— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, May 11, 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
  • April 13, 2021
  • Accepted unanimously as corrected

• New Members
  • Earl Gifford
    • No objections
• Exiting Members
  • Laura Luo

• Finances - monthly
  • Gross profit: $4,339.20
  • Ordinary expenses: $4,274.75 (Other: $-1.47)
  • Net income: $62.98
  • Liabilities: $1,624.65
  • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
  • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes

• Social events / group projects
  • Future Workshops / events
    • When government announces that we are in Stage 1 of the roadmap then we will begin to have workshops again

• Newsletter sign up on the website
  • workshops, events, projects, upcoming info

• Old Business
  • Equipment
    • New laser cutter - in slow progress - talk to Torban if you would like to help
    • Space reorganization - in progress
    • laser filter box - James Cooper is investigating building a filter box
    • Mitre saw dust port is broken - still unable to buy replacement part, investigating 3d printing a replacement
    • air distribution and vac piping - no change at this time, waiting for James Chamberlain to come back
    • the omio is broken - repairs already under investigation

• Covid
  • Sask Gov has announced a road map to re-opening with criteria to start each step. Currently no change to us.
    • With Step 1 we can have up to 30 in the space again.
    • Mandatory masks will still be in effect
    • We will make an announcement as changes come into effect

• 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
  • focuses 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
        • Need volunteers to step up
      • Marketing on facebook, youtube, in newsletter
    • Business advancement
      • Attracting new members
      • Providing tools and consumables

• Talks with the Weavers guild
  • ideas we are throwing around
    • Group Affiliation
    • They would have a person be a full sktw member that would rent space
    • Possible discounted membership
    • Only access to the softspace (become sktw member to have full access)
  • We need to sit down and have a discussion with them

• Open Floor
  • We purchased 3 new digital calipers
    • Please take care of them
  • Tightened up Goliath, working good right now
  • Chiller needs maintenance
  • Looking into a backup blade for the miter saw. Lee offered to sharpen blades for us but would need time to do it in batches with others.

• Acknowledgements
  • Thanks to Kevin for cleaning the dirty room
  • Thanks to Kevin for cleaning the vacuum
  • Thanks to Kevin for working on sandblasting aggregate
  • Thanks to Kevin for reporting issues and going above and beyond to rectify them
  • Thanks to Biktrix for working on the Sandblaster
  • From James Cooper
    • I would like to recognize Kevin Bedore for his patience, diligence, and assistance this month. When he discovered our good shop vac had been used improperly - it was uncleaned and filled with an oily substance which had fouled the filter and the drain plug was missing - not only did he contact us to let us know, but he took it upon himself to fix it - he cleaned it out, bought a new filter and drain plug, and went on to clean up not just the mess he had made but the rest of the dirty room too. It is members like Kevin who make Techworks a nice place to work on projects. We need more members like Kevin. Thank you, Kevin, from all of us at Techworks.

• Next Meeting - June 8, 2021

• Purgatory box