This is a transcription of paper minutes done by Matt Strait in 2015. I have approximately preserved the original formatting, and also preserved a few typos (marked with "[sic]"). I may certainly have also introduced new typos or inadvertently corrected some. Other words inside square brackets are verbatim from the original. Possibly they indicate that I am working from a rough draft. See the last paragraph of the transcription for more hints on this. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minutes of the Minn-Stf Board of Directors Meeting May 20, 1985 Directors attending: Jan Appelbaum Don Bailey David Cargo Scott Imes Virginia Nelson Officers attending: Joel Halpern, Treasurer David Cummer, Vice President and Acting Recording Secretary Someone called the meeting to something that resembled order at 8:20 p.m. Item 1: "Geri's Career." A friend of Geri Sullivan is working on revamping Career Guidance forms and would like people to fill out these forms. Geri offered to make these available to those who were interested. Virginia moved to make this a Minn-Stf function with Geri in charge (I believe Geri made a rude noise at this point) and Joel responsible for reporting this to the I.R.S. The motion was seconded. Vote: For: 4, Against: 0, Abstaining: 1. Also, Geri didn't ask for any money for "Not-A-D-Con" and wasn't given any. Item 2: Scott Imes spent $13.64 on "Mpls in '73" flyers and asked to be reimbursed by Minn-Stf, which was approved. Item 3: Treasurer's Report. Joel Halpern reported that the Minn-Stf taxes were filed and on time. (Much well deserved applause.) As of January 1, 1985, Minn-Stf had a net work [sic] of $34,000.00. After Minicon 20, Minn-Stf had a net work [sic] of $21,000.00. Joel proposed that the amount paid for supplies provided by hosts for Minn-Stf meetings be increased to $25.00. Scott so moved with Don seconding the motion. Vote: For: 5, Against: 0, Abstaining: 0. At this point David Cargo asked the musical question, "What are we going to do with all this money?" Don Bailey wanted to discuss this at a later meeting, to which all agreed. Item 4: Denise Report. Tom Longo has filed against Rick Gelman with a court date of July 20, 1985. It might be possible to give Denise a court summons then, since she has proven to be hard to get a hold of (I wonder why). Someone stated, "David has been unable to serve Denise..." and decided to rephrase his sentence. Don and Virginia tried to re-file [the charge] and were informed that we can postpone our case on a monthly basis as needed for a small fee (2 or 3 dollars). Rob Ihinger has been hired to protect Minn-Stf from Tom by filing an injunction against Tom to prevent him from showing up at Minn-Stf functions. Rob's fee is $65.00 per hour; he also asked for a $200.00 retainer fee. This was voted on and approved, with part of this money coming from money put aside for [handling this situation]. Item 5: The St. Louis Tax Situation. The I.R.S. revoked the St. Louise Archon organization's non-profit [tax] status because Archon was being run "for the profit of artists and hucksters" and not to educate. Scott suggested that we all start thinking of ways that Minn-Stf has provided educational service in the past fifteen years. Mark Richards provided copies of the St. Louis report to members of the Board. He has also sent copies to Valleycon, Iowa City, and asked for suggestions on where else he should send information. As the Board read the report a lull settled over the meeting, and the Acting Recording Secretary read a copy of "Playgirl." Item 6: The (Audioblatt) Minn-Stf Hotline Question. Dean Gahlon asked if there was any point in having the Hotline hooked up to Sprint. The Board felt that there was no need for long distance service and Dean will check to see if there is a charge for not having long distance service. Item 7: Editorships. 1) Hotline. Vote on proposal from David Cummer. For: 4, Against: 0, Abstaining: 1. After voting the Board discussed David's proposal. It was pointed out that this was backwards... 2) Rune. No proposals [received]. However, M.K. Digre and Erik Biever were present doing something that looked like a proposal. They stated that they planned on having the next RUNE out sometime this summer, but couldn't give an exact date, and that they wanted to come out with three issues per year instead of publishing quarterly. It was discussed if having only three issues per year will affect the Bulk Mailing permit Minn-Stf has, and this will be looked into. Don requested a budget and a publishing schedule by the next meeting, and stated he would approve the present editors for the next two years. Virginia stated that she was willing to approve the editors for the next year. There was much discussion. Eric pointed out that they (M.K. and Erik) now had a streamlined production and were thinking of doing smaller issues (under 40 pages). M.K. pointed out that most club zines were about three or four pages long, and that this had been the case with RUNE until Fred Haskell became editor (and brought the Golden Age of RUNE abut). Scott stated that he wanted a formal motion to approve the editors until the end of the calendar year (December 31, 1985) pending budget and production schedule approval. This was approved by the Board [note: the motion was made and approved?] 3) Einblatt. [Received] proposals from: Mark Richards; Karen Schaffer and Terry Garey. Dan Goodman announced that Lee Reynolds was willing to volunteer to assist and edit Einblatt and that he (Dan) was willing to give advise. Don had questions about printing. Karen would use electro-stencil. Mark would use his dont-matrix [sic] printer, use xerox at work (if Minn-Stf would pay for paper) or use a printing service. Mark would also put the mailing list on his MacIntosh. Karen stated that she would use a printing service if Minn-Stf wanted to do this, since it would look better. She planned on keeping the mailing list on her IBM computer. There was discussion about the mailing list. Are we working on keeping enough people on the Einblatt list to keep the bulk mailing permit without really needed [sic] to use the bulk mailing permit? Also: 1) Do we need to do a minimum number of mailings per year to keep the bulk permit? 2) How many people on the mailing list want to keep getting Einblatt? The Board decided to postpone further discussion, and then discussed the proposals. Scott - Both proposals fine but wanted to give the editorship to Karen and Terry to balance the number of men and women in positions in Minn-Stf. Don - Agreed that both [proposals] were fine, but that giving the editorship to Karen and Terry would get Karen more involved in Minn-Stf. Virginia - Both excellent bids but felt that Mark would be busy at Minicon time. Jan - Same. David - Karen's [computer] machine was more compatible with M.K.'s (M.K. having the mailing list). It was pointed out that the board had just voted in favor of the Karen Schaffer/Terry Garey proposal. Item 8: Old business. (I believe it was David Cargo who asked) "What has Martin done wth the $200.00 given him [for the Alti-Ego Mpls in '73 party]. Item 9: [Money problems.] The Board discussed publishing lists of people who bounced checks at Minicon and other Minn-Stf functions. The Acting Recording Secretary pointed out that the Saloon (local gay bar) writes the names of bad check writers on large signs on the walls of the bar, and that the Minn-Stf wasn't as tacky as that. Virginia mentioned that there were worse things on the walls of the Saloon than the names of bad check writers... The Board agreed to send out dunning letters to those that still owed Minn-Stf money and then decide what to do after that. NEXT MEETING: The Board decided on the next meeting date being Monday, June 3, 1985, at the French House. [This] meeting was abandoned with much discussion at 10:29 p.m. These mispelt [sic] and typo ridden notes faithlesslyfully [sic] submitted to Karen Johnson by mine own hand, David Charles Cummer, Acting Recording Secretary. (After which the [Probably] Recording Secretary re-typed most of the notes and only a few of the typos, trying to retain the flavor of the meeting.) Respectfully Scribed, Karen Johnson. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------