Saskatoon Techworks Annual General Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Minutes
- Attendance: 19
- AGM Items
- Chairman's Address
- Our current chairman, John, spoke.
- Finances/Budget
- James presented a summary of our yearly finances
- Points of note: We are spending more on maintenance and improvements than we have in the past and we now have to charge and remit GST
- Net income $5,396 (2019) vs $6,732 (2018)
- We are growing, and it's awesome.
- The 2020 budget was proposed to the membership
- Vote to approve the budget passed unanimously
- Vote to dispense with an audit passed unanimously
- Board Election
- Andrew Wright
- James Cooper
- John Tumbach
- Karl Niedzielski
- Rylan Grayston
- Scott Walde
- Taylor Serson
- Torban Peterson
- Congratulations to Andrew, James, John, Rylan, Scott and Torban, welcome to the board.
- Motion to dispense with the ballots was seconded and passed with 17 for and 1 against.
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- February 11, 2020
- New Members
- Aaron Waselick
- Fatemeh Ebrahimnejadnamini
- Chad Evjen
- Carson Dament
- Jeff Cliff
- Lee MacDonald
- No objections to any of the above
- Returning Member
- Emily Hitz
- Exiting Members
- Eylon Mogilner
- Jeff Cliff
- Finances - monthly
- Gross profit: $4,639.28
- Includes $75.00 of donations
- Ordinary expenses: $4,483.02
- Net income: $156.25
- Liabilities: $1,857.75
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- 60 full members, 2 associates
- Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
- March 24
- Future Workshops / events
- March 27 - CNC ground school
- May 30 - Saskatoon Maker Faire
- We are arranging to have booths and Rylan island V2.0
- Get your applications in if you want your own booth!
- We need volunteers
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- Equipment
- Planer needs a tune-up to cut evenly
- reminder to only use for thickness planing of real wood. DO NOT use on other materials including finishes such as paint, laquer, varnish etc
- To Do List
- Add/Remove/Assign to list
- Network terminations removed from list
- The projector was moved into the soft space but still needs to be mounted
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- Makerfaire
- Volunteers
- Need volunteers
- Booth operators
- Projects
- Submit your projects you would like to have featured with TW at the space.
- Setup/Takedown
- Significant, if this is all you can help with that is fine
- Rylan is the head of the makerfaire commitee (Techworks island, Rylan island V2.0)
- Open Floor
- Karl suggested for an open house or any other day to have people come to the space and have the group help with a problem or task
- Would demonstrate to potential new members what you can do at the space
- This already happens informally on the weekly hack nights however we could advertise it more specifically
- There are posts on Reddit asking for exactly this on a regular basis
- Chad offered a large format printer
- 6ft wide, can do E size
- Members will discuss after the meeting the feasibility of taking it
- The person donating it is a repair tech and is willing to maintain it for us
- Taylor is going to start a group project
- Techworks banner, each letter ~ 1ft x 1ft made with different processes
- If interested in helping out contact Taylor
- Acknowledgements
- Everyone who helped get the soft room setup
- Tables
- Moving of equipment
- the Wall
- Torban for building Tables
- Everyone who helped for Open House
- We got a lot of members from this event, great success
- Mena for newsletter
- Mena for being Returning officer
- Richard bought bandsaw blade
- Andrew for finishing network connection and installing two more cameras
- James for doing the budget
- The board for everything they do
- Next Meeting - April 14, 2020
- Motion to adjour seconded and
- Purgatory box