Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes

— Time and Location —

Minutes
  • Attendance: 10 (Quorum)
  • Regular Items
  • Equipment, Safety and the Space
    • Check fire extinguishers
    • Quick Clean
    • Equipment check
  • Previous meeting minutes
    • October 8, 2019
  • New Members
    • Dirk Stonehouse
      • No objections
  • Exiting members
    • Devin Stus
  • Finances
    • Gross profit: $3,524.26
    • Ordinary expenses: $3,236.26
      • Shaw bill was missed for a couple months, all paid now which makes up the higher than normal expenses
    • Net income: $287.97
    • Liabilities: $1,511.35
    • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
    • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
    • We are in the black!
    • 56 full and 2 associate members
  • Social events / group projects
    • Small talk / Show and Tell
      • November 26
    • Future Workshops / events
      • Lathe training
  • Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
    • workshops
    • events
    • projects
    • upcoming info
  • Old Business
    • Utilizing existing space
      • Taylor working on reorganising dirty room
        • following purgatory, equipment will be moved around
    • Equipment repairs
      • Laser
        • same as last month
        • Torban has a tube coming, few weeks away yet.
      • Planer tuned and ready to use
        • rules will be posted on planer
        • refer to manual for any specifics
          • only go deeper by 1/4 turn per pass (1/64)
        • Only metal and soil free wood, metal (nails) and small pebbles will destroy the blade
        • Only real wood, no laminates/MDF/plastics/etc
    • Expanding into front (Michelle's) area
      • lease negotiations still ongoing
      • hoping to firm up in next couple weeks
    • To Do List
      • remove from list
        • driver bits removed, John purchased
      • Add to list
        • nothing to add
      • assign from list
        • nothing to assign
    • if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
      • thespace@sktechworks.ca
  • New business
    • printer toner may be causing issues with print quality
      • to get genuine toner cost $550+
      • local place is $330 and they give a guarantee
        • Motion to budget $370 for toner, pending further investigation into the printer to determine the toner is the cause, passed unanimously
    • looking into providing a space for other clubs/groups to host workshops
      • if you know of a group looking to do this direct them to the board at thespace@sktechworks.ca
    • Open Floor
      • Goliath was not cutting circles as circles. Scott investigated and found a coupler was completely loose. It is all good to go again.
      • The laser was throwing water error consistently. Scott investigated and it was the controller losing connection to wifi and rebooting. Scott updated the code to wait for 5 consecutive fails before trying to reboot.
      • Someone was in here and struggling to get out. The door latch is catching again. If anyone knows a good locksmith to take a look please email thespace.
      • The pot on the laser is now working!
  • Acknowledgements
    • Scott for continuing to be a super star with the expansion negotiations
    • Torban for making the sign before Taylor
    • Brent made a manual for the laser
    • Tyler for aligning the mirrors on the laser
  • Next Meeting - December 10, 2019
  • Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously
  • Purgatory box
meeting/november_12_2019.txt · Last modified: 2019/11/13 02:19 by andrew
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