meeting:august_11_2020

Saskatoon Techworks General Meeting Minutes

— Time and Location —

Tuesday, August 11, 2020 7pm
Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

Minutes

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

Previous meeting minutes
- July 14, 2020
  - Accepted unanimously

New Members
- Amy Henrion
  - no objections
- Laura (Ruixin) Lao
  - no objections
- Mahir Choudhury
  - no objections, though has given notice of cancelling his membership

Finances - monthly
- Gross profit: $4,710.94
- Ordinary expenses: $4,695.67
- Net income: $15.29
- Liabilities: $2,641.24
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Aaron Waselick - Motion to suspend his membership passed unanimously due to arrears
- Shea Armstrong - Motion to suspend his membership passed unanimously due to arrears
- Lance Greene - Motion to suspend his membership passed unanimously due to arrears

Social events / group projects
- Future Workshops / events
  - Workshops to start back up again soon - check website/facebook for updates

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

Old Business
- Equipment
  - Belt sander fixed but cover screws are missing
  - OMIO - working again - received extra collet nuts
  - New laser cutter - in progress
  - Solidoodle is down for maintenance/upgrades
- Goals for the coming year
  - Upstairs
    - Location to store techworks stuff
    - Taping off areas
  - Videos
    - video editing class/workshop (TBA)
    - looking for assistance with Techworks title/intro for official videos
  - Community
    - group project committee - Rylan
      - Thermostats
        
        Smart thermostat in the regular space needs to be installed
        
        Newer thermostat in front bay so we can turn on the fan separately to help circulate air up front
      - Air filter mounting
        
        Been moved/semi mounted. Needs better mounting preferably hiding part of it in the ceiling to cut down on noise.
    - bring back social gatherings - waiting for Phase 5
- To Do List
  - Add/Remove/Assign to list
    - Nothing changed, no one offered to take on any of the items.
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
  - thespace@sktechworks.ca

New business
- Last monthly virtual meeting
  - Scott will not renew Zoom after this month. We need to find a free/self hosted solution.
  - If you have any suggestions, send an email to thespace
- Shower floor/wall is leaking - make sure that shower drains when performing any plumbing activity. The drain has been backing up due to ongoing sewer issues.
  - It was reported that someone has been flushing paper towel in the upstairs toilet despite signage indicating not to do so. Do not flush paper towel, it plugs the sewer.
  - Plan to patch the area by cleaning up and redoing the silicone
  - Ideas to fix the problem is rip out the shower wall and barrier and replace with a proper concrete barrier and some form of wash basin/mop sink.
- Open Floor
  - People have been commenting on the poor condition of the downstairs bathroom. Members are looking into replacing the floor and give it a fresh paint.
  - Taylor brought up doing surveys to capture why people leave Techworks or don't sign up in the first place.
    - It was indicated we do already do this, however we do not capture the data
    - Ultimately we are lacking a Marketing person. Taylor has volunteered to step up in this regard.

Acknowledgements
- Thanks to everyone that moved out dirty room bench
- Mena for the newsletter
- Andrew for microphone and hangers
- Torban for fixing the laser
- Scott for laboriously restocking the store
  - Check out the store and sort by new!
- Torban for fixing belt sander
- Shane/biktrix for mounting the filter
  - For hanging the filter in dirty room
- Torban for bringing the filter
- Josh for fixing the lathe
- Lance for cleaning up the milling machine

Next Meeting - September 8, 2020

Purgatory box
- definitely going through this month
- The free stuff area will be going into purgatory next month, it's being overloaded and abused.