- Call to Order
- Minutes – posted online
- Treasurer’s Report – we have money.
- Convention Reports
- Gamicon
- Over 100 events so far.
- GM party Jan 16 1-4 at The Hobby Corner.
- Still working on secondary site for Saturday.
- Deadline for ads to Gamicon program book is Feb 1, send to Michele Maakestad.
- AnimeIowa
- Staff tour of Iowa Event Center at last meeting, went very good.
- Next meeting Sat Jan 9 at 2 pm at Brown Deer
- ICON
- ICON Staff meeting Saturday Jan 30, 1:30-3:30 pm at Coralville Public Library room B, ICON 40 recap meeting at 3:30 same location. May go to Olive Garden afterwards for dinner.
- Cedar Rapids Museum of Art SciFi show now closed, museum and public loved it. MB will be getting bills to return art to the artists.
- Gamicon
- Other Projects
- Game Library: The Hobby Corner Friday, January 7 th, 5-8 pm, Tsuro of the Seas. Sun 1-4 Dream Island. Sat Jan 16 Rxel Tactics Deluxe, Jan 31st 104 One Night Vampire
- Book Group: Monday January 25 th, 6 pm, Coffeesmith’s, The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg.
- Old Business
- Discussion on Banning Guidelines (handout) – board discussing.
- Storage Locker audit & cleanup Saturday April 9 at 10 AM, if you care strongly what is there for your convention be there or have someone there to represent you.
- Mindbridge Reads on GoodReads.com – everyone who read at least 25 books in 2015 received a Barnes & Noble gift card. For 2016, will be doing differently with a group read goal of 1000 books.
- New Business
- Gamicon #26 Fe (iron) 2017 bid submitted – Michele Maakestad, Mike Johnson, Tom and Amanda Bowersox. Approved.
- Board approved doing TrekFest tables this summer.
- Tim Rudzianski approved as new Mindbridge Member.
Next Meeting: February 3rd, 2016 at The ARC of Southeast Iowa, 6 pm for board, 7 pm for general.