— Time and Location —

• Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
• Previous meeting 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