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01.15.26

1/15/2026

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Batcave Meeting Jan 15, 2026
CTO: 8:07pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, MakeItSo, MamaBear, Snookums
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
Lead Onboarding party
- Lead poll reflected in-person favorable
- Can one-on-one with those who can’t make it 
- Schedule a date after spring town hall

Volunteer Appreciation Party Details
- Planning for Jan fell through 
- Schedule to follow right after Spring Town Hall (same day)

Lead job descriptions
(http://tiny.cc/ntxb-job-descriptions)
- Replies from leads posted in Discord 
- All responses we’re gonna get are in spreadsheet
- Update before next Tues!

Community events throughout the year/Google calendar 
- Erin with BWB offered 
- Would like to keep it under the NTXB umbrella
- Part of BC Facilitator role

Discuss certain number of critical volunteer shifts filled before releasing second round of tickets/rest of shifts
- ~20% of critical shifts must be filled before releasing second round
- LLC to give hard number when time comes
- May be able to bake into Tribal Cities - Snookums and Raptor to discuss

Safety Extravaganza
- Safety Extravaganza Coordinator? Roll into Events Coordinator 
- Move into summer - look for a venue that has indoor availability

Events Coordinator Role
- Make a lead under Community Voice

LLC UPDATES
None

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
Viv to create Events Coordinator Job Description 
EVERYONE to update job descriptions for their department by TUESDAY 1/20

NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA ITEMS
Discuss radio etiquette/process training for leads/shift leads
Discuss placement of HQs 
Discuss load out process for Site Ops post burn
Revisit the bass levels in sound policy (travels in the ground to neighbors)
Discuss general volunteer swag/CV swag
Batcave Mission Statement revision
Discuss becoming an official BMORG regional (pros/cons)
Myschievia Principles revision

AGENDA ITEMS ON HOLD
Review Tribal Cities suggestions/complaints/blueprint - Snookums and Raptor to meet before this item is discussed

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
None

Meeting closed: 8:49pm
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12.09.25

12/10/2025

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Batcave Meeting Dec 9, 2025
CTO: 8:07pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, MamaBear, MakeItSo
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
  • Afterburn report meeting with leads
    • Viv put out poll for leads today with 3 day expiration
  • Volunteer Appreciation Party Details
    • In January
    • MakeItSo to nail down details
    • Would like a banner/flyers for promo materials
  • Discuss moving EG to City
    • Approved unanimously 
    • Viv to update website and workflow
  • Leads wanting to stay next year need to apply - including Batcave
    • need to update job descriptions before we post about it (http://tiny.cc/ntxb-job-descriptions)
    • Replies from leads will be compiled in spreadsheet by CAMPS as they come in
    • Went though seven we had - Viv to post reminder tomorrow 
  • META direct to LLC or use Batcave AF?
    • Unanimously in favor
    • More efficient
    • Intern will bring it up in LLC meeting

LLC UPDATES
  • LLC is on break until Jan 6th

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
  • Viv to add volunteer section to SG outline
  • Viv to post about job descriptions again 
  • Viv to update website and workflow on EG to City
  • Intern to bring up moving META to LLC direct in next LLC meeting

NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA ITEMS
  • Review Tribal Cities suggestions/complaints/blueprint
  • Community events throughout the year - ideas? 
  • Discuss considering only releasing critical volunteer shifts until 20% of shifts are filled before releasing second round of tickets/rest of shifts
  • Discuss having Safety Extravaganza June/July and consider moving to rec center
  • Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
  • Discuss radio etiquette/process training for leads/shift leads
  • Discuss placement of HQs 
  • Discuss load out process for Site Ops post burn
  • Revisit the bass levels in sound policy (travels in the ground to neighbors)
  • Discuss general volunteer swag/CV swag
  • Batcave Mission Statement revision
  • Discuss becoming an official BMORG regional (pros/cons)
  • Myschievia Principles revision

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
None

Meeting closed: 8:43pm
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November Batcave Meetings

11/5/2025

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Meetings in November will be closed meetings due to the review of lead's After Burn Reports and the possibility of sensitive information regarding participant identity contained therein.
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09.30.2025

