September 2025



Overview

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Meeting ID: 750 660 4772

Current Board Members

Wax, David, Aye, Lotus, Hatter, Whatever, Tovia, Hazmat, JaydeRaven

Board Members Attending

Whatever, Hatter, Lotus, Hazmat, JaydeRaven, Disciple Dave, Tovia, Wax

Upcoming Board Meetings

  • Constellation Safety Meeting?
  • Sunday October19th, 2025 @ 8pm

Meeting Agenda

Review Prior Meeting Minutes

  •  August 2025 
  • Motion to accept minutes: Whatever, Hatter
  • Unanimous approval

Proposals

  •  No Confidence proposal  to complete work and vote in September
  • Hatter: rewording looks great!
  • Motion to accept policy: Tovia/Dave
  • Unanimous approval
  •  Board Meeting Notes Review Procedure  
  • Vote postponed till October
  • Event procurement proposal still in process
  • Wax has reached out to folks, no replies yet
  • Generative AI proposal - tabling until post-Constellation
  • Culturally there seems to be a shift happening e.g. AI slop, "clankers"
  • Want to engage with the community first

New Business

  • Tovia: Still no quote for insurance for Constellation.
  • Will follow up with Shawn this week and hope to get movement before leaving town
  • Requested the same $2mil policy we did for PDF 2025
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Old Business

  • Callbox replacement
  • Rebuild nearly complete - final wiring and testing
  • Annual reports
  •  2023 Annual Report 
  • Just need P&L fix from Whatever, then ready to publish
  •  2024 Annual Report 
  • Schedule work session - 1 hour, let's work on it together!
  •  2025 Annual Report 
  • Initial draft document created

Events

MALC

  • Closed for 2025

Playa Del Fuego

  • Closed for 2025

Constellation

  • Inventory Trip notes:
  • Kitchen - being discontinued as a department. Kept griddle, toaster, egg boiler, hot water heater, 3 coffee urns, 4 large new thermos, emotional support cooler, and some utensils. Everything else was taken to be donated.
  • Attendees this weekend included: Fusion, Laura (who was just stunned and incredibly grateful for the help), Plum, Blackwater, Solomon, Beardo, and Goat.
  • Massively great for team building. Definitely need to hype and build up more community/coordinator involvement next CB.
  • Both pods sorted, re-inventoried, and neatened up - some stuff was put away wet and some of that didn't survive.
  • Lost one pop-up due to a surprise wind gust while working. Almost lost two, but Blackwater and Solomon were able to cannibalize one of the damaged ones to fix the other. Still need to replace one of them.
  • Laura will finalize updated inventory and share.
  • Vendors/Procurement
  • No need to utilize UTVs as carts, we secured carts for shuttle and general coordinator use
  • Still renting two for Safety/DPW use, shouldn't need new controls for managing keys
  • United has confirmed light tower and water trailer
  • Wristbands are ordered, waiting for final approval from Arnett art department
  • Renting a heater & 100 gallon propane tank for Ranger HQ
  • Heater through United Rentals
  • Propane vendor separate: Bedford Valley Petroleum & Propane
  • U-Haul trailer should be all set, rental place said it should be no issue
  • Hatter to pick up, requires a 2" trailer
  • Ice order going in tomorrow
  • CHORE: Whatever to double check on POD shipping
  • Insurance
  • See above in New Business
  • BEGIN Executive Session
  • END Executive Session
  • CHORE: Hatter taking point on scheduling Coverage
  • Have the land Monday to Tuesday
  • JaydeRaven can come Tuesday AM through Tuesday AM
  • Hatter may come up Tuesday Afternoon/ Wednesday Morning through Monday AM
  • Tovia Thursday AM, possibly earlier depending on conditions
  • Dave Tuesday PM/Wednesday AM thru Monday AM
  • Hazmat Wednesday PM thru Tuesday PM
  • Lotus can't attend
  • Whatever likely Tuesday AM thru Tuesday PM, may need to leave for the day Friday
  • Wax aiming for Wednesday (noonish) at some point / Leaving Monday
  • CHORE: Hazmat to provide Ticket Aid info to Wax
  • CHORE: Wax to send RIDE emails
  • CHORE: Wax and Whatever RIDE and Ticket Aid Refunds

Committees

Governance & Finance

  • No August Meeting
  • Dave is working on a procedure for vetting event Producers
  • Will be necessary for MALC, CB
  • Whatever is working on Taxes, due Nov 15th
  • Miles has requested to review the 2024 return
  • Auditing Setup
  • Tovia has Wells access, still having issues with Schwab
  • Need to define better policies/methods for Quickbooks
  • Waiting till post Constellation to make major effort here

Operations

  • See above on Constellation

Safety

  • Wax reached out to friend in disaster preparedness, their expertise not really applicable
  • Making progress on a Unified Contingency Plan
  • Targeting PDF 2026
  • We'll use the Constellation 2024 plan for the event this year
  • CHORE: Wax to Schedule the Safety meeting for Sunday October 5th, 8pm
  • Hazmat to run
  • Needs to be announced on #cb-crew
  • CHORE: Whatever/Wax to order, print, bind copies of the safety plan

Technology

  • August meeting cancelled
  • Setting up for Quail at Constellation
  • Investigating a few dead keys on Chromebooks (i?)
  • i.e. the i an e keys
  • Sanctuary will be centrally located at CB, so WiFi should work
  • Approximately where Camp Dreadful was last year
  • Centrally located, hopefully can position so it's not loud in there
  • Becomes a placement job to keep the neighborhood quiet
  • Wax purchased small WiFi router to cover central area at both burns

Conduct

  • On-boarded new members
  • Wax is hoping to get serious about Penguin(s) post CB
  • Has to update Peacock first
  • Still have some outstanding cases from CB24 and PDF25
  • Delayed due to turn-over of committee
  • Targeting October to close out the cases
  • BEGIN Executive Session
  • END Executive Session

Bike Rack

  • Constellation discussion ad nauseam
  • See Executive Session
  • Wax is here!
Motion to adjourn: Wax/Whatever
Meeting adjourned at 21:38