2011 Officers. October 2011 (online payments now accepted see page 19)

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1 2011 Officers Chapter President Wm. T. Smith, PLS President Elect Peter G. Wiseman, PLS Secretary Ryan M. Versteeg, PLS Treasurer Ryan Hunsicker, PLS Immediate Past President Delia K. Smith, PLS Education Liaison Bill Hofferber, PLS (online payments now accepted see page 19) Monthly Newsletter To subscribe, unsubscribe or add other interested individuals or companies to the distribution list please send a request via to rversteeg@deainc.com include contact name & Our Mailing Address Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter of CLSA P.O. Box 523 Moreno Valley, CA Calendar & Events Next Chapter Meetings Oct. 20 Mike Duffy, Surveying in the Desert Nov. 4 GIS Seminar (see Pg. 3) Nov. 12 Walkathon, Yucaipa Regional Park (see Pg. 15) See Meeting Schedule on Pg. 18 Our Website Address State Assoc. Website Address Chapter Membership Thanks to everyone who renewed their membership for Our membership drive was able to bring us to 62 State and Local Corporate members. Dinner Meeting: October 20, 2011 Speaker: Mike Duffy, PLS Topic: Surveying In The Desert Location: Bass Pro Shop Rancho Cucamonga, CA (see page 16 & 17 for more info) Seeking CA Coordinates and Error Analysis instructor for our annual LS Exam Review Course. (see page 9 for more info)

2 Table of Contents Page 2 Table of Contents...Page 2 GIS Workshop..Page 3 Announcements....Page 4 More Announcements.....Page 5 President s Message. Page 6 CLSA Membership Benefits.Pages 7 & 8 LightSquared / LS Review.Page 9 Chapter Committees.... Page 10 Advertising Section.....Pages 11 & 12 RSB Chapter 2011 Membership Application..Page 13 CLSA State Announcements... Page 14 Walkathon. Page 15 Dinner Meeting Details Page 16 Dinner Meeting Speaker Bio and Nominations..Page Dinner Meeting and Special Events Schedule... Page 18 Credit Card payments......page 19

3 GIS ESRI, November 4, 2011 Page 3

4 Announcements... Page 4 Future Meetings: October 20 Mike Duffy Surveying in the Desert, (see pages 16-17). November 4 GIS ESRI, Redlands, CA (see page 3) November 12 Walkathon, Yucaipa Regional Park, (see page 15) Announcements: Our local chapter board meetings are generally on the second Saturday following the dinner meeting. Our local chapter monthly dinner meetings are generally on the third Thursday of each month. If you know of any restaurants in your area that would allow us to hold our chapter meetings and can accommodate up to 50 people (more or less) please contact a Chapter Representative. Monthly Newsletters: State Members: Articles are encouraged for publication in the newsletter. Send reports and articles to rversteeg@deainc.com by the first of the month. Remember to visit our state CLSA website at and log in to get important information available only to members. Advertising for you & your firm (Ad fees are due January 1 of each year). Full page ad for one year in our newsletter is $ Half page ad for one year in our newsletter is $ Business card size ad for one year in our newsletter is $ Employment offers are free for one month Riverside County Scanned Images (See New Hard Drive Requirement) Available FREE for the time being...could change anytime. Drop off a minimum 150GB portable hard drive and pickup in a day or two. Questions, contact the Riverside County Surveyor s Office. Riverside County New Research Site As of right now, only PM, RS and Tract Maps are available. PDFs are free for downloading. Riverside County Updated Map Preparation Manual Is available for viewing and downloading from the County website at Use this as a guide for preparing Tact Maps, Parcel Maps, Records of Survey, and Corner Records. San Bernardino County Research Website The public Internet website is up and running at the San Bernardino Surveyor s Office. You will need to set up an account in order to purchase images from the website. Send an to surveymaporders@dpw.sbcounty.gov to request an account or details.

