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Meeting minutes: May 8, 2018
- Attendance: 7 members
- No quorum, but not quorum from last meeting, so continuing.
- Reading of the meeting minutes from March 13 and April 10. Vote to accept both passed unanimously.
- New members:
- Mark Lepitzki
- Brent Evjen
- Cory Ingram
- Don Cameron: Planned to be member for one month. Already completed.
- Exiting members:
- Keeley Haftner, moved away.
- Andrew Doolittle
- Don Cameron
- Finances:
'TODO
' - Outreach:
- May 26: Saskatoon Mini Makerfaire. We would like more volunteers to help represent us at the tables.
- May 29: 15 minute presentation: James Cooper's deck.
- June 2: Open house 10AM-5PM. Need a few volunteers: James, John, Scott. Plan to give tool demos, introductions, tours, sign-ups. Snacks will be provided.
- Tasha volun-told to make invite for open house.
- First newsletter went out today. Looks great. Thanks Sheila!
- Scott suggests adding a sign-up link to the website, Facebook.
- Is there a way to link to it from outside? Sheila couldn't find it, but will look for it.
- If you have a project you were working on or have other things you would like to contribute, send it to thespace@sktechworks.ca and Sheila will add it to the next one.
- Sheila will ask Al and Kurtis for stuff from RoboGames.
- Acknowledgements:
- Peter made us some shelves.
- John mounted the projector.
- Scott added a “switch” to the lights above the projector screen.
- Quentin and Scott for working on the brochure and invite.
- Sheila for making the newsletter.
- Continuity Resources Group for the color laser printer/scanner/copier.
- Reminder: food waste has to be taken out to the dumpster; do not leave food waste in the indoor garbage cans.
- We had a fire inspection this past month. Everything clear. They requested we clear out the pathway upstairs to ensure a safe escape. The board will follow up to make sure this is cleaned up.
- There was a power outage recently. Our emergency lighting worked well.
- New tools:
- We decided it wasn't worth buying a used table saw. Looking for a new one.
- James has some tools to lend. Belt sander, palm sander, drum sander, table saw.
- New printer: free to use for a few pages, but please pay if printing substantial amounts.
- Went through purgatory box.
- Inspected fire extinguishers and first aid kit.
- Next meeting: June 12, 7:00PM, at 412 44th Street, Saskatoon, SK.