2023-07-22 Committee Meeting

Introduction

This document was created in the July 22nd, 2023 committee meeting.

Attendees

Context

Backstory

Issued terms document in April

Issue with lease document

Received a notice of lease termination under the termination clause of our old lease

Requirements and context

Dimensions of current space

Metalshop, 120sqm

Woodshop, 90sqm

Could possibly get down to 200sqm commercial space

Estimated cost of real estate at $150/sqm/yr + outgoings of $10k/yr approx $45k/yr in housing costs

Approx 80k year income (6-9k/mo)

Minimum costs of $1k/mo

Cost of shipping container $3.5k

Cost of storing a container $130/mo without access

Cost of shipping container with access at least double

Moving a container is about $350/container

$20k in the bank

Number of current members about 100

30th of August is exit date (otherwise 31st of December for all others at site)

Agenda

Communications

Communication to membership

ACTION ITEM: Message everyone - Aleyssa plus exec

Contact with Landlord

ACTION ITEM: talk to landlord, EDQ (Brett M, Buzz, (murray)) Monday or Tuesday

ACTION ITEM: Contact with ministers - Chris Curran Ross,

Tell members everything needs to be taken

Discussion with landlord before member comms

Membership

No new membership sign up.

Existing members incentive to remain through downtime.

Communications with Public

Site Packup

Project management

Storage

How many containers 20TU do we need?

1 for YAG, 1 for CNC, 1 for Hildi and rest of metalshop, 1 for woodshop, 1 40’ for main building

3x 20TU + the 40’ we own + skips

Rubbish skip

Donation pile

Assess current assets and sell

ACTION ITEM: All teams to assess essential items

ACTION ITEMS: All members to take own stuff by 16th of August

ACTION ITEMS: Contact someone about buying shipping containers.

ACTION ITEM: Team Leads to propose how they will break down everything

ACTION ITEM: Team Leads to describe time, cost and scope for packing everything

Finding a new site

Industrial, 250sqm minimum, electricity

ACTION ITEM: Meet with councillors, state members, federal for looking at spaces

ACTION ITEM: Drive around industrial real estate and get agent details

ACTION ITEM: Contact Universities, Tafes (JH to approach EF tafe),

ACTION ITEM: Spreadsheet: Agents, addresses, phone numbers, zones

ACTION ITEM: Talk to anyone who works at or knows a site occupant who might be able to share with us

DEADLINE of location shortlist - 7 August

ACTION ITEM auction junk

Continuity (not packing up everything)

Support discounts or some kind of incentive to stay

Reinforce that it is a community

Donations/Kickstarter

Common area equipment management likely to be an issue

Use Taskade for The Plan

Action Item Summary

See https://docs.google.com/document/d/19wX33KryXwu0I3gzQHhWQuc7ltQ1HHKIWLh9xMjFhOc/edit#heading=h.yotirpwbsk67