KSS Agenda

March 18, 2020

 

1) Announcements

- TCS meeting cancelled

- OCS meeting cancelled

2) Reading of previous minutes - Amber

- February Minutes 

 

3) Treasurers Report

- Fidelity forms

 

 

4) Committee Reports 

A)Data Access Report: -  Sarah Arpin

- Report from March 11 meeting

  • Purpose, Mission, and Vision Statements
  • Bylaws

- Gsuite report (Morris)

  • Free storage - Can Ditch Dropbox (save money)
  • Free meeting software - Can Ditch GoMeetings (save money)
  • As previously discussed, we can at least temporarily use it instead of Access for data management
  • The level of control for granting access is quite stunning
  • The ability to have @ksscaves.com email addresses
  • The ability to mass email organizational members

                     

  1. B) Database Committee- Kalnitz

- See above

  1. C) Data Archives – Arpin

- See above

 

  1. D) Emergency Response committee - Keltner

 

  1. E) Membership Committee – Vanderhoff

 

  1. F) Grant Committee - Yuellig

-  one new request needs to be approved

- Was this followed up on?

- Need to put timeline in request structure

 

  1. H) Annual Report – Christopher Morris

Mailed !!!

 

  1. I)  Advisory Committee Setup (new) – Kalnitz/Tobin
  • No update

 

  1. J) KSS Survey Expedition (Josh)

- Wells Cave Dates?

 

 

  1. K) Annual Meeting  Sean

- Updates?

 

5) Old Business:       

 

  • Ben Tobin – Intern 
    • Update on effort
  • June 28th  Face to face

 

6) New Business:

- Update to bylaws

- Quinlan’s UK collection

- Cave Cartographer Meeting - Josh

 

Future work (2019)

  • Update and clarify election bylaws 
  • Advisory board
  • Members List, and Members Guide
  • Members section on website
  • Biota data on survey 123 and in database