Minn-Stf Board Meeting
21 September 1992

Persons present: David S Cargo, Judy Cilcain, Dean Gahlon, Polly Jo Peterson,
Kay Drache, Martin Schafer.

Donuts: The bill for donuts at Minicon also got paid very late. It seems that
people did not get trained in properly on how to get checks for Minicon
goodies.

Kay reported on the success of the smoking jacket that she made for James
White at ReinCONation.

David reported that the Grant Woods Museum likes to get copies of
derivative/parody works based on Grant Woods, especially American Gothic.
David thinks that we should send them the Minicon T-shirt that was such a
parody. We believe that Kathy Marschall was the artist. Kay will ask a friend
if she has the shirt and is willing to give it up and David will find the
correct address to get information from the museum.

David got the right information about the National Change of Address Center,
which will correct our Mailing List at a cost of $7 per 1000 addresses. This
is very worthwhile to do before we send out a big mailing. David needs to talk
to Scott about this.

David thinks that we need a new paper folder since our current one folds only
on sheet at a time. After a discussion of whether or not we needed a new one
(do we use it?) the board authorised up to $250 to get one. David will look
into this.

Kay says that she will get a storage locker by Wednesday as Charles is moving
on Oct 1 and needs to get everything out of his basement.

Dean requested authorization to spend money to get a new tape for the Hotline
answering machine. He pondered the question of getting voice mail sometime in
the future and Polly allowed that it was rather expensive (compared to an
answering machine). She thought it was about $13 per month. It was pointed out
that if ever the computer and the answering machine were stored in the same
place, there is software out there for $200-$300 to create our own voice mail.

Martin made a ReinCONation report: They had about 210 registrations with 199
attending. The con went well, with better programming than last year. Copies
of the PR's and Program book need to get to the Minn-StF Library. They
probably came out ahead financially and after a cooling off period it is
likely that they will come to the board about next year.

More discussion on the bid process for Minicon: It is easier to take a year
off if you are using the bid process, we are not going to use the Russian
Roulette method of throwing all the names in the hat and then picking out
several. The Grand Triumvirate is welcome to put in a bid to go back to the
old method of the old exec picking the new, and our Metarule: We do it the way
we have always done it until it doesn't work, and then we do it differently.

Polly will get the Request for Proposals that Don created last year from Margo
and mail it out with the Minutes. (sorry people!)

The Library was authorised to spend up to $50 on party supplies in order to
get the motivation to get the Minn-StF Library organized.

Mpls in '73 Suite at Magicon was reported to have been a spectacular success,
especially the Pig's Eye Beer.

Polly learned what decimated really means.

Next meeting: Monday October 26 at the home of Dean Gahlon and Laura Krentz.
The November meeting at which the Board will hear Minicon proposals will be
Friday November 20 at the home of Don Bailey and Margo Bratton.

The meeting adjourned at 9:36