[PBSS] PBSS 9-11-07 Meeting Notes

[Bill Bentley]

The PBSS meeting was called to order at 7:01 PM sharp with the banging of the sacred plastic ketchup bottle by President Bill Bentley. 

Barry Hayes gave a Treasurer's report stating we have a total of $688.98.

The meeting notes were read from the 8-14-07 meeting and were approved as read with no corrections. 
We discussed the upcoming PBSS Christmas party which will be on Saturday December the 15th, 2007, to be held at Caverns of Sonora and the details are being worked out by Kel Thomas, more to come soon. At this time it looks as though the PBSS will buy the main meal (meat and or main course) and everyone should bring a side dish and or a desert.
Discussed renaming the CR Dig to "Gumbo Cave" if it is okay with the land owner again, more can be reported after the trip there on the 22nd. 
Discussed and pretty much have decided to have 2 pre-convention trips to Bradford Cave on Saturday and Sunday before the 2009 NSS ICS Conventions.
Discussed the upcoming TCR in October on the 19th, 20th and 21st, 2007.
Discussed the November, 17 & 18, 2007 trip to McKittrick Hill that Barry is planning for Endless, Sand, and McKittrick Caves.
Discussed and got a report on the SWR Fall Regional which was held at the Black Range in New Mexico over Labor Day. Jacqui Thomas said it was a Hawaiian theme an visits were made to Coffee, Robinson's and I can't remember the name because I didn't go Caves. Jacqui reported that the SWR as a region was going to bid for the 2013 NSS Convention to be held someplace in New Mexico.
It was also discussed for the PBSS to attempt holding a SWR Winter Technical "Paper' Regional some time soon. Midland offers quite a few places that would be ideal for a Winter Regional. The next SWR Winter Technical Regional will be in Las Cruces, but that the dates had not been confirmed at this time.
Kel Thomas reported that old fixtures were being sold off from the remodeling of the Carlsbad Caverns Visitors Center.
Discussed the upcoming 9-22-07 trip to Bradford Cave to do more surveying.
Discussed the upcoming PBOC Cave Trip in October. Bill Bentley and Tony Greico will be leading that trip.
Bill Bentley announced that local AM broadcast station KCRS 550 had announced our meeting in their community calendar section of the "Morning Drive" program. 
It was also discussed exchanging newsletters with a grotto in Montana, but it was decided that since all of the old newsletters were archived on the web in PDF format, then anyone who wanted them could view download and thus negated any need for a newsletter exchange. 
The meeting was adjourned promptly at 7:52 PM with the banging of the sacred plastic ketchup bottle...

Respectfully submitted,
By Bill Bentley

PBSS 2006 2007 President...

The PBSS would also like to welcome back a returning member and long time caver Tony Abernathy, as well as new members Sharon and Kelly Long who all joined the PBSS this evening.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.caver.net/pipermail/pbss_caver.net/attachments/20070911/0e5fb564/attachment.html