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Parallax Newsletter of the Central Coast Chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association April 2015 Volume: 19 Issue: 04 APRIL 2015 MEETING Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Where: Embassy Suites 333 Madonna Rd, San Luis Obispo Time: 5:30-6:00 Social Hour 6:00pm Dinner & Meeting Menu: Buffet Dinner Cost: $35 payable to CCC CLSA Program: Roger Hanlin; CLSA President Elect RSVP: Cristi Fry [email protected] ABOUT our Speakers A second generation surveyor with over 32 years of expe- rience in the private sector. Licensed in 1988 and current Direc- tor of Surveying for MHM Incorpo- rated, a full-service Land Surveying and Civil Engineering Company, es- tablished in 1892 and lo cated in Marysville, California. Most of his professional career has been with MHM, Inc. (1989) as one of six licensed professionals working on a wide variety of projects for members of the pub- lic, private companies, and public agencies. The work has involved numerous boundary surveys, ALTA sur- veys, land planning, land divisions and adjustments, aerial mapping control surveys, topographic surveys, right of way acquisition, construction surveys and quality control surveys as examples. Other contracts have been for services as City Surveyor for West Sacra- mento, 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 In This Issue April Meeting ................... pg. 1 About the Speakers ......... pg. 1 President’s Message ....... pg. 2 Photos from March .......... pg. 3 2015 Membership Form ..pg. 3 Editor’s Corner ................ pg. 5 Bad Survey humor ............ pg. 5 March Minutes ................. pg. 6 OH! THIS CAN’ T BE GOOD!! S EE PAGE 5 page 1
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P a r a l l a xN e w s l e t t e r o f t h e C e n t r a l C o a s t C h a p t e r o f t h e
C a l i f o r n i a L a n d S u r v e y o r s A s s o c i a t i o n
April 2015Volume: 19
Issue: 04
A p r i l 2 0 1 5 M E E T i N G
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Where: Embassy Suites 333 Madonna rd, San luis Obispo
Time: 5:30-6:00 Social Hour 6:00pm Dinner & Meeting
Menu: Buffet Dinner
Cost : $35 payable to CCC ClSA
Program: roger Hanlin; ClSA president Elect
RSVP: Crist i Fry [email protected]
About our Speakers
A second generation surveyor with over 32 years of expe-rience in the private sector.
licensed in 1988 and current Direc-tor of Surveying for MHM incorpo-rated, a full-service land Surveying and Civil Engineering Company, es-
tablished in 1892 and located in Marysville, California. Most of his professional career has been with MHM,
inc. (1989) as one of six licensed professionals working
on a wide variety of projects for members of the pub-lic, private companies, and public agencies. The work has involved numerous boundary surveys, AlTA sur-veys, land planning, land divisions and adjustments, aerial mapping control surveys, topographic surveys, right of way acquisition, construction surveys and quality control surveys as examples. Other contracts have been for services as City Surveyor for West Sacra-mento, 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
In This Issue
A p r i l M e e t i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg . 1
A b o u t t h e S p e a k e r s . . . . . . . . . pg . 1
Pre s i d e n t ’s M e s s a g e . . . . . . . pg . 2
P h o to s f ro m M a rc h . . . . . . . . . . pg . 3
2 0 1 5 M e m b e r s h i p Fo r m . . pg . 3
E d i to r ’s Co r n e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg . 5
Ba d S u r ve y h u m o r . . . . . . . . . . . . pg . 5
M a rc h M i n u te s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg . 6
Oh! This can’T be gOOd!!
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2015
Central Coast Chapter
CLSA Officers
X President -Jonathan Walsh
XVice President -Cristi Fry
X Secretary / TreasurerDavid Karp
X Immediate Past PresidentGeorge Marchenko
X Chapter RepresentativesLinda Richardson
Cristi [email protected]
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X PublisherCentral Coast Chapter CLSA
X EditorsLinda Richardson
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President’s Messagefrom Jonathan Walsh
Hello all and Happy April,This year is just cruising
by. We had a nice turn out at Steamers restaurant, in pismo Beach last month. We had Mike Stanton, plS, of MBS land Surveys and rob Carnes, pE, of Ground Up Design & Construction Manage-ment talk about the los Osos Sewer project. it was an interesting proj-
ect and a nice presentation, thank you both, again. The County of San luis Obispo had two resident En-gineers from the project there too. The members had several ques-tions that were expertly answered. rob had a very detailed photo slide show, as well as a time-lapse video of a typical day in front of a typical home. This video was a great dem-onstration of what a homeowner went through.
