Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes

— Time and Location —

  • Tuesday, February 11, 2020 7pm
  • Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
  • Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
  • Attendance: 8 (Technical Quorum)
  • Regular Items
  • Equipment, Safety and the Space
    • Check fire extinguishers
    • Quick Clean
    • Equipment check
  • Previous meeting minutes
    • December 10, 2019
    • January 14, 2020
    • Accepted unamiously
  • Exiting Members
    • Eylon Mogilner
  • Finances
    • December
    • Gross profit: $3,631.65
    • Ordinary expenses: $2,988.40
    • Net income: $643.22
    • Liabilities: $-774.57
    • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
    • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
    • January
    • Gross profit: $4,244.18
    • Ordinary expenses: $4,714.88
    • Net income: $-470.71
    • Liabilities: $1,848.85
    • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
    • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
    • 56 full and 2 associate members
    • Motion to suspend Vernon Kiss membership, seconded and accepted unanimously
    • We are registering for GST to become in effect as of March 1, 2020.
  • Social events / group projects
    • Small talk / Show and Tell
      • February 25 - Sola will be presenting
    • Future Workshops / events
      • Feb 15 - Grand opening of new space
      • May 30 - Saskatoon Maker Faire
        • There was some concerns from last year that have been potentially addressed via conversations with Kurtis
        • Scott will be signing us up with $1000 sponsorship level.
  • Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
    • workshops
    • events
    • projects
    • upcoming info
  • Old Business
    • Equipment
      • Planer needs a tune-up to cut evenly
      • reminder to only use for thickness planing of real wood. DO NOT use on other materials including finishes such as paint, laquer, varnish etc
    • To Do List
      • remove from list
      • Add to list
        • Fire extinguisher for the expansion
        • Move projector from old clean room to expansion (who volunteered to do this?)
      • assign from list
    • if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
      • thespace@sktechworks.ca
  • New business
    • Grand opening of new area - Feb 15
      • Techworks 9 years of operation
      • volunteers needed
    • AGM - Mar 10
      • Returning officer
        • Mena offered
      • nominations
        • Nominations need to be in writing and given to the returning officer
      • Special items
        • Motion to only allow in person voting was seconded and passed unanimously
    • Open Floor
      • Torban talked to his electrical buddy to add outlets into the expansion space
        • Budget of $900 max, potentially cheaper
        • Need to figure out a more concrete plan of what we want
        • Motion to add $1000 to our budget for the purposes of adding electrical to the expansion space seconded and accepted unanimously
  • Acknowledgements
    • Everyone who helped get the soft room setup
    • Scott for video computer and equipment
    • Mena for newsletter
    • Michelle for sewing machine and cutting mat
    • Carl for donating UV table
  • Next Meeting - AGM March 10, 2020
  • Purgatory box
  • Motion to end the meeting. Motion accepted unanimously.
meeting/february_11_2020.txt · Last modified: 2020/03/11 02:27 by andrew
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