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2019 Chapter Officers President: Rich Fultz
Vice President: Will Paul
Secretary: Mike Dorsey
Treasurer: Rich James
Chapter Director: Tristan Higgins
Chapter Director: Rich James
Alt. Chapter Dir: Will Paul
Alt. Chapter Dir: Rich Fultz
2019 Chapter Committees By-Laws Committee: (Chairman)
Education Committee: (Chairman)
Membership Committee: Rich Brown (Chairman)
Monument Pres Committee: Mike Quartaroli (Chairman)
Newsletter: Rich Brown (Editor)
Professional Practices Committee: Mike Quartaroli (Chairman)
Website: (Web Master)
2019 Chapter Programs Public Outreach Committee: Zachary Wong (Coordinator)
Workshops: Rich Brown (Coordinator)
September 2019 Volume 9, Issue 5
THE PRISM Date: September 25, 2019
Location: Perko’s
901 North Carpenter Road, Modesto
Speaker: TBD
Topic: TBD
Date: October 23, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Perko’s
901 North Carpenter Road, Modesto
Speaker: TBD
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Up Coming
Meetings!
Announcements SURVEY EXAM SCHEDULE FS (LSIT) - Computer based, offered year round PS (NCEES LS) - Computer based, offered year round CA LS - October 29, 2019 April 16, 2020 October 27, 2020
2019 LAWS AND REGULATIONS NOW AVAILABLE The 2019 Laws and Regulations are now available on the BPELSG website, at the following address: https://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/laws/index.shtml
Central Val ley Chapter - Cal i fornia Land Surveyors Association www.cal i forniacentralval leysurveyors .org
Central Val ley Chapter
Table of Contents
Page 2 Classes, Training &
Education
Page 2 Editor’s Message
Page 3 Monument Obituaries
Page 4 National News
Page 6 State News
Page 9 Just for Laughs
Page 9 Classifieds
Page 12 Pictures of the Issue
Community Outreach
If you have news or an event that you would like to announce, send it to:[email protected]
California Land Surveyors Association
Education Foundation Or another Charity of your choice.
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Classes, Training, and Continuing Education
CAD Masters - AutoCAD Level I (3-Day Course) Sept 23-25, 2019 Walnut Creek Oct 7-9, 2019 Sacramento Oct 21-23, 2019 Walnut Creek Nov 4-6, 2019 Sacramento Nov 18-20, 2019 Walnut Creek Register here
CAD Masters - AutoCAD Level II (2-Day Course) Sept 19-20, 2019 Sacramento Sept 30-1, 2019 Walnut Creek Oct 23-24, 2019 Sacramento Nov 6-7, 2019 Walnut Creek Register here
CAD Masters - AutoCAD Level III (1-Day Course) Nov 7, 2019 Sacramento Register here
CAD Masters - Civil 3D Introduction (3-Day Course) Sept 16-18, 2019 Walnut Creek Sept 30-2, 2019, Sacramento Oct 15-17, 2019, Walnut Creek Oct 28-30, 2019, Sacramento Nov 11-13, 2019, Walnut Creek Nov 25-27, 2019, Sacramento Register here
CAD Masters - Civil 3D Advanced (2-Day Course) Oct 21-22, 2019 Sacramento Oct 28-29, 2019 Walnut Creek Register here
CAD Masters - Civil 3D for Surveyors (2-Day Course) Nov 18-19, 2019 Sacramento Register here
Lorman Education Webinar Subdivision Map Act in CA On Demand Register here
Current Issues in Plat and Subdivision Law in CA On Demand Register here
CLSA 2020 Conference Luxor Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV March 28-31, 2020 More Info To Come
Editor’s Message
If you have information about a training or class, please submit to:[email protected]
If you would like to comment on this topic or suggest another, please submit it to:[email protected]
Originally printed in the December 2010 Edition (Volume 1, Issue 1)
Welcome to the first edition of the quarterly newsletter of the Central Valley Chapter’s The Prism. I hope to use this as a way of keeping area Surveyor’s informed with the is-
sues that arise in the Central Valley.
