committee / Commission / Team / Volunteer / Other Reports

Are you working on something for PS:1, and want to tell the board how it's going?

Mail

  • water bill
    • nick/jennie/james need to talk about this at some point
  • trash bill
    • thought it was for extra stuff but seems to be normal bill
  • junk mail

Financial Report

  • Chase Checking: $119,788.19
  • Chase Savings: $1,017.10
  • PEX Account Balance: $2,521.70
  • PEX Total Funds: $12,573.14
  • PayPal: $5,503.45
  • Emergency Building Reserve: $60,000
    • note that the emergency building reserve is within the bank accounts, not separate from them
  • Available for Votes: 60,805.29
    • note that as of 1/20/2026, this is calculated as (Checking + Savings) - (emergency building reserve)

Membership Report

  • Number of Members: 767
  • Quorum: 77

Freshdesk

Login link: https://pumpingstationone.freshdesk.com

Minutes

  • Wingate says we're out of paper towels
    • Locke says no we aren't
    • Wingate says we shouldn't be this low
    • There is some fighting about it
    • Wingate suggests a new role for Procurement, which could purchase safety glasses, cups, paper towels, etc.
      • Lindsay offers to come 5 minutes early to each board meeting and take inventory of these consumables
      • Morris says it is a genops problem, but he can't be in here every day - if he is made aware, he will get orders made
        • Whoever sees a low consumable can tag @genops on discord
        • Locke will publish a list of genops consumables, but Morris is fine with getting tagged even if it's an area host problem
  • IRS late filing fee issue
    • Locke reread emails w/ CPA, we are fine to keep waiting, no need to contact CPA and get charged yet
  • Q2-Q4 budget
    • Closing tonight, amendment coming to fix cto/genops typo, no one has any concerns about sky spending budget now
  • 2026 project check in
    • Board/genops - everything going well
    • Many other projects from agenda going well
    • 5 year / balloon payment planning : more meetings needed
      • Board will have unofficial meeting next week at meeting time to talk treasury and 5 year planning
  • SLA printing
    • Daf presents $553 quote for getting SLA printing running
    • Daf suggests ~3 hour, 1:1 auth to get people running on the area
      • Daf to present outline, some board members to chat details
    • Car charging
      • Probably shouldn't be a thing
      • Someone should throw up a sign that says loading zone 15 minutes
      • Morris to put up signage and lock out the receptacle.
      • Thomas to send an email
  • NMR
    • At the last meeting, we discussed the NMR needing to be working, with an auth process and member interest in it
    • Peter says the NMR has always been kept in working order, with service history including uptime on the wiki
    • The auth process is just to contact Peter. He adds additional context that is on the wiki
    • It is owned by Peter, he offers to sign something holding PS1 harmless if we break it.
    • The NMR can tell you if your olive oil is real
  • Tech team
    • Wiki migration starting 4/8, wiki may be down or read-only for hopefully less than one week
  • Locke is working on having small metals new kiln power run within the next 2.5 weeks

Votes