Minn-StF Board Meeting

5 March 1992 at Toad Hall

Persons present: Geri Sullivan (w/raspberry cake), Don Bailey, Dean Gahlon,
Rob Ihinger, and Polly Peterson

The meeting began with cake in honor of the final meeting of this board.
It was very good.

The problem of last year's Minicon treasury was handled with a phone call by
Don.

Geri reported that $7.70 was billed to us from the pool party for phone calls
from the suite. Martin Schafer had paid this out of pocket. The board decided
to reimburse Martin for this. We need to do something about this at future
pool parties. Either signs by the phones or turning off the phone to be able
to make only internal phone calls with the hotel.

A new Minn-StF officer position was discussed but creating the Minn-StF
Pinhead was tabled for now.

Polly is doing research into voting procedures and the affects of the type of
balloting on the results. She would like to get actual raw data from the board
election so that she can do research on actual results rather than
hypothetical ones (doing cancer testing on humans rather than rats so to
speak). The board has always guarded this information zealously to protect the
innocent (winners and losers). The board is unwilling for this reason to give
her this year's data, but Dean has the paper ballots from the last decade of
elections or so and was willing to disguise the data so that it was valid but
unrecognizable from some recent election(s) and give that to her for her
research (Thank you Dean!)

Don got a letter for the George Alec Effinger fund asking for contributions to
help him pay for his on-going medical expenses through a raffle being held by
an east coast fan group. After discussing whether the IRS was likely to get
upset about this high risk investment of our charitable funds (Rob thought
that we could get by) the board decided that they would rather make a straight
contribution instead and after discussion decided that $73 seemed the right
thing to do. (Then followed a discussion of whether inside jokes were
an impediment or a connecting influence on fandom.)

Quote of the meeting: "You can do that by drawing a decal on your chest." Don

Rob asked what did they (this year's board) do and what do they have to pass
on to the next board? They thought it would be a good idea to get a cake for
the Minn-StF officers at the final Minn-StF meeting before Minicon but didn't
know for sure who will remember to do it (Anyway, thank you officers for a job
well done, they say.). It may be time to try to collect some of the money that
Denise owes Minn-StF and the next board may want to pursue this. The next
board also has to decide on a permanent plan for how they are going to pass
the leadership of Minicon on from year to year starting in 1994.

More cake was eaten and it was still very good.

Yummily submitted by

Polly Jo Peterson