KSS Agenda

April 17, 2019

 

1) Announcements

               - TCS report?

              

2) Reading of previous minutes

 

3) Treasurers Report

           - Investment update

              - Tax Update

 

4) Committee Reports

 

 

A)Data Access Report: -  Sarah Arpin

                               1)MACA request

                               2) Arlis Request

                     

B) Database Committee- Kalnitz

                               - ESRI Contract Updated

                               - New coordinator requests

 

C) Data Archives – Arpin

               Paper Caving day - March

             

D) Emergency Response committee - Keltner

 

E) Membership Committee – Vanderhoff

 

F) Grant Committee - Yuellig

 

H) Annual Report – Josh Brewer

                               - Annual report report

 

I)  Advisory Committee Setup (new) – Kalnitz/Tobin

           

J) KSS Survey Expedition     

                      - Estill County report    

 

 

 

5) Old Business:       

- Kentucky State Natural Preserves Agreement Update

-  Data bequest from Bill Walden

 

 

 

6) New Business:

 

  • Letters for Advisory committee
  • Regional Coordinator Plan
    • All counties split up and  coordinated by single Board/Committee Member
      • North East – Tobin
      • South East – Kalnitz
      • Central – Arpin
      • North West – Vanderhoff
    • County Coordinators exist – report to regional
      • not given data sets unless specifically allocated by Regional coordinator
      • removed from dropbox access unless specifically allocated by regional coordinator
      • Regional coordinators responsible for entering new cave data
    • Until this is set up – not accepting any additional Co coordinators

 

 

 

 

 

 

Future work (2019)

  • Regional coordinator plan
  • Update and clarify election bylaws
  • Clean up committee discussions
  • Continue to clean up data
  • Advisory board
  • Members List, and Members Guide
  • Members section on website
  • Biota data on survey 123 and in database