PLSO The Oregon Surveyor January February 2021

5 Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | www.plso.org From the PLSO Office How to Send Us Your Work Please email the editor, Vanessa Salvia, at vsalvia@gmail.com with submissions. Your submission should be in .doc format. Please send images separately (not embedded in the document) and at the highest file size available (MB size range versus KB size range—larger sizes are encouraged). Please include the author’s name and email address or phone number for contact. winners, all of which are featured in this issue of Oregon Surveyor. I have worked with each of them—Mike Berry, Leo Lito - wich, John Thatcher, and Gary DeJarnatt have all demonstrated their dedication to making our profession better many times, to the benefit of us all. If you get a chance, drop them an email of congrat - ulations and thanks. As reported in the businessmeeting, PLSO is proud to currently serve 546 members. The demographic breakdown of that to - tal number is: • 358 Corporate Members • 92 Associates • 29 Life Members • 29 Special • 17 Retired • 21 Students As a reminder, our Membership Year, which runs from July 1 through June 30, does not follow our Fiscal and Leadership Year, which run on a standard calendar year. Our Endof Year Account Standings on December 31, 2020, totaled $262,469.78. Our annual operating budget is around $276,000. If those numbers aren’t adding up to you, $262,000 is what we have in the bank. Our annual operating budget goal each year is for our income to cover our yearly expenses. In short, we loosely have a year’s worth of annual operating expenses saved in the bank if need be. This year, due to COVID-19, we obviously did not do a lot of our outreach activities, such as participating in job fairs, mentor - ing, and attending NSPS conferences. Like our chapter meetings, board of directors meetings were held via teleconference. As a result, our expenses were $256,220. Since we were able to meet our projected budget formembership and our 2020 con - ference was a successful in-person event, PLSO’s net income was $42,142. This is not a standard occurrence, as we had a projected income of $82 (yes, that’s the correct figure). The 2021 projected budget is estimating expenses to be $183,435. This amount is quite a bit lower due to the difference in costs of holding a virtual conference versus an in-person event. As such, attendees saw the price difference in registration this year, which affects our projected income as well. Lastly, I would like to take the opportuni - ty to thank Shawn Kampmann, who has stepped off the Executive Committee this year, Jeremy Sherer for being an out - standing chair during a year that would have been quite easy to coast through, and of course our fearless Conference Committee Chair, Jered McGrath, and our committee members Samantha Tanner, Shaun Fidler, Tim Kent, and Gary John - ston. Volunteers are the gas that keeps an association going. Without them, the road trip to a cornfield in Iowa would not happen. x