this was an email from our state association.
Please take the time to go online and complete the survey.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Murdo, Patricia [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 9:28 AM
To: ########
Subject: Montana Board of Prof Engineers and Prof Land Surveyors up for review
Hi - Would you please notify your membership that the Montana Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors will be up for sunset review before the Economic Affairs Interim Committee on April 20 about 3 or
3:15 p.m. The sunset review is to determine if there remains a public purpose or need for the Board. There will be an opportunity for public comment before one or more Board members talks to the legislative committee.
The agenda for the meeting is here:
http://leg.mt.gov/content/Committees/Interim/2011-2012/Economic-Affairs/Agenda/April2012agenda.pdf.
Also, there is a survey that anyone can take (licensed or not) to comment on the Board of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors. You can take that here by clicking on Survey (midway down page):
http://leg.mt.gov/css/Committees/interim/2011-2012/Economic-Affairs/default.
asp.
File's links didn't work for me. extra period or something so I'm re-posting.
Do you think they really want the opinions of out-of-state people, or is that just a ploy to skew the results?
Montana is a big state with very few big cities and if I lived there I wouldn't want a big city attitude invading my government. JMHO
Texas and Florida had their review last year.
Trying to not go politico here: The budget that has become an elephant in everyone's corner is causing some deep research into what can be streamlined and done away with or scrambled and fused into less.
I am sure that the Montana Surveying Association has been working on the response to this for months. This is actually a good time to remove anything that is not working well or for adding things that should be added. The times I was involved in these Sunset activities, I always thought it was very beneficial for the younger surveyors who were just getting into management or ownership.
Thanks-
I'd just pasted the email and that probably didn't work right.
The poll asks specific questions that identify the poll taker if they are out of state, so there wouldn't be a skew in numbers just a different category to identify results in.