Our Vice president, Cristi Fry, is doing an amazing job with guest speakers and new venues. i am not sure if the members are aware how challenging it can be to find a venue in our area suitable to our
needs. So cheers to Cristi for her ef-forts! She has the ClSA president Elect, roger Hanlin, coming to talk to us this month. This will be at the Embassy Suites on April 22. The following month will be the Trig-Star awards Dinner.
Speaking of cheers for efforts, George Marchenko is heavily into TrigStar right now and i know he is very busy on that, so cheers and thank you to George. Good luck too!
Well ok, cheers to me too! i have spent the last two Saturdays at Cuesta College, talking to the Surveying Class. This is the third semester that i have done this. i seem to be able make them relax a
bit and at least have them give the land Surveying profession a seri-ous consideration for a little while. One student may want to give it a try. That is one out of fourteen students. Mostly they are Forestry or Ag Management or Civil En-gineering majors. i have invited anyone in the class to come to one our meetings. i told them to talk to some of the members, and maybe, just maybe, we can find some sum-mer work for the interested few that may show up. if anyone is interested in hiring a student this summer, let me know. i have a few students that are interested.
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Central Coast Chapter California Land Surveyors Association
2015 Membership Form Name: _________________________________________________________________
Email Address1: _________________________________________________________________
Company/Agency: _________________________________________________ Primary Contact2
Phone: _________________________________________________________________
Are you: LS LSIT RCE Other
State CLSA: Life Corporate Affiliate Student Associate None
1. This is where Parallax and all other chapter correspondence is to be sent2. Check if you should be the primary contact for the company or agency
Chapter Dues $20.00 per Person (Yearly Dues) Please Make Check payable to: Central Coast Chapter CLSA
Send Payments to : David Karp 543 Andrea Cir. Paso Robles, CA 93446
I am also contributing $ __________________________________ for Scholarship Fund
I am also contributing $ __________________________________ for Trig-Star Fund
ROBERT J. REESEOwner • PLS [email protected]
1970 Partridge DriveSan Luis Obispo, CA 93405
Tel/Fax: 805-543-5375
Photos from LAst month’s meeting ∙ Mike Stanton of MBS Surveys and Rob Carnes of Ground-Up Construction Management discuss the Los Osos Sewer Project
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editor’s Cornerby: Tom Mastin
don’t mAke us do it!
Yes, it is desperate times. i can’t water my lawn, and i can’t get anyone to com-
ment on any articles in parallax. i am fraught with worry every month that i won’t have something to fill Parallax with. I have been lucky with such a prolific drove of officers. In addition there have been some creative members such as Mark Lewis and Robert Reese. However, i know many of you have opinions concerning the surveying world.
Sure there are people like Mike Stanton that wrote that great article on monumentation for the Califor-nia Surveyor. We are not looking for anything as sophisticated as that. let us know what you think about parallax, about a meeting, a speaker or (heaven forbid) an editorial in the paral-lax. Although we won’t guaran-tee we will print your collected works, we do want to fill space, so our bar is not that high (look at this column for one).
Think of parallax as a Blog for those that don’t know or care what a blog is. The only differ-ence is that our goal is not to have personal attacks on everyone. I know from a lifetime of experience
that land surveyors generally don’t make good salesman, which of course most surveyors would think is a good thing. You don’t have to be selling something, just discuss-ing something. Anything!
i for one have always wondered how they say they have precisions
of 1/100,000,000 when using quasar pulses for VlBi, when they have a huge 20 meter satellite dish. Sure
they get tons of channels but how do you precisely measure to the center of that beast. i haven’t want-ed to bring that up, however until my exposé on NGS and how they keep changing the numbers just to make us think we don’t know what we are doing (Stay tuned!).
