These minutes were typed in by hand (no OCR) in 2020 and are intended to be
verbatim, including formatting and errors, which will be marked by [sic] when
noticed.  Other things in square brackets are also explanatory additions by the
transcriber.  (Historical note: These are some of the earliest minutes that
were word-processed rather than typewritered.  Or anyway, all adjacent minutes
use a fixed-width font, but these have a variable width font, so I can't
represent them in ASCII quite as accurately.)

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               Minutes of the Minn-stf Board of Directors
                      meeting on November 11, 1988

Official Agenda:
       SDI
       IDS
       DSI
       SS
       AC/DC
       SMOF
       Big Box
       C*D
       WAW

The meeting was held at the home of Karen Johnson.  All board
members, Don Bailey, David Cargo, Rob Ihinger, Karen Johnson, and
Geri Sullivan were present but our Recording Secretary, Denny Lien,
was sick at home.  Also present were Scott Raun, Joel Halpern, and
Margo Bratton.

Don Bailey offered to record the minutes, and, with the approval of
the other Board members, seized power.  The meeting started late at
7:57 PM when the Board voted 3-1-1 to declare Karen Johnson, who
was baking cookies, the obligatory late person.

SDI:
We decided SDI was too complicated and postponed it to the end of
the meeting.

IDS  (Investors Diversified Services)
Kay Drache told them to get our address right and found out that
Steve Winkles is our account representative.  Steve would like to
meeting us and talk about services.  Our of their services is a free tax
review.  Our Treasurer offered to speak with Steve.

DSI  (Doubtful Sensory Input):
Never mind.

SS  (Storage Space):
Minicon was interested in renting storage space to have a place to
put our possessions.  The price of storage space was unknown but
$30/month was mentioned.  (Side discussion of popcorn, caramel
corn, and cotton candy.)  The Board decided, "It's not broke and we
aren't going to fix it."  (Side discussion of M1A1 tanks and fine
knives.)   (Retief invoked.)

On further discussion of our assets, the Board resolved to find out
what we own.  The Board decided to inform the Minicon committee
through the Minicon Exec and the membership at large through
Einblatt and other means that an inventory shall be held.  Everyone
possessing Minn-stf property shall present a list of that property to
the Membership Secretary, Scott Raun, by the New Year's Eve party.
(And Herod declared a census across the land.  {Wait a minute, we
haven't had Thanksgiving yet!})

AC/DC  (Air Cleaners / Damn Camels):
Rob Ihinger talked to Mel Branigan about our smoke problem at
Minicon.  Mel recommended that we purchase two air cleaners that
would provided four air exchanges per hour in the area we need it.
The larger model is $600 ($100 rental) and the smaller is $300 ($60
rental).  Rent could be applied to the purchase price for a limited
time.  The recommended models may be too loud for use in a music
room.  Rob will get more information.  We may try to test them
before Minicon.

SMOF  (Secret Masters of Fandom Convention):
SMOFCON 5 will be held in Phoenix in December and will focus on
communications.  We don't know if anyone from Minneapolis is
going.  (They all laughed when I suggested they pay my way.)

Big Box  (BB):
Scott Raun wants a single contain to carry the electric folder,
electric stapler, and the electric postage meter, and their supplies.
The Board authorized (4-0-1)  $20-$50 for such a container.

C*D  (Consensus*    *with Don abstaining):
We briefly discussed the Smoking Controversy, the chocolate bonus,
and the estimated profit of $100-200.

WAW  (Walter A. Willis):
After several guesses involving Women, Wombats, and Walls, Geri
revealed that this topic was about Walt Willis, a well known fan.
Geri is going to Tropicon and wants to invite Walt back here after the
con.  Instead, the Board authorizes $50 for a Mpls. in '73 party at
Tropicon.

SDI  (Strength Deployment Inventory):
After many months, the Board members finally completed a
psychological inventory showing how they relate to each other.  Now
we know which two Board members are likely to get into the longest
argument, which Board member is the most helpful, which Board
member is the least reactive under stress, and which Board member
should never be allowed to take the minutes.


NYP  (New Year's Party):
After our Treasurer had escaped, the Board approved $100 for a New
Year's Party at the new home of Denny Lien and Terry Gary [sic: Garey].

The next Board meeting will be held December 8 at Toad Hall, the
home of Geri Sullivan.