General Notes • Need State Executive Directors at these meetings — UCLS to sponsor. • Ryan, Utah Lobbyist — what keywords searches, for what surveyors are involved in, does he use? Possible Surveying Keywords ˚ Boundaries ˚ Properties ˚ Land ˚ Development ˚ GIS ˚ GPS • Introduced the new NSPS website which has some significant and very useful GIS applications for the benefit of the States. • Send .shp file of the Utah congressional districts to Linda Foster, VP • Incorporate Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning and end of the UCLS Conference or at least the official business meetings • Need a UCLS Backdrop for pictures (put it right up on the stage under the screen) • NSPS Foundation and WMCEF ˚ NSPS Foundation has a chair. WMCEF could have a Chair. ˚ UCLS to transfer 100% of scholarship funds into WMCEF. ˚ Does WMCEF have an investment company for these funds? ˚ Get WMCEF into an investment mode not just sitting in an account. ˚ Consider transferring WMCEF funds, with MOA etc., into NSPS Foundation ($1.3m investing pool, investment team, NSPS board of trustees) and continue to name the fund WMCEF which funds are accounted for separately in NSPS Foundation ˚ NSPS Foundation has been getting an average return of 8%. ˚ Foundation Trustees added Dan Martinez (NE) and Cotton Jones (WY). • Board of Directors Meeting and Applicable Motions ˚ Scouts Surveying Merit Badge Scholarship $2000 (passed). ˚ Technician and CST Membership categories (tabled) need input from Affiliates. ▪ How is UCLS organized in terms of membership categories? ▪ What do we recommend to NSPS? ˚ NSPS Policy on Graduate Education in Surveying. ˚ Next Meeting in Cleveland, OH, on Sept. 20-22, 2023. • NSPS meeting structure held all committee meetings on the first day, then the official business meeting at the end. Suggest UCLS have a committee track allowing sufficient time for all committee meetings to be held on the first or second day in which much could be accomplished, collaborated on, and coordinated. General membership could get more involved with the committees even if they were not official committee members they could visit based on their own interests and contribute as they wish. Legislative Issues • Get involved early on and at home with staff and representatives/senators. • The country is being run by 20-year-olds — why not have YSN’s involved in the UCLS? • All current bills are authorization bills. • Sen. Lee’s bill has not been introduced to the 118th Congress yet. • MAPPS (broadband) is of most interest right now. • FLAIR • Licensure elimination or reduction awareness. • Asked to participate in the Graduate Education candidates’ shortage ad hoc committee. • Rep. John Curtis, 3rd Congressional District of Utah, sits on a GIS Working Group and they currently are just ignoring the surveying element (probably a staffer that has a GIS background). • To meet with our legislators at the National level back home here in Utah. Certified Survey Technician (CST) Board • CST Coordinator, by default is the NSPS State Director unless States appoint another. • Employers to provide financial or other incentives and support to their employees to obtain and maintain various CST levels, including title, pay, and performance. • Connect CST to a technician and LSIT and incorporate this LSIT title into regulations to be maintained by the LSIT indefinitely (if desired), but they must complete eight hours per year (whatever hours). This name could be Survey Practitioner (SP) or Assistant (SA) instead. UCLS Foresights 31
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