9/30/2025

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CTO: 8:01pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, MamaBear, Miera, MakeItSo
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
Afterburn report meeting with leads
- talk about dates during the BC meeting on the 21st
- poll leads for date that works best for them

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
Update from final work weekend
- Land prep is done
- Most roads marked, ran out of pink flags - Intern has flagging supplies
- Theme camp boundary markers placed
Still need to figure out signage? 
- Exo has last year’s signs, won’t be on site until Thursday
- If he doesn't want/can't make them, we can figure it out on site

ART
META 
- Effigy is almost fully constructed on site
Art 
- Waiting on placement signage order, waiting for signing 2 art grant contracts 
Production 
- extend procession to about 20 min and incorporate sound camps 
- Procession needs helpers!

MEDIA
Plan to continue posting about open volunteer shifts

PARTICIPANTS
Ice 
- $8/bag for 16# bag - different vendor, it’s what they have available
- will need to refill diesel tank twice a day (get more diesel cans)
- Intern looking at setting up Venmo option
Shifts looking good

SAFETY
Echelon 
- Signal Drift will add shorter shifts!

COMMUNITY VOICE
None

LLC UPDATES

Radios, generators, carts, supplies all ordered and confirmed - good to go!
VFD will be present Saturday with 2 trucks
Fire equipment request from Flipside has been placed, Intern will pick up
BWB - Intern explained situation, they will not be reaching out to leads any longer

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
Viv to post about ice change up
Intern to look into Venmo option for ice
Intern to redo afterburner reports and send to leads prior to burn

NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA
No meeting next week or the following week - next meeting will be Oct 21

TABLED AGENDA ITEMS (POST EVENT DISCUSSIONS)
Discuss everyone tag in Discord post-research
Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
Discuss adding GET INVOLVED page on website (BWB, Street Medics, etc)

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
None

Meeting closed: 8:44pm
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09.24.25

9/24/2025

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CTO: 8:04pm 
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, MamaBear, MakeItSo, Miera, Snookums
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
None

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
Update from City Meeting
- Flags will arrive tomorrow at warehouse
- Signage - not purchasing new signage, use what we have, LLC will contact Exo
- All hand weekend this weekend - call already posted
- Land Prep is pretty much done
- City planning needs help with flagging/marking

ART
- META - Effigy and temple are done and ready to be transported and constructed on site next weekend!
- Art - Waiting on LLC for grant amounts and approvals to send contracts, will need to make a late budget request for art placement materials
- Production lead - still up in the air - extend procession and incorporate sound camps as back up plan

MEDIA
- Tickets sales will cut off midnight Wednesday before burn
- Re-entry: It states no re-entry on the ticketing page of the website.

PARTICIPANTS
- Parking will help with Gate/Greeter lanes
- Badge SOP - VHQ will print and distribute badges, photos sent to VC
- VHQ - sign in for every shift
- Early entry request cut off Sept 30

SAFETY
Safety Extravaganza recap
- 30ish participants
- 3 people CPR certified
On-site safety meetings moved to 10am

COMMUNITY VOICE
Tribal Cities
- Schedule grid view removed, can do everything in list view

LLC UPDATES
- Landowner will be mowing this week, Intern will confirm 
- Signs will be brought to land this weekend
- Art grant info will be sent tomorrow afternoon latest
- VFD was a no-show but LEO is helping facilitate
- Athens Fire Marshal will put Intern in touch with VFD

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
Intern reach out to Exo about signs
Intern to reach out to Clutch about ice 

NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA
Nothing yet

TABLED AGENDA ITEMS (POST EVENT DISCUSSIONS)
- Discuss everyone tag in Discord post-research
- Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
- Discuss adding GET INVOLVED page on website (BWB, Street Medics, etc)

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
None

Meeting closed: 9:18pm
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09.09.25

9/9/2025

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Batcave Meeting Sept 9, 2025
CTO: 8:02pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, MamaBear, Miera, MakeItSo, MamaBear, Snookums
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
Discuss art grants
  • Chaos Kitten has committee formed
  • LLC would like rankings ASAP
Second round of tickets
  • plenty available so leads don’t need to worry about CV tickets for their volunteers

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
  • Update from City Meeting
    • City Planning flags issue
      • requesting LLC to contact landowner to see alternatives
    • Signage is being worked out by Eco, Wasabi, and Ginger

