January 2024 President's Message

Dear Members of MALSCE,

This first installment of my President’s Message for 2024 will focus on establishing momentum after the “Holiday-hangover.” As we are at the end of January, MALSCE hosted its annual Legal Perspectives on Land Surveying seminar last Friday, January 26th, at The Conference Center at Waltham Woods. This hybrid program attracted 105 attendees and remote participants, demonstrating the continued relevance and popularity of this seminar, which has been offered on the last Friday in January for the last 15 years. 

We are on track with our commitment to providing high-quality professional development programs. Additionally, MALSCE leadership and the hosting Cape Cod Chapter have finalized the plans for the 2024 MALSCE Convention on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2, 2024, at the Boxboro Regency Hotel & Conference Center. We are now accepting registrations. We continue to request and are ready to accept your plan and field notes submissions for the convention’s 2024 Plan and Field Notes Contests. Click here to learn more. Also, this past month, we held the re-take exam for NSPS Certified Floodplain Surveyor (CFS) Training and Certification Program attendees who failed to pass the challenging certification exam administered on the last day of this course. Lastly, we continue to focus on providing educational opportunities for the “young” survey technicians in our profession and are hopeful that we can team up with the educators from the University of Maine to provide a webinar in the future. 

Regarding other matters, I encourage everyone to donate to the MALSCE Education Trust, which seeks to enhance the profession of land surveying and civil engineering by awarding scholarships and grants to students and educators. Click here to learn how you can contribute to this charitable organization. Our Public Awareness Committee held their monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 30th. Committee chair David Prince provided an update and led a discussion on the group’s outreach to local high schools and vocational schools and their plans to exhibit at the 2024 convention of Massachusetts high school guidance counselors in April. 

As MALSCE president, I continue to be honored to serve this association and lead in the mission to promote the highest standards of professionalism and excellence in our field. MALSCE is here to foster the development of the profession, share knowledge, and create resources that benefit us all. Together, we can continue to advance the field of land surveying and provide valuable services to our clients and communities. I hope that you find MALSCE’s undertakings and my monthly MALSCE News President’s Messages helpful in this regard.

Thank you,
Ken Conte, President
MALSCE