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Central Valley Chapter
California Land Surveyors Association

"Promoting the professional practice of land surveying in the California Central Valley.
Serving the greater Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin County Area."

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CLSA Central Valley Chapter Meeting Information

You will find details on the January 2012 meeting of the CLSA Central Valley Chapter below. Please contact any of the chapter officers with questions about the meeting.

  • Date and Time: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM
  • Location: Perko's in Modesto (901 North Carpenter Road)
  • Speaker: Leigh Johnson, San Joaquin County Historical Museum
  • Topic: Records held by the Museum

You can download the meeting notice here in pdf format.

You can download the meeting minutes here in pdf format.


Chapter News

Our Newsletter: "The Prism"

California Surveyor: "Winter 2012"

NSPS News and Views: "News Feed"

Coalition to Save Our GPS: "Articles"

One of the recent (Feb. 15th) articles above is "FCC moves to kill LightSquared over GPS interference concerns". Things are happening very fast and not in LightSquared's favor. Visit the two links just above for current news.

To help the FCC deliver the fatal blow .


Now accepting PayPal and Credit Cards

We have added the ability to email the applications and to make on-line payments for your Chapter dues.
Visit the Join Chapter/Renew Membership page for more information.

Book of the Month:

1776, The American Military Pocket Atlas, being an Approved Collection of Correct Maps, both General and Particular, of the British Colonies


New in the library:

Official Map of the City of Oakdale

City of Manteca Monuments - Draft of Monument Recovery Book

San Joaquin County, more Subdivisions Maps (now completed), Parcel Maps and Record of Surveys...


BPELSG - New Senior Registrar Land Surveyor

The Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists (BPELSG) is pleased to announce that Raymond Mathe, PLS, has accepted the position of Senior Registrar Land Surveyor, effective February 28, 2012. In 2004, Mr. Mathe was appointed by the County of Orange Board of Supervisors to serve as the County Surveyor. Prior to his position at the County, Mr. Mathe worked as a Project Manager at a private engineering and land surveying firm and served as the Deputy County Surveyor for the County of Riverside. Mr. Mathe obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Workforce Education and Development from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. Mr. Mathe's experience and knowledge of BPELSG's mission and operations, particularly with respect to licensing examination development and the Professional Land Surveyors Act, will prove to be very beneficial to the Board's licensees, applicants, and the public.


Important changes to access to the California Real Time Network

This is a link to the forum where anyone interested should be registered:

http://sopac.ucsd.edu/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?category=6

CRTN Data Policies


Down to Earth Datums Seminar

The Sonoma County Chapter would like to invite your chapter members and any other interested folks to our Down to Earth Datums seminar presented by Michael McGee and Marti Ikehara on March 2nd at Santa Rosa Junior College. Seminar includes morning coffee and pastries, lunch, certificate, pdu's, and handouts. All proceeds go toward the chapter's scholarship fund to the Surveying Technology program at SRJC. Look forward to seeing you!

The flier for the event is attached.