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March 2025 Minutes

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Mindbridge Meeting Minutes March 5th, 2025

  1. Treasurer’s Report (Jon): Up $10.5k
  2. IT Officer (Tony): No updates
  3. Storage Manager (Carhoff Alliance)
    1. Storage Regulations Here
      1. Storage Rules Manifesto Review
        1. Would like to make it a bylaw and enforceable
    2. Storage Locker Restock and Repair Requests
      1. Storage Wishlist Here
      2. Approved by Board for $200 Requisition for Tool Organizer and Locks. Remainder of request will carry to next fiscal year after the treasurer’s retreat.
  4. Convention Reports – All conventions are looking for additional help.
    1. AnimeIowa (July 24th – 27th, 2025) Website Here
      1. 2026 Bid is due in May
      2. Staff Meeting March 8th in person and online at Coralville Hyatt
      3. Hotel Rooms Reg opens
        1. March 17-28 open to staff and vendors
        2. March 31 open to attendees
      4. If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: execs@animeiowa.com
    2. ICON (ICON50-2026) Website Here
      1. The next ICON meeting will be Saturday, March 22, 2025, 2-5:00pm, Iowa City Public Library (Meeting Room E), Iowa City.
      2. ICON 49.5 (October 11, 2025) and ICON 50 (2026) planning are still moving forward.
      3. Survey about date for ICON50 Here
      4. Unofficial ICON/Mindbridge event to watch Mickey 17, Thursday, March 6, 6:30 PM, FilmScene at The Chauncey, Iowa City.
      5. If interested in staff or have other questions contact: concom@iowa-icon.com
      6. If interested in Volunteering contact: volunteering@iowa-icon.com
    3. Gamicon (March 6th- 8th, 2026) Website Here
      1. If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: info@gamicon.org
      2. Gamicon Selenium Feedback Survey Here
      3. 802 attendees
      4. 96% of registrations attended
      5. $405 charity raised
      6. 91 registrations for next year already in, 33 of which are benefactors
      7. Elisa Teague Guest of Honor for Gamicon Bromine
        1. Geek Out
        2. D&D premade campaigns
  5. Other Projects
    1. Game Library – Michele
      1. 18 new games added to the library at Gamicon
      2. 334 Play to wins checked out
      3. 195 library games checked out. 112 unique games, over 200 unique individuals
    2. Video Game Library
      1. Need assistance with running Video Game Library please contact Adam
      2. 162 game checkouts, most popular is Nintendo Switch
      3. Thank you to everyone who assisted with the Video Game Library in Adam’s absence
    3. TrekFest- Jenny Carhoff
      1. June 26th-28th, 2025
      2. https://trekfest.org/
      3. If interested please contact Jenny at mommayaya911@gmail.com
    4. Book Group
      1. Thurs March 13th, reading The Mermaid, by Christina Henry Panera on Edgewood Rd in Cedar Rapids at 6pm.
      2. Thurs April 24 we will be discussing a general discussion covering the books that we have read and those we would like to read
      3. May TBD we will be discussing a general discussion covering the books that we have read and those we would like to read
  6. Anybody wanting to become Mindbridge Members: n/a
  7. Old Business
    1. If there are any problems or questions address them to Amanda from now until April 2nd, 2025 meeting Email mindbridge-bod@googlegroups.com
    2. Open Board Member Nomination
      1. Lost has been appointed to the board to serve out the remainder of Robin’s term, which ends in May 2025
    3. AI Bid for 2026
  8. New Business
    1. Request for reprinting pens for the conventions
    2. Request for pronoun ribbons
    3. Discussion of AnimeIowa Exec Performance Improvement Plan

Next meeting will be Wed April 2nd,2025 @ 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.