KSS Agenda

Feb 19, 2020

 

1) Announcements

 

2) Reading of previous minutes - Amber

- January Minutes? 

 

3) Treasurers Report

 

 

4) Committee Reports 

A)Data Access Report: -  Sarah Arpin

- Agreed to combine committees into one committee (data Committee)

- Each subgroup will have owner

- Current committee:

- H Kalnitz

- Sarah Arpin

- Sean Vanderhoff

- Josh Brewer

- Christopher Morris

- Member w/o voting priveledges: Ben Tobin

- Regional coordinators:

- Eastern Ky: Ben  Tobin

- Bluegrass: Sarah

- West Central: Sean

- Western Kentucky: Josh

- Expect more on this as we bring county coordinators under Regional

- Other updates:

- Due to the amount of loading of current committee members and the current amount of requests, responses have been somewhat delayed. Can Chris post a note on website relaying this, and suggesting a 2 week window

- Can we get an update every two weeks of outstanding requests (Sarah?)

- Can we get a Data Committee mailing list

                     

  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

- Renewal updates?

- Quarterly email?

 

  1. F) Grant Committee - Yuellig

-  one new request needs to be approved

- Need to put timeline in request structure

 

  1. H) Annual Report – Christopher Morris

Mailing Target?

 

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

 

  1. J) KSS Survey Expedition (Josh)

- Taylor County Feb 21st

- Wells Cave Dates?

 

 

  1. K) Annual Meeting  Sean

- Updates?

 

5) Old Business:       

 

  • Ben Tobin – Intern 
    • Update on effort?
    • Sharing of responsibilities 

 

  • Yahoo group replacement with Web-based emailer
    • Update (Christopher?)

 

  • June 28th  Face to face
  • Fee for ArcGIS 
  •  Dropbox updates (Morris)

 

6) New Business:

- Fee for Website from Christopher Morris

- Fee for ArcGIS 

- Budget Justification

 

Future work (2019)

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