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DIVISION: Membership Services     DIV #: 4       DIVISION OFFICER: Michael Haberer

COMMITTEE: Awards             CHAIRMAN REPORTING:  Robby Christopher

COMMITTEE ACTIVITY REPORT

2004 Strategic Planning Goals:

GOAL: Each BOD member is responsible to nominate at least one award recipient –

We didn’t quite achieve this goal, although some BOD members did submit nominations.

GOAL: Create chapter program on awards – I am unsure of the status of this and may  need to revisit for clarification on the intent.

            Suggest that Chapter Past Presidents might become key individual responsible for Award nominations.- The new “Chapter Presidents” category on the TSPS website forum will be a good place to get input on this.             

            Publicize that repeat winners is ok- Done

The committee has mixed feelings about this year’s accomplishment.  While we did receive nominations for each of the awards, we were still disappointed with the lack of response and hope to do a better job in the future. 

The Chapter President of the Year will not be awarded this year.

The committee has suggested a slight modification to the Awards Nomination form that will help future committee members verify whether a nomination is from an individual or a chapter, and the chapter member responsible for submitting the nomination.

The recipients of all the awards have been chosen and notified.  Presenters have been selected for the Awards Gala at convention.

The committee would like to thank all those who submitted nominations and congratulate all those who were chosen to receive awards.

It has been my pleasure to serve as committee chairman and I wish to thank my fellow members Paul Kwan and Michael Parker for their support and guidance.
 

MEMBERSHIP SERVICES

DIVISION: Membership Services     DIV #:4        DIVISION OFFICER: Michael Haberer

COMMITTEE: Membership                 CHAIRMAN REPORTING: Mary Chruszczak

COMMITTEE ACTIVITY REPORT

The following goals for the Membership accomplished in 2004-2005:

• A membership survey with over 400 respondents

• Begin pursuing the GIS profession as a potential membership recruitment avenue

• Identify partnering benefits for members

• Developed a calling/inviting committee for non member to attend meetings

• In connection with special membership edition of “The Texas Surveyor” developed a follow-up calling committee 

The Committee is also developing/evaluating a proposed new membership category for mapping professionals.
 

I’d like to thank Doug Loveday, the TSPS Staff and the Chapter Presidents for their efforts in assisting the Membership Committee with these goals.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Chruszczak, RPLS
 

PAST PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE

DIVISION: Membership Services  DIV #: 4   DIVISION OFFICER: Michael Haberer

COMMITTEE: Past President’s Committee  CHAIRMAN REPORTING: Michael Haberer
 

COMMITTEE ACTIVITY REPORT

The Past President’s Committee is a relatively new committee setup as a forum between the past presidents and the executive committee. The committee currently meets on the same weekend as the quarterly meetings, usually on Friday evening. The meeting at the convention will be the Past President’s dinner. A meeting was held at each quarterly meeting this year. Some meetings were better attended than others.

Always there was a good exchange of ideas.

The following dates are recommended for meetings in the coming year.

February: Friday night before Board Meeting.

June: Friday night before Board Meeting.

August: Participate in strategic planning session with no separate meeting.

October: The Past President’s dinner will serve as the meeting.

Respectfully submitted

Michael Haberer

PRODUCT SALES

DIVISION:   Membership Services             DIV #: 4     DIVISION OFFICER:  Mike Haberer
COMMITTEE: Product Sales                   CHAIRMAN REPORTING: Robert Hysmith

YEAR END COMMITTEE ACTIVITY REPORT

The committee has met twice since the last board meeting. We have ordered more of the new “Golf Shirts” with the letters TSPS only on the pocket. We still have a sufficient amount of the long and short sleeve white twill shirts and the long and short sleeve denim shirts to carry us through the annual meeting. We also will be bringing the updated version of Ken Gold’s book “Decisions” which are in printing at the date of this report. We are again fully stocked on our short course books as we have had a lot of inquiries for. We have a sufficient amount of our historical books, such as One League to Each Wind, Three Dollars Per Mile and Texas Was His Land. We have ordered more TSPS lapel pins. Last, we have ordered new low profile and high profile caps with our logo. We will be offering any 50^th anniversary logo items we have left to persons who make purchases, with the exception of the fleece vest. I am looking forward to another good year in sales and hope to get new ideas for other items we could sell.

Sales to this date is $12,676.23 

This report is submitted by Bob Hysmith, Chairman
 

PUBLICATIONS

Division:  Membership Srvcs   Division #:  4.1  Division Officer:  Mike Haberer                Committee:    Publications                               Chairman Reporting:    Lynn R. Savory       

It has been a reasonably quiet year, and pretty much on target for budget.  The “Special Issue” of the magazine went out early in September to non-member RPLS’s and SIT’s in an attempt to increase interest in membership. The issue was filled with items of interest ranging from an explanation of benefits and organization history, to targeted appeals aimed at specific groups within our profession.  The mailing list, broken down by zip code and Chapter, is being sent to Mary and Curtis for follow-up phone calls.  Should any of the Board members want a copy of this issue, contact Doug.  If we run out of printed copies, a pdf file can be arranged.

This is also the time of year we send out for printing bids on the publications.  Doug has been inundated with printers wanting our business.  The current printer is Branch-Smith in Fort Worth.  Bids go out shortly after the November issue is printed.

While gathering input for the “membership issue”, we gathered a nice surplus of articles for use in future magazines.  Several of those used in the special issue would be of interest to the general membership and may be utilized in the future.

Respectfully submitted,

Lynn R. Savory RPLS

Chairman
 

SAFETY

DIVISION: MEMBERSHIP SERVICES DIV #:  4   DIV. OFFICER:  MICHAEL HABERER

COMMITTEE: SAFETY     CHAIRMAN REPORTING: MICHAEL BEARDEN

Members consist of Mike Bearden and Paul Hubert.  We met twice this year and decided there was a need for safely concerning working around eclectic facilities.  The attachment to this report was taken for an electrical manual for contractors.

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