— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, March 12, 2019 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
• Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

• Attendance: 21
• AGM Items
  • Chairman`s Address
    • Our current chairman, John, spoke.
  • Finances
    • James presented a summary of our yearly finances
      • Net income $6,732 (2018) vs $1,537 (2017)
      • We are growing, and it's awesome.
    • The 2019 budget was proposed to the membership
      • Vote to approve the budget passed unanimously
      • Vote to dispense with an audit passed unanimously
  • Bylaw Change
    • Remove the clause “Reside in Saskatchewan, and” from the requirements to be a member of SKTW.
      • Concern was raised about board members that do not attend board meetings potentially because they are out of province. This is already and agenda idea for the next board.
      • Vote to make the proposed changed passed unanimously
  • Board Election
    • The Nominees
      • James Cooper
      • Rylan Grayston
      • Torban Peterson
      • Taylor Serson
      • John Tumbach
      • Scott Walde
      • Andrew Wright
    • All nominees passed with a vote of confidence
    • Congratulations to the new board!
    • Vote to destroy the ballots passed with 19 members for and 1 member against

• Regular Items
• Equipment, Safety and the Space
  • Check fire extinguishers
  • Quick Clean
  • Equipment check

• Previous meeting minutes
  • Febuary 13, 2019
  • Addendum Febuary 19, 2019

• New Membership
  • Rachel Bloomfield
    • No objections

• Finances
  • Gross profit: $4,624.24
    • Includes $1,000.00 of donations
  • Ordinary expenses: $2,937.45
    • Includes 150.00 for bad debt write off.
  • Net income: $1,686.81
  • Liabilities: $1,072.34
  • 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
    • Mar 26 - Need volunteer
  • Future Workshops / events
    • Reddit so far has proven to be the best advertising avenue
    • Another suggested area to advertise is on meetup.com
    • Free Admission day - Feb 18
      • how did it go?
        • Well, gained a new member (Rachel)
    • May 25 - Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire
      • Volunteers
      • Get your projects together
      • We are a coppersmith sponsor
        • We get 4 staff and 10 guest passes
      • We are able to sell items at our booth, however, they must be approved by the board before hand.

• Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena or email to newsletter@sktechworks.ca
  • workshops
  • events
  • projects
  • upcoming info

• Acknowledgements
  • to the board for another great year
  • Al for being on the board for many years
  • Mena for being returning officer and handling the newsletter
  • Thanks to Taylor, Torban and Mark for committing to donate to the fume hood
  • Thanks to Taylor, Kevin, Mark and Tyler for helping with the forge night

• Old Business
  • fundraising for metal CNC mill
    • get stuff for a donation
  • Installation of sinks
    • upstairs to be completed soon
  • Security
    • Back door reminder
      • Keep it locked. There is no excuse, there are two signs describing how to lock the door.
    • front door reminder
      • Do not prop the door open. This damages the door and costs us money to repair.
    • converting back door to new card system 2.0
  • Space Inventory
    • Taylor and John are committed. If you want to help please contact them.
  • if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
    • thespace@sktechworks.ca

• New business
  • G-wizard software purchase
    • In the budget which has already been approved.
  • Open Floor
    • Rylan made improvements to the plastic storage. Made a clamp that has further revisions planned.
    • Rylan purchased a sand blaster but recommends it not be used until the fume hood is complete
    • Rylan with approval of the previous board is going to convert the table in the dirty room into a fume hood contraption
    • Forge night has happened twice now that is interesting and attracting a decent amount of interest. Feel free to join.
    • A vote was raised to change the plan to buy 1 camera for the front to 2 cameras. The approximate cost would be $320 USD.
      • Andrew raised concerns over a single camera not having view of the entire front area and being sucesptible to theft/vandalism. Two cameras would eliminate the possibility of not being seen by the cameras.
      • Vote passed with 17 for and 1 against
    • A preliminary discussion has been opened about taking over the front portion of the bay we are in. Michelle is looking to downsize.
      • This idea is more feasible in the short term vs taking over back bay.
      • Michelle would rent half of the space back from us.
      • We could easily cover the additional cost with renting out the space. Even without we can afford it currently.
    • Taylor has a contact that may be interested in teaching a F360 class at TW. If anyone is interested please let Taylor know.

• Vote to adjourn the meeting passed unanimously.

• Next Meeting - April 9, 2019

• Purgatory box