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2014 April
Volume 1, Issue 4
California Land Surveyors Association
Sacramento Chapter
It is March. Long days have returned. It also marks the return of the annual Trig Star events.
This year I was joined on trek with John Wilusz (PE/LS) and Michael Chiara (LS). We are off to El Camino High School. (This is where I went to high school.)
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Calendar ...................................2
President’s Message .................3
Chapter Application .................9
Sustaining Members…………...11
Contacts…………………………….12
SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST
Trig Star Pictures
Page 6
Conference info
Page 8
Focal Point
April 3rd Meeting
Blue Prynt 815 11th St, Sacramento
5:00 Social Hour 6:00 Meeting 7:00 Speaker
Dinner $30
Speaker: Robert McMillan, LS
Scanning the Bay Bridge
Trig Star Event
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For detail on calendar items, see page 4.
APRIL MEETING SPEAKER –
PRESIDENT ROB MC MILLAN, PLS
April’s Chapter meeting will feature a
CLSA Conference preview as Rob
McMillan shares his presentation on 3D
Mobile Scanning: The Bay Bridge
Project (and maybe some other stuff) –
Caltrans used Airborne, Mobile and
Stationary Laser Scanning to create a
digital “As-Built” of the new SFOBB.
This presentation will discuss the project
in general, the team, our approach to
control, results work products,
challenges faced, interesting aspects,
and lessons learned.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 Chapter
Meeting
4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13
CLSA
14
NALS
15
CONFER
16
ENCE
17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Board
Meeting
27 28 29 30
April 2014
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
“April’s
Chapter
meeting will be
the last before
CLSA
Conference”
See conference
information on
page 8.
Rob McMillan, PLS
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Since March 30 is opening night of Major League
Baseball’s regular season, I wanted to start this
message by thanking Chapter Secretary Matt Stringer
for stepping up to the plate to pinch hit for both me
and Vice-President Jerry Jones at the March meeting.
I was stuck in traffic and Jerry was pulling and “all-
nighter” on a hot project. I arrived just as the salads
were served, but declined Matt’s invitation to take
over. With a relaxed swing of the gavel, Matt hit a
home run.
April’s Chapter meeting will be the last before the
CLSA Conference in San Diego. It sounds like many
Sacramento Chapter members will be attending the
first conference in California for since 2009. Hopefully
final arrangements can be made for any car-pooling or
special “transportation logistics” in the next week or
so. I will be bringing a case of Ian Wilson’s award
winning Porter to the conference for the scholarship
auction, in addition to the usual compliment of
supplies for the Sacramento Chapter Suite, hosted
this year by Chapter Secretary Matt Stringer.
As the economy continues to rebound, I am seeing
more and more construction starts while making the (Continued on page 10)
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CALENDAR DETAILS
Apr 3rd Sacramento Chapter Meeting 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Blue Prynt Speaker: Rob McMillan Topic: Bridge Scanning
Apr 11th - 16th CLSA-NALS Conference, Workshops, Golf & Bowling
Tournaments
Location: Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA Info:
www.CaliforniaSurveyors.org
Speakers: Many Topics: Nearly everything you want to know about
surveying
Apr 23rd Central Valley Chapter Meeting 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Perko’s Restaurant, Modesto Speaker: TBD Topic: TBD
The first visit is for presentation of the forms of work that surveyors do.
Planning for this event includes an activity to demonstrate some aspect of the surveying profession. Last year, we used ArcGIS online to demonstrate some mapping technology. This year, we decided to bring along an instrument to take the kids outside. Before we started, we showed them a title survey for a nearby theater complex. We explained briefly how we use mathematical principals to solve for the position of points. Then, we showed them.
The idea for this year’s activity was to set up the instrument and shot two points. The kids ran the instrument, took notes and chose the rod shots. Then, we were back to the classroom to solve for the unknown distance. I have to admit that the kids were very quick to solved the problem.
We had a great time and are already working on a new activity for next year.
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See pictures on page 6
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GIT Technical Specialist I
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nical Specialist I to join our Surveying Geomatics team in our Camarillo, Ontario or Irvine, CA office.
The GIT Technical Specialist’s responsibilities will include:
Assist in managing mapping projects in the private land development and public/municipal sectors.
Ensure project goals/objectives are met within prescribed timeframe and funding parameters.
