Minn-Stf Board of Directors
Meeting of 24 APRIL 1995

The present:
Dean Gahlon, Kay Drache, Eric Heideman, Eileen Lufkin, Polly Peterson, and Karen Cooper.

The absent:
Martin Schafer sends his regrets.  As the meeting got down to business, Eileen fled.

The agenda:
1) Eric and TOTU

2) Club Vice President: Who?

The hidden agenda:
Not disclosed at this time.


This slow-starting meeting led us to discuss walking as exercise, which we
eventually determined to be Better than Not.


1) Eric provided from memory all the publication dates for TOTU -- 14 disties
over 9 years. (Polly wrote them down.) In fact, Eric has a remarkable amount of
information about TOTU stored in his on-board memory system and no where else.

Lengthy discussion produced the following overview of the problem: TOTU is
being printed in lots of 1000. It has 92 subscribers; another 50 or so are
consigned to various places around town.  The others are slowly, slowly sold
over the course of years. (Issue #2, the first one with a 1000 copy print run,
has not sold out yet.) In the mean time, they sit in Eric's apartment.

TOTU needs a circulation manager, we all agree. The Board further feels that
reducing the print run is a good idea. Eric suggested cutting back to a 750
copies/issue.  We like the idea of cutting it back to 500 copies/issue.

Eric is to investigate other sources for printing, and report back.  Ideas for
whom to tap as Circulation Manager were bantered about to no strong conclusion.
(One problem here is that Eric runs TOTU in a very hands-on fashion.  How do we
find a balance between that and giving someone a chance to do the job their
way?) Karen suggested further that keeping a better track of the on-going
finances of the project would be a good thing.  Polly thought that she could
produce a fill-in-the-blanks accounting sheet so that Eric could easily provide
sales and income information.


2) VP's --> Don Bailey


Other: Falafil: what is it? Is it good? Karen made falafil sandwiches for the
Board, which were found to be most tasty by Dean.


Next Meeting: 22 MAY 95 at 7:30 at the home of Karen Cooper, 3841 Bloomington
Ave. South. 722-7545 or 728-3866.