July 17, 1996

Lynn Litterer recording

Attending: All Board members present plus Geri Sullivan, Glenn tenhoff,
Denny Lien (briefly), Victor Raymond, John M. Ford.

1. Minicon bids for 33

A. Reading of Mike Dorn's bid not to run Minicon (joke bid). Also a serious
bid to take a year off.

B. Glenn, as a representative of the 31 and 32 executive committees,
recommends with no reservations, the bid from Martin, Victor and Erik [Baker].
This was unanimous among the Exec members. The proposal was mailed to Exec and
Board members -- other interested persons may request copies of these from
Victor. Victor and Martin answer questions concerning their bid.

Board decision: Accepted as proposed with no reservations. We want the
proposal to be sent out to the Einblatt list, the Minicon concomm list, and
posted to the Minicon list. Dean will reply to Mike Dorn.

2. Kay sent a letter to Bruce Fagrie thanking him for his assistance with
bulk mailings, which she read to us.

3. Proposal from Scott Imes (through Kay): he is applying for grant money
to preserve old videotape of Minicons and Mid-Americon -- includes footage of
Heinlein, Sturgeon, Midwestside Story, etc. He would like to work through us
as a non-profit educational corporation. Victor says we will need to send a
copy of our 501c(3) letter from the IRS with the proposals. We think this is a
good idea. We want to see the finished project.

4. RUNE: We very much want to see Rune come out soon. The preferred
date is before ReiConation this fall.

5. Doug Friauf wants to hold a Mpls in '73 party at LA Con. Polly reports he
did a great job last year at Glasgow. We authorize $300 for this. Kay will
call Doug.

6. Money: Julie needs more money -- she will talk to Mark Richards. Glenn
reports he has approximately $800 left over from the new art show panels to
return to Julie. The estimated profit from Minicon 31 is $10,000. We
officially request Mark to close the books on Minicon 31 and turn the money
over to Julie. Lynn will call the accountant and check on the tax and balance
status. Julie and Mark should get together to transfer money from 31 to cover
the Kinko's bill and other current expenses. Polly will also close the Minicon
30 books.

7. Letter from Pitney Bowes on replacing our postage meter with a modern,
non-mechanical one. They say we will eventually be required to do this. Kay
will check this out and take appropriate action.

8. General discussion on money and finances, whether we can afford TOTU
and Rune. We want to transfer the Minicon-related expenses to the Minicon
budget (storage locker,voicemail, postage...) and we will lower the profit
goal accordingly. The profit goal is $10,000. The expenses cost $7,000 last
year, which could be reduced.

9. Geri -- MNStf display was started several years ago. Jeff Schalles is
currently working on this and will need some money to finish it. He already
bought a display case for approximately $150, and will get the rest of the
receipts to Julie by September (hopefully). This was approved several years
ago.

10. Geri discussed survey results.

11. PO Box -- Polly, Kay and Kate Carey have keys. MNStf will have a new PO
Box -- 8583 at Lake Street Station. 8297 will remain the Minicon PO Box. Kate
will transfer MNStf mail that shows up in 8297 to the new box and pick up the
Minicon mail. Polly will combine to do the MNStf mail.

12. Net presence -- David Dyer-Bennet will be adding an address of
board@mnstf.org that will send messages to all the Board members. Much
discussion about getting information from MNStf members about Minicon.

13. Continuity proposal from Thomas Juntunen postponed to next time.