Minutes

• Opened by at: 7:38 pm
• Meeting adjourned at: 8:08 pm
• Chairperson: President Ale More
• Minutes submitted by: Secretary Zac Marcus

Attendance:

• Ale More
• Andrew White
• Zac Marcus
• Tim Reichle
• Eris Ryan
• Ben Capella (proxy Zac Marcus)
• Steve Jordan

Quorum present? Yes

Others Present:

HSBNE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet today, the Yuggera and Turrbal people, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

Ale More found a way to get cheaper Amazon hosting saving us approx $560 / year. Payed $160 AUD to get $1000 USD Amazon credits, saving us the $60 AUD hosting / month.

Summary

• 29 members
• The Paint Factory owes us ~1700

Membership revenue:

• January $1650
• December $1650
• November $1565
• October $1365
• September $1265
• August $1,195
• July 2023 $7,005

Net income:

• January -$704 / month
• December -$764 / month
• November forecast -$774 / month
• October -974 / month
• September -1526 / month

20250115_treasuresreport.pdf

• None

• There has been no interest at $12000. 16 clicks in last 7 days.

• The Exec posted objectives for Q1 2025. Posted to the Forum and copied below for reference.
• Ale More found a way to get cheaper Amazon hosting saving us approx $560 / year. Payed $160 AUD to get $1000 USD Amazon credits, saving us the $60 AUD hosting / month.
• Brought more boxes from storage to sort through
• Planning to move equipment to fit new lathe
• Looking to deploy welding table
• Organised Arts & Crafts
• Started to setup Electronics

The executive would like to continue with the efforts towards:

• Reducing the costs of the club and improve cashflow.
• Keep supporting the efforts of the different teams to get the club 100% activated.
• Increase membership
• Increase our online presence

Main Objectives for Q1

• Emptying and selling 1 container.
• Improve the tour and the online content related to it (eg: making a Video tour, improve the post on social media relating to the tour)
• Update our website and improve its SEO performance.
• Followup after people attend the tour
• Followup after people sign up
• Followup after people cancel

• Running inductions for new members
• Fixed backlash in the CNC

• None

• The area has been tidied up and re-organised

• Sold small lathe
• Started worked on new table for new lathe