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Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, May 14, 2019 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Minutes
- Attendance: 8 (Not Quorum)
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- April 9, 2019
- 57 Current members (55 full, 2 associate)
- returning Member
- Peter Frederiksen
- Lance Greene
- Finances
- Gross profit: $3,662.94
- Includes $99.00 of donations
- Ordinary expenses: $2,923.59
- Includes $50.00 for bad debt write off.
- Includes -$100.00 for previously written off debt collected.
- Net income: $739.37
- Liabilities: $2,251.12
- 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
- May 28
- Future Workshops / events
- May 25 - Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire
- Prairieland Park (Hall D)
- 2 weeks away
- Volunteers
- T-Shirts - Motion for purchasing - Andrew has details
- Andrew has purchased shirts for promotion. 72 shirts totalling $1306.71
- Due to time constraints this was done ahead of membership approval
- Give away to members who represent Techworks at Makerfaire
- On sale for attendees of maker faire and later in our store
- Meeting will be scheduled for the following week to vote on purchasing these shirts
- Get your projects together
- postcards for open house June 8
- signs for affiliate booths
- donation box for CNC
- June 8 - Post Maker faire Open house
- Need Volunteers
- 10 to 5?
- May 30 - Soap Making
- sign up available online store
- June 13,20 - Electronics from Zero
- sign up available online store
- 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
- really complete
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New shop vac for space
- purchased and in dirty room
- James is taking his back home
- Make sure to clean the filter!
- Shelves for upstairs
- shelf design has changed (new shelves don't fit two bins side by side anymore)
- need to purchase and swap with existing shelves
- Storage of Material
- Taylor making sign and rules
- use for free for all material
- continue using purgatory box for tools and the like
- To Do List
- remove from list
- Purchased tape
- Add to list
- Nothing
- assign from list
- Network Terminations - Bun-Bun
- Soft Soap - Scott
- New business
- Space lease expires this year
- currently exploring options
- considering expansion if it is possible
- negotiations concerning staying and taking over Michelle's space
- Consensus is we do not want to move, but still need to negotiate
- Big perk we are pushing for in the new lease is add air conditioning to the space
- Open Floor
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- Would anyone be interested in attending a rag quilt workshop? Contact Mena
- Acknowledgements
- Many hours are going into looking into options once lease expires
- recognizing Herculean effort to maximize benefit to members
- John for making great agendas
- James for making awesome financial summaries
- Next Meeting - May 21, 2019
- Purgatory box
Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes Addendum
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, May 21, 2019 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Minutes
- Attendance: 8 (Technical quorum)
- Motion to move previous minutes to next meeting
- seconded and accepted unanimously
- Previous meeting minutes
- April 9, 2019
- Accepted unanimously as read
- Purpose of this special meeting is to vote on paying Bun-Bun back for buying t-shirts with SKTechworks logo to sell at makerfaire and in our store (as discussed last week)
- Motion made, seconded and accepted unanimously
- Price for shirts at makerfaire will be: $20 for white, $25 for white 3XL, $25 for true navy, $30 for true navy
- Motion made to budget 10 shirts to give away to members who are helping with sktechworks booth or their own booth at makerfaire.
- Open house
- No objections to Scott serving burgers/hotdogs
- Volunteers
- John - lathe
- James - laser
- Mena
- Torban - goliath
- Rylan
- Scott - food
- Taylor
- Next Meeting - June 11, 2019
- Motion to adjourn, seconded and accepted unanimously
