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Central Coast Chapter California Land Surveyors Association official newsletter

PARALLAX April 2016 Volume 19, No. 4

APRIL meeting: Tuesday APRIL 19, 2016

5:30 pm social, 6 pm dinner, $35

Location: Madonna inn

Presentation: State of the State CLSA

guest speaker: ROGER HANLIN, 2016 CLSA PRESIDENT

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IN THIS ISSUE:

GUEST SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY………………………………………..2

WHATS NEW ON WWW.CENTRALCOASTCLSA.ORG……3

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES……………………………………3

2016 MEETING SCHEDULE…………………………………………….4

THE TRAVELING SURVEYOR…………………………………………..5

MARCH MEETING MINUTES……………………………………..…..6

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ROGER K. HANLIN, PLS BIOGRAPHY: Mr. Hanlin is a second generation surveyor with over 32 years of experience in the private sector. Licensed in 1988, Roger is currently the Director of Surveying for MHM Incorporated, a full-service Land Surveying and Civil Engineering Company, established in 1892 and located in Marysville, California. Roger has been with MHM, Inc. most of his professional career (1989) working on a wide variety of projects for members of the public, private companies, and public agencies. The work has involved numerous boundary surveys, land planning, land divisions, aerial mapping control surveys, topographic surveys, right of way acquisition, and quality control surveys as examples. Other contracts have been for services as City Surveyor for West Sacramento, California (14 years) and Oroville, California (3 years). MHM, Inc. has also provided on-call surveying services for the City of Yuba City and Placer County. Roger is a strong supporter of community and professional outreach programs and volunteers time as a member of the Northern Counties Chapter conference/ workshop committee to provide annual workshops for regional surveyors. Roger has also volunteered his time to provide field demonstrations on conventional, robotic total station and global positioning system surveys to the engineering surveying classes at Yuba College for the past several years and speaks at local career fairs on the opportunities available with a career in surveying and the benefits of a professional association. Roger acknowledges CLSA has provided significant professional growth and a positive impact throughout his career as evidenced in the timeline below and will strive to provide inspiration to all on the opportunities available within the surveying profession and benefits he has experienced through membership in CLSA. California Land Surveyors Association (CLSA): a Professional Association

Joined CLSA in 1986 as an associate member and upgraded to corporate member in 1988 Member of the Northern Counties Chapter Chair of the Calibration Base Line Committee Northern Counties Chapter 2006 Northern Counties Chapter Officer 2004, 2009, 2013, 2014 Northern Counties Chapter President 2005 & 2010 State CLSA Representative/ Director for Northern Counties Chapter 2006 – 2012 State CLSA BPELSG Liaison 2010 – current State CLSA Treasurer 2013 State CLSA Secretary 2014 California Delegate for the Western Federation of Professional Surveyors (WFPS) 2014 State CLSA President Elect 2015 State CLSA President 2016 (50 year celebration 1966 – 2016) Member CLSA Professional Development Program

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What’s new on www.CentralCoastCLSA.org ?

Is this how the Public Sees us!

A disturbing article by at “Investigative” Reporter on the surveying profession

Want to become a Land Surveyor

A list of Interns looking for work so they can learn the surveying profession

Record Boundaries on Maps

The age old question of when (if ever) Record Boundaries are acceptable

Does this stuff really matter?

GIS professionals on GPS

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES - Cal Poly SLO

Full time Lecturer

#103962 – Full-Time Lecturer in Engineering Surveying, Precision Agricultural and Computer-Aided Design/Drafting; BioResource and Agricultural Engineering Department; College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, ext. 6-2378. Review begins May 1.

For more information go to Cal Poly Jobs website at https://www.calpolyjobs.org/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp click on Faculty Positions and search for the requisition number listed (103962). Click on "VIEW" to see the details of the job.

Part- time Lecturers

In addition the Department is also looking for part-time lecturers to teach some surveying sections. The Department has a part-time lecturer pool that you should apply for if you are interested in teaching one section of surveying. That information can also be found at the Cal Poly Jobs website using the requisition number 103679.

