KENTUCKY SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY

MEETING AGENDA 17 NOVEMBER 2021

7:00 ET pm

Approve the previous month’s meeting minutes

Treasurer’s Report (John Cassidy)

Balance report

Data Committee (Howard Kalnitz)

Data requests
Database

Membership Committee (Sean Vanderhoff)

New members this month
Total membership

Annual Report (Christopher Morris)

Update

Annual Meeting (Bob Roth)

Super successful!
Recap and discuss the goals for outlined for year ahead (notes below)

Old Business

Thank you for joining email communication with basic info about the organization?
Money for interns?
Investment?
Goal that we have that we’d like to achieve that we spend some money on?
Fee structure for membership – bump up lifetime membership? $125-130
Code of Ethics/Conduct
KSS Grants

Update grant details
Cleveland Grotto, NRMG good examples/templates

International Year of Caves and Karst – series of talks in spring, once per month – Floyd Talks, Pat will help organize, do it as a committee, come up with a schedule for next year

New Business

Goals for the year ahead:

Finish cataloging digital files, keywording
Start extracting data from the archives and cataloging

How does a member gain access?

Publish Annual Report
Adopt Code of Ethics/Conduct
Roll out new grant application procedures
Promote data coming in and improve data quality (cave reporter app, Grottos, etc.) entrance dimensions, etc.

Meeting Adjournment