5 .More Announcements Page 5 Send Me Your Articles, Opinions, Interesting Links, Pictures, Employment Opportunities, Etc. for publication in the newsletter. Send to rversteeg@deainc.com by the first of each month. Coalition to Save Our GPS Interesting Links ALTA/ACSM Standarnds effective February 23, Public Land Survey System Foundation (PLSSF) 2009 Manual of Survey Instructions - Ordering and Information Page - Government info on 2009 Manual - Federal Land Records Word of the Month Pincushion Pincushion corners result when two or more markers exist identifying the same property corner. If set by surveyors, they are invariably the result of different interpretations of evidence, whether justified or not. (taken from Point To Point: The Pincushion Dilema, Joel Leininger, The American Surveyor, August 2008 Issue, Page 8) Check Out The New Page on the RSB Website Archives First entry is an Adobe PDF document submitted by Dana Robie. It is a syllabus prepared by none other than William C. Wattles, circa 1943 for what was then known as the State of California, Department of Public Works, Division of Highways. If you have documents, field notes, pictures, maps, etc. that you feel have historical significance, are important, know they should be kept but have no where to put them, or are just really cool that you would like to share, please submit them to Ryan at rversteeg@deainc.com If you need help getting them scanned we can help with that too. Thanks Dana for getting us going CLSA Voluntary Professional Development FREE, FREE, FREE!!!! Participation is now complimentary to State Association Members Click the link to print the forms:

6 President s Message Page 6 Oct Fellow Surveyors, Greetings, I will first begin by asking for your help with a very important fundraiser that has great hope and purpose associated with it. That s right it is the CLSA Annual Walk-A-Thon/5K More or Less Run. The Walk-A-Thon is scheduled to be on November 12 th at the Yucaipa Regional Park. We need you to get sponsors for the walk/run (the company you work for may be a good source as a sponsor). Your neighbor, cousin, work colleague, maybe your mother-inlaw, who knows until you ask. Ask, please.. The Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter of CLSA has several fundraisers each year, so as a chapter we can promote education through either the Trig Star program or Scholarships to young minds developing their survey knowledge. We can t do it without you; the backbone of our chapter is you the member. You are the ones to decide if this is worthy of your time, money and effort. I think it is or I wouldn t be asking for your help. If you have questions on How To me or better yet call me at and I will answer your How To s. Thanks, your time, effort and dedication to the profession is appreciated. We also need three to five volunteers to help with the small items that need attending to that will change the odds of the walk-a-thon being a big success. Time is of the essence in this case as time draws closer to Nov. 12 th, so please me at pls7910@gmail.com to volunteer, I look forward to hearing from 3 to 5 of you ASAP! Until then, enjoy your month and as always Happy Surveying. Sincerely, Wm. Tim Smith, PLS Riverside/San Bernardino CLSA Chapter President

7 CLSA Membership Benefits Page 7 Oct. 2011

8 CLSA Membership Benefits (continued) Page 8 Oct. 2011

9 LightSquared / LS Review Instructor Page 9 Oct LightSquared News A private corporation, LightSquared, has recently applied for a waiver from the FCC to build 40,000 broadband wireless internet towers across the country to provide wireless internet. The frequency being used by these towers is immediately next to the GPS signals that we need for precise measurements and tests have shown that widespread interference has been caused by the LightSquared project on GPS signals for many other industries and governmental uses of GPS (navigation, emergency response, etc.). Please visit for more information and up-to-date news on this proposed project. LS REVIEW INSTRUCTOR NEEDED The chapter is in need for a volunteer instructor for California Coordinates and Error Analysis for (2)-three hour sessions. Some materials can be provided, if necessary. The classes are held on Tuesday nights beginning January 10, The specific dates required for this course are to be determined. If you have an interest, please contact Dee Smith at deeksmith@aim.com.