ART
  • META - After build weekend #2 they’re now at ~60% of the build done
  • Art grant committee has five people - our help not needed because Chaos Kitten is a bad ass
  • Production lead - M*S* ghosted, still waiting on final acceptance from T*

MEDIA
  • Nips got go ahead for Survival Guide - was going to have ready this weekend but had personal matters. Will have it completed by the end of the week. 
  • Wristbands done and sent to LLC because Nips is the greatest

PARTICIPANTS
  • Shifts getting covered well
  • Ice
    • Waiting for Clutch to approve ice shifts
    • Still waiting on confirmation for ice truck vs ice trailer
  • Greeters still needs people
  • Parking - requested items ordered (lights)

SAFETY
  • Safety Extravaganza
    • Headcount is 17
    • Signups for classes needed
    • Class registration form forthcoming
  • Critical shifts volunteers still need but not at urgent levels anymore
    • more social media posts 
  • Echelon questions from Signal Drift
    • tracking radios/carts
      • gators - color-coded key rings
      • radios - if you want a radio, hand over ID. want ID back, hand over radio
        • mark inside battery compartment year/number
        • maybe label maker?
    • needs numbers of rentals vs owned radios 

COMMUNITY VOICE
  • Tribal cities
    • update released today - bug fixes
    • pushing for mobile access/ranger logging ASAP
    • interim solution - reach out to AFs
    • creating positions still not functional


LLC UPDATES
  • Any communication with BWB goes through Intern so that they stop reaching out to random leads continually
  • Safety Extravaganza  - Renegade on top of requested rental equipment
  • Any concerns about local LEO/new landowners based on bus rumors are unfounded - everyone is on board
  • Two broken chainsaws - whomp whomp - had to buy a new one
  • A few more art tickets purchased - yay!

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
  • Viv to let Chaos Kitten know urgency level of art grant rankings
  • LLC to reach out to landowner about mowing/alternatives
  • MakeItSo to reach out to Clutch about ice shifts approvals and ice truck vs. trailer
  • MamaBear to get firm headcount for Safety Extravaganza 
  • Viv to post in discord leads/ass channel about reaching out to AFs to create shifts if on mobile

NEXT WEEK’S  AGENDA
  • None yet

TABLED AGENDA ITEMS (POST EVENT DISCUSSIONS)
  • Discuss everyone tag in Discord post-research
  • Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
  • Discuss adding GET INVOLVED page on website (BWB, Street Medics, etc)


CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
None

Meeting closed: 9:00pm
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09.02.25

9/2/2025

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CTO: 8:01pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, Snookums, Miera, MakeItSo,
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
Second round of tickets!
  • enough volunteer coverage to release
  • on sale Friday sept 5 at noon
  • if those who volunteered are unable to get a ticket in second round, they can reach out to leads to let them know the email address they’d like to receive their ticket code at

Discuss art grants
  • Chaos Kitten would like art grant committee applications open until Sunday
  • If not enough art grant committee applications, Batcave will be committee with Chaos Kitten
  • Viv will discuss with Chaos Kitten

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
Update from City Meeting
  • Intern will be at work weekend and will bring lost and found for Pebbles
  • Missing ratchet straps for Site Ops - Intern will find
  • Radio and Grit going to build site first then Radio taking any existing signage
  • Guapo to clarify signage responsibilities

ART
META
  • Build weekend #1 got about 20% of the build done in the pouring down rain!
Art grant committee application open until Sunday
Production lead isn’t communicating effectively and Intern would like to look for another person 

MEDIA
Nips submitted the SG to LLC for approval - will give Viv go/no-go this week
Deadline for wristband art is as soon as possible

PARTICIPANTS
Ice lead needs to approve shifts - was at Burnt Soup
Greeters shifts almost filled, ice shifts filled
Want to plan parking layout 
  • MakeItSo will reach out to Havok

SAFETY
MEATS has a couple emails that have not been responded to 
  • Miera will reach out to lead
No Sanctuary shirts in warehouse because offer to launder never returned  
  • Miera to reach out to lead to ask about shirt requests
Safety Extravaganza!
  • Schedule approvals for Safety Extravaganza are good 
  • Intern needs list from Handy for rental equipment from Flipside

