MN-StF Board Meeting

16 August 1993

Persons present: Kay Drache, Dean Gahlon, Martin Schafer, Mitch Pockrandt,
David S Cargo, Polly Jo Peterson, Joyce Scrivner


The meeting began with a discussion of Minicon issues.

The board has and will continue to discuss issues around this year's Minicon
with Minicon chair Charles.

The person upset with us for overcharging him for registration was found to
have paid up a bounced check and art price from a previous year rather than
having paid for a current registration, and therefore did not pay his
Minicon 28 registration twice. The board expects him to pay up any late check
charges and would like him to apologise to Joyce for his obnoxiousness before
he is given another membership to Minicon.

The board would also like it if the Grand Triumvirate and Charles would get on
the exec selection process for next year.

Report from Reinconation is that the liquor distributor they were trying to
get beer from wanted to have proof of dram insurance before they would sell us
beer. It is the understanding of some board members that we have been able to
bill the liquor through the hotel in the past in order to have their dram
insurance cover this. We need to talk about this to past hotel liaisons and
party heads


The board then discussed its budget as follows:

Meeting subsidies
Pool Party
New Year's Eve Party             $1500
Picnic

Tales of the Unanticipated       $3300
Hot Line phone bill                325
RUNE                              2000
MN-StF Lecture Series              500
Locker Rental                      720
Mpls in '73 events                 600
Einblatt                           960
Postage meter                     2000
PO Box rental                       50
MN-StF directory printing          120
Total "fixed" expenses		      $11,925

Based on this we should not spend more than $3,000 on any new "neat ideas".
So far we have spent about $650 on such ideas and the board is friendly to
purchasing two new cash registers for Minicon.

Joel Rosenberg suggests that we consider purchasing a heavy duty two wheel
truck with a furniture strap to help the Mn-StF movers in moving heavy
appliances. The board authorised Joel to spend up to $50 to get such a moving
aid.


The next meeting will be Monday September 20 at David Cargo's Whisker's Ranch.
The main agenda item will be Martin's Policy Statement on Minicon, which will
be either confirmed as is or discussed in order to move it out of its present
limbo.