Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Minutes
- Attendance: 10 (Quorum)
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- November 13, 2018 - accepted as corrected
- New Membership
- Richard Heese
- Exiting Members
- Peter F
- Finances
- profit - $3580
- expenses - $2749
- net income - $730
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- We are in the black!
- Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
- Dec 25? - deferred
- Future Workshops / events
- Board Game night - Dec 15
- Spectrum - January 10-13 - start projects
- volunteers? (list on the board)
- Robot building workshop ($325) - January 24
- Newsletter sign up
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Mena has volunteered to take this over
- Acknowledgements
- Thanks to Scott for coordinating with the scouts
- Thanks to the volunteers who helped out at the scouts night
- Thanks Scott for fixing the 3D printer
- Thanks Torban for installing the sink
- Old Business
- fundraising for metal CNC mill
- Currently at $380 ($480) need $2000 to be able to pull the trigger
- chocolates
- door not closing
- People proping the door open is causing the frame to go out of shape and not work as expected
- do not prop door
- in the process of making a timed bypass
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board so that we can go to the landlord and get it rectified asap.
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- installing sink(s)
- Torban ripped out the sink and discovered more work is needed. Sink currently out of order.
- newsletter volunteer to take over
- mena volunteered
- digital display group project
- who would like to be involved?
- Need a donation box for spectrum
- Torban has volunteered
- Open Floor
- Suggestion for spectrum, make descriptions of your projects including what materials and tools used as cards to sit with your project.
- Rylan has asked if TW would buy new batteries for his dewalt drills as he has had them here for years for member use.
- Motion was made to approve purchase of new batteries as long as they are a reasonable price (around $100), seconded and accepted unanimously
- Next Meeting - January 8, 2018
- Purgatory box