KSS Board Meeting
October 15, 2019
Attendees: Amber Yuellig, Howard Kalnitz, Barry Adams, Christopher Morris, Preston Forsythe, Kimbro, Sean Vanderhoff, Josh Brewer
Reading of Previous Minutes:
- 8/21 minutes approved
Announcements:
- Yahoo Groups will discontinue service in December
- Chris can make an email list for website
- Yahoo was bought out
Treasurer:
- No report
- Credit card discussion
- We want to make purchasing easier, considering a prepaid card or debit card with a low balance
- Prepaid may not have a negative balance penalty, just rejected
Committee Reports
- Data Access
- No report
- Josh: one open request for a historic society
- Database- Howard
- TVA request- want all data, we will probably treat this like all other requests and require them to narrow down the request to a specific area
- We are transitioning from Filemaker to Microsoft Access
- Working to retool survey 123
- Archive-
- Preston donated 283 reports from WKSS
- Steve Gentry donated personal cave files
- Emergency
- No report
- Membership: Sean
- 2 new members before Annual meeting
- 5 new (4 yearly, 1 life) at annual meeting
- we have roughly 85 members in the KSS with roughly half being life members
- Grants
- No report
- Annual Report: Josh
- Accepting submissions all year round
- Deadline for annual report is 12/31
- Advisory committee
- No update
- KSS Survey Expeditions: Josh
- Finished up survey in Logan county during annual meeting
- Annual Meeting: Josh recap
- Second best turnout with roughly 45 people in attendance
- Kimbro won most caves documented prize and made first presentation ever
- Need internet next year, look for an indoor place so we can offer remote access to meeting through Go To Meeting to reach more people
- Thanks to all the presenters and the Louisville Grotto for hosting
Old Business
- Kentucky state nature preserves- agreement signed and complete
- Regional Coordinators- no update
- Letters for Advisory Committee- no update
- Jim Quinlin slides- no update
- Ben Tobin Intern Proposal- no update
- Approved
- Need to understand timing
New Business
- Sarah will set up a data committee meeting for early November
Meeting Adjorn- Howard motions, Amber Seconds
- End 7:45 pm