Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes

— Time and Location —

Minutes
  • Attendance: 10 (quorum)
  • Regular Items
  • Equipment, Safety and the Space
    • Check fire extinguishers
    • Quick Clean
    • Equipment check
  • Previous meeting minutes
    • December 11, 2018 - One correction. Vote to accept as corrected; passed unanimously.
  • Members
    • 57 current (55 full, 2 associate)
  • New members:
    • Janicka Grayston
  • Finances
    • Gross profit: $4,189.13
      • Includes $430.00 of donations towards new mill
    • Ordinary expenses: $3,066.94
    • Net income: $1,122.23
    • Liabilities: $1,484.22
    • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
    • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
    • We are in the black!
  • Social events:
    • Call for presentations on Jan 22. No takers.
    • Spectrum is Jan 10-13.
      • Last call for projects
      • We are located in Cameco Hall (Hardy Lab)
      • Setup at 6pm: Scott, John, James, Mena
    • Robot workshop on Jan 24st; advertising at Spectrum.
    • Soap making workshop Jan 31st; advertising at Spectrum.
    • Free admission day Feb 18. Need volunteers.
      • Volunteers: Taylor, John, Scott
    • Mena taking over newsletter. Please contact her and provide her with workshops, events, etc.
  • Acknowledgements
    • Torban and John for fixing the sink
    • Everyone who donated to the new mill
    • Torban for making us a donation box for Spectrum
  • New business
    • Fundraising for the mill is still ongoing. Chocolates available for sale.
    • Upstairs sink being replaced tonight.
    • If a problem is found, please contact the board at thespace@sktechworks.ca.
    • Discussion of buying 3x $160 USD cameras. Motion placed to buy one for now to see if it works well. Motion passed with 7 of 10 votes.
    • Digital display group project. Monitor with no audio. Computer designed for digital display. Albert volunteered to head up group project using it.
    • Anyone know who owns the 14“ metal miter saw? Nobody knows. Decided to wait a month and keep trying to find out whose it is. If we still can't find out, we will assume ownership.
    • Karl would like to see a gallery of projects on the website. Could add a button at top to show all Projects posts. Would also like to see a gallery of tools. John and Taylor will be taking pictures of tools while they are labeling everything.
    • In two months we have our AGM. Need a returning a officer to collect nominations for board positions.
    • If you have changes to bylaws to propose, please ensure we have them at least 7 days prior to the AGM.
    • AGM will be officially announced at the next general meeting.
  • Next general meeting: February 12, 2018
  • Motion to adjourn meeting; passed unanimously.
meeting/january_08_2019.txt · Last modified: 2019/02/13 01:15 by andrew
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