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NOT POSSIBLE, THEN FROM THE NYSAPLS BUDGET, FOR ASHLEY SURVEY MONKEY WITH AMBER CARPENTER FOR THE PURPOSES
METZ, SECONDED BY DAVE BARDOUN, ALL IN FAVOR, NONE OF POLLING NYSAPLS MEMBERS ON THE FUTURE DEMAND FOR
OPPOSED, MOTION CARRIED. SURVEYING TECHNICIANS, SECONDED BY JOHN ABRUZZO, ALL IN
• Roy went on to discuss the possible need to increase the NSPS FAVOR, NONE OPPOSED, MOTION CARRIED.
budget line in the future so we have adequate funds to send NYSAPLS • President Garfinkel offered to take a motion from the table that was
representatives. Patti Brooks, our current representative, and Malcolm made at the January 20th, 2023 under new business which involved
Shaw, one of our past representatives, have graciously paid much of a discussion begun by John Abruzzo regarding the ad hoc Minimum
their costs for attending NSPS events in the past. Technical Standards Committee. John Abruzzo asked to have his January
• Tim Burch will be working with our PR committee on an upcoming podcast. 20th motion rescinded until we hear back from SBELSG on the draft MTS.
VIII. New Business
Public Relations
Heather Schultz, reporting for Lem Morrison • President Garfinkel discussed voting procedures. He said that our
• Coming up: National Surveyors Week March 19-25th; Bring Your Kid current bylaws require the regional director be present in order to cast
to Work; Women in Surveying; Surveying Renewable Energy Projects; a vote for its regional. He said he was asked recently why we don’t
Attending Trade Shows and Career Days; Working on tasks set forth in allow votes by proxy like we did in the past. Amber will look into this and
report at next BoD meeting under Unfinished Business.
the Strategic Plan.
• Donald Stedge gave an update on an issue discussed at the September
• The committee would like regionals to review and consider revising their
scholarship criteria to include surveying programs outside NY State, and 2022 BoD meeting regarding a county (in the Delaware Hudson
region) health department’s requirements on a well application form
in addition, consider offering scholarships to students enrolled part time, that included instructions that said if your survey didn’t show your well
as many students struggle to work while pursuing their degree.
location, your could basically add it yourself. Delaware Hudson sent the
Strategic Planning health department a warning letter. Update: The county has removed
Amber Carpenter, reporting for Greg de Bruin that statement (“sketch it in yourself”) from the application.
• At their last meeting, the committee discussed how/when they should • President Garfinkel “passed the gravel” and invited each attendee
be checking on progress by committees on the tasks listed in the to report on their regional activities, share news, report concerns,
Strategic Plan. Also, the committee has worked on prioritizing the tasks or just comment in general. Of note during the discussion were the
based on year of expected completion (i.e. – Yr 1, Yr, or Yr 3). The task following comments.
spreadsheet has been made more user friendly: The tasks have been I. Don Stedge: Delaware Hudson is going to be hosting a trip to the
sorted by Committee. Each committee’s meeting agenda will include minor league team the Renegades game in July.
the tasks assigned to it in the Strategic Plan. So during each committee
meeting, the committee should be looking at its Strategic Plan task II. Brie Meisler: Jim Vianna gave a presentation to Eastern last week
items. The SP committee also had a long discussion on Work Force on the Minimum Technical Standards. Jason Peterson, Eastern’s
Development. Ken Stigner: The SP is a living document and may need to Vice President is planning to attend the FIG conference. Patrick
be tweaked from time to time during each 3 year SP time period. VanHaverbeke resigned his Eastern Board position in order to be
eligible to be appointed to SBELSG. Associate member Devan
Nominations and Awards Larson attended a High School Career Fair.
No report III. Ken Stigner suggested that in order to attract attendees at regional
Young Professionals meetings, give each attendee a raffle ticket, then at the end of the
Heather Schultz for Keith Burley, (new Chair) year, draw a ticket and the winner gets their annual conference
• YP is offering a technical development series of free webinars. The registration paid for by the regional.
first one is March 24th and will feature speaker Rick Brooks. The next IV. David Bardoun – Central members attended the Thursday night 2nd
one will be on Communication Skills in June, and one on Running a Showing of the NYSAPLS FEMA webinar.
Business in October. The YP committee will be reaching out to the PR V. Gerry Embroski was pleased to report that Alleghany Plateau will be
committee to set up a career campaign for job seekers and students. holding its first meeting in a long time next week.

VII. Unfinished Business VI. Brian Skalman of Niagara Frontier reported that he and another
• Support of CUNY NYC College of Technology Construction Management member participated in a “Future Cities” middle school competition.
and Civil Engineering Program (City Tech)’s 15 credit hour program This was Brian’s 4th year participating as a judge. Brian was
for minor in Geomatics within a Bachelors of Technology for Civil pleased to report that this program has really taken off.
Engineering. This item will remain under old/unfinished business as a VII. Matt Palmer – Genesee Valley attended the Thursday night 2nd
place holder for this fall’s semester. Showing of the NYSAPLS FEMA webinar. 20 members attended. Matt
will be attending a High School Career Fair at the end of March.
• Paul Smith’s College – Scott Allen: Russ Aicher, Assistant Professor
in the Forestry Program and GIS Instructor is seeking data on the VIII. David Zigler – Dave shared a joke involving a surveyor and some
future demand for hiring surveying technicians in support of the attorneys…… [Editor’s Note: After telling that joke, Dave may have
possible reopening of a surveying technician program (at least at a a hard time getting through the Pearly Gates!!]
certificate level). Russ is looking for support from NYSAPLS in the IX. John Abruzzo – Long Island. John serves on the Civil Engineering
form of providing those statistics. MOTION BY JEREMY THOMPSON Advisory Board at Farmingdale State College. Farmingdale just
TO AUTHORIZE SCOTT ALLEN AND RUSS AICHER TO CREATE A received their ABET accreditation for a 4 yr civil engineering tech
program. John’s board now wants to start talking about a surveying
program with Farmingdale.

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