Saskatoon Techworks General Meeting minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Attendance 10 (Quorum)
- New Offices of the board
- Chair - John Tumbach
- Vice - Torban Peterson
- Treasurer - James Cooper
- Secretary - Andrew Wright
- Regular Items
- Previous meeting minutes
- March 16, 2021
- Accepted unanimously as corrected
- New Members
- Ryan Rolph
- No objections
- David Loken
- No objections
- Joel Bustamante
- No objections
- Exiting Member
- Dale Wiebe
- Steven Tanner
- Finances - monthly
- Gross profit: $4,324.31
- Ordinary expenses: $4,320.68 (Other: .02)
- Net income: $3.61
- Liabilities: $1,624.65
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Finances - budget
- James gave an overview of the proposed budget
- No objections to a 10 month budget to put it ahead of the AGM next year to save a new board from being rushed to make a new budget
- James motions to accept the proposed budget, seconded by Scott and accepted unanimously
- Social events / group projects
- Future Workshops / events
- Workshops TBD due to Covid
- Jeff M has expressed interesting in hosting a mini figure painting workshop
- If there is anything you would like to see when we are able again, please let us know.
- Chad would be interested in blacksmithing, pottery/lay and mini figures
- Mena is interested in microwave kiln glass workshop
- Mena is interested in hosting a yarn dyeing workshop
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- Equipment
- New laser cutter - in slow progress
- working on quote for hardware for venting (Thanks James!)
- Torban will be finished finals soon and will be able to put time into this project. If anyone is willing to help contact Torban.
- more light in bathroom - in progress
- Space reorganization - in progress
- laser filter box - investigating filter box
- Mitre saw dust port is broken - new or 3d printed part being investigated
- Members fund raised and bought a spot welder
- Space Cleanliness
- Expectations if you leave projects or material unattended
- WIP quick forms on tack-board to make it super easy
- New tool boards have been made. Please use them.
- ISP Changes
- Done. We are now on Sasktel infinet business 80
- Covid
- no changes since last update
- To Do List
- Add/Remove/Assign to list
- If a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- parking out front
- do not block drive through in front of businesses
- Open Floor
- Scott was contacted by the Saskatoon Spinners and Weavers guild about needing space for their projects
- How could we work with them to collaborate between the groups to benefit each other beyond just renting them space
- Some form of an affiliate group agreement
- Getting members and allocating a portion of the space to their activities
- Taylor knows a guy that knows a lot of blacksmithing and is willing to get involved with Techworks
- A similar affiliated situation as the weavers guild
- If we can make sktw more attractive to blacksmiths there is a large source of new members
- Acknowledgements
- Mena for agreeing to be Returning Officer again this year
- James for doing the laser ventilation
- Richard for lending us his saw
- Torban for moving the computer mess
- Biktrix for cleaning up the shop
- Rylan for spearheading tool boards
- Everyone who attended the AGM
- James for being the treasurer again
- Next Meeting - May 11, 2021
- Purgatory box
