CLSA NALS - California Land Surveyors Association

TUESDAY (10:30 AM - 12 PM)
NV BOEPLS - Disciplinary Actions and Hot Topics
This program will cover The Nevada State Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors make-up and authority and will address:
• Recent changes to NRS
• Hot topics which have been addressed in 2012 including:
• Qualifications based selection and Requests for Proposals
• Setting of land corners – Record of Survey – required or not?
• Actual disciplinary cases which have been addressed over the last year including:
• Unlicensed practice
• Failure to report discipline
• More than three incomplete submittals to a public agency
• Incompetence
• Practice outside of discipline
Actual board actions regarding these charges will be shared for information and discussion.
About The Speakers
Alan R. Riekki, PLS has been involved in private and public sector surveying for the better part of the last 25 years. Until
1994, he was a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local #12 in Southern California. Mr. Riekki
became a registered Professional Land Surveyor in the state of Nevada in January 1997, a Nevada State Water Rights
Surveyor in September, 1997, and a registered Professional Land Surveyor in the state of Utah in April, 2000. Mr. Riekki
became a member of the Nevada Association of Land Surveyors in 1994 and served the Southern Chapter as Director,
Treasurer, President-Elect and, in 2002, as President. In 2004 Mr. Riekki was appointed City Surveyor for the City of Las
Vegas, Nevada, a position he currently holds. In July of 2008 Mr. Riekki was appointed to the Nevada State Board of
Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors where he serves as one of the two Professional Land Surveyor members.
Bob LaRiviere, PLS has been a surveyor working in Northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area for the past 30 years.
He has been a partner at CFA since joining the firm in 1998. He was promoted to President in the spring of 2011. He is
responsible for the firm’s overall operations, oversees all department directors, and ensures that high quality service is
provided at all times to all clients. He is a member of the Nevada Association of Land Surveyors and has served as the Lahontan
Chapter President in 1994 and State President in 1999. Bob is also very active and a charter member of the Sparks
Centennial Sunrise Rotary Club and served as club president in 2008-2009. In July of 2010, Bob was appointed to the
Nevada State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors; he is one of two surveyors on a board of 9 members.
TUESDAY (1:30 PM - 3 PM)
NV Coordinate Reference System
This presentation is for anyone interested in the development and application of a custom low-distortion projection system.
We will be specifically discussing the Nevada Coordinate Reference System developed by the City of Las Vegas, but a
vast majority of the information applies to low-distortion projections in general. The topics will include:
• A general look at commonly used coordinate systems by surveyors
• The grid vs. ground problem
• Design of a custom low-distortion projection
• Application of map projections in surveying, engineering and GIS software
• Using map projections with GPS
• The present and future of the Nevada Coordinate Reference System
About The Speakers
Alan R. Riekki, PLS (see bio above)
Michael Kinney, PLS is a Land Survey Associate with the City of Las Vegas. He has been involved in land surveying for
the past 15 years. Most of his first eight years were spent working for a private firm in Southern California, and the last
seven have found him at the City of Las Vegas. He completed the Land Surveying and Mapping program at Coastline
College, California in 1998. He became a registered Professional Land Surveyor in the state of Nevada in 2011.
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