KSS Meeting Minutes July 19. 2017
Attendees: Amber Yuellig, Ken Bailey, Ronson Elrod, Sarah Arpin, Sean Vanderhoff, Stephanie Stoops, Susan Wilkinson, Josh Brewer, Preston Forsythe, Howard Kalnitz, John Cassidy, Christopher Morris
Announcements:
Josh: Next weekend, there will be a survey weekend at Dale Hollow sponsored by the Green River Grotto, get in touch with Josh if interested
Preston: Bill Walden passed on that the cave gating project for a cave in Wayne County has been postponed to 2018.
Ken Bailey: Lidar Data weekend will be Labor Day Weekend, September 1-4. Contact Ken if you would like to volunteer
Amber: read previous minutes, Ken moves to accept minutes, Second by Ronson, minutes accepted.
Treasurer Report:
Get from John
Have not received costs from Bill Walden for annual publication
John will follow up on our classification change with IRS to become a 503c again
Committee Reports:
Data Access Committee:
· Four requests- three commercial and one academic
· Two commercial requests were billable
· One academic- Cory Blackeagle from EKU for dissertation
· For academic requests: rewrote data policy
o On website
o Copy new policy
o Clarify academic request- research data fulfillment agreement
§ Get from sarah
Database Committee
· Howard: no updates
Cave Definition Committee
· Awaiting updated proposal from Ben Miller
Old Buisness
Better interactions with Cavesr
· Josh and Ben update powerpoint
Digital Archive of Publications
· Louisville Grotto sharing entire publication archive
· KSS to thank- Howard will write thank you
WebEX
· Amber, Howard, John will look at alternatives for September
· August meeting face-to-face at KGS
Hart County Survey Initiative
· August 4-6
· Camping at Lonestar $4 a night
· Friday night is a cave cleanup
· Saturday and Sunday there are multiple survey objectives as well as ground checking enterances
· We will meet each morning to discuss objectives and assign teams
· There will also be a clothing drive held in conjunction with the event
· Updates will be posted to the facebook event
New Buisness
KSS Annual Meeting
· September 15-17
· Planning to have it at WKU, if that falls through then the meeting will be on Sunday at Hamilton Valley
· 20 minute presentations including questions
Meeting Time
All WebEX meetings will start at 7:00 EST. WebEX will “open” for folks to join at 6:45pm to give folks the opportunity to sign on.
Swag
· check out websites with on-demand printing
· order some hats and other items “without size”
Preston:
· our founder Roger Sperka who passed away several years ago- the enterance of the NSS Headquarters will be named the Roger Sperka Education Hall
· now that Jim has retired, how are things working with the KGS
o Howard: corresponding with Jim- he is staying on as a “professor emeritus” type role and will continuet to have keys and access
Calender
August 4-6- Hart County Survey Initative, Lonestar Cave Preserve
August 16- WebEX, 7pm
September- 15-17 Annual Meeting, Bowling Green, KY
November 12- KSS Caving on Paper? May move to October 22?
Move to Close Meeting:
Motion- Josh, Second- Ronson, approved 8:33pm
