The Illinois Speleological Survey , Inc. will have a business meeting at 6:00PM on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at a location to be determined in Waterloo, Illinois .
Meeting location to be determined. Contact the ISS president to be sure of the location if not updated on this page by the 13th.
Agenda:
ISS Meeting Agenda
December 13, 2008 - Camp Vandeventer, Waterloo, Illinois
Call to order at: (6:00PM)
Introduction of Directors and Officers:
President: John Lovaas
Recording Secretary: to be determined
Vice-President: Jack Wood
Treasurer: John Lovaas
Director: Don Coons
Director: Philip Moss
Director: Tony Schmitt
Director: Steve Taylor
Director: Bob Weck
Director/webmaster: Jack Wood
IDNR Director: Mona Colburn
Data Request Committee: Frank Wilhelm- chair; John Lovaas, Jack Wood; members
Lovaas moves: The minutes of the March 9, 2008 meeting are approved, with correction to treasurer's report(see below).
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Reports:
- Treasury: John Lovaas, Treasurer - previous balance of $416.56, now $236.11.
$299.95 for one copy of Filemaker Pro(paid to Bob Weck; electronic receipt on file). $62.50 for one copy of Xara(paid to Jack Wood). $10 to IL SoS.
- Thanks to the 2008 Spring MVOR staff and ISS members who raised funds to cover the cost of the Filemaker Pro software with a 50/50 raffle.
- Membership report: Jack Wood, Vice-President.
- Data Request Committee activity: John Lovaas, President
- Not-For-Profit Filings: Philip Moss, Registered Agent
- Shawnee Forest Project: Jack Wood, Chair, SNF Committee
- Website: Jack Wood, webmaster
- ISS Patches: Richard Raber
- Grotto/Agency Activity Reports
Old Business:
- Disposition of Equality Cave data to ISS custodian.
- Filemaker Pro implementation.
- Followup on March 2008 confidentiality agreement discussion.
New Business:
Philip Moss moves: Diane Tecic's resignation as ISS Data Custodian is accepted. Frank Wilhelm is appointed ISS Custodian.
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Philip Moss moves: The President will send an agenda to the Board of Directors no less than thirty days prior the next meeting. The President shall also attempt to make it publicly available via email or posted on the Web.
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Philip Moss moves: The Camp Vandeventer karst inventory is a project of the ISS. A draft proposal to Boy Scouts of America , Okaw Valley Council follows.
Camp Vandeventer Karst Inventory Proposal
DRAFT
The Illinois Speleological Survey, Inc. (ISS), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the study of caves and karst in Illinois , proposes to inventory the karst features located on Camp Vandeventer.
In particular, we propose to locate all of the cave entrances, match existing cave maps to their cave entrances, complete any incomplete cave maps, list the known fauna of each cave, and provide a description of the resources required to search each cave and the potential hazards found within each. The latter could prove invaluable in the event that missing campers need to have a full-scale search done for them.
We would expect the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to provide the following:
Use of roadside tent sites
Use of toilets
Parking for volunteers' vehicles
In return, the ISS would provide to BSA the following data in a digital format:
Latitude and longitude location data for each cave entrance
Area maps showing the location of all of the cave entrances on a topographic or aerial photo base
A map of each cave
A list of known fauna for each cave along with an assessment of its rarity
A description of the resources required to search each cave for missing campers
An evaluation of the fragility of each cave that could be used if BSA considered offering on-site cave trips to campers
Points of Contact
For purposes of this project, John Nelzen will represent the BSA and Philip Moss will represent the ISS.
Schedule
The ISS anticipates that the cave entrance location task would be completed in two weekends beginning in the Fall of 2008. We cannot know how much cave mapping there is to be done and that has the potential to take several weekends that would need to be scheduled at the mutual convenience of the BSA and ISS.
Methods
The land would be walked methodically searching each sinkhole and walking each streambed for cave entrances. Location coordinates would then be recorded by GPS. The cave would have a short reconnaissance trip into it to compare the cave to existing cave maps from Roy Milner's report on Camp Vandeventer.
If need be, subsequent trips may be made to given caves to check the map for completeness or to map the cave. On each trip into a cave, the fauna that can be identified without collecting will be recorded. These data will augment the cave bioinventories performed by Dr. Julian Lewis and his team in 1999.
A copy of all data derived from this project will be stored in ISS files and may be made available to researchers according to ISS Bylaws and Acts.
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John Lovaas moves: 10 minutes of open discussion
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To move: The next meeting will be held at (location tbd) in (location tbd) on (date and time tbd).
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To move: adjourn.
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Adjourned at:
Correction to March 2008 treasurer's report-
ISS Treasurer's Report - March 9, 2008(correction on Nov. 26, 2008)
Previous balance- $461.56 (includes $25 petty cash )
Expenses: $150 to Philip Moss for BOG expenses
Income: dues/donations/cash- $105
Current balance- $416.56 (includes $30 in checks)
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