As land use becomes ever increasingly difficult with new requirements and fees, it is
essential that we all stay up to day with current events of the area.
If anyone has an idea or suggestion of items to include and improve the edition, please
submit to [email protected]
I am looking forward to having our newsletter grow with the Central Valley Chapter of the CLSA.
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Monument Obituaries By Mike Quartaroli, PLS
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National News Easing Data Frustration By Boris Skopljak & Tim Lemmon
8 best practices for survey businesses to optimize software capabilities Across the board, software technology is increasingly innovating the way business processes evolve, allowing for greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before.
Surveying industry processes are no exception, with the future trending toward integrated software and collab-oration among project teams to extract valuable information from an ever increasing amount of data. The sur-veyor is now expected to play a key role throughout a project’s duration and must be armed with cohesive busi-ness software systems that allow performance beyond expectations. The software solutions used by geospatial professionals are often numerous and varied because they are specialized to many different activities, data types and trades. With improved collaboration and open data systems, construction projects can reap the bene-fits of shared data and reduced rework.
Role of the surveyor Over time, surveying companies have diversified their businesses, and that trend continues. Survey is integral along a project continuum. Even so, clients increasingly own the process and dictate the rules of engagement, with surveyors needing to deliver or risk losing the work to someone else. Surveyors are highly integrated into project teams nowadays, representing both a challenge and an opportunity to grow and deepen relationships with clients. To grow and expand their businesses, surveyors must be pragmatic in choosing the right tools for the job, which often means changing old habits and embracing new opportunities.
With that in mind, let’s explore best practices in evaluating and implementing software solutions for survey teams to ensure they are optimizing capabilities to generate core deliverables and unique services with confi-dence.
Here are eight actions savvy surveying businesses can take:
Be bold and ready to learn. In a rapidly changing world, the quickest way to learn is to dive right in. With building information modeling (BIM) transforming construction projects today and digital twins and smart cities the view to tomorrow, the adoption of these concepts is still fundamentally based on geospatial information that describes the current state of a physical object or survey techniques to demarcate a virtual object in the real world.
The technology and amount of data used to perform these activities continues to change, but the survey and geospatial principles to ensure accuracy and precise location generally do not change. Your expertise as a geo-spatial professional is therefore critical to achieve the productivity savings expected by the adoption of BIM, digital twins and smart cities.
Even so, you will need to learn and adapt so your knowledge provides critical value. Enroll in BIM information sessions, develop connections with industry peers and be bold in bidding for projects adopting BIM methodolo-gies, with the intention to learn. Geospatial leaders are quickly finding their knowledge is more critical than they expected, and solving difficult on-site problems is the quickest way to learn and set themselves up to take on modern projects.
Designate a software czar or a team of czars. If you are a sole proprietor, then this is you. Likely, you are very pragmatic about your choices in software and need to carefully weigh the costs of any changes. But if your strategy is to expand, you’ll need to evaluate your well-worn paths and consider whether more efficiencies can be gained from different approaches to your soft-ware.
In slightly larger surveying businesses, a designated office professional typically analyzes information and pre-pares deliverables, while a field person collects the data. Hiring people for these positions who have IT knowledge—IT experts, professionals with dual survey and computer science degrees, or data scientists who
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What Happens at Conference, Doesn’t Stay at Conference By Annette Hovorka, PLS - CLSA President 2019
State News
Yes, in case you are wondering, even in Reno. Conference is, for me, an almost magical time. It feels just slight-ly separate from the “real world” of work and other obligations. It is a time to communicate with colleagues that you may only see once a year and to learn from some of the best minds in our profession. And then, all too soon, it is over. What do we take away?
Every time I go to conference, I always take away little somethings that help me in my everyday life and ca-reer. Whether it is listening to Jeff Lucas talk about ethics or Aaron Smith and Matt Gingrich’s wonderful skit with its message of sharing, I enjoy the opportunity to hear new perspectives and be enriched by the company.
