MN-StF Board Meeting

20 December 1993

MN-StF Board Minutes

Persons present: Mitch Pockrandt, David S Cargo, Dean Gahlon, Martin Schafer,
Laura Krentz, Polly Peterson, Scott Raun


Quote of the Meeting : "Oh Shit! It's Christmas this week." -Mitch Pockrandt

Rumors: Dean heard that the Old Guard (of MN-StF) didn't like the way things
are going and that is why we have this con in Duluth.

OTML: Scott reported that he has turned over the One True Mailing List to
Thomas Keeley as of 7:30pm this evening. Scott talked in a lot of computer
gibberish (to your humble servant) about losing entries in interesting ways...
The ISBAM and DBAM (whatever they are) need analysis. David will get a printer
to Thomas.

LiBraRy: They realize that the library needs to be moved.

MN-StF Board Elections: Board elections will be March 5th. Nominating
meetings will be February 5th (Yes, the Pool Party) and 19th. Polly raised the
issue that while the private ballot counting allows candidates not to be
embarrassed about how they came out in an election, it also gives them no
input about their standing in the community. After discussion it was decided
that since it would be impractical to allow all of the candidates to be
present at the ballot counting (Nobody has a room big enough to accomodate
everyone plus the tellers) the board will continue the practice of not
allowing any candidate to be present at the ballot counting, although one or
two interested by-standers may be allowed. The Australian ballot will, however
be carried out until all candidates have been rank-ordered and although the
list will not be published, it will be available to interested parties who
wish to see it. Because of carrying the election out to the end (past the
number of board members needed) it is important that the ballot counting be
done by computer since continuing the process to the end by hand would be
tedious. If for any reason the original count was done by hand and then a
computer count was made later the original results announced at the MN-StF
Meeting would hold should there be a difference in the results between the
two.

The Paper Folder: David has found out from Denny that the folder, the
paperwork for it and the original shipping carton all exist, allowing us to
return it for a replacement per the guarantee. David will get them all
together and ship them off.

New Year's Party: After discussion it was decided that left over munchies in
the storage locker should be dispatched to Susan Ryan's and that Carol
(Treasurer) should send her a check to cover expenses that equals the amount
that she got last year, believed to be $100.

Art Show Panels: World Fantasy would like to find out how much the new Minicon
art show panels cost so that WF can pay its half to MN-Stf and close its books
by the end of the year. Polly will contact Victor or Ellen (who ran art show
and arranged for the panels to be made) to find out how much they were. WF
also bought a piece of software to use in programming that Victor is using for
Minicon now. The board voted to write $150 off of the amount of the art show
panels to help pay for the software that will become Minicon's.

Supercon?

OTML Encore: It would be useful to be able to generate bar codes with our
labels because this would qualify us for a cheaper rate at the post office for
our bulk mailings. David (or was it Mitch) will talk to John Wirsig about the
canonization of the OTML.

Next Meeting will be at Kay's house at 3067 Zarthan Ave S in St Louis Park.