Minn-Stf Board Meeting 18 FEBRUARY 1992 Persons present: Dean Gahlon, Laura Krentz, Geri Sullivan, Don Bailey, Rob Ihinger, Polly Peterson, David Dyer-Bennet, Eric M. Heideman TOTU: Eric gave a report on Tales of the Unanticipated. He would like to keep the current periodicity and the ability to announce in the current issue when the next issue is due out. The board agreed that this is a good thing but wanted an out if there was a catastrophic Minicon (financially). Eric agreed that this was logical and only would like to be able to write to subscribers if this should happen. The question of a smaller print run came up given the number of back issues that we have of most of the series. Eric said that the printer he uses, who has very competitive prices has a minimum print run of 1000 copies. Geri agreed that the price was very good for printing. Eric will check if anyone else has come down since the last time he priced printing and the possibility of giving back issues to members of some small con (ReinCONation or 4th St) to promote interest in it was raised. Eric went home to watch the New Hampshire returns. Minicon: While Seraphina (resident cat) walked all over Martin's face, David Dyer-Bennet (DDB for you archivists looking at this 20 years from now) [Gee, thanks! -Kevin G. Austin 2012/02/18] reported that they are planning to use the Minn-StF logo on the back of the Minicon T-shirts. He assumed that this would not be a problem for the board and it wasn't. He was also contemplating making Minn-StF buttons after all of the oohs and aahs he got for the one that he whipped up while playing around at making a Minicon chairman's button. DDB then brought up an interesting situation which arose out of the Minicon 92 name badge policy (=people must wear their real names on their badges). He has received several letters from people (mostly women) who have security concerns about wearing their real names at the con. They are not worried about at the con, but follow-up afterwards. They (Minicon committee) are pursuing these letters to see if these people have specific concerns or if it is a general (but as yet hypothetical) uneasiness. DDB will write an article about the problem for the Minicon program book. The board discussed options and legal ramifications of confronting any named individuals and options for handling the concerns of these women. Electric Paper Folder: It has given up the ghost as far as folding more than one sheet at a time is concerned. Don's investigation of purchasing a new but different model revealed that one could be gotten for $150 to $160. After discussion, the board decided that we need to know how much people in the club use a paper folder (do we need it?) and whether or not it can be repaired for a reasonable price (=less than enough to make it more logical to purchase a new one). Don will investigate but it is unlikely to happen before Minicon. Treasury: (via Jonathan) Carol had hoped to have the numbers from Supercon, but didn't as Victor and Charles haven't finished with the hotel yet. The con did make a few hundred dollars. Carol cannot do the 1991 Minn-StF taxes until she gets the info about Minicon 26. The board will handle this. Elections: Polly brought up the question of campaign speeches in the Minn-StF board elections ballot. (Last year Elise inserted a statement and no other candidate considered the option available). After discussion the board decided to encourage individuals to handle this on a one to one basis (ie, no statements in the ballot) but to ask the membership in a non-binding survey question on the ballot if they think that this is a good idea. ReinCONation: Martin announced that the guests and dates for ReinCONation had been chosen: James White and Jeanne Gomoll on September 11-13. They hope to do a mailing before Minicon. The Book: Rob and Karen are working on the Minicon book. Minicon again: Don asked about an extraordinary expense for Minicon: taking official types who have agreed to be on a Minicon panel out to lunch to discuss their participation. The board allowed as that this is not extraordinary enough to be their problem (as opposed to Minicon's decision). Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on 5 March 1992 at the home of Geri Sullivan, 3444 Blaisdell. This will be the final meeting of this board, as the next meeting is the headache of the next board to be elected on March 21. Respectfully submitted, Polly Jo Peterson