Board meeting, about 6pm March 18, 2017, at Dreampark, just after being elected. The new board is the same as the old board. Attending board members: Scott Raun, Aaron Vander Giessen, Matt Strait, Lydy Nickerson. The fifth board member is Hershey Harris, who is out of town. == Approve minutes == Previously approved by e-mail. Ratified. == Beyond Conventions == Discussion of the fact that Corwin Brust is holding a meeting and that he, or rather Beyond Conventions, owes Minn-stf a substantial amount of money. Should something be said or done with regard to this? After much discussion, we decide to use it as an opportunity to try to open communications more effectively and send him an e-mail asking for a time to meet with him. There was discussion of the possibility of accepting Cats Laughing merchandise as partial payment towards this debt. Informal discussion was had with DD-B, another member of Beyond Conventions, and it seemed like this could be amenable to both parties. == Investments == Aaron has found a well-rated socially-conscious fund: no fossil fuels, etc. It is still "a large cap fund". It is 10 years old. The return in these years has been 13% annually. Aaron proposes putting half in there and half in a more conservative fund. This one has averaged 10% in the last 10 years. Last year's return was about 6%. Lydy asks what our liquidity is with these. Less than a week, says Aaron. Discussion ensues about how conservative to be in assuming income. We eventually agree that we will assume a 6% return for purposes of setting profit targets. --> i.e. Minicon 53 gets another $1800, assuming we actually put this money into the investments now. (Stand by) <-- == Officers == We reviewed the list of officers. As per tradition, we will ask each of the existing officers if they would like to continue for another year. Usually the president changes from year to year, but the others stay on. Matt will do the asking for president. We have a list of 5 people in mind. VP: We will ask the runner up on the president list to be VP, and if we hit the bottom of that list, we'll ask Lydy to keep doing it. Treasurer: we'll keep Carol if she'll have it. Scott will talk to her. Correspondence secretary: We'll keep Hershey if she'll have it. Matt'll ask her. [She said yes after the meeting.] Membership secretary: We'll keep Laura if she'll have it. We'll try to ask her right now. Ok, she says yes. Recording secretary: Matt will keep doing it. Einblatt: Scott will continue. Rune: Matt is willing to continue to have his name next to it. Webmaster: We'd kinda like a site that isn't so simple. Might Anna Dudda put some work into it? Other names were then floated, but Anna said yes right after the meeting. Archivist: Matt will continue. Quartermaster: Matt will keep trying to talk to Joel. Does Patricia have the inventory? Here she is. She thinks she might have it. What did she do with it? She's not sure. She'll try to find it and send it to board@mnstf.org. == Next meeting == 1pm on April 22 at Clay and Hershey's house. Totally done from the TODO list: * (2016-12) Scott did the taxes for fiscal 2016. * (2017-02) Matt asked Emily and Kevin about using the Minicon 53 account for Decongestant 2. This is deemed ok. New TODO items: * (2017-03) Matt will work through the presidential list to find us a prez and VP. * (2017-03) Scott will ask Carol if she is going to continue being treasurer. * (2017-03) Matt will ask Hershey if she is going to continue being corresponding secretary. * (2017-03) If we haven't heard from Corwin by March 25, Matt will resend our e-mail to him. Old TODO list (not reviewed, just passing it on and adding on): * (2016-12) Lydy will get some response from some professional archivist about the Scott Imes tapes. (Note, we are using this as shorthand for "all the various videotapes that are minnstf stuff, some of which was shot by Scott Imes, others of which just passed through his hands.") Matt and Scott will see about getting her the inventory. --- The inventory was sent to Lydy. * (2017-01) Aaron will keep working on Vanguard. He will investigate how capital gains taxes on the Vanguard account apply to us as a 501(c)3. And about froo-froo liberal funds. * (2017-01) Matt will keep poking Joel about the Quartermaster. * (2017-02) Hershey will see about getting Dean to ask about our locker location.