Date
Location
1825 Monetary Lane #104, Carrollton, TX 75006
Google Meet
- ID: https://meet.google.com/bdi-itpp-yxm
- Phone Number: (US) +1 617-675-4444, PIN: 625 741 483 4617#
Call to Order
19:04
Attendees
- Julie, James, Justin, Jack, John
- John Arispe
- Kobin
- Max
- Jay
- Joshua
- Doug
- Jason
- Vincent
- Burt
- Anna
- Captain
- +1
Prior Minutes
2023-02-01 Board Emergency Meeting
2023-02-16 Board Emergency Meeting
MOTION: Approve Prior Minutes
- Proposed: Justin Walker
- Seconded: Jack Smith
Vote:
- For: Unanimous
- Opposed: None
- Abstained: None
Financial Statement
Full Annual report was provided by Jason Harner
Excellent discussion and presentation. Great job!
Member Recognition
The BoD recognizes and thanks James Beebe for teaching and helping out in the area.
The BoD recognizes and thanks Liam, a ceramics teacher, who has been doing a great job getting the word out about DMS.
The BoD recognizes and thanks Kevin Thomson, who has been noticed regularly giving tours ad hoc and promoting DMS.
The BoD recognizes and thanks John Arispe for being awesome at DMS.
Old Business
- Age Policy
No Motion was made, this remains tabled.
Consent Agenda
New Business
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Submitted By |
Agenda Item Title |
Problem |
Solution |
Relevance |
Pulled from Consent |
Moved By |
Seconded By |
For |
Against |
Abstain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Smith | Pre-Approve $4K Used Sheet Metal Brake for Metal Shop | Pre-Approve $4K Used Sheet Metal Brake for Metal Shop |
Sheet Metal Brakes are useful and the current Brake is not great. A New Brake is costly, but they can be obtained much cheaper used. The issue is that used items often move faster than the DMS financial approvals.
Metal shop would like to get Pre-Approved to purchase up to $4k of a used Brake. They will then monitor the used market to find and quickly purchase one when found.
Per Metal Shop Meetings:
https://source.dallasmakerspace.org/display/METAL/Metal+Shop+Meeting-2022-11-05
Clarifications:
> Purchase might not be quickly, it will be based on the type of brake, cost, and distance.
> Good point, I'll clarify it's to enable quick DMS financial approval purchase after possibly long/unknown time to find a used machine
|
Better Tools | no |
Justin Walker
|
James Henningson
|
Julie Harris,
John Fabrycki,
James Henningson,
Justin Walker
|
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| Jay Phelps | INFRA Purchase of 3 refurb dell servers for VMWare nodes $5500 +/- 10% | Onsite compute optimization and cleanup is a priority of ourse |
The current onsite systems environment has evolved over many years and is fragmented and badly out of date. To address this we've obtained a 3 node VMWare Essentials license package and now need to obtain 3 servers to apply this to and create a local VSphere environment to consolidate our existing workloads and support new workloads for both internal and class room use cases.
We're targeting 3 used + refurbished Dell R730's with storage and 384GB of ram each. We'll also be purchasing rails and cable management appropriate for these systems. The servers are approximately $1600 each + the accessories and shipping.
We'll purchase and expense these via eBay marketplace.
MOTION: To Approve the purchase of 3 servers as written.
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Ensure continued DMS infrastructure operations for years to come | no |
Justin Walker
|
James Henningson
|
Julie Harris,
James Henningson,
Justin Walker,
John Fabrycki
|
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| Julie Harris | Purchase tools for wood shop | Wood shop needs to replace equipment |
Approve up to $8K to replace saw stop (quote is $7,282) - https://www.sawstop.com/build/industrial-cabinet-saw/?build-skus=industrial-cabinet-saw,ICS73230,52,MB-IND-000,FDC,FOT
Approve up to $5K to replace band saws and purchase 2 Laguna 14 BX band saws (quote is $4,400) - https://lagunatools.com/classic/bandsaws/14bx-bandsaw
Approve the sale of the Powermatic and two band saws to recoup a portion of the money spent.
Meeting notes are here - https://source.dallasmakerspace.org/display/WOOD/2023-01-23
MOTION: To approve the $5k to replace powermatic in order to benefit woodshop safety.
|
Wood shop | no |
Justin Walker
|
John Fabrycki
|
James Henningson,
Julie Harris,
John Fabrycki,
Justin Walker
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| Jay Phelps | Completing HVAC work and obtaining ongoing maintenance | We have 3 INOP units and a need for more aggressive ongoing maintenance beyond filter replacement |
I'm obtaining updated quotes from RDRC on the pending work and some options on maintenance. I envision retaining the current agreement on filter changes though I'd like to obtain more details on that arrangement.
No Motion - nothing to approve on the topic at this time.
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Providing safe and usable work areas | no |
Emergency Business: None
Other Topics
- Infra HVAC discussion
- Ceramics
- Laser Committee
- Election Schedule Posting
- Science / Rocket SIG
- MakerCon
Close:
MOTION: to Close
- Proposed: Justin Walker
- Seconded: Jack Smith
Vote:
- For: Unanimous
- Opposed: none
- Abstained: none
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