Paso Del Norte Chapter 17 Activity Report
Texas Society of Professional
Surveyors
DIVISION: Society Affairs DIV #: 1 DIVISION OFFICER:
Mickey Nowell
COMMITTEE: Chapter Activities-Chapter 17 CHAIRMAN REPORTING:
Isaac Camacho
BOARD MEETING DATE: Feb. 5, 2005
CHAPTER ACTIVITY REPORT
January 13, 2005
TSPS
Chapter 17 Paso Del Norte 1st Quarter Report
The
Chapter met on
Thursday, September 23, 2004
at
11:30 AM
at Landry’s Restaurant for a lunch meeting.
We had 8 members in attendance. We
discussed the meeting schedule for the coming year and elected officers and
directors for the coming year. The
following are the Chapter officers and directors for 2005:
President
– Isaac Camacho, RPLS
Vice
President – Bob Monroe, RPLS
Secretary/Treasurer
–
Larry Drewes
, RPLS
Director
– Jerry Cutts, RPLS
Director
– Charles Gutierrez, RPLS
Director
– Robert Siepel, RPLS
Director
– James Whitaker, RPLS
Chapter
Representative – Robert Siepel
The
Chapter also discussed the pubic survey records that were previously archived in
the office of ex-County Surveyor, Mr. Robert Pounds.
Mr. Pounds has moved to
Las Vegas
,
Nevada
and requested assistance from Mr. Steve Cobb, RPLS and Mr. Christian Clausen,
RPLS to archive the public survey records locally.
The public survey records are currently archived in Mr. Clausen’s
office. Chapter members discussed
the need to make the public survey records available to all surveyors,
governmental entities, and the public. The
Chapter discussed scanning the public survey records and posting the records on
the Chapter website. Mr. Cobb and
Mr. Clausen have already scanned some of the public survey records.
They requested any assistance the Chapter can provide to complete the
scanning process. Chapter members
present agreed to provide time and materials to assist in the completion of the
scanning of the public survey records and then post them on the Chapter website.
Chapter members also agreed that the archives of the
County
Clerk
’s Office are the best place for the public survey records, since there is no
County
Surveyor
at this time. Some of the members
present stated that they had sometimes been denied access to the records in the
County
Clerk
’s archives. The Chapter decided
to form a committee to contact the
County
Clerk
’s concerning the public survey records. The
goal of the Chapter and the committee is to transfer the public survey records
to the
County
Clerk
and insuring access to the records in the future.
Committee members selected are Mr. Cobb, Mr. Drewes, and Mr. Siepel.
The
committee met with staff from the
County
Clerk
’s Office on
October 27, 2004
and discussed the public survey records. The
Clerk’s Office agreed to allow the Chapter to scan the records and post them
on the Chapter website. After
scanning the records will be transferred to the custody of the Clerk’s Office.
The Clerk’s Office will set up a protocol to allow access to the
records in the future.
During
November, Mr. Cobb and Mr. Clausen continued to scan the public survey records.
As a set of records was scanned, Mr. Cobb turned them over to the
Clerk’s Office. In late November
the scanner used to scan the records malfunctioned.
The scanning of the records was put on hold until the scanner can be
repaired.
The
Chapter met on
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
at Leo’s Restaurant for our annual Christmas meeting with the Lower Rio
Grande Chapter of the New Mexico Professional Surveyors.
The social hour began at
6:30 PM
and dinner at
7:15 PM
. The two chapters discussed
re-starting the Texas-New Mexico State Line Perpetuation Project after the first
of the year. We had a great meal, a
raffle of prizes, good fun and fellowship with our colleagues from
New Mexico
. We had 18 members and guests in
attendance, including two students from the
New Mexico
State
University
surveying program.
The
next Chapter meeting is scheduled for
January 20, 2005
.
Isaac
Camacho, RPLS
Chapter
President
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