Minn-Stf Board Meeting
Thursday September 19, 1991

	Peter brought up the Beyond the Enchanted Duplicator. . . that he had
not used up at Reinconation and what to do with them, also reporting some
damaged due to an accident. He was told that they belong to Minicon and he
should consult them. Perhaps they can sell them at the sales table.

	Victor gave a state of the club address (sort of) He is creating a
database of Minn-stf houses and stuff. He would like help executing his duties
since Kate seems to be less able to help than he had hoped. Help! Help! He
would like to have a cabinet meeting of Minn-stf officers but hasn't set this
up yet. Pomp and Silliness will be anthologized (is this a new verb?) in
Midterms (#1-6) and Finals (#7-12) He has talked to lots of people about what
Minn-Stf is, was and should be and he would like to see us try to do more
community building.

	LiBraRy: They found a card catalogue that Denny had typed up (murmurs
of approval and appreciation). All the books are out and accessible but there
is still a lot of stuff and fanzines that are in the closet for which they
would like to have a file cabinet. After discussion, they were authorized to
spend up to $100 for the cabinet and supplies and everyone agreed to check out
their sources of cheap (but not crummy) file cabinets.

	RUNE: Two proposals were put on the table : one from Jeanne Mealy, Lee
Pelton and Peter Hentges and one from Garth Danielson with Ken Fletcher,
Jeff Schalles and Tom Juntenen. The Board "interviewed" each of these
proposals and put them through deep scrutiny and promised to let them know of
their decision.

	Minicon 93: The board decided that it needs to decide what to do with
Minicon and beyond as far as how the committee will be chosen. Polly (as a
concerned citizen) was concerned that we would fall into a de facto bid
process if we did not make a real decision. Martin suggested that we do a bid
process for 93 and then look at our "experiment" for 92 and 93 and then decide
on a more or less permanent process. Polly was concerned about the perception
of lack of democracy that some people have about the bid process and she
volunteered to solicit comments and publish a one shot zine about this issue.
	The Board decided to put out a call for bids for Minicon 93 in the
October Einblatt. Bids will be due December 1 (or they can be brought to the
November meeting) and need to be presented at the December meeting. The Board
will have a decision by the end of the January meeting. They will look at the
Request for Proposals from last year and tweak it. "Don gets first tweak."

	ReinConation Report: They had 186 members, which was less than they
hoped for, but respectable. The only problem was that $800 worth of Giovanna's
jewelry was stolen and the issues of responsibility have not yet been resolved.
(in the opinion of some members the primary responsibility was the Radisson's)
Nevertheless they made back the seed money and some beyond. For the future we
may want to discuss electronic security equipment for our smaller conventions

Charles wanted to know did Reinconation count as a Minn-stf meeting for voting
purposes. This has never been true for any other Minicon or Fall con, so the
decision was that it did not count.

	Anywhere But Minneapolis: SuperCon: Victor and Charles would like to
have a con on Superbowl weekend in Duluth for the sole purpose of getting out
of town that weekend. So far their committee consists of Charles: Treasurer
pro tem and Major Domo and Victor: Chair Token and Lynn: Registration. The
Board authorized $250 for publicity to seed this con.

Next meeting is October 17, 7:30 pm at the home of Dean and Laura.


			Respectfully submitted by Polly Jo Peterson