Excerpts from a presentation by our Executive Secretary, Aimee McAulie at the 2016 Annual Conference in Eugene 3 Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | www.plso.org FROM THE PLSO CHAIR FROM THE PLSO OFFICE Chairman’s Comments I have found myself to be that proverbial person who is given more jobs because they are supposed to get them done. Well, it seems I have reached my limit. My fond desire to serve as PLSO Chair has been fullled and now I am serving as interim mayor of the City of Sumpter as well. It would have been useful if the mayorship would have waited for a year or two before it came about. Now I have two important jobs along with my survey work and a house remodeling job at my daughter’s. Nothing like having plenty to do. Nancy and I were the editors of e Oregon Surveyor for about two years in the late 1980s. I reviewed all the back issues of TOS and found that subjects and problems through all the years keep popping up and are seldom resolved. While serving as editor I attempted to present some of those subjects for discussion, some controversial and some not, with not much success. It is my hope that we can resolve some of these old problems while I am serving as Chairman, but one year is not enough time. I have been a professional land surveyor since 1965 and my primary area of practice has been rural Eastern Oregon. I have been licensed in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana which gave me cause to learn how their survey law compared to our Oregon law. I spent a couple of years working in North Dakota but when I came home to Oregon I dropped all four of the additional states. I am a h generation Oregonian. I was born on the coast at Oceanlake (now part of Lincoln City). Our family moved to Granite when I was two months old and my rst years of school were spent in e Dalles, followed by a few months in the one room school house in Paulina. Dad’s logging job took us to Mt.Vernon where I was enrolled in fourth grade through high school. Upon graduation, I then attended OSU and earned a degree in Forest Engineering. I worked for Edward Hines Lumber Co. at Burns about 1-½ years, then moved to Sumpter where I’ve been self-employed ever since. I am asking the membership to present to your chapter president or vice president, Aimee or me anything that you see as problems we need to address as an organization. I will do my best to help get them through the necessary channels. PLSO needs everyone to be active with ideas and service to make us progress. I am pleased with the way our conference in Eugene went and thank the conference committee and Aimee for such a good program. ere seemed to be plenty of room for all our activities. I am looking forward to a successful year with your help. Here’s to the New Year „ Aimee McAulie, PLSO Exec. Secretary As a new Board of Directors begins their service, I would like to give a special thank you to two great people. e rst being Past-Chair Lee Spurgeon. Lee is always a strong, yet reasonable voice in the room. He believes in service and the mission of PLSO. Lee, thank you for the time you have spent on the Board of Directors these past two years with me (six years total), and while I’ll still get to work with you on the EGAC Committee, your absence will be felt at our quarterly board meetings. I need to extend my second thank you to our most recent Past-Chair John atcher. While I still get to work with John on the board, I do want to recognize that he is a very caring volunteer who answers my emails no matter what time of night it is. He is someone that tries to practice empathy in everything he does. ank you, John for your time as Chair. Being this is a new year, I have been thinking of New » continues on page 4 » „ Leland Myers, PLS; 2016 State Chair
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