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2016 Chapter meeting schedule (Note: all Dinner meetings are 5:30 pm social, 6:00 pm meeting, unless noted otherwise)

January 19 (Tuesday) Business Meeting

Location: Madonna Inn February 16 (Tuesday)

Guest Speaker: Drew Van Duren, Drone presentation Location: Madonna Inn

March 15 (Tuesday) Guest Speaker: Nick Franco, History of California State Park System Location: Madonna Inn

April 19 (Tuesday)

Guest Speaker: Roger Hanlin, CLSA President Location: Madonna Inn

May 17 (Tuesday)

Program: Trig*Star Awards Location: Madonna Inn

June NO MEETING *July 19 (Tuesday)

Program: Summer business meeting *(TENTATIVE) Location: Madonna Inn

August 27 (Saturday) Annual Summer BBQ / Horseshoe Tournament Location: Cuesta Park

September 20 (Tuesday) Program: TBA Location: Madonna Inn

October 18 (Tuesday)- Program: TBA Location: TBA

November 15 (Tuesday) Program: Kevin and Lisa Irot from First American Title Co. Location: Madonna Inn

December – Annual Christmas Party Date, Time & Location TBD

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The Traveling SurveyorRobert Reese checking in from Hawaii, “ Aloha from Kolekole”

(Editor’s note: ”Where’s the beach ?”)

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March 2016 Meeting Minutes

CENTRAL COAST CHAPTER CLSA MEETING was held March 16, 2016 at 6:00 PM at Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, CA

(Cristi Fry) CALL TO ORDER 6:09 PM (Cristi Fry) PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

(Cristi Fry) ROLL CALL/ INTRODUCTIONS Cristi Fry, President David Karp, Vice President George Marchenko, Secretary/Treasurer Jonathan Walsh, Immediate Past President Ian McClain - State CLSA Board Director - absent Robert Reese - State CLSA Board Director - absent Mike Stanton - State CLSA Board Director 17 members and 2 non-members were in attendance at the meeting, including the speaker and guests. (Cristi) APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION by President Cristi Fry and SECONDED (J. Walsh) to approve the February 16, 2016 Chapter Meeting Minutes as published in the March Parallax. (Call for vote – Ayes 100% (Cristi Fry) PRESIDENT’S REPORT States that Officers announce they are still breathing and vertical. Congratulations to Dave and Teri Kerry on their great-grand baby. Education blog is growing with good stuff being added. VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT No report.

(George) SECRETARY/TREASURER’S REPORT The current Chapter checking account balance is $ 8207.32 Except for our 1 guest and Parallax editor, cost for dinner tonight was $35.

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We have received $1275 in Trig*Star donations. Announces 44 chapter members. (Ian) DIRECTOR’S REPORT No report- absent (Tom Mastin) EDUCATION COMMITTEE and ADHOC COMMITTEE No report, home sick. (Cristi) PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES COMMITTEE No Report. (George) TRIGSTAR COMMITTEE REPORT Receiving positive responses from 4 schools. Ken Fargen is in for Righetti again. (Cristi) OLD BUSINESS -none. (Cristi) NEW BUSINESS George Marchenko needs to coordinate with State to reconcile members list. Outreach: Jonathan Walsh will be volunteering at Cuesta College this Saturday. Jesse Brady and Randy Ellison are measuring discus throws for the track and field at SLO High School. Doug Rion announces he is retiring March 16 and that Ed Reading is hired as an Engineer 4 and being trained. Until the Board of Supervisor’s make a resolution appointing the new County Surveyor, Joe Morris (Deputy) is the Acting County Surveyor. (Cristi) ANNOUNCEMENTS CLSA/NALS Conference will be March 21-25 at the Silver Legacy Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Early bird discounts are available until March 21st. Next meeting is April 19 – Roger Hanlin/CLSA President Madonna Inn

(Cristi) ADJOURNMENT (Call for meeting to adjourn.) 8:32 PM.

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