MN-Stf Board Meeting - October 15, 2003

   People present: Laura Jean Fish, Kevin Austin, Scott Raun, Larry
   Sanderson, Dean Gahlon, Polly Peterson

   Hotline: In order to meter it, they need approval from Arthur Leo Wu.
   Larry believes that Kevin will need to call them from the hotline
   phone. Kevin says that there have been only two messages; both people
   say they call a couple of times per month. Kevin has the message
   requesting that anyone using the hotline call and leave a message.
   This message has been on there since September 20. The previous
   message also had the information, but was a very long message, so
   maybe was not heard as easily. It was also announced on Natter and at
   MN-Stf meetings. Kevin will call the phone company and tell them that
   Arthur Leo Wu moved without leaving a forwarding address. There was
   a discussion of having a missing persons ad in the Minicon program
   book. Scott sent Peter a message to let him know that the hotline was
   cut. The money will be reallocated to meet MN-stf's financial needs.

   There is a CD due and will be re invested the same way unless we
   change it. The other big CD comes due in 6 months if the club needed
   access to funds.

   Scott has not heard back from Greg on the issue of subsidizing the
   hardcopy Einblatt.

Relaxacon

   The bylaws specify how a committee is to approach the board to run a
   convention, but the board has not been following them regarding the
   Relaxacon. Kevin sent Rick an email about this procedure. Most of
   the con committee members thought that was not an issue to sever the
   connection. Kevin will follow up with Rick after the convention this
   weekend to get the issues clarified including getting back MN-Stf's
   $300 seed money.

Taxes

   The board has finally gotten ahold of the documentation to do the
   taxes, but it has not been entered yet. Laura will be entering the
   data so that the taxes can be finished.

Web site

   Board members have not had a chance to look at Peter's design
   modifications. If Peter wants to put the prototypes up for public
   comment without previous board approval, the board has no problem
   with his doing so. He should put a statement soliciting comments on
   the web site.

   Laura and Dean will look at the meeting schedules and sign-in sheets
   to determine when the election needs to be in the next month or so.

   Polly again promised to send text copies of the minutes to Dean for
   posting to the web page.

Other items

   Next meeting will move to fourth Wednesdays to accommodate a conflict
   with Polly's schedule at 7:00 pm. (Thank you!) That is the day before
   Thanksgiving.

   Scott will figure out the incremental cost of mailing the directory
   in the next two weeks so that the board can make a decision about
   mailing a revision in December. He will send the information out by
   email for board discussion.

   None of the Franklin accounts have been killed. If the money is
   transferred from the savings account to the checking account, the
   savings account can be killed. Scott has access only to the savings
   account and Laura Jean may be a signer for the checking account
   although she did not become a co-head of Minicon until half way
   through the year. The Board of Directors could send a directive to
   the bank to close it if there are no signers available to do so.