Two more Tri-Chapter meetings wow, it’s been great. Rebecca and I attended the Collier-Lee, Charlotte Harbor, and Manasota on April 26th and we attended the Ridge, Central and Tampa Bay on April 27th.

I encourage you to make plans to attend the Florida Surveying and Mapping Society (FSMS) Annual Conference Week of July 26-29 at the Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, FL!

Also, there is the FIG working week which runs from May 28th through June 1st. This is a good opportunity to see what the rest of the world does in the field of surveying. Visit https://www.fig.net/fig2023/

Mr. Lou Campanile, Jr. attended the NSPS conference in Arlington, Virginia and had some interesting things to report:

ALTA/NSPS –

• With no title work, one cannot title a survey an ALTA/NSPS LAND TITLE SURVEY (case in point: surveys on solar sites).

• Standards will be updated in 2026 and every 5 years thereafter.

• Look for a new standard of reflecting the relationship of set/found points to ground surface (e.g., 2” pipe 10” above ground, or 1” pipe 12” below grade).

• There is Federal Aid for certain Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) that will fund a military person’s salary for the last six months of their service, but those folks will be working (transitioning) in the private sector. This is workforce development related and will provide 6 months of training on the Military’s dime. Surveying is a MOS.

• Deregulation was a big topic. Apparently, North Carolina has been deregulated.

• Images Act
• Base Mapping Act
• Digital Coast Act
• Farm Bill Base Mapping Act

• Sinkhole Mapping Act, which is legislation sponsored by Rep Darren Soto(Kissimmee). This is a link to that proposed legislation:

https://fsms.memberclicks.net/assets/FSMS.org/IMMEDIATE%20PAST%
20PRESIDENT%20REPORT%20040823.pdf