I'm not a member of PBSS, so take this for what its worth, but I'm very interested in helping with a rock haul, as a few of you may know. I know there are a bit of politics involved, and I hate to see cavers getting the short end when they are only trying to help.
Aside from that, I'll bring whatever people want to come help from DFW area grottos if you do decide to do another. Charles On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:59 PM, J. LaRue Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > The July 13th meeting of the Permian Basin Speleological Society opened at > 1901, an unofficial opening to be sure (no gavel. Again) but an opening > nonetheless. > > > > Attending: Tony, Bill, Walter, new (also former) member Allen Laman, and > Jacqui. > > > > Treasurer's report: Bill Bentley reported that we again have $738.40. The > health and stability of the treasury moved us right along to new business as > Bill made a motion that we lower our dues to $10.00. Bill's motion was > seconded by Walter and discussion included the information that we used to > need $15.00 from each member because we were mailing out the Hole News and > we don't do that anymore. > > > > Other facts that came out in discussion: PBSS currently has 15 members. > Bill has sent emails to all cavers whose memberships have expired, asking if > they would like to re-up. We do have some student members who may have > budgeting issues (they are students, after all) so we didn't discuss for > long before we decided to create a student rate of $5.00 (full-time students > only) and also reduce the associate rate to $5.00. > > > > The new rate of $10.00 with associate memberships at $5.00 and full-time > students also at $5.00 passed unanimously. The change is effective > immediately. > > > > Bill is working on a trip to Comanche Springs in Ft. Stockton but it needs > to be a survey trip. Bill is looking into finding a sketcher-mapper person > who may wish to join us for this trip. Potential dates September 11th or > 25th. Lori Hales has a contact for a cave near Balmorhea and she hopes to > have us set up for a trip in the fall or winter. A couple of PBSSers have > been to this cave a long, long time ago. > > > > Walter reported from the Fort Stanton project and passed along a personal > invitation from Steve Peerman to Bill Bentley to involve himself in the Fort > Stanton Project. (We were assured that all of us are welcome, even without > the personal invitation). > > > > We decided to poll the membership regarding whether or not we want to do > another Carlsbad rock haul. > > > > We did not set another Five Mouth dig date but will plan another dig when > it cools off a bit. > > > > Bill asked if anyone was interested in a not-caving trip to Big Bend as his > permit is good through December 2010. We all said yes, we are. > > > > We briefly discussed NSS's request that Internal Organizations consider the > direction they want to see taken by the NSS and submit appropriate motions > to the Board of Governors. No motions came to anybody's mind. > > > > We received contact information for a company that makes patches and will > make as few as 50. Jacqui will look into how much it would cost for us to > have some new PBSS patches made. > > > > The meeting closed at 2001 hours. > > > > Jacqui Thomas > > > _______________________________________________ > PBSS mailing list > [email protected] > http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/pbss_caver.net >
