My personal opinion: The basic comparison is that moving may be cheaper, but cost more time, and stay may be more expensive, but cost less time. If we stay, we can immediately focus on the rooms that we have decided to keep, and develop our workshop into a proper electronics lab. Based on the survey results, people are looking for more classes/usable workspace. In theory this should start to attract more paying members. We could have more focused Hackathons that don't worry about power issues, heat/cold issues, or usable space. Our rent would decrease to a minimum of $500 if we get rid of all back rooms and our monthly amount of usable funds would increase to an estimate of $500-$700.
The $6500-$9000 cost is not something that we have to immediately stomach. We have the freedom to do electrical work as we see fit. AssentWorks has mentioned that they are open to a longer-term solution (ie. not immediately) where we pay back the $2500-3000 over a certain period of time. Don't forget that we get $500/year in credit for public usage of utilities on our panel! I would also like to mention that I have secured $1000 in donations for our electrical, from four SkullSpace members (names will not be announced, as this money is contingent upon whether or not we decide to stay, although I will state that one of the members is me). We have the option of soliciting for more, holding a 1-year SkullSpace anniversary (still need to do that!), and introducing student rate memberships to increase our membership and income. We all know that it is completely unfair and ridiculous that the landlord is putting all past electrical bills back on us. But even including this cost, we still are getting a very appealing deal for the space we occupy. I think it is worth swallowing this cost, however unpleasant it is, and staying where we currently are. The estimate on moving, 203-460 hours, would throw us back to the days of when we first started and *everything* was a work in progress. Instead of wasting time with a move, let's stay where we are and focus on turning SkullSpace into a place with multiple, streamlined services. ~Justin _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