So, please, when you are sit-ting back on your lounge chair sipping your mojito as you watch reruns of “Chips” grab your laptop, ipad or a men and pad of paper and write down what has been concerning you about our profession. let us know what you think. Write a few blurbs for parallax and be-fore you know it you will have an article for the California Sur-
veyor!Oh, i can’t wait until next month
to see the results!
X Send in an article to Parallax to save the life of Theo
Government surveyors came to Ole’s farm in the fall and asked if they could do some surveying. Ole agreed and Lena even served them a nice meal at noon time.
The next spring, the two surveyors stopped by and told Ole, “Because you were so kind to us, we wanted to give you this bad news in person instead of by letter.
Ole replied, “What’s the bad news? The surveyors stated, “Well, after our work we discovered your farm is not in Iowa, but is actually in South
Dakota!”Ole looked at Lena and said,” That’s the best news I have heard in a long time, why I just told Lena this
morning, I don’t think I can take another winter in Iowa.”
How do you measure the HI on that thing?
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MINUTES
CENTRAL COAST CHAPTER CLSA MEETING held on March 25, 2015 at 6:00 PM at Steamers of Pismo, Pismo Beach, CA
CALL TO ORDER 6:00 PM
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL/INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Walsh, President Cristi Fry, Vice President David Karp, Secretary/TreasurerGeorge Marchenko, Immediate Past President Ian McClain - State CLSA Board Director Linda Richardson - State CLSA Board Director
21 in attendance at the meeting, including the speaker and guests.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION by Sam Taylor and SECONDED by Cristi Fry to approve the February 18, 2015 Chapter Meeting Minutes as published in the March Parallax. MOTION CARRIED
PRESIDENT’S REPORT President Jonathan Walsh reported that the recipients of the scholarship, sent thank you letters, and read them to the chapter. He spoke a about the honor of presenting the checks to the various recipients.
VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT Vice President Cristi Fry reported the next meeting will be April 22 at Embassy Suites, in San Luis Obispo. The guest speaker will be Roger Hanlin, CLSA State President Elect. The May 27, meeting will be George Marchenko with the TrigStar Awards. Cristi proposed an additional chapter meeting on July 22nd.
SECRETARY/TREASURER’S REPORT Secretary/Treasurer David Karp reported the current Chapter checking account balance is $11,080.82
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Checks:I sent a $200 check to Linda Richardson for the CLSA Conference Door prize. I sent a check for the amount of $350 to the Central Office to sponsor a student at the
CLSA/NALS Conference.
Except for our guests, we will be paying the restaurant directly, and to pay the CLSA dues and I have membership forms, if you need one.
DIRECTOR’S REPORT Director Ian McClain reported that he had no new information to report and the next state board meeting will be April 25.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE Tom Mastin was not present, no education report.
TRIGSTAR COMMITTEE REPORT George Marchenko was not present, no TrigStar report.
PROGRAMVice President Cristi Fry introduces guest speakers, Speakers Mike Stanton with MBS Land Surveys and Rob Carnes, with a presentation of the Los Osos Waste Water Project.
OLD BUSINESS President Jonathan Walsh called for any old business:
MOTION by Ian McClain and SECONDED by Cristi Fry, to reimburse Mike Stanton for purchasing larger screen for presentations. MOTION CARRIED
NEW BUSINESS President Jonathan Walsh called for any new business:
Bob Fredricks proposed we put together a committee to get a cost to donate some equipment to the local community college (Cuesta College).
Cristi Fry amended that we put together a committee to explore the costs for donating equipment to BOTH Cuesta Community College and Cal Poly State University, in San Luis Obispo.
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MOTION by Bob Fredricks and SECONDED by Cristi Fry, to put together a committee to review the costs and needs of purchasing equipment for both Cuesta College and Cal Poly, in San Luis Obispo, CA. MOTION CARRIED
EQUIPMENT DONATION REVIEW COMMITTEE Bob Fredricks Jonathan Walsh Tom Mastin
ANNOUNCEMENTSNext meeting April 22, at Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. Speaker will be Roger Hanlin, the CLSA President Elect.
ADJOURNMENTPresident Jonathan Walsh adjourned the meeting at 7:28 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
David Karp, PLS 2015 Secretary/TreasurerCentral Coast Chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association
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