KSS Meeting
January 17, 2018
Attendees: Howard Kalnitz, Josh Brewer, Amber Yuellig, Christopher Morris, Sean Vanderhoff, Shelia Minor, Mike Keltner, Jim Currens, Shaun, Ben Miller, Preston Forsythe, Sara Arpin, John Cassidy
Announcements:
- Howard: LIDAR has dropped for missing counties in Kentucky.
- Jim: Granddad again!
Reading of Previous Minutes:
- Minutes from previous meeting taken by Howard Kalnitz
- Minutes read by Howard Kalnitz
- Motion to accept: Josh, second: Ben, minutes accepted
Treasurers Report:
- Started:
- Search Fees:
- Ending Balance
- Members
- Life Members
- Tax Returns, started today and should be no problems this year, John would like to add a treasurers folder to the KSS Dropbox with balances and tax documents
- Motion to accept: Jim, second: Shaw
Committee Reports
- David Shafer asked for info for friend who owns cave in Grayson County
Cave Reporter App
- Howard has made updates, in order for the changes to take effect you must delete and reinstall the app. Howard has sent out directions.
Database Updates
- Milestone Alert!- as of 1/16 4,999 caves have been reported in Kentucky, as of today we have 5,004 caves!
- Should we partner with KGS and put out a press release?
- Jim suggests working with Mike Lynch at KGS
- We should also send a press release to the NSS News
- Howard and Amber will work together to draft the document
- Database updates- many counties are in need of updates, need to check with current coordinators to see if they wish to remain active or if they need to be replaced
Data Archives
- More grottos are permitting us to share publications
Emergency Response Committee
- Updating list with names and numbers
- Meeting with area organizations to develop working relationship
- We have a board call-out list for people who have access to the full database who have GIS experience
- Howard moves to give Ken Baily access to database, Amber motion, Ben seconds, motion approved
Old Business
- KSS Presentation- push to next month
- Newsletter update- Josh with Chris’ help are finalizing the newsletter and it will be printed soon, using publishing software and will have a whole new look
- LiDAR- Howard as published a layer of all the lidar, “Kentucky Geo”
- Need ArcGIS or ESRI Explorer (Apple/ Android)
- Data Security
- No update
- Survey Initiative Weekend Updates
- TBD March/ April: Have a cave in Breckenridge in need of resurvey, will be working with the Stoops to plan/coordinate
- June1-3: second survey initiative for the year
New Business
- Requesting subset of data to share with arch enthusiasts,
- Table for next meeting
Next Meeting February 21
March meeting at UK
Motion to close Ben, second Josh