— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
• Previous meeting minutes

• Attendance: 19
• AGM Items
  • Chairman's Address
    • Our current chairman, John, spoke.
  • Finances/Budget
    • James presented a summary of our yearly finances
      • Points of note: We are spending more on maintenance and improvements than we have in the past and we now have to charge and remit GST
      • Net income $5,396 (2019) vs $6,732 (2018)
      • We are growing, and it's awesome.
    • The 2020 budget was proposed to the membership
      • Vote to approve the budget passed unanimously
      • Vote to dispense with an audit passed unanimously
  • Board Election
    • Andrew Wright
    • James Cooper
    • John Tumbach
    • Karl Niedzielski
    • Rylan Grayston
    • Scott Walde
    • Taylor Serson
    • Torban Peterson
  • Congratulations to Andrew, James, John, Rylan, Scott and Torban, welcome to the board.
  • Motion to dispense with the ballots was seconded and passed with 17 for and 1 against.

• Regular Items
• Equipment, Safety and the Space
  • Check fire extinguishers
  • Quick Clean
  • Equipment check

• Previous meeting minutes
  • February 11, 2020

• New Members
  • Aaron Waselick
  • Fatemeh Ebrahimnejadnamini
  • Chad Evjen
  • Carson Dament
  • Jeff Cliff
  • Lee MacDonald
  • No objections to any of the above
• Returning Member
  • Emily Hitz
• Exiting Members
  • Eylon Mogilner
  • Jeff Cliff

• Finances - monthly
  • Gross profit: $4,639.28
    • Includes $75.00 of donations
  • Ordinary expenses: $4,483.02
  • Net income: $156.25
  • Liabilities: $1,857.75
  • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
  • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
  • 60 full members, 2 associates

• Social events / group projects
  • Small talk / Show and Tell
    • March 24
  • Future Workshops / events
    • March 27 - CNC ground school
    • May 30 - Saskatoon Maker Faire
      • We are arranging to have booths and Rylan island V2.0
      • Get your applications in if you want your own booth!
      • We need volunteers

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

• Old Business
  • Equipment
    • Planer needs a tune-up to cut evenly
    • reminder to only use for thickness planing of real wood. DO NOT use on other materials including finishes such as paint, laquer, varnish etc
  • To Do List
    • Add/Remove/Assign to list
      • Network terminations removed from list
      • The projector was moved into the soft space but still needs to be mounted
  • if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
    • thespace@sktechworks.ca

• New business
  • Makerfaire
    • Volunteers
      • Need volunteers
    • Booth operators
    • Projects
      • Submit your projects you would like to have featured with TW at the space.
    • Setup/Takedown
      • Significant, if this is all you can help with that is fine
    • Rylan is the head of the makerfaire commitee (Techworks island, Rylan island V2.0)
  • Open Floor
    • Karl suggested for an open house or any other day to have people come to the space and have the group help with a problem or task
      • Would demonstrate to potential new members what you can do at the space
      • This already happens informally on the weekly hack nights however we could advertise it more specifically
      • There are posts on Reddit asking for exactly this on a regular basis
    • Chad offered a large format printer
      • 6ft wide, can do E size
      • Members will discuss after the meeting the feasibility of taking it
      • The person donating it is a repair tech and is willing to maintain it for us
    • Taylor is going to start a group project
      • Techworks banner, each letter ~ 1ft x 1ft made with different processes
      • If interested in helping out contact Taylor

• Acknowledgements
  • Everyone who helped get the soft room setup
    • Tables
    • Moving of equipment
    • the Wall
  • Torban for building Tables
  • Everyone who helped for Open House
    • We got a lot of members from this event, great success
  • Mena for newsletter
  • Mena for being Returning officer
  • Richard bought bandsaw blade
  • Andrew for finishing network connection and installing two more cameras
  • James for doing the budget
  • The board for everything they do

• Next Meeting - April 14, 2020
• Motion to adjour seconded and

• Purgatory box