MINNSTF BOARD MINUTES - March 16, 2007 Location: Dream Park (Sharon's house) Attending: Dean Gahlon, Sharon Kahn, Laurel Krahn, Rachel Kronick Phoning in: Lisa Freitag Minutes by: Sharon Kahn AGENDA This was the first meeting of the new board, elected on March 10, 2007. All members are the same as the previous board except that Carol Kennedy (who chose not to run for reelection) has been replaced by Sharon. - The Storage Locker Crisis - Insurance - Appointing new Officers of the Club - Minicon 43 - Misc discussion OLD BUSINESS The Storage Locker crisis. This was pretty well wrapped up before Sharon came on the scene, to her great relief, so this bit of business was basically a recap. It seems that the facility that hosts the venerable Minicon Storage Locker changed management sometime during the past year and there was some confusion over whether Minnstf ever got billed (we had been paying yearly). In any case, we fell into arrears, the landlords changed the locks and were preparing to auction off the contents of the locker to pay our bill when the situation came to our attention. Frankly, your humble scribe has a hard time imagining that the contents of the locker would bring enough at auction to pay for the expense of running the auction, but it would inconvenience us mightily to lose all those coffee makers, styrofoam cups, and bottles of grenadine. In any case, with the timely help of Bill Christ and the efforts of the previous board, the locker was paid off and Carol Kennedy has volunteered to be the contact. Bill has provided a new combination lock for the locker itself. INSURANCE Lisa is taking on the role of Speaker to Insurance. Since she couldn't be present at the meeting, we didn't spend a lot of time on this topic. Insurance bill is due April 7. NEW BUSINESS Officers of the Club: Positions Filled - Treasurer and Correspondence Secretary: Carol Kennedy - Membership Secretary - Laura Krentz - Recording Secretary - Sharon Kahn/Kevin Austin - Secretary of Internet Affairs - Laurel Krahn Other positions are still under discussion. We must have a new president by Minicon. Other positions, such as VPDP, are not as urgent. Minicon 43. The Board was delighted to receive a written bid from Keith Malgren and Matt Strait to chair Minicon 43 (2008). This bid was unanimously approved. Misc Discussion _where will we meet and when? The consensus was to meet one Friday a month at Dream Park at 7:30, subject to scheduling issues. The next meeting will be Friday, April 27, at 7:30. Note that we have no plans to meet again before Minicon 42 unless an urgent need arises. - How will we communicate? There was some discussion of the Board-Chat list vs. the Board mailbounce and a little brainstorming on other creative uses of the Internet. We agreed to post Board minutes to Minnstf-events - Minnstf voting membership. Lisa had raised the issue of possibly broadening the definition of the 7 meetings that must be attended to qualify for voting membership. Since she wasn't present, the topic was mostly deferred. It was suggested that some of the people working on Minicon may not realize that open Minicon meetings count toward voting membership. We need to make sure that next year's chairs are aware of this and that they let their concom know.