This year, I am more keenly aware of the effort that it takes to make conference what it is. Knowing more about what goes on in the background makes the experience that much richer. I want to extend a hearty thanks to CAMS staff, AMS staff, and Bill Hofferber, conference chair, for all that they did in the background to make this venture the great success that it was. I am happy to report that attendance exceed expectations and I literally received nothing but positive feedback from those participating. We could not have wanted more from this return to a joint conference with NALS. I would also like to thank NALS president, Jason Higgins and members of NALS for their great hospitality and participation.
Now, with conference over and one of our biggest efforts this year behind us, we return to our “ordinary” tasks. One of the somethings from this year’s conference that I took home was the idea that we are the face of our pro-fession. How we express ourselves in the world is how the world views us. I am certain that we all want that experience to be positive and we want people to walk away from the experience enriched. However, manifesting such an experience can be difficult to start, if you are not sure where to start. My humble suggestion is home.
Home for us is our Chapter. The Chapter and its members are the foundation of CLSA. We want to make our chapters strong and vibrant. We want to make them a place that people want to come to and leave feeling better for the ex-perience. We are in the business of growing better profes-sionals and I believe we can do that by applying some sim-ple principals of customer service. Here are some sugges-tions to start:
FOCUS ON THE INDIVIDUAL: Everyone enjoys a personalized attention. Make sure there is time in each of your meeting for attendees to meet and chat with each other. Create a greeter position whose only purpose is to make sure everyone is personally greeted and is connected to other members. This could be one person all year or a new person each meeting.
COMMUNICATION: Your chapter’s ability to communicate with members is the glue that holds the group together and creates the atmos-phere of involvement. That sense of involvement will keep people coming back. In your communication efforts, please consider all the avenues available to you. You must expand beyond newsletters to social media. Record your meeting and share them for members who could not attend. Reach out with member surveys to check in.
BE THE ONE:
No special position is required to strive to make your chap-ter better. Small efforts by many makes light the bigger
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2019 Conference Wrap-Up, cont. from page 6 task. Your effort through positive language, knowledge of the organization, and careful listening skills is the most important position ever.
TENACITY: Your patience and perseverance are key skills that will help your Chapter move forward. A willingness to do what needs to be done (and not take shortcuts) will provide the kind of service that people talk about. This year it is my goal to make experiences with CLSA fulfilling and improve the member experience. It is my hope that members share this goal with me and strive to make a difference in their own corner of the profes-sion.
Remember, be kind! Annette Hovorka CLSA President 2019
Reprinted with permission from California Surveyor Magazine
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Classifieds LOOKING FOR LAND SURVEYOR IN MONTEREY Rasmussen Land Surveying, Inc. is seeking an experienced licensed land surveyor for a full-time position. Duties include: project management, providing professional land surveying support to field crews and office staff, prepar-ing bid proposals for public & private projects, conducting boundary surveys, sectionalized land surveys, topo-graphic and ALTA/NSPS surveys. Experience with Trimble equipment and Survey Pro software a plus. GPS sur-vey experience and drone deployment are also desired skills. We are located in the City of Monterey and serve Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Rasmussen Land Surveying offers competitive compensation, healthcare coverage and 401(k) benefits along with an excellent environment for motivated candidates to thrive and grow. If you are interested in working for a smaller, growing firm where your experience will have a significant impact on the direction and success of the firm, please send your resume to [email protected]. Partnership path is a possibility for the right candidate.
CITY OF FRESNO SEEKING SURVEY PARTY TECHNICIAN Under general supervision, Survey Party Technicians perform survey and layout work on engineering and map-ping projects in the field and in the office. Routine duties include the operation of surveying equipment, such as electronic total stations with data collectors and levels during the performance of boundary location, topographic surveys, construction staking and other engineering and land survey work. Incumbents may be required to work in the field under adverse weather conditions.
Applicants must complete an on-line application. Please visit www.fresno.gov/jobs to apply. For infor-mation on how to complete an on-line application, please view "Instruction Guide" on the City's website, Person-nel Services Career Opportunities page, or call (559) 621-6950 for assistance. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed employment application.