Assist in developing and writing proposals, define scopes of work and cost/bid estimates.
Perform mapping related research, boundary analysis, calculations, exhibits, and legal descriptions for a
variety of land development and public works related projects from small infill developments to large
master-planned communities and public related improvement projects throughout Southern CA.
Perform mission planning and post processing for GPS surveys.
Prepare flight plans, control schemes and coordination for aerial mapping projects.
Review construction plans and perform calculations for layout staking and prepare exhibits.
Perform survey data processing and prepare reports for spatial monitoring.
Compile topographic information, compute and manipulate digital terrain models for topographic map-
ping.
Prepare and/or oversee the preparation of final maps, parcel maps, record of survey and ALTA maps;
and prepare and/or oversee preparation of legal descriptions and associated plats, and boundary analy-
sis, as well as work closely with engineers to ensure coordination of technical surveying and engineering
aspects of a project.
Requirements:
LSIT
Bachelor’s degree in Surveying Geomatics, Engineering or related field, or equivalent in experience.
Minimum of six (6) years of Surveying Geomatics experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
Knowledge of California Subdivision Map Act and Land Surveyors Act, and a thorough knowledge of
drafting standards and processing project requirements.
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P A G E 9 J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 4
2014
EARLY BIRD
SPECIAL!
Renew before February
7th, and pay only $25
for Regular and CE
Membership, and $10
for Associate and Affil-
iate.
$25
$25
JOIN STATE AT:
http://californiasurveyors.org/joinclsa.asp
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commute between Oakland and Sacramento. A quick glance at the CLSA
Discussion Board shows 13 new listings in March alone. I hope that our
members are as employed as they want to be, and if they are too busy, they
consider bringing some of the great talent that is still available into their
workplaces.
Today, Caltrans District 4 hosted the League of California Surveying
Organizations (LCSO), Northern Region, for their monthly meeting. If you
haven’t heard of them before, or are only vaguely familiar with LCSO, that is
because you are probably a Northern Californian and the LCSO Northern
Region has just recently formed. The Southern Region has been active for
over four decades. Their mission “is to standardize mapping and the practice
of Land Surveying across the State of California through active dissemination
of information. Its members include County and City Surveyors, Caltrans,
representatives from special districts, professional organizations, and private
consultants whose primary focus is providing surveying services to the
Government sector.” I commend the efforts of Gwen Gee, Santa Clara
County Surveyor, Tom Dougherty, Santa Clara Valley Water District Surveyor,
and Rich Ray, Caltrans District 4, laying the groundwork and working with the
Southern Region to bring it all together. The 23 people in attendance today
were subjected to a 25 minute version of my Bay Bridge Laser Scanning
presentation.
To continue the theme of a disjointed message, many of
you know I’m commuting quite a distance each week to
my office in Oakland. I see interesting, amusing sights
either from the train, or my truck nearly every day. The
view of Mount Diablo is truly an impressive sight as
Amtrak passes the ghost fleet near Benicia. A week
ago I saw familiar faces on I-80 near Fairfield as Colin Wilson and Roy Olsen
passed me in their Cardno survey truck. Immediately my phone buzzed with
a photo of me in my truck texted from them.
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Thank you to our
Sustaining Members for Your Support!
Interested in surveying jobs?
Check out the following link to the one and only CLSA Forum
for new listings to explore:
http://clsaforum.californiasurveyors.org/forumdisplay.php?
f=13
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CLSA SACRAMENTO - 2014 CHAPTER OFFICERS
Rob McMillan (760) 846-4491 President@sac-surveyors.org
Jerry Jones (530) 798-6700 VicePresident@sac-surveyors.org
Matt Stringer (916) 381-9100 Secretary@sac-surveyors.org
Sherrie Zimmerman (707) 592-0465 Treasurer@sac-surveyors.org
Paul Carlson (530) 677-1205 PastPresident@sac-surveyors.org
Jerry Jones (530) 798-6700 BoardReps@sac-surveyors.org
Annette Lockhart (209) 518-9962 BoardReps@sac-surveyors.org
Jill Van Houten (916) 284-1801 BoardReps@sac-surveyors.org
Nick Labedzki (916) 747-5505 BoardReps@sac-surveyors.org
Address: PO BOX 162846, Sacramento, CA 95816-2846
sac-surveyors.org
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