KSS Meeting Minutes
April 15, 2020
Attendees: Amber Yuellig, Josh Brewer, Sarah Arpin, Ben Tobin, Christopehr Morris, Kimbro, Preston Forsythe, Rich Kline, Sean Vanderhoff, Howard Kalnitz, Kevin Zachary, SM
- Announcements:
- Speleofest- still on maybe
- KOR- new date
- Karst Field Studies- cancelled
- Kimbro- new survey Montgomery Cave
- UNESKO- not cancelled
- NSS Cartography- meeting tomorrow by Zoom
- Minutes (Amber)
- March minutes read by Amber Yuellig
- Ben motion, Sean second
- Minutes accepted
- Treasurer’s Report (John)
- See treasurer’s spreadsheet
- John will update bank, fidelity etc.
- Report accepted
- Data (Sarah)
- 6 Data requests
- 5 commercial, requests fulfilled
- 1 academic (Jim Currens), in progress
- Inquiry- county coordinator form regarding land acquisition
- Bylaw changes regarding Data and Data Access committee restructuring need to be voted on and passed
- Waiting 45 days for comment
- Next data meeting 4/29
- Bylaw change will effect how data committee responds
- Bylaw changes have not been distributed to membership by email yet
- Emergency Response (Mike)
- Adair county has had 44 cases of Covid 19 and has been his focus as of recent
- Membership (Sean)
- Current Total- 95
- Life- 45
- Regular- 50
- Grants (Amber)
- Summarized additional changes to grant guidelines
- Changes passed
- SA: hesitant to approve anything else moving forward until bylaw changes are made
- Annual Report (Chris)
- There were a few returned reports. We have reached out to these members to update addresses.
- There are still a few to add.
- Now accepting material for 2020.
- KSS Expeditions
- Everything on hold due to pandemic
- Annual Meeting (Sean and Josh)
- Introducing cartography salon at the Annual Meeting- cavers choice award
Old Business
- June 28 Face to face
- Will revisit in June, might not be able to hold one at UK due to UK cancelling on campus summer activities
- GSuite (Chris)
- GDrive
- Committee Accounts
- Testing capabilities
- Dropbox
- Go To Meeting for Grotto Use (Sean)
- We are offering use of Go to Meeting to grottos during pandemic
- Louisville Grotto and Green River Grotto have reached out
New Business
- KGS Interns- need tasks for interns, want to make sure they are going in a desirable direction regarding work and that we are getting the outcomes we seek
- The biggest goal is to know what we have and build upon it
- Private collections have not been touched
- What do we want to see our database look like?
- Chris- do we need to be explicit about how we populate committees in bylaws
- Howard- you don’t want to be too specific otherwise you will have to change bylaws every time
- KSS Logo
Meeting adjorn 8:30pm
