Proposals
List of proposals that have passed.
| Meeting | Date | Proposal | Moved By | Seconded By | Aye | Nay | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board Meeting Minutes 20251021 | 21 October 2025 | Approve $200.00 for Classroom Zone Funds. | Paul A | Matt A | 6 | 1 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20251021 | 21 October 2025 | Allocate $200 for the Halloween Party. | AJ | Paul A | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20251021 | 21 October 2025 | Allocate one parking spot for short term parking of Auto Zone projects that are currently being worked on. In order to leave something in this spot, the person must book it on a calendar and place a parking permit visibly on the dash / in a window. Space: To the left of the garage near the wood post and yellow pole. 8.5 ft parallel to the garage door, going out from the wood post, and 17 ft long going out from the yellow post. (Reference: average parking spot size in the US is 7.5-9 ft x 16-20ft) | Tim | Frank | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Meeting Minutes 20250805 | 5 August 2025 | Modify the standing rules safety section to be
| Paul L | Paul A | 23 | 1 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250723 Special | 23 July 2025 | Due to improper permitting of vehicles left on i3Detroit property and multiple storage policy violations, the board has decided that Bob W. and Jeff L. will need to make an appointment with at least 2 board members to review rules surrounding i3Detroit's parking permit system, parking ticket system, extended storage policy, and Auto Zone rules/etiquette. Each member must complete this within 7 days or they will not be allowed to use the Auto Zone. | Frank A | Jeremy G | 5 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250617 | 17 June 2025 | Extend the original motion for another month (Until 6/31) for purchasing a new AED device. | Paul | Frank | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250520 | 20 May 2025 | Extend Sewing Zone Expansion spending through June. | Jan | Jeff | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250520 | 20 May 2025 | Increase the amount approved from the previous total of $100 per month to purchase a commercial CRM system to $140 per month (paid annually to get a 2 month discount) | Frank | Tim | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250520 | 20 May 2025 | Add the mezzanine on B-side next to Wood Shop / above the cleaning supplies to the Storage Zone + turn it into overnight / short term storage (Proposed by: Aj) | Aj | Tim | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250408 Special | 8 April 2025 | Change the time for regularly scheduled board meetings on April 15th to 6:30pm and on May 20th to 6:30pm. | Frank | Jeff | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Meeting Minutes 20250401 | 1 April 2025 | Make the only member meetings in April and May on the following dates:
| Matt A | AJ | 13 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250318 | 18 March 2025 | Create a storage zone. The floor space will be the existing storage plots as they are in the numbered plots in the CRM. AJ will be the zone coordinator. It includes member storage, long project storage, and i3 storage. | Frank A | Tim C | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250318 | 18 March 2025 | Affirm the verbal decision to cancel the "bonus" month for annual dues payments. It appears that neither the decision to implement bonus month nor the decision to rescind has been documented in meeting minutes. A search of Board meeting minutes going back to 2019 has not identified any formal action. We will not retroactively attempt to recover one month of dues from annual dues payers. Monthly dues are $59 and annual dues $708. | Tim Clayson | Frank A | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250318 | 18 March 2025 | Allocate $5000 to complete expansion of sewing zone. Funds for this will be available through May 31st. | Paul A | Jeremy G | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250318 | 18 March 2025 | Approve the purchase of the $2450 option (plus any additional fees) for a Zoll AED, smart cabinet and online monitoring tool within 2 months. | Paul A | Tim C | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250130 Special | 30 January 2025 | Appoint Jeremy Glogower to Board of Directors to serve the remainder of Melissa Gilchrist's term | Frank A | Alex T | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250130 Special | 30 January 2025 | Remove Melissa Gilcrist from the Board of Directors | Tim C | Frank A | 5 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20250121 | 21 January 2025 | Approve $7,000 for the Electronics Lab buildout | Jeff B | Paul A | 5 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20241217 | 17 December 2024 | Appoint Daniel Vitenson to Secretary | Tim | Jeff | 5 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20241217 | 17 December 2024 | Approve $1,500 towards installing a new minisplit system on A-side | Alex | Frank | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240820 | 20 August 2024 | Jeremy Glogower is appointed to the role of Vice President | Matt Arnold | Frank Aloia | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240820 | 20 August 2024 | Whereas Matt Arnold exposed the identities, and the nature of the reports, of those who complained about Deb Scott, Matt Arnold is on probation from i3Detroit for one week, beginning at midnight after this vote completes in favor, and ending one week later." | Matt Arnold | Alex Tsuker | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240820 | 20 August 2024 | appoint Thomas Burns as Vice President of Activities And Classes | Matt Arnold | Dave Hurt | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240820 | 20 August 2024 | sell the commercial dishwasher and its plastic dish trays | Alex Tsuker | Dave Hurt | consensus | 0 | PASS |
