MN-STF Board of Directors Meeting

Monday March 21, 1994 Toad Hall

Attending: Kay Drache (minutes), Dean Gahlon, Polly Peterson, Mitch Pockrandt,
Martin Schafer

"White Castle takes VISA now!"

KD will call the Radisson after Minicon to see about phone lockouts as a
regular feature of rooms we use for pool party, etc.

KD updated board on status of Great Glacier acct; 1992 bill has been paid, an
additional $61 would reimburse GG for collection expenses. Carol Kennedy is
checking 1992 records before mailing the $61 to see if we show we paid.

KD paid bulk mail fee 3/15/94; don't know when it was actually due, but will
now be due 3/15/95.

PP alerted us to per item deposit charges on TCF Minicon acct; $212 @ $.20 per
item over 75 items deposited per day; also fee for cash deposits. Will check
into a new arrangement after Minicon.

Mark Richards has purchased a third cash register. (NB: noone told
Carol Kennedy to expect this check request....)

MTN.ORG  John Ladwig and Ralph Jensen are involved in this effort. Local cable
provider MTN is providing space, MacArthur grant is providing funds, SUN
workstations came from somewhere to set up Internet access for nonprofit
organizations, possibly up to 3 per org, free or inexpensive. Not for
individual member accounts. We will apply. MP plans to be more involved with
this. MS will cobble together a brief MN-STF 'bio' for them, if KD can provide
info.

DG has many old MINNEAPAs from his tenure as OG which he plans to discard to
make room for a car in his garage. MS would like a set.

MP talked with Rob Ihinger, who is willing to continue with library work, but
not alone. Library must be moved before Don and Margo sell their house. We
discussed weeding the collection heavily; Margo says it has recieved very
little use. Keep RUNE, MINNEAPA, other fanzines, MN authors; have local
experts (Denny Lien, Scott Imes, Greg Ketter) look over remainder to tell us
which are worth more than the minimum. Would like to have first sale at MNSTF
meeting 4/30 or 5/14. Stamp leftovers with "donated by MNSTF, etc" and ship to
our friends in Eastern Europe or Libros por Ninos.

PP suggests (again) that we get labels printed for board members and officers
to facilitate the mailing of minutes.

We agree we need to give the Rune boys a gnudge.

The MNSTF bulletin board has disappeared (update; Martin McClure says Margo
has it)

DG is going to write out membership secretary duties--especially if we give
him a call to remind him to work on it.

Appointment of officers proceeded apace; discussion, a round of calls,
and after the meeting followup calls with the following results:

        President                                       Ed Eastman
        Vice President                                  Charles Piehl
        Vice President Data Processing                  Thomas Keeley
        Executive Vice President                        Steven K. Z. Brust
        Corresponding Secretary                         Polly Peterso
        Membership Secretary                            Nancy & Martin McClure
        Recording Secretary                             Kay Drache
        Treasurer                                       Carol Kennedy
        Quartermaster                                   Mark Richards
        Lib                                             Karen Johnson
        Rare                                            Rob Ihinger
        Ian                                             *

Publications Editors
        Directory                                       Thomas Keeley
        Einblatt                                        Denny Lien
        Hotline                                         Marianne Hageman
        Rune                                            Jeff Schalles
        TOTU                                            Eric Heideman

*A third person is needed to help with the library.