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NYSAPLS, Inc.
President and CEO
Daniel E. Marvin, LS [ president’s message ]
Executive Board
Kenneth M. Slaugenhoupt, LS As I am writing this, National Surveyors Week has just ended.
Executive Vice President
Roy B. Garfinkel, LS I hope that you took time to participate in the photo contest. I
Vice President took part in occupying a benchmark at John Brown’s grave site
Jeremy E. Thompson, LS, Treasurer in Lake Placid with the Northern Regional and students from
Steven J. Willard, LS, Secretary
Greg J. de Bruin, LS, PE the Ranger School. We also had Mike Hyman with us and while
Executive Director we were collecting data on the benchmark to send into NGS, he
demonstrated the latest and greatest equipment from Carlson. A
Board of Trustees
Robert R. Allen, LS huge thank you to Mike for that opportunity.
J. Steven Boddecker, LS
Patricia P. Brooks, LS At the May Board meeting we will be talking about the budget that needs to be
Robert G. Cross, LS adopted for the new fiscal year that runs between July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022.
Greg J. de Bruin, LS, PE I hope that you have had a regional meeting of some kind, and that your regional
Joseph E. Dioguardi, Jr., LS director has explained the budget and the proposed dues increase. This is not an easy
John R. Ennis, LS
R. Ronald Kreiling, LS topic for all. The dues increase is to help with the expenses that we have and will allow
Joseph G. Malinowski, LS us to continue to serve our members. The Association has very little latitude regarding
Daren L. Morgan, LS cutting expenses or increasing income. Our biggest revenue stream is dues, and
Robert A. Smith, LS
Edwin A. Summerhays, LS increasing dues is our best option for increasing revenue. The fact is, if we continue to
Gary L. Thompson, LS have a negative balance each year over the next, say three years, we’ll be bankrupt. So,
Glennon J. Watson, LS rather than proposing a budget with another negative bottom line. I maintain that we
Marie T. Welch, LS
need to have a balanced budget.
NYSAPLS Headquarters
146 Washington Avenue I know that the Public Relations campaign is one of the biggest expenses that we have,
Land Surveyors Building but it is unfair to put all the blame on that Committee. In May of 2018, the Board
Albany, NY 12210 made a decision to not approve the small dues increase that the Finance Committee
518-432-4046 had presented that March. Instead decided to transfer $80,000 from our savings to
www.nysapls.org
info@nysapls.org a restricted funds account for the newly formed Public Relations. This was done
without reflecting on that money as a proposed expense to the coming years. At that
Editor-in-Chief &
Managing Director time, the thought process was that we had too much money in our bank accounts so
Amber Carpenter why not spend it down instead of the dues increase. That is what has happened, and
amber@nysapls.org now is the time that we need to start to fund this campaign.
Director of Membership
Heather Schulz Let us take a look at accomplishments of the PR committee over the last two years.
heather@nysapls.org The biggest in my book is with the help of the Young Professionals Committee,
Administrative Assistant they are working on getting the next generation of surveyors, with the Get Kids into
Sharon O'Brien Surveying Campaign. They have also been trying really hard to get articles published in
sharon@nysapls.org newspapers, some have been published and this is a benefit to all NYS land surveyors.
But it seems that the editors do not fully understand what we do so the articles are
Affiliated Associations
Allegheny Plateau Association of Profes- being passed over. There continues to be a need to increase awareness of the work that
sional Land Surveyors | Black River Valley we do. We each need to keep educating our clients and the public as to what we do
Association of Professional Land Surveyors
| Catskill Area Association of Land Sur- and how valuable it is. An example of this happened to me this week. I was called to
veyors | Central New York Society of Land come and mark a property line so that some trees could be cut. My client told me that
Surveyors | City Surveyors Association
of Greater New York | Delaware-Hudson the neighbor had a survey done during the winter, but when he asked the crew that
Land Surveyors Association, Inc | Eastern was doing the survey where the line was, he was told that they were not working for
New York Society of Land Surveyors, Inc |
Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association him and couldn’t talk to him. I was surprised by this, I can see that kind of response if
| Long Island Association of Land Surveyors you are in a lawsuit, but just to see who owns the trees? The bottom line, it takes time
Inc | Mid-Hudson Valley Association of for these kinds of things to happen. There is no silver bullet, that will make it happen
Land Surveyors | Mohawk Valley Society of
Professional Land Surveyors | Nassau-Suffolk overnight. I encourage you to renew your membership in NYSAPLS.
Civil Engineers Inc | Niagara Frontier Land
Surveyors Association | Northern New York Sincerely,
Association of Land Surveyors | Southern
Finger Lakes Association of Professional
Land Surveyors | Southern Tier Association
of Land Surveyors | Surveyors Association Daniel E. Marvin, LS
of Queensboro Inc | Westchester-Putnam NYSAPLS President
Association of Professional Land Surveyors
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