— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
• Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

• Regular Items

• Attendance: 8 in person, 3 in zoom (quorum)

• Previous meeting minutes
  • May 11, 2021
  • Accepted unanimously as read

• New Members
  • none

• Finances - monthly
  • Gross profit: $4,268.92
  • Ordinary expenses: $4,348.10 (Other: $0.05)
  • Net income: -$79.13
  • Liabilities: $1,956.70
  • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
  • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes

• Social events / group projects
  • Future Workshops / events
    • TBA

• Newsletter sign up - Newsletter
  • workshops, events, projects, upcoming info - newsletter@sktechworks.ca

• Old Business
  • Equipment
    • New laser cutter - in slow progress
    • Space reorganization - in progress
    • laser filter box - procuring parts
    • Mitre saw dust port is broken - 3d model design in progress
    • air distribution and vac piping - James chamberlain is back and has started working on these projects
    • belt sander - motor looks like it over heated, investigating repair/replacement
    • OMIO - throwing error, started troubleshooting with OMIO
    • Maker bot replacement button is here, James Cooper will replace after the meeting
  • Weavers guild - no update at this time

• Covid
  • Sask Government has announced that we are in stage 1 of re-opening. This mean we can have 30 people and thus can start having workshops again.

• 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
  • foci for this year
    • Space culture
      • Encouraging cleaning/maintenance
      • Teaching safe use of tools
      • Space project board
      • Work on space projects on Tuesday nights
    • Online presence
      • Training videos
      • Marketing on facebook, youtube, in newsletter
    • Business advancement
      • Attracting new members
      • Providing tools and consumables

• Video capture day - June 7th
  • some board members captured video and audio for some how-to videos
  • editing to follow
    • Mena has offered to try and do the editing
• Roof is leaking
  • landlord is brought in repair personnel - will have to see how it turned out
• Front has be pressure washed in anticipation of parking lines being painted

• Open Floor
  • James cooper would like to improve the engravibility
    • Has new lenses on order
    • Is looking into buying a smaller tube to put in the second spot
    • There were no objections at the meeting to do this

• Acknowledgements
  • Torban for investigating blade for mitre saw
  • Torban for pressure washing the parking lot
  • Andrew for taking care of the VPSes and website
  • To John, Scott, Rylan, Torban, James Cooper for coming to the video capture day and helping out

• Next Meeting - July 13, 2021

• Purgatory box