| Meeting Minutes 20240806 | 6 August 2024 | Remove the Covid-19 rules section from the standing rules, and off the front page | Mara | Brian | 22 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240618 | 18 June 2024 | Make Emerson C commons coordinator. | Jan | Mel | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240618 | 18 June 2024 | Define Commons Area as the following: Loading Bay, A-side lounge, A-side treehouse and Traditional "Commons" area bounded north-south by Cinder block wall of the classroom to E-Lab and east-west by Treehouse/Media Lab to Craft Room | Mel | Frank | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240521 | 21 May 2024 | Motion to appoint Kevin Flory as zone coordinator for Vinyl Zone. | Dave Hurt | Jan H | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240521 | 21 May 2024 | Motion to appoint Tim Clayson as (co)treasurer. | Dave Hurt | Jan H | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240521 | 21 May 2024 | Put Member-X on probation for one week. I'm sorry to go to this step before more lengthy discussion, but it's an emerging situation and we have gotten each other's perspectives extensively. "In order to preserve a social space where members and guests want to go, and to allow members to work without finding someone sleeping in the middle of the day in places where they are trying to work, Member-X is to take a cooling-off period of one week away from i3Detroit, beginning the day after this vote completes in favor, and ending one week later." | Matt A | Jan H | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240416 | 16 April 2024 | Lauren is asking to buy pizza on the 19th for the tour night/after party at B. Nektar (up to $300, can be determined night of event based on traffic) | Dave Hurt | 5 | 0 | PASS | |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240416 | 16 April 2024 | Proposal to officially appoint Alicia as Treasurer | Dave Hurt | FrankA | 5 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240416 | 16 April 2024 | Proposal to officially appoint Hans Chen to be Classroom Coordinator | Dave Hurt | AlexT | 5 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240319 | 19 March 2024 | Appoint Nick Larocca to be Ceramics Zone Coordinator | AlexT | DaveH | All | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240220 | 20 February 2024 | Appoint Lew Dennison and David Henry as Co-coordinators of the leather zone. | MelG | FrankA | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240220 | 20 February 2024 | Glass Zone to find permanent home in Lobby II. | MattA | JanH | 4 | 1 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240116 | 16 January 2024 | WHEREAS Deb Scott has demonstrated a pattern of initiating frequent conflicts with numerous other members, due to her attitude of assuming the worst,
AND WHEREAS Deb Scott consistently responds to conflicts in a way that makes conflicts intractable, AND WHEREAS Deb Scott has been repeatedly advised on how to improve her handling of conflicts with other members, but seldom remembers these interactions, and is mistaken when she does remember, AND WHEREAS Deb Scott does not understand, remember, and follow established rules and procedures, especially in terms of anything involving paperwork, which reduces the enthusiasm of members in good standing to making a contribution to i3Detroit if it risks her involvement, AND WHEREAS this pattern has persisted throughout Deb's membership at i3Detroit, beginning in late 2022 and continuing through 2023 without improvement, AND WHEREAS Deb Scott's position is that i3Detroit's conflict resolution process, elected board of directors, appointed officers, and those to whom she can turn for redress of grievances, is (in her own accounting) discredited, and wrong in setting limits on her, and cannot be trusted to redress her grievances, making her further participation in i3Detroit unacceptable to both Deb Scott and i3Detroit, AND WHEREAS despite the above, Deb Scott continues to participate and act in a manner that indicates no willingness to change, making it necessary for i3Detroit to initiate a separation, WE RESOLVE that, effective December 31, 2023, Deb Scott shall be banned from all spaces operated by i3 Detroit indefinitely until the board of directors votes to overturn this ban. WE RESOLVE FURTHER that, effective December 31, 2023, Deb Scott shall be banned from all i3 electronic communication channels. WE RESOLVE FURTHER that, effective December 31, 2023, Deb Scott is unwelcome at and may not participate in any i3 Detroit presence occurring at either public or private events. WE RESOLVE FURTHER that any personal property of Deb Scott that remains in the space as of January 31, 2024, shall be considered donated to i3. WE RESOLVE FURTHER that the Secretary is directed to add Deb Scott to the list of banned persons kept near the entrance, and directed to send a notice of this proposal to the i3-announce mailing list. | Matt Arnold | Evan Allen | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240116 | 16 January 2024 | Appoint Lauren Yellen to be Vice President of Activities And Classes | MattA | EvanA | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20240116 | 16 January 2024 | Appoint Matt Huber to be Member Advocate | MattA | JanH | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20231219 | 19 December 2023 | Append "This does not apply to conducting the business of i3." to point 3 of Harassment Policy. | MelG | FrankA | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20231219 | 19 December 2023 | Appoint FrankA VP of Membership. | MelG | AlexT | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20231121 | 21 November 2023 | Appoint LaurenY as Glass ZC. | DaveH | FrankA | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20231121 | 21 November 2023 | Splitting Ceramics and Glass down the middle all the way to the wall. | MattA | Mel | 7 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20231017 | 17 October 2023 | Make David Smith Secretary. | FrankA | Alex | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20231017 | 17 October 2023 | Make Mark infrastructure co-coordinator in charge of the digital side. | DaveH | Jan | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20230919 | 19 September 2023 | Suspend a member for one month due to repeated complaints and harassment. | Matt | Evan | 6 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20230919 | 19 September 2023 | Approve bylaws changes from last member meeting | Mark | ?? | X | X | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20230620 | 20 June 2023 | Appoint Jeff Pynnonen replacing Rob as the Zone Coordinator for Media Zone. | mover1 | mover2 | 3 | 0 | PASS |
| Meeting Minutes 20230606 | 6 June 2023 | Table Camera proposals until Mark can represent | Hans | Alec | 0 | 0 | PASS |
| Board Meeting Minutes 20230516 | 16 May 2023 | Appoint Ahmed Safdar and Mike Antovski as Zone Coordinator for Paint Zone. | Evan | Mark | 4 | 0 | PASS |
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