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meeting with the Strategic Planning Committee on December 4th to membership committee has made a lot of progress on their strategic
review their strategic charges and their progress. Overall, the charges. The strategic committee suggested various ways the
membership committee has made a lot of progress on their strategic membership committee can move forward on some of their tasks.
charges and the strategic committee suggested various ways the Members can view more about our current strategic plan (2023-2025)
membership committee can move forward on some of their tasks. The and review each committees’ task progress at https://www.nysapls.org/
committee will meet again in the new year to review their discussion and page/Strategic2023.
start working on some new projects that relate to their tasks. Workforce Development Committee: The committee is planning
Minimum Technical Standards (MTS) Committee: The their next meeting. In the meantime, you can visit our current workforce
committee joined the NYS Board for Engineering, Land Surveying and resources page on our website here!
Geology on December 5th to introduce the Minimum Technical Young Professionals Committee: The YP Committee met at the
Standards draft. The committee shared background on NYSAPLS, the end of October to review their new goals and began brainstorming ideas
MTS Committee and summarized the research they’ve conducted. They to accomplish them. The committee also finalized a flyer that was sent
plan to meet with the board for additional discussion after they review out to all current associate members, highlighting the benefits of
the document. attending the NYSAPLS Conference. The committee then met again in
LS PAC Committee: The committee continues to stay current on November and December to finalize a Land Surveying Calendar that will
their regular filings with the NYS Board of Elections. Regular reports be sold at the NYSAPLS conference. The calendar features photos of
are shared with the board of directors bi-monthly. You can also find land surveyors in various aspects of their daily jobs. Look for the
the committee’s publicly filed reports on the NYS Board of Elections calendars at the NYSAPLS bookstore during the conference, and later on
website here. In the search by committee filter, type “NYSAPLS Land the NYSAPLS website.
Surveyors Political Action Committee”. If you are interested in making In addition to our committees’ progress, many other important items
a financial donation, please visit https://www.nysapls.org/donations/. were discussed at the November Board Meeting. You can find more
They are also holding a fundraiser reception during the NYSAPLS 66th details on the meeting in the secretary’s minutes on page 26.
Annual Conference on Tuesday, January 21st at 5pm. Tickets can be
purchased here. Did you know?
Nominations and Awards: The committee met on December 17th You can find a copy of recent committee minutes on our website.
to review the nominations received for the Pillars of Excellence Awards. Each committee has a webpage with the last couple years of
We’ll announce the winners very soon! Please plan to join us at the minutes listed along with additional member references. You can
NYSAPLS 66th Annual Conference to congratulate the winners along view the committee pages from our homepage  About Us 
with our scholarship winners and the newest faces of the Land Surveying Committees. In addition, I post an overview of committee updates
Profession. The Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, January in our news section of our website monthly.
22nd at 1:00pm at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, NY.
Are you interested in becoming more actively involved? We are
Public Relations: The committee met on October 10th, October looking for members to share their “stories” and help us promote the
31st and December 5th. The committee is working on two posters to profession. Did you company recently work on an interesting project?
be sent to town officials in order to prevent unlicensed surveyors and Did your regional get together to help out the community? Did your son
homeowners from filing fraudulent survey maps. The committee has or daughter earn a Surveying Merit Badge? Are you mentoring a student?
finalized their draft and have shared it with legal counsel and the Help us get out the word on how land surveying is important to the
Government Relations Committee for review. The PR Committee plans community! Contact Heather Schultz to share your news, heather@
to have the posters designed and printed for the Association of Towns nysapls.org .
Conference in February. In addition, the committee, along with our PR PS - Want to see your article published in our member magazine?
Firm, The Martin Group, have been working on promoting digital Email me your ideas, amber@nysapls.org.
access to public land records with the Government Relations
Committee. A draft letter to the public has been created, and letters to Thank you!
editors have been drafted. In addition, the committee has begun
working on ideas for promoting National Surveyors Week. The
committee plans to meet again, in person, at the conference to discuss
their strategic charge: Develop an action plan to improve the economic Amber Carpenter
welfare of land surveyors. Managing Director

Strategic Planning Committee: The committee met with members
of the Membership Committee on December 4th. They the Membership
Committee’s strategic charges and their progress. Overall, the
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