Pennsylvania Cave Conservancy Meeting Minutes for October 4, 2009

This is a summary of the minutes of the meeting.

The meeting was called to order at 9:30am by President 
Pat Minnick at Rupert Cave Campground, McVeytown PA on
Sunday October 4, 2009

The following officers were present.
President - P. Minnick
Vice President – not present
Secretary - K. Bange
Treasurer - G. Dunmire

Representation was as follows:
Bald Eagle Grotto            JD Lewis
Baltimore Grotto             ---
Bucks County Grotto          ---
Buffalo Valley Grotto        ---
Central New Jersey Grotto    ---
Commander Cody Caving Club   Mike Mostardi
Franklin County Grotto       Pat Minnick
Greater Allentown Grotto     Dean Snyder
Huntingdon Co. Cave Hunters  ---
Nittany Grotto               Gary Dunmire
Philadelphia Grotto          Amos Mincin
Seven Valleys Grotto         Gretchen Williams (proxy)
York Grotto                  Joel Jacobs
 
Secretary Report: The minutes from the June 2009 
unofficial meeting were accepted as published in the 
August 2009 Breakdown.

Treasurer Report: Gary Dunmire distributed a copy of 
the PCC financial summary. 

Web Page: Dave Fricke continues to maintain the PCC 
Web Page.

PCC Breakfast: Pat Minnick and Anne Shepard did a great 
job coordinating and preparing food for the PCC breakfast. 
Thank you to Joe Schock for reconstructing the PCPC grill 
for easier transport. It worked well at the breakfast. 
The breakfast made $430.

PCC Brochure: Anyone interested in brochures should contact 
George Bange.

Mail: None

T-Shirts: Gary Dunmire reported that Spotted Lizard can 
produce PCC T-Shirts using the design submitted by Frank 
Stahan. The cost is $13.45 per T-Shirt, cost includes top 
quality T-Shirts. A motion was made and passed for Gary 
to proceed with getting a firm bid from Spotted Lizard. 
Gary agreed to store the T-Shirts.

PA Cave Database: Karen Bange attempted to contact Bill 
Herr with no success. A motion was made and passed for 
PCC to contact Keith Wheeland for his version of the most 
current information in the database and start over with a 
new steward of the database.

Cave Hill Grotto asked at the last PCC meeting to be 
part of PCC. Since that meeting did not have a quorum, 
PCC tabled the decision until the next PCC meeting. A 
vote was taken at this meeting not to have Cave Hill 
Grotto part of the PCC. Cave Hill Grotto can request 
to be part of the PCC in the future if they are still 
interested.

PCC Raffle was won by Robert Seeger. He returned the 
winnings to PCC.

OLD BUSINESS:

Project List:

Baker Caverns: Franklin, County, PA – Pat Minnick reported 
no changes and asks to have the cave dropped from the 
project list.

Dragon Cave: Berks County, PA – Ed Kehs plans to contact 
the land owner to find out if the cave is open or closed 
as there is a housing development being built around the 
cave.

Red Church Cave: Schuylkill County, PA – Land owner 
relations remains good. Joel Jacobs plans to contact 
the landowner regarding the possibility of gating the 
cave.

Merkle Cave: Berks County, PA - No changes and it was 
agreed to drop the cave from the project list as the 
cave is on land owned by the local golf course.

Cleversburg Cave: Franklin County, PA – Tom Feeney, a 
professor from Shippensburg University, has a monitoring 
system on the cave to monitor water levels. The data can 
be found on the Franklin County Grotto website. Pat 
Minnick reported the kiosk at the cave entrance was 
damaged recently.

Schofer Cave: Berks County, PA - No report

Durham Cave:  Bucks County, PA - No changes

Corker Hill and Frustration Pit: Franklin County, PA - 
Ken Jones has been in contact with WASHCO Homes, owners 
of the land. There have been no further developments 
with discussions to acquire the cave. The housing 
development has slowed down due to the economy.

Karen Bange will be sending out Christmas Cards to 
landowners soon. Contact Karen if you have a landowner 
you want added to the Christmas card list.
 
NEW BUSINESS:

Gary Dunmire reported on a recent rescue in J4. A 
non-caver became stuck in the cave requiring a 7-hour 
rescue by the local fire company. The person was 
fined $150 for trespassing.

Tippery Cave, Huntingdon County: It was agreed to add 
this cave to the project list. The property with the 
cave is up for sale.

Next meeting: The next meeting of the PCC will be on 
Saturday, February 27, 2010 following the MAR Business 
Meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30am

Respectfully submitted,
Karen Bange, Recording Secretary