About the Central Valley Chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association
The Central Valley Chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association works to promote land surveying in the California Central Valley. This includes encouraging high ethical standards among land surveying professionals, educating the public on the benefits professional land surveyors bring to society, and working to improve the conditions that local land surveyors work in.
Chapter Meetings
The Central Valley Chapter holds bi-monthly meetings that are open to all members and other individuals interested in land surveying. You can visit the events link on the navigation menu at the left side of the page for more information on past and upcoming meetings.
Membership
There are many benefits that come from membership in the Central Valley Chapter of CLSA. See the membership link on the navigation menu at the left side of the page for an explanation of these benefits and for instructions on how to become a member. The members web page provides a simple list of our current members, including the chapter officers.
Classifieds
You can find classified ads hosted at no charge by the chapter on our classifieds web page. This includes people looking for careers in land surveyors and companies looking to hire land surveyors or land surveying technicians.
Chapter News
You can visit the blog for the California Central Valley Land Surveyors web site to read current news from the chapter and to learn about updates to the chapter web site content.
Congress in Recess/Lobby Day
Congress is scheduled to be in recess from August 9th to September 12. Your Senators and Representatives are home looking for your input. ACSM, NSPS and CLSA are asking for each of us to contact our Senators/Congressmen and ask them for their support for the three issues identified.
These issues are: Preservation of Railroad Monumentation, Funding for Trigstar and the repeal of the 3% withholding on large government contracts. Visit, write or email your representatives and let them know where you stand on these issues.
Professional Development Now A Member Benefit
The system to track professional development (continuing education) orginally offered by CLSA for a small fee is now a member benefit. We encourgage all chapter members to participate in the program. You can find the application for the program on the Professional Development web page of the main CLSA web site.