Know of an available job. Please submit the position information to: [email protected]
Just for Laughs Sudoku:
The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid
with digits so that each column,
each row, and each of the nine 3×3
sub-grids that compose the grid
(also called "boxes", "blocks",
"regions", or "sub-squares") con-
tains all of the digits from 1 to 9
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are comfortable with cloud platforms and managing large amounts of data— can strengthen the business. These employees often prove invaluable because they know what the company needs to deliver and how to keep tech-nology up to date.
As a best practice, these office professionals should lead continual analysis of new and existing solutions, new integration capabilities, training needs and investments needed to ensure the best mix of software solutions for the business.
Consult with an expert. Sometimes you need to step back and seek out expert guidance, but it is hard to know where to find it. A good place to start is your geospatial solutions distributor. Often, distributors will have experts on hand to demon-strate new solutions and connect you to existing users. They also are a resource for user forums for asking ques-tions and engaging with others in the profession.
In addition, there are geospatial software consultants who can provide independent analysis of your current field-to-finish setup, explore opportunities and provide implementation recommendations. These professionals take a holistic look at your processes using a digitalization strategy. How do you collect data? How do you transfer it? How do data integration and office validation processes work? And what’s the most efficient method to generate final deliverables? Some organizations are getting savvy with these processes and hiring programmers to devel-op highly efficient, bespoke solutions.
Consider your data—protect it and choose flexibility to share. As a geospatial professional you spend endless hours outdoors capturing data that is the foundation for the value you provide clients. Protecting data and client information is essential to protecting your business. Securing your devices, networks and updating software are obvious steps to avoid hacking or infiltration by malware. Backing up data has never been easier by storing across multiple servers or in the cloud.
While you need to protect your data, it’s also critical to easily share, move and use your data with a range of dif-ferent software products or cloud solutions. The adoption of BIM, in particular, is driving the use of rich data throughout the workflow process, demanding the use of more open data standards and improved data interoper-ability. These changes make it easier to collate data from different sources, track progress, analyze clashes and share information with project stakeholders. Geospatial software is adapting to these needs by ingesting data from multiple sensors, as well as supporting interoperability with industry and open standards or establishing direct connections between systems used to complete a workflow.
Trimble Business Center software exemplifies the benefits of data integration and interoperability by providing geospatial professionals with a data hub that’s flexible for choosing sensors fit for purpose. Whether GNSS, total
station, levelling, lidar, imaging or photogrammetry—it doesn’t matter if the data is collected by walking, driving or flying. The result is one software solution for high-accuracy data, CAD deliverables and rich in-formation with full traceability back to the sensor. Trimble Business Center also is increasingly data ag-nostic, supporting industry standard data types and interoperability with other solutions, including AutoDesk, Bentley and Esri products.
Easing Data Frustrations, cont. from page 4
Click here for complete article Reprinted with permission from
American Surveyor Magazine
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Pictures of the Issue - Community Outreach Boy Scout Merit Badge Midway 2019 By Zachary Wong, PLS
The Boy Scout Merit Badge Midway was held on Au-gust 24, 2019 at the 6060 Northland Road, Manteca, California. The Surveying Merit Badge was offered, and I had the opportunity to teach three boy scouts who were interested in the class. Mr. Naramsin Shahbaz, land surveying technician from my company, helped me to introduce the scouts to learn about surveying. Naramsin and I are second and third generation land surveyors. The importance of the land surveying merit badge exposes the scouts to our profession. Usually, the scouts do not understand what we do as a profession. This is also common with the general public. It is refreshing to see them learn about using the survey instruments and using the data collected to create a plat of the traverse, run a level loop, and write a legal description. I also speak about the importance of surveying to prepare topograph-ic and boundary surveys for the engineers to start the design, and to provide construction staking of the im-provements when the plans are approved. I like to see them work as a team. This is a six hour class and to hold the attention of scouts that range for elementary school to high school shows that the subject matter holds their interest. I am truly blessed to work in profession that I love and be able to share this with the scouts. I am an eagle scout and I was fortunate that I was exposed to different experiences that I would not have had otherwise. If I can help one scout to be a land surveyor, then this program is a success. Zachary C. Wong LS 7600, RCE 48717
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