Winter 2009
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL IPLSA MEMBERS:
Happy New Year to all IPLSA members and their families.
2008 was not the best year for those who work in the land surveying
profession. We hope that with the New Year, the economy will become
better for not only surveying, but for all working Americans.
2009 will begin a new era for IPLSA. At the December 6,
2008 IPLSA Official Board of Directions meeting, the board passed the
2009 budget and approved the hiring of an assistant executive director.
Although this position adds to our operating cost it also adds to the
future of IPLSA. We hope to add to the services that your association
offers you as members.
The new assistant executive director is Julia Langfelder,
who we believe will bring a new professionalism to IPLSA. Julia’s
credentials include:
Manager of Marketing & Events
The Chicago Community Trust
2005 – Present, Chicago, Illinois
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Collaborate with all departments on the implementation of events
and meetings including goals and objectives, venue and catering selections,
logistics, event program, talking points, and materials.
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Produce collateral pieces including brochures, newsletters, grant
reports, grant books, and pledge cards and project lead for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 Trust annual reports.
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Implemented the redesign and launch of
www.cct.org. Served as advisor for affiliate Web sites including The Lake
County Community Foundation, Arts Work Fund, the Springboard Foundation, and
Chicago High School Redesign Initiative in addition to serving as staff liaison
with outside Web vendors.
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Create and oversee the department budget of $700,000.
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Manage the implementation of the Trust’s graphic identity and its
use on all relevant materials including from grant recipients.
Director of Marketing & Development
Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR)
2001 – 2005, Chicago, Illinois
Director of Special Events
Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC)
2000 – 2001, Chicago, Illinois
PART-TIME/INTERNSHIPS
Timberland Trail Team Captain
Generation-A Marketing & Timberland
Summer 2004, Chicago, Illinois
Assistant Coordinator, Special Events
Brookfield Zoo
1999 – 2000
Gift Analyst
The White House Fall
1999,
Washington, DC
EDUCATION
Master of Science -
Integrated Marketing Communications
Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois – December 2002,
with honors
Bachelor of Arts - Communications & Political Science
Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois – May 2000,
with honors
SKILLS & TRAININGS
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Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
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Skilled in design and Web programs including
QuarkXPress, VisionMgr, and PowerPoint and experience using
QuickBooks and Adobe Creative Suite
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Knowledge in developing long-term marketing, public
relations, and fund raising plans
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Possesses excellent written and verbal communication
skills
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Center for Conflict Resolution, Mediation Skills
Training and SolutionPeople, Inc.,
Acceleration Innovation
Julia grew up in Springfield. All but one of her 12 siblings, along with
her parents live in Springfield. She is excited to be returning to her
hometown.
Julia will be at the 52nd IPLSA Annual Conference so
please take time to meet and welcome her.
Another exciting change starting in 2009 is the moving of
the IPLSA offices to Springfield. We have enjoyed being in Rochester
since January 1, 1979, and are looking forward to our new offices in the
National Museum of Surveying in downtown Springfield.
Best regards for a Happy and Prosperous New Year,
Bob Church
CHURCH’S COMMENTS:
IDFPR LAND SURVEYOR LICENSING BOARD MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR
WRITING PARCEL LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS UPDATE:
The proposed Minimum Standards rules for Writing Parcel
Legal Descriptions, which were printed on page 21 of the Fall 2008
edition of the Illinois Surveyor newsletter have not been sent to
the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) as of December 12,
2008. As soon as they are received by JCAR we will publish them at this
web site along with the 45-day comment period. Those interested in
making comments should do so within the comment period.
IPLSA BOARD OF DIRECTIONS APPROVE PROPOSED LEGISLATION:
Proposed legislation #1
– The Board passed a motion to submit a bill into the ninety-sixth
session of the Illinois General Assembly to amend the Freedom of
Information Act. Existing Illinois law, 5 ILCS 140/1.1, Freedom of
Information Act, has the following exemption in 5 ILCS 140/7. The
following shall be exempt from inspection and copying: (i) Valuable
formulae, computer geographic systems, designs, drawings and research
data obtained or produced by any public body when disclosure could
reasonably be expected to produce private gain or public loss. This
means that Design Professional’s can not obtain GIS information. IPLSA
Lobbyist Bob Church will find a sponsor in the House and Senate to
advance the bill.
IPLSA believes that it is the Design Professionals,
especially the licensed professional surveyor, who provides the data
that governmental entities use to develop their GIS systems. Design
Professionals should be able to get this information at the same cost as
all other information provided for in the Act.
Proposed legislation #2
– On a show of hands vote the IPLSA Board passed a motion to submit a
bill into the Illinois General Assembly to amend The Illinois
Professional Land Surveyors Act of 1989 as amended. The proposed
bill would include the following changes:
225 ILCS 330/5, SECTION 5. PRACTICE OF LAND SURVEYING
DEFINED
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2010)
Sec. 5. Practice of land surveying defined.
