SURVEYORS ASSOCIATION OF WEST JERSEY

SURVEYORS’ ASSOCIATION OF
WEST JERSEY
February 11th, 2010
MINUTES OF MEETING
Carlucci’s Waterfront
876 Centerton Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

President Rick Sapio called the meeting to order at 7:05 PM. 10 members and 1 guest were present.

GUEST SPEAKER
President Rick introduced our guest speaker, Linda Landis of Surety Title., Marlton NJ. Linda spoke about Getting to know the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act or (RESPS) for short. This act impacts the disclosures that consumers receive when closing a residential mortgage loan. Discussions then ensued on how it impacts land surveyors. Hand outs in future will be uploaded to the website www.sawj.org. This presentation will be submitted to the State for 1 PDH.

MINUTES OF PRIOR MEETING
Minutes of the prior meeting (Jan.) were noted as being posted to the website and approved as posted.

TREASURER’S REPORT
Pete Burgess, Treasurer, indicated that he did not have his report with him and that the financial data would be provided at a later date.

NJSPLS DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Lou Marchuk stated that there was no meeting.

OLD BUSINESS Pete Burgess stated that Gloucester County College had received enough students to continue with some of the scheduled survey courses for students. At previous meeting it was discussed to sponsor phantom students to keep courses from being canceled. It was also stated that proper notification with regards to time needed would be necessary to sponsor students in the future.

NEW BUSINESS
Various members discussed the variety and content of courses offered held at the recent NSPLS Conference at Atlantic City

Bill Haggerty stated that the SAWJ is a state registered course provider for pdh’s and that this registration ends April 30th. The membership agreed to renew the registration which would be good for the next two year bi-annual period.

Jack Donovan stated that something should be done such as a presentation or remembrance to the family for many of our recently departed SAWJ members.

Avi Luzon won tonight’s 50-50 drawing. He contributed his winnings to the Scholarship Fund.

At 8:30 PM. it was moved to adjourn the meeting; seconded, and approved by voice vote.

Bill Haggerty, Recording Secretary (Interim)