MINN-STF BOARD MEETING 25 JULY 1991 QUOTE OF THE MEETING: Some are born editors, some are made editors and some have editorships thrust upon them -Eric M. Heideman The meeting began at about 7:50. . . . AND TAXES Jonathan reported on our woes with the IRS. He has written to them to ask them to hold off on the penalty (for sending in incomplete forms) while we work it out. They have levied several of our accounts but apparently none of the active ones. We need to find out where all of our accounts are. Jonathan says that the IRS is like a hotel: Any employee who talks to any other employee gets immediately fired. He suggests that we pay the fine and then haggle over whether or not we owe it. This is not admitting that we owe it and will show that we did try to do the right thing. We are asking them to be nice (Nice = Reasonable). A good next step if they won't be nice is to write to Congressman Sabo. Next steps are: Find out whether they have already gotten their penalty out of our account and send them the good faith amount (as opposed to what they say we owe) if they haven't gotten it. Jonathan will put a check for $1500 into a trust fund to pay them and they won't then know where we hide our mattress. We discussed that we need to know about the gray areas such as sales tax on non clothes items. This ends up being some extra tax forms but not much cash and it is easier just to pay it. Lacking any other pointless or annoying questions for Jonathan, he went home. TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED REPORT Eric reported on the spacing of future issues. People like the eight month interval but the board is concerned about the delay in recovering the seed money for each issue. Eric talked about various promotional ideas including a 5th Anniversary Issue party (like an album release party) or an auction at Minicon. (This became a discussion of what kinds of auctions the board feels comfortable allowing and which feel like Minn-Stf fundraising at its own fundraiser.) Geri suggested a pre-ordered, limited bound edition of TOTU 1-10 as a potential fundraiser. Final agreement was reached to try to continue the 8 month interval of TOTU barring a disastrous return from Minicon next spring. The change in Audioblatt editorship was officially announced. Marianne Hageman is the new editor (see the QOTM) RUNE REPORT Where are they? Geri called Jeanne and found that the current issue is not ready as promised and the board agreed that they are in the market for new editors. An announcement will be put in the August Einblatt and they would like to hear from would be editors at the August board meeting, and would like to make a decision at the September meeting. MINN-STF LECTURE SERIES Polly says they would like to have a lecture series this year but have not done much on it yet. They would like a little more money than they had last year. They will hold a meeting this month. GOOD DEEDS CZAR Polly (again) suggested that Minn-stf create an office, the GDC, which would offer members of the club opportunities to be nice to other people as a group (ie, volunteer opportunities). Discussion included stating that this should be a facilitator position, not lets dump everything on that person and that it should happen only if the person is enthusiastic and not just because it "should" be done. It might be as simple as being a contact person who then sees that the ideas get posted on Einblatt and announced at meetings. There was general agreement that this is a good idea, but the board decided to let it float out there for awhile to see how it matures. BOOKS FOR BULGARIA Mark Richards and Mark Digre would like to respond to an appeal for SF books to be sent to Bulgaria, where they have trouble getting such material. After discussion the board thought that we could give them $100 towards postage and copies of Minn-stf publications (TOTU and Maturity, Rune,etc.) and to encourage people donating books to also donate money for postage since even surface mail you can't send many books for $100. LIBRARY REPORT The LibRaRy went to see their domain and began sorting. They need a clipboard for posting checked out materials. MPLS IN 73 REPORT Geri gave advanced warning that she would like to have a Mpls in 73 event at Magicon that will knock their socks off and will require more money than the amount that they have been giving to other world con MI7 hosts. Nobody has come forward to ask to host the Mpls in 73 party at Chicon. (Doug, where are you?) They have traditionally given $200 for this purpose. Receipts are strongly encouraged. ADJOURNMENT REPORT The meeting ended at 9:25 (GOSSIP DELETED) Respectfully submitted, Polly Jo Peterson