10th Jan, 2006

12.22.05 IngitionNW Meeting Notes

In Attendance: Alex, Heather, diem, Randy, Riff Raff, Corprew, Kay, Shelly, Phill. Absent: Amani, Dane

Seacompression
• Took in around 24k, spent about 18k. Spent over quite a bit, but also made a lot more then we had planned.
o Why so much over budget?
o Too much confusion about how money was moved around
• Would like to reserve the SeaCom space before BurningMan.
• Everyone loves Obsidian Security
• Bar didn’t “loose” money, but didn’t make as much as it should have.
• Need to stress the importance of this being a community fundraiser
• Should keep start keeping records of the budgets from year to year
• Importance of mentorship in event planning. Need to focus on more
• Fire is difficult to manage, takes a lot of set up time, smells up the place, scheduling is difficult to manage
o In future it would be good to have a dedicated fire stage
• Facilities manager would be helpful
• Ignition should be the executive producer for these events.
• More oversight is needed for event
• Proposal: Events committee works with the event planners from this year to write a succinct plan for SeaCom, and should have it done by March.
o Start planning space in April.
o Kay will plan meeting in January.

Money
• Serious checks and balances for the money. If your budget is 2k, then that’s all you get. Period.

Board can approve budget that is proposed by committees or event teams.
• Heather should sit down with the Massive Treasure and figure out the checks and balances with her.
• Ignition will begin its first fiscal year in 2006, with around 12k.
• Plan vs. actual budget should be compiled and should be sent out and included in the info sent out about the event.
• Will need to figure out when and how to pay taxes.
• How much money did was Peterman holding?
o RiffRaff – will find out where the receipt for the money from Peterman. Will be done by January 3rd.

Operating agreement/LLC
• Want to get it done in January.
o Randy will look over it again, and add the little bits of info to make it complete.
o Randy: Will call meeting to discuss Operating Agreement. Or will send out e-mail to start discussion.
o Draft by the 12th.
• Will cost $175 to file the paperwork

Committees
o Each committee should go into their first meeting with something to talk about. These are some good starts.
o Each committee would have short and long term goals.
 Anyone can come to the meeting and participate, and the notes will be sent out, and posted on the site.
• Art
o Big Burner Art show
 Lectures, presentations, in a gallery, with guest speakers, but focus on local art
 Who could curate? Is it paneled? Where to have it?
 Joining BM art scene with other local contemporary artists
o Cultural Café
 Bunch of space in City Hall that is not being used, and they are just waiting for someone to want to use it.
 We could be the people who bring life into that space
o Sculpture Garden
 How to get our art into the Garden
 Randy: will call art meeting right after phill sends out blanket e-mail.
• Events
o Shelly’s kick ass proposal for Burn Night
 It’s important to maintain this community gathering. Much goodness happens.
 Shelly’s drafted burn night proposal covers number of volunteers, possible programming,
 Fire safety taught by the SFD, would be another good night of programming.
 Bringing us all up to speed, and also build collaborations with city entities, like the cops and the fire department.
 Working within the system to further our community goals.
 Concern about what details are coming out to prospective venue’s
o Kay will call Event meeting:
 Set date for January, have talking points for specking space for Burn Night
o Does this committee deal with planning Town Hall’s ? Yes.

• Communication
o How to use lists appropriately and effectively
o Who manages the website in Peterman’s absence
o Much talk about building an information database/social networking software.
o Send one blanket e-mail announcing the current org structure.
 Each committee will send a message explaining what they do and when the first meeting will be held.
 Or one big blanket e-mail, with reminders coming from the committees
 Phill: will draft the blanket e-mail, and send out to pnwcrew.
 Committees should send Phill a brief description of what their committee is about and when the meeting will be.
 Alex: will need to update all our lists and shit with our new name.
o Possible logo contest for community, with winner getting tickets to Critical Massive?
 Or get volunteers to work on researching and defining the logo to reflect our ethos.
 Alex would like to bring in outside talent to teach some skills.
o Need to change the name of lists.
o Shelly: will organize names and e-mail of all our members. Member management.
o No plan for communication meeting as of yet?

Phill’s sweet, sweet ass
o Phill’s ass was tabled, then splayed out for display, delighting everyone.

Next meeting
• Make meetings on the 2nd & 4th
• Next meeting January 14

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