COMMUNITY VOICE
Tribal Cities 
  • Roadblock with dev side last week but updating this week
  • fix creating shifts
  • shifts able to be marked as critical
  • error logging
  • mobile UI improvements
Volunteer numbers at ~30% filled

LLC UPDATES
BWB boost/collabs will not happen until after this year’s burn 
  • anyone wanting to discuss it can reach out to The Intern/LLC

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
Viv to reach out to Chaos Kitten about art grants
Guapo to clarify signage responsibilities
Viv to remind LLC about SG
MakeItSo will reach out to Havok about parking layout planning
Meira to reach out to MEAT lead about emails/approvals
Miera to reach out to Sanc lead about shirts

NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA
Discuss art grants

TABLED AGENDA ITEMS (POST EVENT DISCUSSIONS)
Discuss everyone tag in Discord post-research
Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
Discuss adding GET INVOLVED page on website (BWB, Street Medics, etc)

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
None

Meeting closed: 8:48pm
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08.26.25

8/26/2025

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CTO: 8:04pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, Snookums, MakeItSo, Miera
LLC in attendance: The Intern, Savage

AGENDA ITEMS
Review BC applicant preferred experience items
- Unanimously approved

Discuss @ everyone tag in Discord
- Create new tag for urgent messages
- Use @role tag for tagging channel members
- Suppress @ everyone and @ here
- Tabled until next week so everyone can research

Art CAMPS help
- Viv will take META, Art Lead and DMV
- The Intern will take Procession and Production

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
- Land Prep work weekend #1 update
- big tree cut down about 1/2 cleared around
- need to cut trunk down to 6” above ground for stump grinder
- getting work lights so volunteers can work in evening
- hole near the pond supposed to get filled 
- hill blocking a road may need to level

ART
- META - Build weekend #1 is this weekend, everything set go
- Art grant applications close Thursday

MEDIA
- Nips submitted the SG to LLC for approval Monday
- Nips agreed to create wristband 

PARTICIPANTS
- Parking lights - in discussion with LLC
- Need greeter lead and ice lead to approve shifts in Tribal Cities

SAFETY
- S* lead may not be able to commit - two community members have offered to purchase ticket to see if that will help. Will have solid answer by end of this week.
- Guardian shifts - Viv to post about Guardian shifts 
- Safety Extravaganza - prelim schedule created - need feedback from leads

COMMUNITY VOICE
- Financial transparency requested - solution suggested: having 3 year CPA audit after event with formal financial statements
- How to record hours volunteered for VIP/Discount tickets - clarification coming 

LLC UPDATES
Volunteer shift coverage
- at 11% - we need 50% to have the burn
- possibly because of new volunteer process roadblocks
- solution: training sessions?
- media post about shifts needing coverage

Cart rental - waiting on credit approval/deposit
Lights ordered with tripods
Ice and Radio still in process

BWB wants to promote
- put QR code to link to BWB FB page at greeters as an art project
- BWB can post in General and Theme Camp channels in Discord
- Miera will reach out 

VFD will meet with LLC during safety extravaganza

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
- Viv to post about Guardian shifts
- Miera to reach out to MEAT lead, Intern to reach out to Fire Lead about Safety Extravaganza
- Viv to post about needed shift coverage - Snookums to share in other burn FB groups - LLC to send the post verbiage 
- Miera to reach out to BWB about art piece
- Viv to post Thursdays from 7pm - 8pm training on Tribal Cities
- Viv to create meeting room for training

NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA
Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
Discuss @ everyone tag in Discord

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
none

Meeting closed: 9:52p
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08.19.25

8/19/2025

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CTO: 8:01pm 
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, Miera, Snookums, Chaos Kitten
LLC in attendance: Savage

AGENDA ITEMS
Discuss a permanent lead/AF position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza
  • Just a ton of work for an AF that already has a ton on their plate
  • Safety Extravaganza Coordinator?
  • Tabling until MamaBear can be part of the discussion


