MNStf board meeting, 7pm March 24, 2022 at Scott+Irene's house. Attending board members: Matt Strait (recording), Scott Raun, Isaac Schneider, Linda Lounsbury. This is the bylaw-III.5.a meeting for the purpose of appointing officers. We decided not to do any other business, since fifth board member Aaron Vander Giessen can't make it. The 2021-2022 officers are/were: President: Sharon Kahn First Vice President: Isaac Schneider Vice President in charge of Seconding: Nico Johnson Treasurer: Irene Raun Assistant treasurer: Carol Kennedy Correspondence Secretary: Hershey Harris and Linda Lounsbury Membership Secretary: Scott Raun Recording Secretary: Matthew Strait Einblatt Editor: Osce Erikson Rune Editor: Matthew Strait and Kelly Strait Archivist: Matthew Strait (includes web archives) Quartermaster: Joe Lima Director of the Fan Photo Archive: David Dyer-Bennet First let's talk about what we want, and then we'll talk about what to do about that. We're happy to keep Sharon, we'll ask her. Dean, Laura and DD-B attended the most meetings last year, should we ask them to be VPs? Let's work down the list of who attended the most meetings. We note that Sharon attends most meetings, so the VP duty of running the business meeting when the president is absent is unlikely to come up much, but certainly there could be some. We would like Irene and Carol to continue being treasurer and assistant treasurer. We're happy with Linda and Hershey being the correspondence secretaries. Linda picks up most of the mail. Hershey also has a key. This is mostly, we think, so Clay can get Minicon mail. Scott agrees to continue being membership secretary. Matt agrees to continue being recording secretary. We'd like to keep Osce as Einblatt editor. We'd just like to ask him to put Minnstf meetings and cons at the top instead of the bottom of the mailings. Interjection: it's hard to figure out when the next meeting is from the home page of our website. The information is, in fact, right there in the Google Calendar widget, but it's hard to notice that. We live-edited the site a bit and now we think it is better. Rune editor: Just Matt now. He did put out five issues between 2012 and 2019, but has not felt motivated lately. Linda will think about if she'd like to do it. For now, we'll leave Matt as the editor. He does have some material for a potential issue. Archivist: Matt will continue. Quartermaster: We'd like Brother Joe to continue. Director of the Fan Photo Archive: This is DD-B's project, so he should continue. Do we want to add any new officers? We couldn't think of any that we wanted to add. Now, how shall we find out if these people are willing? Texted Sharon, she says sure. Called Dean and Laura, Dean accepts. We'll drop the 2nd VP position, as there's not much chance that neither Sharon nor Dean will be at any given meeting, and Nico hasn't attended many. Scott will ask Carol. Matt has texted Hershey. Matt e-mailed Osce. He accepts. Matt has made our request about meeting and con announcements. Matt has texted Brother Joe. If he says no, we'll ask Isaac and Thorin. That leaves the state of things as: President: Sharon Kahn First Vice President: Dean Gahlon Treasurer: Irene Raun Assistant treasurer: Carol Kennedy (if she accepts) Correspondence Secretary: Hershey Harris (if she accepts) and Linda Lounsbury Membership Secretary: Scott Raun Recording Secretary: Matthew Strait Einblatt Editor: Osce Erikson Rune Editor: Matthew Strait Archivist: Matthew Strait Quartermaster: Joe Lima (if he accepts) Director of the Fan Photo Archive: David Dyer-Bennet == Next meeting == 8:30pm Friday, April 1 (really). Jitsi. We note that this is mostly constrained by Isaac's presumed work schedule. If he's not working, we'll meet at 6pm, if that's ok with Aaron. He'll know by Sunday. == Additions to the TODO list == (2022-03) Scott will ask Carol if she will continue as assistant treasurer. (2022-03) Matt will make sure to get an answer from Hershey. (2022-03) Matt will make sure to get an answer from Brother Joe.