Tor Board Meeting Minutes for January 15, 2021
Video and Phone Conference Meeting called to order at 11:00 EST/ 16 UTC PDT
Present: Isabela Bagueros, Nick Mathewson, Sue Abt, Biella Coleman, Cindy Cohn, Bruce Schneier, Roger Dingledine, Chelsea Kolmo, Silvia Puglisi, Rabbi Rob, Matt Blaze, Julius Mittenzwei (arrived for the second half)
1. Administrivia
- Approval of January 15, 2021 minutes. Cindy moved, Chelsea, all voted in favor
2. Financial Update
- Isabela provided a brief overview of total money raised for the year, providing figures from 2018, 2019 and 2020
Total raised during YE2020: $376,314.96
Total raised during YE2019: $304,045
Total raised during YE2018: $207,500
Total raised in calendar year 2020: $913,110.02
Total raised in calendar year 2019: $848,756.91
Total raised in calendar year 2018: $463,282.6
3. Board roles, contributions, engagement, rotating roles.
- Discussion about board roles, committees, engagement, and duties
- Matt Blaze stepped down as the Chair.
- Discussion to add a Vice-Chair role (which was already in our bylaws)
- Cindy moved the motion to Òcreate the position of Vice Chair and to nominate Rabbi Rob as the new Chair and Chelsea Kolmo as the Vice Chair. The clerk position will continue to be Biella Coleman.Ó Matt Blaze seconded the motion, and all voted in favor.
RESOLVED: Tor Board voted and approved a new position of Vice Chair and nominated, voted and approved Rabbi Rob as the Chair and Chelsea Kolmo as the Vice Chair. Tor Board voted to have Biella Coleman continue another term as Clerk.Ó
- At next meeting we will vote in a new treasurer and Cindy Cohn will rotate off this position.
Bruce Schneir and Cindy Cohn left at 12:00 PM
4. Vision and strategy for 202 and New Board Members
- Isabela gave overview of goals, strengths, weakness, threats, employee rotation, membership program, funding possibilities, future hires and we had a discussion about these topics and how the board can support Tor. We will continue to discuss these topics and board support at the next meeting.
- Discussion of new potential board members.
Meeting adjourned at 18:00 UTC
