— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, July 14, 2020 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
• Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

• Attendance 8 (Onsite), 1 (Zoom) (technical quorum)
• Regular Items
• Equipment, Safety and the Space
  • Check fire extinguishers
  • Quick Clean
  • Equipment check

• Previous meeting minutes
  • May 12, 2020
    • Accepted unanimously
  • June 9, 2020
    • Accepted unanimously

• New Members
  • Braedon Leisler
    • No objections
  • Brian Lazorko
    • No objections
  • Dave Kozicki
    • No objections but need to get the waiver signed
• Returning Members
  • Lauren Meier
    • No objections

• Finances - monthly
  • Gross profit: $4,666.46
  • Ordinary expenses: $4,398.64
  • Net income: $267.77
  • Liabilities: $2,377.13
  • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
  • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes

• Social events / group projects
  • Future Workshops / events
    • Workshops to start back up again soon - check website/facebook for updates

• Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
  • workshops
  • events
  • projects
  • upcoming info

• Old Business
  • Equipment
    • Belt sander timing belt broken - ordered
      • Contacted a local company and was unable to find one to be able to get sooner
      • Torban got a refund for the one that still hasn't shown up, found another one in Canada this time and is ordering two
    • Air compressor fixed
    • OMIO - working again - still waiting for extra collet nuts
    • Mitre saw has no guard - looking into replacement
      • Torban has brought his for the time being
    • new OLFA knife
    • new tape measures
    • Programmable controllable thermostat
      • $110
      • air conditioner has been set to a low temperature and then left for hours-days (same has happened in the winter with setting to a high temperature)
      • prevent large cost that could be incurred from sated situation via a rest api that can be controlled via software
      • James motioned to add the $110 to the budget, seconded by Andrew and passed unanimously
      • We need a volunteer to install the thermostat
  • Goals for the coming year
    • Upstairs
      • Location to store techworks stuff
      • Taping off areas
    • Videos
      • we have some lighting and AV equipment now
      • video editing class/workshop is in the works (TBA)
      • looking for assistance with techworks title/intro for official videos
      • James brought another monitor for the video box, Andrew will calibrate them in the near future
    • Community
      • group project committee - Rylan
        • Thermostats
          • New thermostat in the regular space
          • Replace thermostat in front space so we can turn on the fan to keep air circulating up front
        • Air filter mounting up in the suspended ceiling to try and cut down on the noise
        • Reorganize grinder bench
        • If you volunteer to Rylan, Rylan will find you
      • bring back social gatherings (when we can)
  • To Do List
    • Add/Remove/Assign to list
      • Rebuild solidoodle has everything figured out by James/Scott but needs time to be worked on
      • Still need to make the wall of shame
  • if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
    • thespace@sktechworks.ca

• New business
  • new laser cutter - needs some work to get up and running
    • Will be running the same controller and software as the existing later
    • More details to be announced
  • Some benches are going to be moved around, modified, rebuilt, thrown out to make better use of the space and room for the new laser
  • Open Floor
    • MacDougall auctions has some auctions with some wood working from the public school division, coming up on the 28th
    • Andrew purchased a camera for the back area was ~$235 and received $50 from John. If willing to help out please give money to Andrew.
    • Virtual meetings
      • Zoom has a cost which seems cheaper than competitors, $20/mo
      • Jitsi has self host options which would be free, Andrew is going to look into
      • Consensus is virtual meetings are beneficial and we want to keep it going
      • Andrew has purchased a mic to be permanently mounted for this purpose, if it works well and the meetings keep going he would like sktechworks to buy it off him

• Acknowledgements
  • Andrew for getting knives
  • John for getting measuring tapes
  • Thanks Torban for bringing his laser
  • Thanks Chad and Brent for replacing the carpet
  • Andrew and Torban for network drops upstairs
  • Scott, Rylan, Torban, Erik, John for the new fridge/freezer
  • Scott for the snacks
  • Thanks everyone for keeping food out of the space and in the back dumpster
  • Thanks 'Churl' for bringing pizza on one hack night
  • Thanks for the donation of cheap keyboards and mice from mcwil companies
  • Thanks Lance for taking on mounting the motor on the mill
  • Thanks Randy for going and getting the motor for the mill

• Next Meeting - August 11, 2020

• Purgatory box
  • proceeded not virtually