Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, Jan 08, 2019 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
- December 11, 2018 - One correction. Vote to accept as corrected; passed unanimously.
- Members
- 57 current (55 full, 2 associate)
- New members:
- Janicka Grayston
- Finances
- Gross profit: $4,189.13
- Includes $430.00 of donations towards new mill
- Ordinary expenses: $3,066.94
- Net income: $1,122.23
- Liabilities: $1,484.22
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- We are in the black!
- Social events:
- Call for presentations on Jan 22. No takers.
- Spectrum is Jan 10-13.
- Last call for projects
- We are located in Cameco Hall (Hardy Lab)
- Setup at 6pm: Scott, John, James, Mena
- Robot workshop on Jan 24st; advertising at Spectrum.
- Soap making workshop Jan 31st; advertising at Spectrum.
- Free admission day Feb 18. Need volunteers.
- Volunteers: Taylor, John, Scott
- Mena taking over newsletter. Please contact her and provide her with workshops, events, etc.
- Acknowledgements
- Torban and John for fixing the sink
- Everyone who donated to the new mill
- Torban for making us a donation box for Spectrum
- New business
- Fundraising for the mill is still ongoing. Chocolates available for sale.
- Upstairs sink being replaced tonight.
- If a problem is found, please contact the board at thespace@sktechworks.ca.
- Discussion of buying 3x $160 USD cameras. Motion placed to buy one for now to see if it works well. Motion passed with 7 of 10 votes.
- Digital display group project. Monitor with no audio. Computer designed for digital display. Albert volunteered to head up group project using it.
- Anyone know who owns the 14“ metal miter saw? Nobody knows. Decided to wait a month and keep trying to find out whose it is. If we still can't find out, we will assume ownership.
- Karl would like to see a gallery of projects on the website. Could add a button at top to show all Projects posts. Would also like to see a gallery of tools. John and Taylor will be taking pictures of tools while they are labeling everything.
- In two months we have our AGM. Need a returning a officer to collect nominations for board positions.
- If you have changes to bylaws to propose, please ensure we have them at least 7 days prior to the AGM.
- AGM will be officially announced at the next general meeting.
- Next general meeting: February 12, 2018
- Motion to adjourn meeting; passed unanimously.