meeting:april_14_2020

Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes

— Time and Location —

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 7pm
Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

Minutes

Attendance 2 (Onsite), 4 (Zoom)
Not Quorum
Regular Items
Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check

Previous meeting minutes
- March 10, 2020

New Members
- Curt Rouse
- Josh Grasby
Returning Member
- Gavin Whitmore
Exiting Members
- Andrew Colborn
- David Martin

Finances
- Gross profit: $4,465.73
- Ordinary expenses: $4,382.10
- Net income: $83.60
- Liabilities: $2,258.97
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes

Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
  - March 24
- Future Workshops / events
  - May 30 - Saskatoon Maker Faire

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
  - Install Doorbell - Brent working on it?
  - Emergency Light in Expansion - John?
  - Purchase Community FWB - What is this?
  - Organize Dirty Room -
  - Rebuild Solidoodle - Scott
  - Tape - Scott bought some, stored in cabinet
  - Help Taylor make Techworks Sign - Rylan?
  - Buy hookup wire - Scott maybe?
  - Buy Eyewash - Torban/Scott
  - Hang Projector - Torban
  - Ant poison -

if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca

New business
- New Board
  - Chair - John
  - Vice Chair - Torban
  - Secretary - Andrew
  - Treasurer - James

Open Floor
- ISC Due date - Andrew
- Covid Effect - Not affecting us like AB, Seems to be ok for now,
  - Someone stole a hand sanitizer?
- Youtube Access - Scott has it back, thespace@sktechworks.ca, Torban has camera coming + mic + tripods
- More content online? More projects to share?
- Andrew - Better Mic's for use, Window in for remote people
- Bylaw issue with remote voting - not a problem?

Acknowledgements
- Everyone for keeping the COVID at bay
- Josh Grasby for fixing the lathe
- Torban’s friend Travis from ainsworth for donating the pack pole
- Bun-Bun or fixing the network twice very quickly recently
- Bun-Bun for upgrading the store cam and inner door cam
- Jared Francais for donating batteries for the network UPS
- Scott for running the store
- Scott and Torban for figuring out Zoom and hosting a virtual hacknight
- Gary for checking in from Calgary Makerspace

Next Meeting - May 12, 2020

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