R-22-088 National Surveyors Week
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All right. Is anyone here for National Surveyors Week? All right, please come up to the podium. Oh.
I usually do this one, but we can only do one per commissioner, so someone else got the uh lucky Mari Mariano's doing this. Yeah.
Look at this. Nothing's getting surveyed right now.
Nothing's
being surveyed. Yeah. No work is happening in Pasco County today.
All right. I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number twenty two zero eight eight, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring March twenty twenty first through March twenty seventh, twenty twenty two, National Surveyors Week in Pasco County. Whereas surveyors play an essential role in Pasco County, they're instrumental in developing our community. Surveyors are needed at any time. There is new construction, transportation, or mapping in Pasco County. And RAS surveyors also play an important role in our local government. They are instrumental in defining local
boundaries throughout our community. And RAS, the surveyor profession is one of the oldest professions in the United States and has literally shaped our country as we know it today. Surveyors and mappers are among the founding fathers of the United States. In fact, three of the three Three of the four men who are Eternalized on Mount Rushmore were surveyors. They were instrumental in the formation of the United States land boundary and property system. And RAS George Washington, the first official county surveyor
in the colonies, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and other former presidents of the United States served their fellow colonists as surveyors. And res, the surveying and mapping professional. Requires special education, training, and knowledge of advanced mathematics, physical and applied sciences, and boundary law. And whereas surveyors and mappers are uniquely licensed to determine and describe land and water boundaries for the management of natural resources and protection of private and public property rights. And
whereas the continued advancement in instrumentation have required surveys. Surveyors and mappers to not only be able to understand and implement the methods of the past, but also to employ cutting-edge technology in finding solutions to meet the challenges of the future. And whereas the citizens of Florida recognize the valuable contributions of the surveying and mapping profession to the history and development of our state. Every day, Floridians make important decisions based on the knowledge and experience of licensed professionals. Professional surveyors and mappers. Now,
therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby declares March 21st through the 27th, 2022, as National Surveyors Week in Pasco County and encourages all citizens to recognize the many contributions and the ongoing dedication of professional surveyors and mappers in our community. Done and resolved in regular session with the quorum present and voting this twenty second day of March twenty twenty two.
Second.
All in favor. Aye.
Opposed? Commissioner Mariano.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh boy, I didn't know we had that many surveys around. Are they all
county surveys? No, we
have some
private survey.
I I will tell you we there was a there was a time about a couple of years ago I was getting some survey work done And I talked to a gentleman that um was working for his dad, had been w a surveyor from Virginia for thirty years. His dad's getting ready to retire. He's trying to come down here. And he can't get certified by Florida because he doesn't have a full year degree to go forward. And uh I I think for the profession the skills that you guys have is phenomenal. And to be certified, I think if you can focus on what you need to do to get your profession and get your certifications
should be the way to go rather than the burden of the four year degree. Uh she worked on it the past couple of years. This year she was close. I was up there for one committee meeting and it passed. But it didn't go all the way through. So if you guys are interested in getting more than a little bit more than that.
So to help the profession, um she's she's trying to work up there for you and I uh I support that as well. But thank you for coming out here. I uh I didn't know we had that many surveys coming today, so I'm delighted. So If you would.
Well thank you. Um good morning commissioners, Madam Chairman. My name is Alex Parnes. Um My middle name is Wolf. Friends call me Alex Wolf. Around here my team calls me El Jefe. Lovingly. First let me thank you for recognizing National Surveyors Week here in Pasco County. It's a it's a big time for this profession. Um the profession of surveying and mapping is very old, historical, and time honored. Um Folks that hear me speak and teach classes uh know
me to say it's the second oldest profession. But from Babylonia to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. That did that did get a laugh. Wow, I didn't think Uh so from Babylonia to Mesopotamia to ancient Egypt, uh the surveyors back then or they used to be called rope stretchers, they laid out The Pharaoh's lands as far as the Pharaoh's eyes could discern. and built the laid out the structures, the pyramids and all the other instruct uh structures back in ancient Egypt. One of the
most uh important tenets of this profession is To follow in the footsteps of the original surveyors, that's something that we go by. And that's what we do. Well it is my particular honor, and I think I could speak for my surveying and mapping geomatics team when I say it's their honor as well, to follow in the footsteps of the very first county surveyor of the colonies, the United States, George Washington, who was also the first president, obviously, of the United States. I'm a huge fan, George George Washington fan. I actually
have a George Washington bobblehead on my desk. Truth. My team can verify. Then there's the the other fellows on Route Mushroar, the other former presidents. In Florida, this resolution, this small recognition, is particularly pertinent at this time. At this point, we are still considered a profession in the eyes of the Supreme Courts of the United States. We sincerely hope it remains that way.
is an important piece of that puzzle. We sincerely hope it remains that way, and the future is now uncertain. But that is that is a discussion for another time and place. Suffice it to say, as your county surveyor for Pasco County, This is a professional service and responsibility my team and I do not take lightly. And it is our honor to serve Pasco County residents and Pasco County government as your county surveyor and your county surveying and mapping division. Thank you for taking the time for recognition of National Surveyors
Week in my County. the Premier County, Pasco County. Thank you.
Madam Chairman Just to touch on that little bit of history, I'm a big George Washington fan as well. They say it's uh he actually said One of the reasons that he really wanted to go fight the British was not so much the Boston Tea Party and the stuff that was going on. But the fact that he had surveyed so much land wanted to survey more, and the British kept him from going to do more. And he felt it was s the British were holding us back from developing the country out. And that was one of the things he felt was being impinged upon the freedom of Of Americans
that had had come over here. So Yeah, definitely a great leader and uh great to have your spokesman.
Thank you. Thank you. I think our field crews can empathize with that sentiment sometimes. Thank you very much. Thank
you. Jack, you want to go down and we'll stand but back in the back. Yeah,
let's do a picture. If everyone can come right up in here and the photo stay back.
Why not? Right there.
What's that thing?
The top one's always giving me a finger.
I'll see you over to the contact. That's so funny.
Okay.
Yeah, quit moving up there.
Yeah. Uh sorry.
I'm up here. And he's one more, one more in the back. One more. Good job, Mike.
That one out there. Back it up, back it in.
Okay. He moved again.
Oh another one.
Just like a dance.
Bobin
and we've been.
Okay, thank you. Thank you all very much.
And you can get it too from the Um
I see. All right. I think that's it for the Rs. Yeah. I mean the R S the R S's.