KSS Agenda
August 15, 2018
1) Announcements
- Bill Waldens passing away
- Ben Tobin hired and has started working as Karst Hydrologist at KGS. Will most likely be our main contact at KGS
- KSS had a great showing at NSS convention with
- 3 presentations (KSS, Survey 123, and ArcGIS for State Surveys) by Howard, Josh, and Sarah
- Several maps (Josh and Ben)
2) Reading of previous minutes
3) Treasurers Report
1)funds for Mailing newsletter?
2) GO to meeting renewal
4) Committee Reports
A) Data Access Report: - Sarah Arpin
1) review request spreadsheet
B) Database Committee- Kalnitz
1) New Esri group for KSS up and running
- 5 person beta testing now
- Aim to deply to CC by end of year
- thinking about regional Coordinators instead of/ over county coordinators
C) Data Archives – Arpin
1) File for Bill Waldens Info created – Kevin Toepke, and Katie Schmid have access
D) Emergency Response committee - Keltner
1) App up and running
- already used once since deployment
E) Membership Committee – Vanderhoff
1) Update on PR presentation – Jim Currens has most recent version
2) New members update?
F) Grant Committee - Yuellig
1) Any update on criteria?
5) Old Business:
A) Report on Survey weekend (June 3) Yuellig
B) Safeguard data/ Security- Elrond
- No Updates
C) Arch Database Data sharing – Morris
- No updates
D) Request from Kentucky Nature Preserves Committee
- Will set up some time after our ArcGIS conversion to work with this group
- Suggest face to face meeting
- No updates
6) New Business:
A) Annual Meeting!
B) Nominations for elections open at NEXT meeting
