Professional Development Series 2022
2022 Spring Seminar Brochure/Registration Form (pdf)
Spring Seminar
March 19, 2022
8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Eugene T. Mahoney State Park
Peter Kiewit Lodge - Nebraska Room
28500 West Park Highway
Ashland, NE 68003
Topics
The Art of Retracement
Featuring
Gary R. Kent - PS
Schedule
8:00 - Registration
8:25 - President’s Welcome
8:30-9:25 - Session 1 Begins
9:25-9:35 - Break - Refreshments
9:35-10:25 - Session 1 Continues
10:25-10:35 - Break - Refreshments
10:35-11:25 - Session 2
11:25-11:35 - Break - Refreshments
11:35 -12:30 - Session 2 Continues
12:30-12:45 - Business Meeting
Business Meeting Agenda
1. Minutes
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. Old Business
4. New Business
5. Adjourn
Speakers
Gary R. Kent - PS
Gary Kent is a Professional Surveyor with Schneider Geomatics in Indianapolis. After 37 years, he transitioned to part-time status in 2020 and formed Meridian Land Consulting, LLC to provide training, consulting, and expert witness services. Gary served as Chair of the Joint ALTA/NSPS Committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Standards from 1995 to 2021. He has presented programs on boundary law, the ALTA/NSPS Standards, risk management, safety, easements and rights of way, railroad rights of way, leadership, and other surveying related topics multiple times in each of the 50 states. Gary has served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors since 2004. He is a past president of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors.
Program Goals
- Provide support for surveyors to take a more liberal stance in what they consider acceptable evidence of an original survey with the goal of finding defensible ways to not upset the neighbors — or even entire neighborhoods — by disregarding longstanding lines of occupation/possession.
- Consider — under some well-framed circumstances — giving professional opinions as to ownership, and even monumenting to the lines that they believe represent ownership.
- Recognize that — regardless of what they think about #1 and #2 above — surveyors must find ways to communicate to clients and third parties what the lines and corners of their surveys represent and what they do not represent — in particular with respect to ownership.
