Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Attendance: 11 (Quorum)
- Previous minutes accepted unanimously
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- March 12, 2019
- New Board positions
- Chairman - John
- Vice-Chair - Taylor
- Secretary - Andrew
- Treasurer - James
- New Membership
- James Gordon
- No objections
- Vernon Kiss
- No objections
- Beau Sutton
- No objections
- Exiting Members
- Richard Heese
- Albert La
- Leah Derksen
- Finances
- Deferred to next month
- Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
- April 23
- Future Workshops / events
- May 25 - Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire
- Need Volunteers
- Get your projects together
- Space Inventory
- Taylor and John to host inventory/cleaning day more info coming soon
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- fundraising for metal CNC mill
- get stuff for a donation
- Chocolate bars are back
- Installation of sinks
- complete
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- To Do List
- remove from list
- Removed garbage bags and letter head
- Add to list
- assign from list
- Assigned paper and blue bin to Taylor
- Torban will look into tape for 3d printer
- New business
- Shop Vacuum Purchase
- Rigid from home depot
- Voted and accepted unanimously
- Shelf purchase for upstairs - x3
- Voted and passed unanimously
- Storage of Material
- Idea was proposed to clean up/organize/build fixtures for scrap area by the back door.
- There is no general storage at the space. There will be a purge in the near future.
- Projects in process left unattended must be clearly marked whose it is and when they will be returning.
- Do we need a clothes iron?
- Open Floor
- Acknowledgements
- Scott for migrating board minutes
- Past board for a great year
- New board for working towards Techworks improvement
- John for installing sink upstairs
- James for doing the books again this year
- Andrew for doing the minutes again this year
- John for fixing the gas spring on the laser cutter
- Scott for helping Taylor with wiring his arduino project, helping run the meeting, and the store
- Taylor for his contribution to the newsletter
- Next Meeting - May 14, 2019
- Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously.
- Purgatory box
