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Russ Kluesner, Chair (by succession) MOVED by Todd Beers and SECONDED to provide a letter of sup-
Trent Keenan, Chair-Elect port to PLSC for their effort in obtaining mandatory continuing
Greg Phillips, Secretary/Treasurer education. MOTION CARRIED.
Ben Petersen, Immediate Past Chair (by succession)
Russ Kluesner reported that MARLS Board of Directors has met
The floor was opened for additional nominations, none were after the unexpected passing of their Executive Director, Kay
received, and nominations were closed. MacDonald. Their Surveyors Assistance Fund has been renamed
the Kay MacDonald Surveyors Assistance Fund.
MOVED by Mike Nadeau and SECONDED to accept the slate of
candidates as presented and cast a unanimous ballot. MOTION CONTINUING EDUCATION LIBRARY
CARRIED. Report included in agenda.

ALLIANCE FOR REPOSNSIBLE PROFESSIONAL LICENSING The WFPS Continuing Education Library provides a member
benefit for each western state association that is a member
This Ad Hoc Committee has fulfilled its original purpose and will
be dissolved. NSPS has not joined the Alliance and WFPS as a of WFPS. Association members receive member pricing on all
available courses. In addition, state associations receive a royalty
regional association is not eligible. from the sale of each module sold from their state. Marketing
material is available in the WFPS Board of Directors DropBox.
The Alliance remains a great resource for information regarding
the importance of professional licensing for technical fields such FINAL POINT – RON WHITEHEAD
as land surveying. Their website can be found at https://www. Funds were allocated during the budget adoption to contribute to
responsiblelicensing.org/ a Final Point for Ron Whitehead, WFPS Past Chair. The fall WFPS
meeting will be held in Utah to coincide with the Final Point
If your state is facing deregulation efforts, please contact WFPS ceremony.
for support.
NEXT MEETING
NSPS The next meeting will take place at the Western Regional Survey
Todd Beers and Nancy Almanzan, both NSPS Directors, provided Conference on March 23-26, 2024. The exact date and time will
an update regarding the fall meetings. be set by the Executive Committee and the meeting notice will
be distributed in December.
It was reported that Linda Foster, Tim Burch, and Gary Kent
worked with URISA to draft proposed changes to the NCEES ADJOURNMENT
Model Law. A motion was made at the fall meetings to approve Chair Ben Petersen adjourned the meeting at 2:50 PM.
the language and forward to NCEES. However, as the NSPS
Directors were not provided the language to review and a com-
mittee was never formed, the motion was withdrawn. The Board
was directed to bring the proposal back to their state association
for review and comment. A subsequent meeting was sched-
uled and the motion was tabled to the spring meetings. The
Board discussed the proposed language and the majority of the
western state associations have taken a position opposing the
language.

Nancy reported that the NSPS Foundation scholarship applica-
tion is now open.
Nominations were made for NSPS Officers and the ballot should
be sent in December.

STATE REPORTS
State reports were included in the agenda. More information is
included in the highlights report.

Gary Gervelis reported that the ASPLS Conference will be held
February 22-24, 2024 in Anchorage.

Todd Beers reported that PLSC (Colorado) will be introducing leg-
islation for mandatory continuing education. They are looking for
information from states that already have mandatory continuing
education regarding how the requirement has helped to protect
the public. Executive Director Crissy Willson has provided the
Continuing Education Resolutions adopted by the WFPS Board of
Directors and suggested that a letter be written for PLSC.

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