Any
person who practices in Illinois as a professional land surveyor who
renders, offers to render, or holds himself or herself out as able to
render, or perform any service, the adequate performance or which
involves the special knowledge of the art and application of the
principles of the accurate and precise measurement of length, angle,
elevation or volume, mathematics, the related physical and applied
sciences, and the relevant requirements of law, all of which are
acquired by education, training, experience and examination;
Any one or combination of the following practices constitutes the
practice of land surveying:
(a) Establishing or reestablishing, locating,
defining, and making or monumenting land boundaries or title or real
property lines and the platting of lands and subdivisions;
(b) Establishing the area or volume of any
portion of the earth's surface, subsurface, or airspace with respect to
boundary lines, determining the configuration or contours of any portion
of the earth's surface, subsurface, or airspace or the location of fixed
objects thereon, except as performed by photogrammetric methods or
except when the level of accuracy required is less than the American
Congress on Surveying and Mapping‑designated Classes of Surveying
that
as defined by the
National Society of
Professional Surveyors
Model
Standards of Practice;
(c) Preparing descriptions for the
determination of title or real property rights to any portion or
volume of the earth's surface, subsurface, or airspace involving the
lengths and direction of boundary lines, areas, parts of platted parcels
or the contours of the earth's surface, subsurface, or airspace;
(d) Labeling, designating, naming, or otherwise identifying
legal lines or land title lines of the United States Rectangular System
or any subdivision thereof on any plat, map, exhibit, photograph,
photographic composite, or mosaic or photogrammetric map of any portion
of the earth's surface for the purpose of recording the same in the
Office of Recorder in any county;
(e) Any act or combination of acts that would
be viewed as offering professional land surveying services including:
(1) setting monuments which have
the appearance of or for the express purpose of marking land boundaries,
either directly or as an accessory; or
(2) providing any sketch, map,
plat, report, monument record, or other document which indicates land
boundaries and monuments, or accessory monuments thereto, except that if
the sketch, map, plat, report, monument record, or other document is a
copy of an original prepared by a Professional Land Surveyor, and
if proper reference to that fact be made on that document;
(3)
performing topographic surveys, except a licensed professional engineer
knowledgeable in topographical surveys may perform a topographical
survey specific to his/her design project. A licensed professional
engineer may not, however, offer topographic surveying services
independent of his/her specific design project.
(4)
locating, relocating, establishing, re-establishing, retracing or laying
out (staking) of the location, alignment or elevation of any proposed
improvements whose location is dependent upon property lines;
(f) Determining the horizontal or vertical
position and or state plane coordinates, for any monument or
reference point that marks a title or real property line, or
corner, or to set, reset, or replace any monument or reference point on
any title or real property;
(g) Creating, preparing, or modifying
electronic or computerized data or maps, including land information
systems, and geographic information systems,
relative to the
performance of activities in items (a) through,
(b), (d), (e), (f) and (h) of this Section, except where
electronic means or computerized data is otherwise utilized to
integrate, display, represent, or assess the created, prepared, or
modified data;
(h) Establishing or adjusting any
control network and/or any geodetic control network or adjusting
of cadastral data as it pertains to items (a) through (g) of this
Section
together with assignment of
measured values to any
United States Rectangular System
corners, title or real property corner monuments and/or geodetic
monuments;
(i) Preparing and attesting to the accuracy
of a map or plat showing the land boundaries or lines and
marks and monuments of the boundaries or of a map or plat showing the
boundaries of surface, subsurface, or air rights;
(j) Executing and issuing certificates,
endorsements, reports, or plats that portray the horizontal and/or
vertical relationship between existing physical objects or
structures and one or more corners, datums or boundaries of any
portion of the earth's surface, subsurface, or airspace;
(k) Acting in direct supervision and control
of land surveying activities or acting as a manager in any place of
business that solicits, performs, or practices land surveying;
(l) Offering or soliciting to perform any of
the services set forth in this Section ; .
(m) Critiquing on matters regarding the practice of land surveying as
defined by this act.
225 ILCS 330/12, SECTION 12. QUALIFICATIONS FOR
LICENSING.
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2010)
Sec. 12. Qualifications for licensing.
(a) A person is qualified to receive a
license as a Professional Land Surveyor and the Division shall issue a
license to a person:
(1) who has applied in writing in the required form and
substance to the Division;
(2) (blank); who has a
baccalaureate degree in a related science if they do not have a
baccalaureate degree in Land Surveying from an accredited college or
university.
(3) who is of good moral
character;
(4) who has been issued a license
as a Land Surveyor‑in‑Training;
(5) who, subsequent to passing an
examination for licensure as a Surveyor‑In‑Training, has at least 4
years of responsible charge experience verified by a professional
land surveyor in direct supervision and control of his or her
activities; and
(6) who has passed an examination
authorized by the Division to determine his or her fitness to receive a
license as a Professional Land Surveyor.
(b) A person is qualified to receive a
license as a Land Surveyor‑in‑Training and the Division shall issue a
license to a person:
(1) who has applied in writing in the required form and
substance to the Division;
(2) (blank);
(3) who is of good moral
character;
(4) who has the required
education and experience as set forth in this Act; and
(5) who has passed an examination
authorized by the Division to determine his or her fitness to receive a
license as a Land Surveyor‑in‑Training in accordance with this Act.
In determining moral character under this
Section, the Division may take into consideration whether the applicant
has engaged in conduct or actions that would constitute grounds for
discipline under this Act.
225 ILCS 330/13, SECTION 13. QUALIFICATIONS FOR
EXAMINATION FOR LICENSED LAND SURVEYOR-IN-TRAINING.
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2010)
Sec. 13. Qualifications for examination for Licensed Land
Surveyor‑in‑Training. Applicants for the examination for Land
Surveyor‑in‑Training shall have:
(1) a baccalaureate degree in Land Surveying
from an accredited college or university; or
(2) a baccalaureate degree in a related science including
at least 24 semester hours of land surveying courses from a Board
approved curriculum of an accredited institution. ;or
(3) an Associates of Science
degree in surveying or a related science, at least 24 semester hours of
land surveying courses from a Board approved curriculum of an accredited
institution and at least two years of land surveying experience verified
by a professional land surveyor in direct supervision and control of his
or her activities; or
(4) at least 24 semester hours of land
surveying courses from a Board approved curriculum of an accredited
institution and at least four years of land surveying experience
verified by a professional land surveyor in direct supervision and
control of his or her activities. |
