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Meeting Minutes 2016.06.30

Attendees

  • Michele C.
  • Norm M.
  • Jeff C.
  • Dmitry P.
  • Jake P.

Next Meeting

TBD

Brainstorms

  • In Sept planning on having a shop pot luck \ group dinner on Sunday around 3pm.
  • Cooking Class
    • Norm will have class and dates for event in September, planning won't occur earlier than Aug 22nd.
    • Max 10 - 15 in class
    • Depending on size of class, may want to hold it at the large kitchen at the Whitesburg \ Sparkman Rec Center (free to use, but must reserve)
    • Students may have to purchase knives
    • Potentially in-house screen print some aprons for the class
  • Cosplay Party to raise funds for enclosing the textiles area. Looking at Oct\Nov timeframe.
  • Having local restaurants give us catered food to raise money
    • Nothing but noodles, pizza hut, etc.
  • Contacting Panda Express
    • These 10% back type fundraisers work really well if you have a large audience participating. We may not have the reach to make the effort \ return equitable.
  • Contacting Popeyes for Gift Cards <- this may have a direct member benefit as well as a fundraising appeal

Action Items

  • Ben T. is going to make the donation jug stand out at the pig roast
  • Ben T. and Jeff are going to setup a general PSA for the shop at WLHR (not discussed at meeting, just keeping it in the action item list)
  • Jeff C. to ask Ben T. if curse has door prizes \ swag for pig roast
  • Michele C. is going to ask Gigaparts if they can donate a raffle prizes for our events, and potentially do a raffle at this year's pig roast.