— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
• Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

• Attendance 10 (Quorum)

• New Offices of the board
  • Chair - John Tumbach
  • Vice - Torban Peterson
  • Treasurer - James Cooper
  • Secretary - Andrew Wright

• Regular Items

• Previous meeting minutes
  • March 16, 2021
    • Accepted unanimously as corrected

• New Members
  • Ryan Rolph
    • No objections
  • David Loken
    • No objections
  • Joel Bustamante
    • No objections
• Exiting Member
  • Dale Wiebe
  • Steven Tanner

• Finances - monthly
  • Gross profit: $4,324.31
  • Ordinary expenses: $4,320.68 (Other: .02)
  • Net income: $3.61
  • Liabilities: $1,624.65
  • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
  • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
• Finances - budget
  • James gave an overview of the proposed budget
  • No objections to a 10 month budget to put it ahead of the AGM next year to save a new board from being rushed to make a new budget
  • James motions to accept the proposed budget, seconded by Scott and accepted unanimously

• Social events / group projects
  • Future Workshops / events
    • Workshops TBD due to Covid
    • Jeff M has expressed interesting in hosting a mini figure painting workshop
    • If there is anything you would like to see when we are able again, please let us know.
    • Chad would be interested in blacksmithing, pottery/lay and mini figures
    • Mena is interested in microwave kiln glass workshop
    • Mena is interested in hosting a yarn dyeing workshop

• Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
  • workshops
  • events
  • projects
  • upcoming info

• Old Business
  • Equipment
    • New laser cutter - in slow progress
      • working on quote for hardware for venting (Thanks James!)
      • Torban will be finished finals soon and will be able to put time into this project. If anyone is willing to help contact Torban.
    • more light in bathroom - in progress
    • Space reorganization - in progress
    • laser filter box - investigating filter box
    • Mitre saw dust port is broken - new or 3d printed part being investigated
    • Members fund raised and bought a spot welder

• Space Cleanliness
  • Expectations if you leave projects or material unattended
  • WIP quick forms on tack-board to make it super easy
  • New tool boards have been made. Please use them.

• ISP Changes
  • Done. We are now on Sasktel infinet business 80

• Covid
  • no changes since last update

• To Do List
  • Add/Remove/Assign to list

• If a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
  • thespace@sktechworks.ca

• New business
  • parking out front
    • do not block drive through in front of businesses

• Open Floor
  • Scott was contacted by the Saskatoon Spinners and Weavers guild about needing space for their projects
    • How could we work with them to collaborate between the groups to benefit each other beyond just renting them space
    • Some form of an affiliate group agreement
    • Getting members and allocating a portion of the space to their activities
  • Taylor knows a guy that knows a lot of blacksmithing and is willing to get involved with Techworks
    • A similar affiliated situation as the weavers guild
    • If we can make sktw more attractive to blacksmiths there is a large source of new members

• Acknowledgements
  • Mena for agreeing to be Returning Officer again this year
  • James for doing the laser ventilation
  • Richard for lending us his saw
  • Torban for moving the computer mess
  • Biktrix for cleaning up the shop
  • Rylan for spearheading tool boards
  • Everyone who attended the AGM
  • James for being the treasurer again

• Next Meeting - May 11, 2021

• Purgatory box