Minn-Stf Board Meeting

21 November 1991 at the home of Don Bailey and Margo Bratton

Persons present: Rob Ihinger, Don Bailey, Martin Schafer, Dean Gahlon,
Geri Sullivan, Eric Heideman, Rebecca Chesin, Sue Feltes, Margo Bratton,
Victor Raymond, Glenn Tenhoff, Sybil Smith, Joe Agee, Art and Lucia Johnson,
Charles Piehl, Polly Peterson.

AT&T
	Dean reports that AT&T will pay us $20 to change our long distance
phone to them and Dean would like to do this since he doesn't much like AT&T
and we never make long distance calls on the Hotline. He will do this unless
he has to also change their personal phone lines, which he does not wish to do.

Minutes
	Polly wanted to know how many copies of board minutes she should print
since it is often hard to see them since they don't often get displayed at
Minn-Stf and Rune comes out only (we hope!) quarterly or semi-annually. It was
decided that 12 copies would cover everyone who needs them and leave a few
pass around copies for those who request them.

The Camel
	Rebecca, who has recently gotten the Minn-Stf computer from Scott
reports that one of the disk drives does not seem to be functioning. She was
advised to consult with Scott as to whether it is still under warranty and in
any case it will have to be fixed. She would also like a cart on which to put
it, as the camel has taken over her dining room table and she can't eat. The
board authorized her to do research and then spend up to $50 on a cart after
consulting them. At this point Geri came in and said that she may have a desk
which she would be willing to donate ("Do you have the dimensions of the
curmudgeon?") and they will consult on the issue.

Inventory
	Rebecca passed around the current inventory as she knows it for the
entertainment and edification of all who saw it.

ReinCONation
	Polly apologizes for misspelling it last minutes.
	Martin reports that the insurance company called and said that they
were not liable for the loss at ReinCONation because all proper caution was
taken. Martin put them straight on the issue (the Hotel left the door
unlocked.) The security people "lost" the report on the incident for over a
month which may explain why the insurance company was misinformed. Rob will
also bend Jolene's (Minicon's contact at the Rad) ear about it.
	Even if ReinCONation has to pay the loss, the convention still made a
small profit ($200) over the seed money. There is sentiment out there to do
another ReinCONation, but Martin has been real busy and has not had time to
get out a proposal. He will do so in December or January.


Finance Report
	Don checked with a friend who said that if we asked him at a slow
season (like late summer) he would be willing to put in a few hours doing the
lowest level of audit at half of his usual fee. This would be $50 per hour and
he would not charge us for over 4 hours.
	Martin's friend would be willing to donate a little time to look at
the books and give us advice about what we need to do.

Minicon Proposal
	Some discussion was given to the two proposals for Minicon 28 (1993)
which were turned in at the meeting. These are from Eric Heideman, Joe Agee
and Rebecca Chesin on the one hand and Margo Bratton, Polly Peterson and
Victor Raymond on the other. Don announced that he hoped not to have to vote
(ie, only if there was a tie) since Margo is in one of the proposals.
Questions were asked and answered by the two committees. The proposals will be
studied and the two committees will be back at the December 12th meeting to
answer more questions. Geri complained that these were two workable bids and
that they need one really awful one to be able to reject outright. Charles
said that he would see what he could do . . .

Treasury
	Carol would like to rationalize all of the checking accounts that
Minn-Stf has/had so that we know where they all are.

Rune
	Garth is editing the mailing list. . . (I think this means that
progress is being made.)

The meeting ended at 9:25.

Next meeting: Thursday December 12, 1991
Main Agenda Item: Minicon 93 Proposals.