August 2025 Board Notes

Date:

08/12/2025

Attendance:

Board Attended: Bruce Levine, Christina Kramer, Hope Kronen, Jeannette Wallen, Kevin Ehrler, Lori Fischer-Fairbanks and Nick Nelson
Board Absent:
Observers: Alli Cassel, J.C. Horvath, Jessica Silver and Makaila Kozitza

Notes:

Anime Twin Cities Board Meeting Minutes

August 12th, 2025
7:00 PM

Board Present – Bruce Levine, Christina Kramer, Hope Kronen, Jeannette Wallen, Kevin Ehrler, Lori Fischer-Fairbanks and Nick Nelson

Board Absent -

Public – Alli Cassel, J.C. Horvath, Jessica Silver and Makaila Kozitza

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Agenda

  • Recap off cycle board actions and votes
    • None
  • Planned Discussions from scheduled visiting parties/ATC Partners
    • None
       

Coordinator Updates
 

  • Finance – Jeannette Wallen 1
    • Dollar amounts:
        • Business Checking: 335,924.20
        • Education Fund: 3,098.47
        • Business Market Rate Savings (Community Fund): 14,507.75
           
  • Anime Detour – J.C. Horvath
    • Progress is very good; we think we have a head in every department now.
    • Our next staff meeting will be:
      • Sunday, August 31 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. It will most likely be at the Plymouth Library, 15700 36th Ave N, Plymouth, MN 55446. If any part of that changes, we'll be sure to update.
         
  • Charities – Jacob Warner (Absent)
    • He is away at a work meeting; he did not have any updates.
       
  • Communications – Makaila Kozitza
    • We did share we will participate in the Obon festival, please purchase tickets beforehand.
    • We updated all our logos to the new logo except YouTube which we will do in future, after that everything will have been updated.
       
  • Special Events – Alli Cassel
    • Obon Festival
      • This weekend, we have a group heading to Como Park to represent ATC / AD.
      • We have cool new flyers to hand out at these events and cool new stuff for the table.
      • We will also hand out flyers for Otakufest, which is in September.
    • Excalibur Con
      • This weekend, Hope is heading up a group to represent Detour.
    • Otakufest
      • This is a September anime themed brewery event with Anime Fusion, September 20th.
      • We are looking for trivia questions for that, if you are good with trivia questions please reach out.
    • AUSM Jigsaw Puzzle Event
      • We will have some people to represent ATC at this event, and we also have Anime Fargo coming up and a bunch of stuff after that, but we will go into those at the next meeting.
    • We are looking for people to help with events. If you are interested, please reach out.
    • We got a new tent.
    • Christina / The Group – We will add ambassador events to the ATC/AD calendar.


15 Minute Break (If the preceding topics take little time, the board may vote to skip this)
Motion to Skip
Seconded (Hope)
All in Favor (All of the present Board)
Motion Passes


Current Month Board Topics

  • Rental Request Policy Review
    • This draft of the document was shared on screen, which you can follow along with here (https://www.youtube.com/live/O9qoJzqyVOU?feature=shared&t=467)
    • The Board and the Coordinators went through any outstanding sections and updates on stream. Comments were left on the document.
    • We will get this cleaned up and done in 2 weeks.
       
  • General Policy Review
    • This was also reviewed on stream, this included several policies listed on the Anime Twin Cities website pasted into a shared Google Doc.
    • You can follow along here: (https://www.youtube.com/live/O9qoJzqyVOU?feature=shared)
    • We will go over the LEG Community Fund and the Electoral Procedure policies at some point.
    • Before the next meeting we will write up anything we will rescind, what we want to replace it with and then vote on them since it is not organized enough to vote on them now.
    • We would like to re-format all the policies on the website, not the wording just to get the formatting the same as the recent policies.
    • This will depend on the update to the ATC website which Charles and Christina are planning on overhauling this winter.
    • Any of the rescinded policies will still be on the site, they will just be struck out.
       

Open Session (up to 30 minutes)

  • Any members of the community can bring new business to discuss with the board
    • Nothing
       

Open Board Projects/Future Meeting discussions

  • Policy Updates
    • Board Training

 

8:19 pm meeting adjourned.

Please contact atcboard@animetwincities.org or atc_secretary@animetwincities.org if you would like to be added to the agenda for discussion items.