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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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