March 2025

Overview

Zoom

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Meeting ID: 750 660 4772

Current Board Members

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

Board Members Attending

  • Wax
  • JaydeRaven
  • Hatter
  • David
  • Hazmat
  • Whatever
  • Tovia (temporarily)

Upcoming Board Meetings

  • April 13 @ 8:00pm

Meeting Agenda

Review Prior Meeting Minutes

  • Develop written policy to redact board minutes for posting to website
  • G&F committee to handle
  • 1 - David, 2 - Wax - all approved (Tovia abstain)

Proposals

  • David has two proposals from G&F
  • Process for handling no-confidence votes for board members
  • Handling COC violations, repetitional risk, board agreement, etc.
  • Order of operations, timeline, personal
  • Handle resolution of process
  • To be reviewed and voted on Slack
  • Sweeping excess cash to investment accounts
  • Moving excess balances from Wells Fargo and PayPal to Schwab money market account
  • Rules for how we handle process - estimate cash needs and move excess cash to investment account
  • David to add language on funding discretionary funds
  • To be reviewed and voted on Slack
  • Limiting the amount of funds in the Wells and PayPal accounts limits our exposure to fraud/risk
  • FSA has much tighter controls than either other account
  • Wax's policy proposals
  • Event Procurement Policy
  • Work in-progress at the moment
  • Aiming for a draft by April
  • AI Art Policy
  • Need to restructure this in a more positive way
  • Want a place for people to put their digital assets

New Business

  • AI Transcription
  • FPCS Tech tested the Zoom AI Transcription
  • Summary was useful and may be worth having
  • Was not laid out logically enough to be a replacement for the meeting notes
  • Would need to set a policy of turning this off/on around executive session
  • Privacy concerns around those transcripts
  • Are they Zoom property from then on
  • Are there folks who have access to Zoom who aren't BOD
  • Smiles for burner banter hour
  • Fiona
  • CHORE: Wax will research privacy of Zoom AI Transcripts
  • CHORE: Wax/Whatever to look into Zoom permissions for multiple rooms, meeting owners
  • AWS
  • Wax has been working on cleaning up AWS
  • There are different AWS pricing tiers that could save a significant (30-40%) amount
  • Our needs are variable but quite predictable
  • Database costs already stepped down

2. Off-boarding Smiles

  • Wax completed Slack, GDrive, Slite, and Keeper
  • Cycling passwords
  • With Miles, Smiles, and m4 off the board, need to cycle any passwords they had access to in keeper
  • CHORE: Whatever to see where her address was in use

Old Business

1. Annual Reports

  • Wax will be getting started on this in March, initial draft for filling in details by next meeting

2. Chores List

  • Please keep up to date and mark items as complete when done

Events

MALC

  • Tickets are on sale
  • Some confusion about what folks are buying tickets for
  • Multiple people have bought MALC when they thought they were buying PDF
  • May set up a splash with links to the events in the future
  • Currently PDF is sorted to the top of the page
  • Venue contract is signed for Saturday night
  • Deposit is paid
  • Organizers are aware of the restrictions
  • Insurance quote is requested
  • CHORE: Dave to forward insurance quote to  treasurer@firepony.org 
  • MALC received a BWB Ignition grant
  • CACE Grant process write-up exists
  • May not be detailed enough to be actionable
  • Follow-up and ownership of the process is not explicit
  • Dave and Hazmat is interested in shepherding this process if necessary
  • Wax adding CSV export to Peacock

Playa Del Fuego

  • Round 1 ticket sales were sold out quickly. Peacock ran wonderfully again
  • Round 2 is set to Open March 27th @9pm
  • Reserved Tickets are under way and will end March 22nd.
  • Hatter reached out to land owners about the contract, no response. Will call on Monday
  • Work weekend is March 28-30th
  • Hatter will reach out to land owner to confirm someone will meet us on site
  • Hatter can no longer attend and will work with Jayde Raven to make sure anything the team would have needed from him is handled
  • Art Grant acceptance letters went out
  • Hazmat setting up a meeting with a lawyer to review art grant contract
  • Whatever to provide notes

Constellation

  • Fusion is ready to start, has a number of requests from the BoD
  • Fusion is also requesting in general
  • POC for each need from the BOD
  • RACI diagrams between the CB Leads and the BOD at each of those points
  • Tech support
  • Requested higher permissions on the Google group
  • Planning move to Slack, needs channels created (or the ability to make them)
  • Needs a process for how to add members to Slite
  • May involve providing a list to Wax
  • CHORE: Wax to do the above
  • Team structure
  • Having heard not feedback on his proposal, Fusion is assuming he is free to re-structure the team as he sees fit
  • Need to reach out to Dave and Heidi
  • Who is taking point - Whatever and possibly Aye
  • Do we have issues to bring up with them, or requests for the contract
  • CHORE: Whatever to make a change list for Teaberry contract, start there
  • CHORE: Whatever Send first e-mail to Teaberry, include JaydeRaven

Committees

Governance & Finance

  • Account Access
  • Off-boarding is complete
  • Schwab
  • access in progress for all BOD
  • Quickbooks
  • Dave is requesting a higher access level in Quickbooks
  • CHORE: Whatever to bump up Dave's access
  • CHORE: Whatever/Dave to meet on state of Quickbooks
  • Wells
  • Jayde Raven needs to follow up with Wells
  • Hatter is filling out paperwork and setting up an appointment at his local branch
  • D&O
  • CHORE: Whatever/Wax to follow up with D&O

Operations

  • Not expecting meetings, but do need procedure and policy
  • What worked
  • What didn't work
  • Why
  • CHORE: Whatever/Hazmat to set up account with United Rentals
  • Would get us coverage under UR insurance
  • Tools
  • What should we start buying/renting
  • CHORE: Hazmat to finalize this list
  • Issue especially with  batteries 

Safety

  • No formal meetings yet
  • CHORE: Hazmat/Tovia to meet
  • Hazmat and Critter working on burn plan template
  • Medical provider requirements formalized
  • Rangers have been reaching out for standardizing rangering and safety plan
  • CHORE: Tech to create  safety@firepony.org 

Technology

  • Penguin
  • Conduct forms development may have applications to other form-based tasks
  • Re-imbursement
  • Art Grant applications
  • Invoicing
  • CHORE: Whatever to look into Quickbooks invoicing tools
  • PROJECT: Flamingo
  • Pink Lamp 2.0 prototype in progress
  • Wax has designed cards and carriers to slot in for the radio battery
  • Peacock
  • Planning to build out more during PDF and Constellation

Conduct

BEGIN EXECUTIVE SESSION
END EXECUTIVE SESSION

Bike Rack

Bye