Mindbridge Meeting Minutes Nov 6th, 2024

  1. Treasurer’s Report (Jon): Up $27
  2. IT Officer (Tony): n/a
  3. Storage Manager (Carhoff Alliance)
  4. Will be talking to people about construction needs for safety and storage needs
  5. Convention Reports-All conventions are looking for additional help.
    1. Gamicon (Feb 28-March 2nd, 2025) Website Here
      1. Nov 17 6:30pm at Tim’s house at 271 Wiley Blvd NW Cedar Rapids, IA and online
      2. Room block closes early February
      3. Just had an extra life event
      4. Promotion with Papa Johns and starting to see the coupons back
      5. 2026 bid is due in December
      6. If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: info@gamicon.org
    2. AnimeIowa (July 24th – 27th, 2025) Website Here
      1. Saturday 11/9/24 2 PM at the Hyatt and online.
      2. Feedback form for staff
      3. Black Friday sale will be happening. More information to follow
      4. If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: execs@animeiowa.com
    3. ICON (ICON50-2026) Website Here
      1. ICON49 happened huzzah
      2. 223 people who came to the Convention
      3. Post-Mortem will be happening soon
      4. Looking into a hotel, The Graduate in Iowa City for a small one day ICON49.5 in 2025
      5. If interested in staff or have other questions contact: concom@iowa-icon.com
      6. If interested in Volunteering contact: volunteering@iowa-icon.com
  6. Other Projects
    1. Game Library-Michele
      1. Good usage of the Game Library and Video Game Library combined space. Would like to have more time
      2. Wanting to offer $15 program outreach tubs to organizations
    2. Video Game Library
      1. 23 Games checked out
      2. Steam Deck used
      3. Good use of space for smaller conventions
      4. Need assistance with running Video Game Library please contact Adam
    3. TrekFest- Jenny Carhoff
      1. June 26th-28th, 2025
      2. Website here
      3. If interested please contact Jenny at mommayaya911@gmail.com
    4. Book Group:
      1. Nov 14th At Panera on will be discussing will be a general discussion covering the books that we have read and those we would like to read Edgewood Rd in Cedar Rapids at 6pm
      2. Thursday Dec TBD
    5. Anybody wanting to become Mindbridge Members
      1. Candace is now member
      2. John’s first meeting and has been to a convention
  7. Old Business
    1. Anime Iowa would like to look at setting up Scholarship
      1. $5000 to ICON
      2. $2000 to setup scholarships on behalf of AI
      3. AI is needing approval to take money out of their checking outside of the budget. Wanting to take money from the checking account outside of budget.
      4. This has been brought up
      5. Approved by the membership
    2. If there are any problems or questions address them to Amanda from now until Dec 4th meeting Email mindbridge-bod@googlegroups.com
  8. New Business
    1. Geek Feast 2024
      1. Amanda brought Witches Cauldron Brew Winner
      2. Jessica brought Lembas bread from Lord of the Ring
      3. Jessica brought Mushroom, Onion, and Garlic Hand Pies

Next meeting will be Wed Dec 4 @ 7pm online and in person at the ARC in Iowa City ARC 2401 Towncrest Dr 2401 Iowa City, IA. Across the street from the church of the Nazarene, two blocks from the old building.