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LS PAC Committee: The committee has a meeting scheduled for committee’s efforts should include. They discussed outreach to
October 27th to discuss their next fundraiser reception to be held at the schools, creating a network of volunteers, what their target audience
conference in January. They collected $440 from membership renewal is/or should be, how to organize our efforts, who the work should
donation submissions. Thank you to all that have donated! No recent be assigned to, finding out what our regionals are doing currently
political contributions have been made. The committee continues to stay for outreach and more. The committee agreed, before any actions
current on their regular filings with the NYS Board of Elections. Regular are taken, they intended to: (1) draft a definition of their
reports are shared with the board of directors bi-monthly. You can also committee’s charge to share with Board of Directors; and (2)
find the committee’s publicly filed reports on the NYS Board of Elections organize and prioritize their ideas and strategic charges into a
website here: https://publicreporting.elections.ny.gov/ workable plan. Therefore, at their next meeting held virtually on
CandidateCommitteeDisclosure/CandidateCommitteeDisclosure. In the October 3rd, using many of the resources available from NSPS, they
search by committee filter, type “NYSAPLS Land Surveyors Political spent time drafting their committee’s charge and began prioritizing a
Action Committee”. If you are interested in making a financial donation, list of goals for the board’s feedback. Their next meeting is
please visit https://www.nysapls.org/donations/ or join us at the NYSAPLS scheduled for October 25th.
Annual Conference this January. Young Professionals Committee: The committee met recently
Nominations & Awards Committee: The committee is seeking to prepare for their next webinar in their “YP Professional
nominations for the 2024 Pillars of Excellence Awards. NYSAPLS Annual Development Series”. The next presentation is scheduled for October
Awards Ceremony will be held during the conference on January 17th at 20th and will focus on business management and ownership. You can
the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, NY. This event gives us the register for the FREE event at www.nysapls.org. In addition, the
unique opportunity to honor dedicated surveying professionals who have committee is also making preparations for the Young Professionals &
made a difference in the surveying community. Award categories include Alumni Social for conference, as well as the Field Olympics.
Meritorious Service, Surveyor of the Year, Associate of the Year, Lifetime In addition to our committees’ progress, many other important
Achievement and Friend of the Association. Nominate someone deserving items were discussed at the September Board Meeting. You can find
today! Deadline for submission is December 15th. More details, more details on the meeting in the secretary’s minutes on page 24.
including a nomination form can be found by visiting: https://tinyurl.
com/nysapls-awards-2024 Did you know?
You can find a copy of recent committee minutes on our
Public Relations Committee: The PR committee met on September website. Each committee has a webpage with the last couple
28th. They reviewed the current status of their 3rd quarter campaigns. years of minutes listed along with additional member
You can find more details about the success of the Summer of Surveying: references. You can view the committee pages from our
Benchmark Hunt on page 14 of this issue. The committee participated in homepage  About Us  Committees. In addition, I post an
the GeoCon by exhibiting at their tradeshow and put together a write up of overview of committee updates in our news section of our
the roundtable event (found on page 10). They also put together a press website monthly.
release to announce the association’s recent donations to Third Wave
Films for the Erie Canal documentary. You can find more details on page Are you interested in becoming more actively involved?
6. They continue to work on additional Surveyor’s Corner topic ideas. You We are looking for members to share their “stories” and help us
can view their current videos posted on our YouTube channel here: promote the profession. Did you company recently work on an
https://www.youtube.com/@nysapls/. Be sure to subscribe to keep up with interesting project? Did your regional get together to help out the
the latest posts! community? Did your son or daughter earn a Surveying Merit Badge?
Strategic Planning Committee: The committee’s next meeting is Are you mentoring a student over the summer with an internship?
scheduled for October 20th. They plan to review feedback from the Help us get out the word on how land surveying is important to
committees and prepare for their annual meeting with committee chairs the community! Contact Heather Schultz to share your news,
scheduled on November 13th. Members can view more about our heather@nysapls.org .
strategic plan and review each committees’ task progress at https://www. PS – Want to see your article published in our member magazine?
nysapls.org/page/Strategic2023. Email me your ideas, amber@nysapls.org.
Workforce Development Committee: Our new ad hoc committee Happy Holidays!
had their first in-person meeting at the Embassy Suites, Saratoga
Springs, on September 15th. The committee was created as a result of
the Strategic Retreat held last year. Prior to the retreat, members had
expressed they are experiencing an increase in demand for services but Amber Carpenter
are struggling to find qualified technicians and licensed surveyors to fill Managing Director
open positions. Therefore, one of the major focus areas identified at the
retreat was creating pathways to surveying. The Workforce committee
was officially appointed earlier this year and has been assigned several
strategic tasks. The committee had a lengthy discussion about what the
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