Discuss volunteer shift check-in process (tracking shifts for VIP tickets/discounts)
  • Will need LLC input on this
  • Must be present for full shift, must check in/out at VHQ
  • Want to avoid leads having to go through and double check volunteer statuses
  • Create a Vol HQ log in that everyone uses to sign in volunteers
  • Can put after hours logins with Echelon, then falls to Duty Chief 
  • Need a way to adjust time for check ins/outs - will double check with Raptor
  • Beta testing with work weekends/build weekends

Discuss reinstating BC applicant experience needs
  • Previously, Batcave AFs were required to have 3 Myschievias, 1 leadership/ass leadership role, and be in good standing with the org
  • Extenuating circumstances apply, obvs
  • Make it “preferred experience”
  • Viv to create Batcave Preferred Experience List and will discuss next meeting

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
  • Work weekend #1 is this weekend
  • Signage duties are being moved from zone guide to Exo this year
ART
  • META - lumber has been delivered and blueprints are mostly done
  • build weekend #1 is next weekend
MEDIA
  • Nips wrapping things up and will have SG ready for LLC review next week
PARTICIPANTS
  • Ice - taking goal attendance numbers and basing needs off that
  • Parking requested lights - putting in budget request
  • Volunteer badges - putting in budget request
  • Tribal Cities - 98 accounts, 7% shift fulfillment - Snookums to continue with front line support until things are up and running 100%, then will transfer to Tech Lead
SAFETY
  • No updates
COMMUNITY VOICE
  • Tribal Cities roll out has gone really smoothly and participants seem to like it

LLC UPDATES
  • Portos rented
  • Carts (11) - want to meet with Savage in person to verify ID - will be handled
  • Generator - still to be ordered
  • Radios - Savage taking point on this 

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
  • Viv to create Batcave Preferred Experience List and will discuss next meeting
  • Miera to get hard guidelines from LLC next meeting for volunteer check ins
  • Snookums to discuss shift check in/check out process ideas with Raptor (testing deadline Sept 19, Sept 25 as cutoff for release)

NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA
  • Discuss a Safety Extravaganza Coordinator lead position just for organizing Safety Extravaganza

CLOSED MEETING TOPICS
Vote on MIS for Participants AF
  • Voted in unanimously

Meeting closed: 8:56pm
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08.12.25

8/12/2025

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CTO: 7:57pm
Batcave in attendance: Guapo, Viv, Snookums, Miera, MamaBear
LLC in attendance: The Intern

AGENDA ITEMS
Volunteer Registration site!!
- debugging and testing in progress
- Google SSO fix biggest issue
- Backlog issues and minor bugs will be in progress after release
- Snookums will make the call on release - if it’s still too buggy, we move to spreadsheet. If can fix by Sunday, will migrate info to site. If not by then, we stick with spreadsheet. Tomorrow morning, volunteer registration is live either way.

Vote on M* for Tech Lead
 -unanimously approved

CV Tickets Policy
- Leads asking for clarification
- Generally under the lead’s discretion - ask LLC 

CAMPS BUSINESS
CITY
- signage may change hands - up to City leads
- city put a call out for new street names
ART
- META - lumber has been ordered and blueprints are mostly done
- Art lead has art placement, art grant app, and art grant committee app open
MEDIA
- Nips wrapping things up and will have SG ready for LLC review before Sept
PARTICIPANTS
- No update
SAFETY
- Submitted budget for Safety Extravaganza
- Meeting with Renegade to figure out what they need for mock ICS incident
- Bringing info back from BMORG perimeter, etc
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
- Call to open up Batcave meetings (questions/comments in chat) to community
- Any matters involving sensitive information can be handled after the open meeting in a closed session
- Approved unanimously to start next week
- Viv to post about it

LLC UPDATES
- AED has been rented
- Gators still to be rented
- Portos still to be rented
- Additional 25KW generator ordered to run safety nook/volunteer HQ
- Second round of tickets to be released on the 29th now
- VIP tickets now come with a $25 discount on ticket for following year

ACTION ITEM REVIEW
- Viv post about open Batcave Meetings
- Viv to update second round tickets date and post to social media/push art tickets - let people know that VIP includes $25 discount for following year
- Snookums to make go/no-go call on volunteer reg site
- Miera to reach out about volunteer spreadsheet status

NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA
Nothing as of now but I’m sure something will be added within the week!

Meeting closed: 8:45pm
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