==== Saskatoon Techworks Annual General Meeting Minutes ====
--- Time and Location ---
  * Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7pm
  * Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E 
  * [[meeting:february_11_2020 | Previous meeting minutes]]

== Minutes ==

  * Attendance: 19 
  * AGM Items
    * Chairman's Address
      * Our current chairman, John, spoke.
    * Finances/Budget
      * James presented a summary of our yearly finances
        * Points of note: We are spending more on maintenance and improvements than we have in the past and we now have to charge and remit GST
        * Net income $5,396 (2019) vs $6,732 (2018)
        * We are growing, and it's awesome.
      * The 2020 budget was proposed to the membership
        * Vote to approve the budget passed unanimously
        * Vote to dispense with an audit passed unanimously
    * Board Election
      * Andrew Wright
      * James Cooper
      * John Tumbach
      * Karl Niedzielski
      * Rylan Grayston
      * Scott Walde
      * Taylor Serson
      * Torban Peterson
    * Congratulations to Andrew, James, John, Rylan, Scott and Torban, welcome to the board.
    * Motion to dispense with the ballots was seconded and passed with 17 for and 1 against.  

  * Regular Items
  * Equipment, Safety and the Space
    * Check fire extinguishers
    * Quick Clean
    * Equipment check

    * Previous meeting minutes
      * February 11, 2020

    * New Members
      * Aaron Waselick
      * Fatemeh Ebrahimnejadnamini
      * Chad Evjen
      * Carson Dament
      * Jeff Cliff
      * Lee MacDonald
      * No objections to any of the above
    * Returning Member
      * Emily Hitz
    * Exiting Members
      * Eylon Mogilner
      * Jeff Cliff

    * Finances - monthly
      * Gross profit: $4,639.28
        * Includes $75.00 of donations 
      * Ordinary expenses: $4,483.02
      * Net income: $156.25
      * Liabilities: $1,857.75
      * Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
      * Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
      * 60 full members, 2 associates


    * Social events / group projects    
      * Small talk / Show and Tell 
        * March 24
      * Future Workshops / events
        * March 27 - CNC ground school
        * May 30 - Saskatoon Maker Faire
          * We are arranging to have booths and Rylan island V2.0
          * Get your applications in if you want your own booth!
          * We need volunteers

      * 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
      * Add/Remove/Assign to list
        * Network terminations removed from list
        * The projector was moved into the soft space but still needs to be mounted
    * if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
      * thespace@sktechworks.ca

  * New business
    * Makerfaire
      * Volunteers
        * Need volunteers
      * Booth operators
      * Projects
        * Submit your projects you would like to have featured with TW at the space. 
      * Setup/Takedown
        * Significant, if this is all you can help with that is fine
      * Rylan is the head of the makerfaire commitee (Techworks island, Rylan island V2.0)
    * Open Floor
      * Karl suggested for an open house or any other day to have people come to the space and have the group help with a problem or task
        * Would demonstrate to potential new members what you can do at the space
        * This already happens informally on the weekly hack nights however we could advertise it more specifically
        * There are posts on Reddit asking for exactly this on a regular basis
      * Chad offered a large format printer
        * 6ft wide, can do E size
        * Members will discuss after the meeting the feasibility of taking it
        * The person donating it is a repair tech and is willing to maintain it for us
      * Taylor is going to start a group project
        * Techworks banner, each letter ~ 1ft x 1ft made with different processes
        * If interested in helping out contact Taylor

    * Acknowledgements
      * Everyone who helped get the soft room setup
        * Tables
        * Moving of equipment
        * the Wall
      * Torban for building Tables
      * Everyone who helped for Open House
        * We got a lot of members from this event, great success
      * Mena for newsletter
      * Mena for being Returning officer
      * Richard bought bandsaw blade
      * Andrew for finishing network connection and installing two more cameras
      * James for doing the budget
      * The board for everything they do


  * Next Meeting - April 14, 2020
  * Motion to adjour seconded and 

  * Purgatory box