10:20 Bill Walden called the meeting to order.
Present were Bill Walden, Preston Forsyth, Jim Currens, Randy Paylor, Dan Nolfi, Mike Dyas (proxy for Don Conover) and John Cassidy.
Officers reports:
Treasurers report: Jim Currens reported that $127.00 was deposited to the treausury from dues. There was an additional $4.50 in interest also. Two checks, one to Bill Walden and one to Don Conover were issued. The ending balance is $1775.73.
Committees reports: 4 data requests were handled.
Special orders:
Bylaws:Jim Currens resumed the discussion on changes to the bylaws. A few additional changes were made and a final copy will be posted on the website for review. A vote will be held at the next meeting on this final version.
New business:
KSS laptops, Bill walden suggests, due to his experience with other computers, that we leave vista on the computer but we put XP on an external harddrive. Randy Paylor also suggested we make XP the default operating system..
Jim Currens has been doing both Secretary and Treaurers duties and would appreciate a volunteer to take over Secretary duties. It was also decided that the membership duties would be given to a person appointed by the Chair with approval from the board. Bill Walden appointed himself and the board approved unanimously.
Caving on Paper sessions:
the next one will be held at the Mining and Mineralogy building on te U. K. campus. There is a possibility it will be turned into a two day session.
Jim Currens suggested that we need to get the serial numbers straightened out for this session. Randy Paylor asked for some volunteers to help with this. Preston Forsyth thanked Randy for all the hard work he has been doing with all the data.
Meetings:
Bill Walden is looking for alternative meeting sites that might help encourage participation from the grottos that cave in Kentucky.
Announcements:
Ohio Valley meeting in October 2009 will be held in Bellefontaine, and will be hosted by WUSS and COG
Adjourned