Saskatoon Techworks General Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Regular Items
- Attendance 8 (Technical Quorum)
- Previous meeting minutes
- November 10, 2020
- Accepted unanimously as corrected.
- New Members
- George Tyler
- No objections
- Tyler Burgess
- No objections
- Exiting Members
- Jeff Smith
- Shreeniket Joshi
- Beau Sutton
- Finances - November
- Gross profit: $4,807.44
- Ordinary expenses: $4,349.28 (power correction of $774.47)
- Net income: -$516.60
- Liabilities: $4,099.69
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Finances - December
- Gross profit: $4,856.61
- Ordinary expenses: $4,611.14
- Net income: $245.47
- Liabilities: $3,602.59
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Social events / group projects
- Future Workshops / events
- Workshops TBD due to Covid
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- Equipment
- New laser cutter - in progress
- Stand made for Wood Lathe
- Training needed to use
- Stand is a tad high, the legs will be shortened
- Trainers needed
- More light in bathroom - in progress
- Covid
- no changes since last update
- Front Lease Renewal
- Signed
- Wall moved
- Development of new space in progress
- Existing space will be reorganized to better suit our new total area
- Goals for the coming year
- Videos
- video editing class/workshop (TBA)
- looking for assistance with Techworks title/intro for official videos
- Community
- group project committee - Rylan
- Mill repair
- Motor is mounted, the spindle turns however the power feeds are not working
- Waiting to hear back from the owner how how to get it working
- bring back social gatherings - waiting for Phase 5
- 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
- AGM coming up
- AGM Date is March 16th 7:00pm (moved back to the 3rd Tuesday due to time constraints from covid and other factors)
- Elections for the board will be taking place at that time
- we are investigating voting options (due to covid)
- official announcements will be sent out next month
- couple ideas are mail in ballots in advance, secret poll over zoom and then secret ballots in person, some other web service
- Idea was given for nominees to be able to give a little write up to go out with the email blast announcing the nominees
- Space Cleanliness
- currently Biktrix guys have been cleaning the space, but members are responsible for their own mess
- expectations if you leave projects or material unattended
- If your stuff is in the way and not labelled, expect it to be moved to purgatory or the scrap bin.
- Please leave a note if you do need to leave projects/materials at the space for short periods of time, preferably with contact info so that we can get a hold of you.
- Open Floor
- Rylan talked with the landlord about parking in the back. Plan is to move the garbage bin to open up what will be our parking spots. Possibly 3 or 4 spots dedicated to us.
- There was a minor fire with the laser, the lanyard had fallen in. Rules were being followed which is why it didn't turn into a bigger situation.
- James has calibrated the laser alignment on the laser recently.
- Acknowledgements
- Shout out to everyone who continues to make whether at the space or at home
- James Chamberlain for work on the mill
- Biktrix for helping keep the space clean and all the other improvements to the space
- Thanks to Kevin for fixing the door/paddle
- Thanks to Scott for operating the store
- Next Meeting - February 9, 2021
- Vote to adjourn the meeting passed unanimously
- Purgatory box