10 2011 Committee Roster Sign up, Get Involved! Page 10 Oct. 2011

11 ADVERTISING SECTION Thank you for your support! Page 11 Oct. 2011

12 ADVERTISING SECTION Thank you for your support! Page 12 Oct 2011

13 2011 Membership Application Page 13

14 CLSA State Announcements Page 14 Sept MARK YOUR CALENDARS! CLSA-NALS CONFERENCE 2012 March 23-28, 2012 Silver Legacy Resort & Casino Reno, Nevada (more details to follow later)

15 Walk A Thon, November 12 Page 15

16 October Dinner Meeting Location Page 16 Bass Pro Shops 7777 Victoria Gardens Lane Rancho Cucamonga, CA Please RSVP to Ryan Versteeg at By Monday, October 17th, 3 PM $25 per person Late RSVPs cannot be guaranteed a meal. RSVP No-shows and Cancellations after Oct. 17th will be billed!!! Speaker: Mike Duffy, PLS (MWD) Topic: Surveying In The Desert Time: 5:30 PM for Social Networking 6:30 PM for Business meeting 7:00 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Speaker For more information about the Bass Pro Shops, click the link below to visit their website: Bass Pro Shops For this meeting, alcoholic beverages may only be consumed in the restaurant bar, not in the meeting room. BASS PRO SHOPS N W

17 Speaker Bio Michael Duffy, PLS Page 17 Michael Duffy has 33 years experience in surveying and mapping with 30 years as a professional land surveyor in California. He joined the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in 1990 and has played a major role with the property acquisition, design support, construction support and deformation monitoring of Diamond Valley Lake and surrounding facilities. Michael helped design a state-of-the art monitoring system for the three dams at DVL that can be operated from anywhere within the District s enterprise network without the use of field personnel. Since 2003, Michael has been the project manager for a large property management and boundary surveying project with a $24.6 million budget scheduled to be completed in This project is responsible for the identification, survey, monumentation, and recordation of all fee and easement properties owned by Metropolitan encompassing over 5200 square miles of Metropolitan s distribution and service area, much of it covering a large segment of the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino and Riverside County, California and Clark County, Nevada. Michael graduated from California State University Fresno in 1978 with his Bachelor of Science Degree in Surveying and Photogrammetry.

18 2011 Dinner Meeting Schedule Page 18 Month Theme Speaker Topic Location Date January Past Presidents/ Committees None Committee Signups San Bernardino Mexico Café 1/20 February Desert Chapter Joint Mtg. Jay Seymour New ALTA Standards Morongo Casino 2/17 March NAWIC Joint Meeting TBD TBD March Air Field Museum 3/16 April TBD Title Insurance Rancho Cucamonga, Bass Pro 4/21 May Scholorship Fundraiser Ed Patton New BLM Manual Moreno Valley 5/19 June President-Elect Night Frank Lehmann 2012 CLSA Goals Pomona Mining Company 6/23 Old Spaghetti Factory July County Surveyors Ken & Mike County Surveyors Redlands 7/20 August Curt Brown Mike Pallamary Curt Brown Chronicles Guadalajara / Temecula 8/18 September GIS Ray Carnes GIS & Surveying Old Spaghetti Factory Redlands 9/22 Bass Pro Shop Rancho Cucamonga October Surveying in the Desert Mike Duffy Surveying in the Desert 10/20 November Trig-Star Fundraiser None Walk-a-Thon Yucaipa Regional Park 11/12 December Christmas Party President Year in Review/New Officers TBD 12/10 Note: Dates, topics and speakers are subject to change and we will notify if that happens Special Events Schedule Special Event Date Presenter Initial Point Hike 7/16-7/17 Bill Hofferber Girl Scout Day Camp 7/22 Dee Smith State Board Meeting 7/30/2011 CLSA Poker Run Fundraiser 8/20/2011 RSB Chapter CLSA Seminar 9/16/2011 Steve Parrish GIS ESRI 11/4/2011 ESRI-RSB Chapter State Board Meeting 11/5/2011 CLSA Walk-a-Thon 11/12/2011 RSB Chapter

19 Online Payments Page 19 Available NOW our Website!!!! Credit Card Payments Click the Pay Online tab at the top Click the item you are paying for (dinner meeting, membership, etc) Click Buy It Now Proceed to PayPal to finish payment. If you are paying for someone other than yourself, please Ryan Versteeg at and notify Ryan the name of the person you are paying for and the purpose of the payment. You can pay for and RSVP for: Dinner Meetings Membership Golf Tournament Registration Local Chapter Seminars Local Chapter Scholarship Donations any business you have with the Chapter All from the comfort of your computer. A small fee (amount determined per event/occaision) may be added to cover the expenses incurred by the Chapter related to having this convenience available on our site.