Saskatoon Techworks General Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, August 11, 2020 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- July 14, 2020
- Accepted unanimously
- New Members
- Amy Henrion
- no objections
- Laura (Ruixin) Lao
- no objections
- Mahir Choudhury
- no objections, though has given notice of cancelling his membership
- Finances - monthly
- Gross profit: $4,710.94
- Ordinary expenses: $4,695.67
- Net income: $15.29
- Liabilities: $2,641.24
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Aaron Waselick - Motion to suspend his membership passed unanimously due to arrears
- Shea Armstrong - Motion to suspend his membership passed unanimously due to arrears
- Lance Greene - Motion to suspend his membership passed unanimously due to arrears
- Social events / group projects
- Future Workshops / events
- Workshops to start back up again soon - check website/facebook for updates
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- Equipment
- Belt sander fixed but cover screws are missing
- OMIO - working again - received extra collet nuts
- New laser cutter - in progress
- Solidoodle is down for maintenance/upgrades
- Goals for the coming year
- Upstairs
- Location to store techworks stuff
- Taping off areas
- Videos
- video editing class/workshop (TBA)
- looking for assistance with Techworks title/intro for official videos
- Community
- group project committee - Rylan
- Thermostats
- Smart thermostat in the regular space needs to be installed
- Newer thermostat in front bay so we can turn on the fan separately to help circulate air up front
- Air filter mounting
- Been moved/semi mounted. Needs better mounting preferably hiding part of it in the ceiling to cut down on noise.
- bring back social gatherings - waiting for Phase 5
- To Do List
- Add/Remove/Assign to list
- Nothing changed, no one offered to take on any of the items.
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- Last monthly virtual meeting
- Scott will not renew Zoom after this month. We need to find a free/self hosted solution.
- If you have any suggestions, send an email to thespace
- Shower floor/wall is leaking - make sure that shower drains when performing any plumbing activity. The drain has been backing up due to ongoing sewer issues.
- It was reported that someone has been flushing paper towel in the upstairs toilet despite signage indicating not to do so. Do not flush paper towel, it plugs the sewer.
- Plan to patch the area by cleaning up and redoing the silicone
- Ideas to fix the problem is rip out the shower wall and barrier and replace with a proper concrete barrier and some form of wash basin/mop sink.
- Open Floor
- People have been commenting on the poor condition of the downstairs bathroom. Members are looking into replacing the floor and give it a fresh paint.
- Taylor brought up doing surveys to capture why people leave Techworks or don't sign up in the first place.
- It was indicated we do already do this, however we do not capture the data
- Ultimately we are lacking a Marketing person. Taylor has volunteered to step up in this regard.
- Acknowledgements
- Thanks to everyone that moved out dirty room bench
- Mena for the newsletter
- Andrew for microphone and hangers
- Torban for fixing the laser
- Scott for laboriously restocking the store
- Check out the store and sort by new!
- Torban for fixing belt sander
- Shane/biktrix for mounting the filter
- For hanging the filter in dirty room
- Torban for bringing the filter
- Josh for fixing the lathe
- Lance for cleaning up the milling machine
- Next Meeting - September 8, 2020
- Purgatory box
- definitely going through this month
- The free stuff area will be going into purgatory next month, it's being overloaded and abused.
