- Call to Order – thanks to Jim for arranging the meeting space at ARC
- Minutes from last meeting: Moved to bypass reading
- Treasurer’s Report
- About $6k less than last month as checks out to pay for AI charity and Post Mortem meeting
- Jon distributed report of balance changes over last month
- AI – $117K, Gamicon $18K, ICON $18K, MB Checking $53k, Total MB assets including CD’s $285k.
- ICON Report
- will have 25 authors at the pre-ICON Barnes and Noble signing on Oct 30th
- T-shirt order deadline is Oct 1st
- Pre-registration deadline is Oct 12th
- Program book nearly done and about ready to be sent to publisher
- Online schedule is up at http://icon392014.sched.org and can sync with Google Calendar, etc
- Next staff meeting Saturday Oct 18th, 1:30 PM at John and Shawn’s
- Gamicon Report
- Website is up and pre-registration open
- Next staff meeting Oct 5 at Nigel and Susans.
- AnimeIowa Report
- Post Mortem meeting was last month
- Plan to submit capital requests to MB so they can purchase equipment rather than rent.
- Next staff meeting is Saturday Oct 18th, 2 pm, Coralville Marriott
- Other Projects
- Book Group – Monday 10/13, 6 pm, Coffeesmith’s, 100 Days in Deadland by Rachel Aukes who will be at ICON
- Monday 11/24 Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum at Cath and Brian’s home
- Game Library – will be at ICON, getting more games
- Old Business
- MidCon14 comic book convention was last weekend, about 150 or so people, didn’t sell any memberships but handed out lots of flyers, went well for a first year convention.
- XenoCon 3 gaming convention is Oct 3-5 in Davenport IA
- Iowa City Book Fair Saturday 10/4 on the downtown ped mall
- Zombie March was last weekend and a success. It’s charities this year:
- Humane Society of Johnson County received $141,
- Table to Table received 124 lbs of food and $91. That $91 has about $2730 worth of impact on the local community,
- Waypoint received $646 from t-shirt sales, donations and the door.
- Extra Life 24 hour gaming event at The Hobby Corner 10 AM Saturday, October 25, 2014 through 10 AM Sunday – co sponsored by The Hobby Corner and Gamicon. This is a charity fund-raiser for The UIHC Children’s Hospital. Team Gamicon is trying to raise $1,000. Please go to http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=14884 and donate now. Your donation is tax-deductible and ALL PROCEEDS go to help kids.
- New Business
- ICON 40 report and Proposal
- Denny presented preliminary budget for ICON 40, needs to be approved at Nov 1st Mindbridge Meeting at ICON 39.
- Marty is putting screen he’s donating to Mindbridge in the Storage Locker in the next few days – Thanks Marty!
- MB is on the speed dial list for a second temperature controlled storage locker, probably won’t have before ICON.
Next Meeting – Wednesday, Nov 5, 2014 at Denny Lynch’s house