Date

 

Location

1825 Monetary Lane #104, Carrollton, TX 75006

Google Meet


Attendance 

Board:

Present:

Absent:


Other:       

    • others

Call to Order 

7:02 James Henningson 

Prior Minutes

2025-02-19 Board Meeting Minutes [Approved]

2025-03-05 Board Meeting (Special) Minutes [Approved]

2025-03-13 Board Meeting (Special) Minutes [Approved]

MOTION: Approve Prior Minutes

Vote:


Member Recognition

IT

  • Johanna Posey  for her work with NinjaOne
  • Bruce for his work with Elastic Search
  • Brian for his work on WHMCS test and upgrade
  • Austin for his work on networking and VMWare
  • Brenon for his work on networking items
  • Thomas for his work on workstations
  • Constance Burns  for her work upgrading Moodle
  • Mandar Limaye for his development work and ongoing support efforts
  • Mandar for his efforts on voting
  • Jay Phelps

Recurring Items


Financial Statement



Income
Expense
Net


Discuss Finance related items.  See below

Month: February

Revenue: 88K

Expenses: (113K)

Net Income: (25K)

Reconciling items/Timing Related Items/Unusual Items:

Major Items:

Double paid rent this month



New Membership - Add/Drop, Tours, New Membership Class, Other

Targets are WHMCS-based

Target WHMCS count is ____________

As of 3/19/25 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 2095

As of 2/19/25 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 2091

As of 1/22/25 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 2,044

As of 12/11/24 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 2,000

As of 11/13/24 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 1991

As of 10/16/24 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 1971

As of 9/18/24 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 1957

As of 8/21/24 @ 5:00 PM, membership count is at 1942


Tours:

Turnout

Tour Guides

James Henningson 

Still  having good turnout

Always looking for more tour guides


New Member Class:

Max Locke 

Still looking to identify additional hosts


Rate Increase Update:

Jason Harner 

Have some just a few cancelations mentioning rates.  Test will be when increase starts hitting the credit cards

Elections Update

Max Locke 

Buildout Status

James Henningson  - Buildout - Phase I Status

UPDATE:

General Phase I

Automotive

Digital Media

Woodshop - Lathe Room

General Phase II


MOTION: <required motions, if any> 

<insert reference to motions, if required>

VOTE:

Committee Review/Business


<insert committee table here>

Table not completed this month - Max Locke 


Any Committee actions required?


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MOTION: Motion to confirm the following Committee Chairs:

Joel Loukus - Digital Media

<insert other>


  • Proposed:  
  • Seconded: 

Vote:

  • For: 
  • Opposed: none
  • Abstained: none

Board directs the CTO to execute the Chair Transition Checklist for these Chairs, as needed


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MOTION: Motion for the following Committee business or any committee updates

  • None

New Business

Submitted By

Agenda Item Title

Problem

Solution

Relevance

Pulled from Consent

Moved By

Seconded By

For

Against

Abstain

Max Locke Marketing Technology DMS need a marketing technology to better communicate with its current and past members Motion to approve the selection, by Marketing, PR, and Social Media, of a marketing technology for use at DMS that would result in yearly fees not to exceed $1,000 - ensuring the technology vendor can not sell or otherwise use DMS email address and has an opt-out process.
Member communication and satisfaction no James Henningson James Henningson Thomas Fagan Thomas Fagan James Henningson James Henningson, Thomas Fagan Thomas Fagan, Julie Harris Julie Harris



Emergency Business


MOTION: Appoint Megan Murray to fill open position on the Board until the end of the term

Vote:



Closed Session or Meeting Close


MOTION: To move to closed session to discuss legal and disciplinary items.

Vote:


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