Lower fee for Record of Survey maps

Yes, you read that right.  Starting August 21, 2012, the map check fee for Record of Survey maps has been reduced from $600 to $586 and will become billable.  Billable means that:

"When staff time exceeds the amount paid ($586 fee), the owner/applicant will be required to pay additional fees to cover the cost of staff time to complete the service."

Also, the Surveyor's hourly billable rate for  for FY 2012 was reduced from $164 to $133 per hour.

For the complete list of fees for our department see Board Resolution 2012-371.
For the hearing see Board Of Supervisors Full Agenda date June 19, 2012 (page 153 of 3416)

Hope that is some good news for FY2013.

We look forward to seeing your R/S maps.

Monument Preservation

FYI

For monumentation preservation issues:

(i.e. monuments being paved over or destroyed by municipal project, contractors, etc.)

Contact:

Larry Kereszt

Larry.kereszt@dca.ca.gov

916-263-2240

Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists (BPELSG)

Department of Consumer Affairs

Sacramento, CA

http://www.bpelsg.ca.gov

Benchmarks aka Vertical Control by SCVWD

Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) has done a great job in revamping their website for benchmarks, aka vertical control.  Check it out.  It is really cool.
Good cudo's to our fellow land surveyors at SCVWD !!!

http://arcview.valleywater.org/benchmarks/mobile.html


Gwen

Congratulations to the new licensed land surveyors in California !!!!!

Well I don't know exactly who you all are but I do know that the statistics are out (meaning the pass/fail stat's are out)  You can view these statistics at:

http://www.pels.ca.gov/applicants/ap12stats.shtml

Welcome the 91 people who made it!

It is an accomplishment that marks a significant point in your land surveying (geomatics) career.  And we look forward to those new LS numbers on items submitted to our office.

In Motion (Map Research)

Currently in motion is progress towards getting our map researching online.  Yes, you read that correctly.  We have been working with our ISD (Information Systems Dept.) doing the behind the scenes work to create a geographical searching tool that will be available online.  It's like putting the pieces to a puzzle together to bring it "live" online.  We have the "pieces" and ISD will put the puzzle together.  So far, we see that there will be a time consuming task of data entry for the maps that are indexed on the County Cadastral maps, which pre-dates the current database.  And efforts are being made to move our current database to a more "user-friendly" database that is more widely supported.  So hang in there....we're in motion.

www.sccgov.org/sccsurveyor

Hi everybody,

Well as changes occur, we had an update to our website software and as a result the link above doesn't quite take you to to our County Surveyor website, BUT it is close...    Most likely it will take you to the County of Santa Clara - Development Services Office web page, so go ahead a click on that link.  Then  you will see on the left side of the page the "County Surveyor".  Follow the County Surveyor link and it will bring you back to the Office of the County Surveyor.  Voila, you are now at our website.

If you would like a more direct (quicker way) to find us, use the link below and bookmark us.

http://www.sccgov.org/sites/dso/County%20Surveyor/Pages/Office-of-County-Surveyor.aspx

The link in the title will be fixed, as I'm told, but I don't know when.

Have a lucky day.

Gwen

New Website

Hi All,

It's been awhile since I did a new post.  We have a new website look.  Externally it will look similar but on the inside we changed website program software which should enable us to update and maintain our site much easier.  The link www.sccgov.org/sccsurveyor should still work fine.   We hope to put the Corner Records on our website as soon as the launch is complete.  Next?  Hopefully electronic submission of Corner Records.  Stay tuned.

Gwen