These minutes were online in slightly abbreviated form (maybe how they were published in Rune?) before 2020. In 2020, Matt typed in the missing parts from an official copy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minn-STF Board of Directors -- 1988/89 year, meeting 6 -- 15 Sept 88 meeting at Bailey/Bratton home // "7:30" (e.g., 7:50) start Present: Board--Bailey, Cargo, Johnson, Sullivan Other--Lien (Recording Secretary) Agenda: Answering Machine; Margo Report; Strength Deployment Inventories; Fallcon; RUNE; Paper Folder; Mailing List; Treasury Deposits; Minneapolis '73; Mastercard/Visa acct; Hotline; Minn-STF Constitution Revision Work Session; Next Meeting Place/Time ********************************************************************* Board member Rob Ihinger was reported home, sick. Margo Report (Bailey): Margo was reported Not Home, Sick but getting better. ((By the time these notes were typed up she was Home and Not Sick and There Was Much Rejoicing.)) Treasury Deposits (Bailey): Taken care of; old checks unearthed and deposited to our account. Everyone's checkbooks should now balance the first time, and if not, It's Not Our Fault Anymore. Minneapolis in '73: Doug Friauf held the worldcon party promoting the bid. It was a Good Party. It cost about $200; he has receipts and would appreciated reimbursement in whatever we feel the proper amount. Hopping back into the Wayback Machine, we noted that we had allocated $150 for like purpose in years 1984, 1985, and 1986, and had approved $200 in 1987 because of high Brit corkage fees. Board authorized reimbursement of $175 retroactively to Friauf for the 1988 party. Sullivan will communicate same to treasurer Joel Halpern, who will cut check to Friaf. Answering Machine (Lien, for Terry Garey): We will set up demo with the Likely Answering Machine supplier at convenience of Hotline Honcho Dave Romm. Board OKed the quoted $299 for machine and will get Halpern to do up check in that amount (plus tax) in advance for Romm so that he can purchase it for us on the spot if demo is satisfactory. ((It was.)) Fallcon (Bailey): Have signed contract for hotel. Flyer is out. We are budgeting for 150 attending. Johnson will take flyers to Valleycon. RUNE (Sullivan, for the editors): Lots of material available for next issue. Editors are working on budget. Paper Folder (Cargo): On order and should be here within a week; cost us only $229 even though price had gone up (our contact was an sf buff). Strength Deployment Inventory: Tabled. ("Don't know me own strength.") Mailing List (Cargo): No contract from would-be user in Nebraska yet. Noted that (as a comparable case) LASFS list _does_ have usage regulation/disclaimer on it, contrary to our previous memory/impression. Mastercard/Visa (Johnson): In recent years, Greg Ketter has allowed the Minicon Art Show to use his account, so Minicon can accept plastic payment for art. This will be difficult this year and we should consider Minicon getting its own account--or (better?) Minn-STF getting one. Johnson volunteered to talk to Halpern and/or Ketter regarding the costs and the logistics thereof. Hotline: Lien will check on other possible homes to house Hotline without changing phone number if either Board or present host wishes to discontinue present system. Constitution Revision Proposals Work Session: Tabled. Next Meeting: Friday, 11 November 1988, at Karen Johnson's, at the usual alleged starting time of 7:30 or whatever soon thereafter is considered fashionably late. Lien will notify Mark Richards to get listing in EINBLATT. Meeting adjourned circa 9 pm. Minutes Typed 26 Nov 88 (!) [signed: Denny Lien] The Hibernating Denny Lien ************************************************************************* By Popular Demand, the Bawdy Exchange last time dropped from minutes: Ihinger: "I have one already." Lien: "But I have a longer one." We were speaking of lists of locals who had sold science fiction professionally. Certain People on the Board, attempting to humanize these all-too-serious and sober-sided minutes at the expense of the notoriously dignified and humorless secretary, have directed same to publish this pathetic double entendre in despite of many issues of world import which could have used the space instead. Look at the other funnies at that meeting that got squeezed out of the unpublished minutes: "I think there's too much monomania around here. I complain about it over and over, every chance I get." "Poorly edited and heavily edited are not necessarily mutually exclusive terms." "Throw the rascals out." All right, so they weren't so very funny. It was late. Hey, these Board meetings aren't held only to provide one-liners for the excerpts published in _Rune_ you know. Only mostly... In other words, enough is enough. Measure up, folks, you're killing me by inches. Let's size up the situation: it's not how long the minutes extend, it's what I do with them. Even if only on paper once every five or six weeks. Call it a stretch of the imagination. OK, Board, I published it. So much for extended metaphors.