Dallas Chapter 5 Activity Report

Texas Society of Professional Surveyors

DIVISION: Society Affairs     DIV #: 1     DIVISION OFFICER: Mickey Nowell

COMMITTEE: Chapter Activities      CHAIRMAN REPORTING: John January

BOARD MEETING DATE: Feb. 5, 2005     

CHAPTER ACTIVITY REPORT

Submitted by J. R. January, Dallas Chapter President 2005

on Wednesday the 12th day of January, 2005

OFFICERS-2004-2005

OFFICE                            NAME                          ADDRESS                  O-PHONE         CELL       FAX          E-MAIL

2005 Chapter Committee Chairs
 

And Committee Members

Monthly Committee Reports are to be submitted as a word document (or excel for financial reports) to the Chapter President (By E-Mail) no later than the week prior to each monthly chapter meeting.

a)              Audit - Chairman: Robert Schneeberg, RPLS: Members; Michael Clover, Mark Williams, J R January. Responsible for the financial and business affairs of the Dallas Chapter, responsible for reports of the chapter's finances and submission of same to the state board of the TSPS.

b)              Programs – Chairman: Christopher R. Freeman, RPLS; Members: Tedde R. Blunck, Scott M. Posey. Reserve Venues and obtain Speakers for all monthly chapter meetings. Chapter Meeting Speaker ideas; local Politicians, and businessmen, product line associates, surveyors, law enforcement, GLO, ect. FYI: There is now a TSPS Sponsored Speaker Program that teaches new seminar presenters and tests new seminar program ideas.

c)              P. R. and Special Events - Chairman: Tedde R. Blunck, Esq., PE, RPLS; Members: Christopher R. Freeman, Charlie Redd, Scott M. Posey. National Surveyor's Week, Educating the public about Surveyor's, SURPAC, Family Picnic in mid-late fall or early winter, Annual Horse Races, Annual Golf Tournament, Bowling Tournament, Sponsoring (Money and personnel) events and activities for this year and next year both locally and at the State Convention.

d)              Chapter/State Activity Reports - Chairman: Scott Holt, RPLS; Prepare monthly reports for the Dallas membership (to be read at each chapter meeting) and Quarterly/Yearly Reports for the State Board regarding the activities and finances of the Dallas Chapter. The State portion of this Committees work might fall under the duties of the Chapter Representative (John Pierce).

e)              Education – Chairman: John Pierce, RPLS; Members; J R January. Northlake College Courses, Trig-Star, TSFI, April TSPS Seminar Symposium 2005; FYI: The Ft. Worth Chapter recently donated $1,000 to Trig-Star (State level). Packets (From NSPS) will most likely be ready in late October. Lynn Savory.

f)                Internet – Chairman: Webmaster/Administrator: Mark Williams, RPLS; Members, all Executive Board members: Web Site, and Message Board.

g)              Membership – Chairman: Michael Clover, RPLS; Members. Local and state level TSPS membership drives.

h)              Nominating – Chairman: Michael Clover, RPLS; Members. Local and state level. Nominate new officers for local and state level TSPS positions and nominate persons for yearly awards by the TSPS state board.

TSPS DALLAS CHAPTER NO. 5

2004-2005 First Quarter

MONTHLY MEETING REPORT

JANUARY 2005

The January meeting was held on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at the El Fenix Restaurant at 1601 McKinney Ave , Dallas .

The meetings guest speaker was Henry Kuehlem . Henry is the current president of TSPS at the State level. He brought us up to date on all the happenings TSPS has planned for the TSPS this year. The members were reminded that there is a legislative session scheduled for later this year that will most likely end with the combining of the Texas Board of Professional Land Surveyors with some other state regulatory entity.

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DECEMBER 2004

No meeting was held in the month of December, due to the Holidays.

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NOVEMBER 2004

The November 2004 meeting was held on Tuesday, November, 2005 at the

The guest Speaker was Patti Williams, Senior instructor at Tyler Junior College . Patti spoke about TJC’s summer programs for high school students, career days at the college and the other goings on at Tyler Junior College and the joint programs being offered between TJC and UT Tyler’s 4 year degree program. Over four hundred dollars was donated by attending members that night for TJC’s book program.

At the meeting the immediate past two TSPS Dallas Chapter presidents were recognized by the membership of the Chapter and they were each presented with wooden plaques as a way to honor and recognize their efforts as past presidents of the TSPS Dallas Chapter.

Neil Culver was recognized for his term as Dallas Chapter President for the year 2002-2003.

Scott Holt was recognized for his term as Dallas Chapter President for the year 2003-2004.

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OCTOBER 2004

No Chapter meeting was held in the month of October, due to the State Convention.

However, the Dallas Chapters executive board had a meeting during the fist week of the month.

We discussed the upcoming TSPS State Convention, various reports of the committees were heard and we discussed the finances of the chapter for the previous year, noting a surplus of funds over the expected amount at the end of the past years officers expectations. It was decided by the Executive Board that most of those extra funds should go to the States Trig-Star 2005 licensure fees.

The new web site was discussed and ideas for upgrading the web site were considered and voted on. Mark Williams continues to be the Chapters Web Site manager and administrator and he is doing a most excellent job.

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SEPTEMBER 2004

The September 2004 meeting was held on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at the Golden Corral; 11845 E. Northwest Highway ; Dallas , Texas

PROGRAM: We were joined by the Right-Of-Way Agents Association for a joint meeting. The program was presented by Clifton Middleton, Texas State Geodetic Advisor from the National Geodetic Survey. Our State TSPS Incoming President Elect Mickey Nowell was on hand to swear in the Dallas Chapters new officers for upcoming new year.

During the previous week, the New old and the newly elected Executive Committee held a joint meeting to discuss the upcoming year and to assign committee chairs and other members to various committees from the newly elected officers. The meeting was chaired by Scott Holt, the President of the Dallas Chapter for the year 2003-2004.

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Miscellaneous Chapter Activities

Some of the actions that the Dallas Chapter has taken in the past few months are as follows:

We obtained a new Post Office mail Box at the Downtown Dallas Post Office.

In December, the Dallas Chapter sent the State Offices a check for $500 that was then assigned by Anne Glasgow to pay the Texas State Licensure fees to the NSPS for the 2005 Trig-Star program. Once we have obtained NSPS 2005 Trig-Star packets, the chapters education committee will immediately mail the packets out to over 115 local area schools. The Envelopes are already labeled and ready to mail and all of the schools have been contacted by phone to confirm the contact and address information.

In January Northlake College began another semester of surveying mathematics, once again this was almost completely due to the ongoing efforts of John Pierce, ever the skillful educator of young people in the field of land surveying.

During the past year, the Dallas Chapter has been working on our new Chapter 5 web site, which is near to being complete, with a few problems most of those being quite natural in newly created web sites. The sites home page web address is:   http://www.tsps-5.org/

We are still working on some of the various links and other pages on the site, but the main page is complete and up and running.

On the main page of the web site, you can link to each of the Chapters member counties by clicking on each portion of the map of the eight counties we serve as shown on that main web site home page. There is also a Links page that lists many various city, county, state, and federal government sites and many surveying related web sites and web pages.

Future Chapter Plans-Activities

February speaker is Leonard Wall, TxDOT Dallas District survey Mgr. (tentative)

March speaker is Robert Seipel, TSPS SURPAC Chairman

April meeting: Horse Racing at Lone Star Park (tentative)

May meeting:  Annual Golf Tournament (tentative)

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