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TWENTY-FIFTH FLORIDA LAND SURVEYOR'S COUNCIL RETREAT

Certified Florida Provider Combined Courses
CEP #0001374-Course #0006518

	If you're not a current Council member and want to attend this Retreat,   pay your $225.00 2008-2009 membership dues online now.

Here's your chance to get your 24 Mandatory Continuing Education Hours for Professional Surveyor & Mapper license renewal in one action-packed three-day Retreat (or to help you get involved in understanding and upgrading your profession). We’re putting on our Twenty-Fifth Council Retreat in Kissimmee that is FREE for any of our Land Surveyor's Council members to attend. Read on!!

The Retreat will convene at the Ramada Gateway Hotel (see details below) on February 19, 20 & 21, 2009 ,  from 7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. In the unlikely event that our work is not complete by 5:00 p.m. on the last day of the Retreat, it may be necessary to stay for a somewhat longer period that evening.

The meeting will be held at the:

Ramada Gateway Hotel
7470 Highway 192 West
Kissimmee, Florida  34747
Phone: (407) 396-4400
FAX: (407) 396-4320
Be sure to give the Reservation Code: LSS Seminars

 

The meetings will convene in the meeting room in the Ramada Gateway Hotel Conference Center.  As usual, if you're not staying at the Retreat hotel, please send your $50.00 contribution to the Council's address below  to help with meeting room charges and to reserve your seat at the Retreat. All meetings will be held at this hotel, so we recommend that you stay here for the entire Retreat. We've negotiated a room rate for our members of $49.00 plus tax, single or double. Be sure to ask the hotel for the Council's group rate -- they will not volunteer it! If you fail to ask, we won't fight your battle for you with the front desk.
 

BADGES:

Retreat attendees must have a Florida Land Surveyor’s Council badge in order to attend this Retreat. Also, to receive full credit for this Retreat, be sure to bring your surveyor’s seal.  The Florida Land Surveyor’s Council Latin motto is "Agrimensores Defendentes Jura Agrorum Dominorum." In English, this translates to "Surveyors Protecting the Property Right of Landowners." This motto is proudly displayed on your badge along with our logo. For those of you who want to order your badges now, the current price for the badges is $20.00. To order your badge, contact us immediately in order that your badge can be ready for the Retreat.

PEER REVIEW:

By the way, we'll be having our usual "Peer Review" at this Retreat, so you must bring three (3) survey drawings to be admitted! -- No Excuses!

MANDATORY CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS FOR LICENSE RENEWAL:

In May, 2008, our Council mailed a postcard to all licensed Florida Professional Surveyors & Mappers ("PSM"s") that contained the following statement:

NOTICE!

"Starting November, 2008, it will be necessary for members to renew their membership every year in order to receive the full 24 credits required for PSM Recertification per biennial. Members cannot renew every other year and receive the full 24 credits. Members who wish to renew every other year may receive 12 credits per renewal year."

Accordingly, PSM’s who were Council members in 2007- 2008 as well as in 2008-2009 will receive the full 24 credits for attendance at this Retreat for license renewal for the 2008-2009 biennium. PSM’s in attendance at this Retreat who were not Council members in 2007- 2008 as well as in 2008-2009 will only receive 12 credits unless their 2007-2008 membership fee of $225.00 is paid together with their 2008-2009 membership fees. Earned Continuing Education Credit Hours will be reported to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation by the  Council. As always, this Retreat is FREE to current members of the Council.

PROGRAM:

The program for the Retreat will be taught by Mr. Ted Madson, Mr. Larry Talbert and Mr. John O'Neill and will address laws, rules, issues and current events impacting surveying and mapping in Florida today:

 

 

FIRST DAY:

• 7:30 a.m. Thursday, February 19, 2009.

  • Registration & Information distribution 

• 8:00 a.m. Mr. Ted Madson, PSM, Attorney-at-Law and Mr. John O'Neill, PSM, Former DBPR

  	Board Member

  • Peer Review for compliance with the the Florida Minimum Technical Standards 
    	of actual surveys from other surveyors in attendance

  • A review of the statutes and rules which govern the Florida Minimum Technical Standards.

• 1:00 p.m. (Class Resumes from lunch)

  • Minimum Technical Standards Review continues

• 5:15 p.m. (First day class ends)

SECOND DAY:

• 8:00 a.m. Friday, February 20, 2009 -- Mr. Larry Talbert, CIC, Insurance Representative for the Council

  • Workers' Compensation and Errors and Omissions issues.

• 1:00 p.m. (Class Resumes from lunch).

  • Professional liability loss control

  • Mandatory requirements as a surveying employer

• 5:15 p.m. (Second day class ends).

THIRD DAY:

• 8:00 a.m. Saturday, February 21, 2009 -- Mr. Ted Madson, PSM, Attorney-at-Law and Mr. John O'Neill,

  	PSM, Former DBPR Board Member and Council President

  • Mandatory Florida Laws 

  • Boundary Law Topics

• 1:00 p.m. (Class Resumes from lunch).

  • Current Events in Surveying and Mapping 

  • Questions and Answers

• 5:00 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2009 -- Award of diplomas

The course text for the Retreat will be our two volume set of Florida laws and regulations which will be used to address issues of law plus other handouts, as needed. We have updated these texts to be current to May, 2008. If you have your copy of the two volume set with you at the Retreat, you will not be required to purchase another set.  We’ll take major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) as well as checks and cash at the Retreat. To obtain your text materials in advance of the Retreat, please send your $95.00 payment ($75.00 for the text plus $20.00 shipping and handling) to:

Land Surveyor's Council
Post Office Box 1041
Douglas, Georgia 31533-1041
(800) 874-7876 -- Toll-Free Phone
(800) 304-4809 -- Toll-Free FAX

Don’t forget, if you need your 24 Mandatory Continuing Education Credit Hours, you’re a Council member, and can’t make it to this important Retreat, our Board approved Correspondence Course program which has been provided to all licensed Florida Surveyors & Mappers and will be graded FREE for all current Council members will meet your needs.

Don't lose your completion certificate!! Duplicate completion certificates are available at the rate of $25.00 per certificate for members who require duplicate certificates as proof of continuing education credit.