Do you want to make the most your TSPS membership? Would you like to find something challenging, rewarding or important to you or the land surveying profession? How about something FUN to do with fellow land surveying professionals while promoting the profession in Texas?
A recent leadership training speaker for TSPS, Wendy Biro-Pollard, said association members get involved in association activities for a variety of reasons, including:
- Increase or maintain skills
- Experience challenging situations
- Utilize originality and creativity
- Support causes they believe in
- Make decisions which influence direction of the organization
- Take on leadership roles
- Earn and receive respect and approval for their work
- Give service to their local community and to the state-wide association
- Be identified with a particular group
- Perform varied tasks
- Establish professional contacts
- Respond to a direct request that I join
- Do something that won't otherwise be done
- Use talents and abilities
- Gain access to benchmark information
(Learn more training and consulting solutions from Wendy Biro-Pollard at her website at www.wendybiro-pollard.com.)
TSPS encourages involvement at the local chapter level, but the state association offers many committees on which members can contribute. Committees include:
- Governmental Affairs
- Ethics
- Standards
- Public Relations
- Chapter Activities
- SurPac
- Chapter Activities
- Education
- Annual Meeting
- Certification
- University Advisory
- TRIG*STAR
- Budget & Finance
- Sound & Video
- Constitution/Bylaws
- Tellers
- Historical
- Technology
- Nominating
- Membership
- Publications
- Product Sales
- Awards
- Safety
- Geographic Information Systems
TSPS also maintains liaisons to various organizations. Some of those include:
- Texas Board of Professional Land Surveyor
- ACSM/NSPS
- Texas Land Title Association
- General Land Office
- Texas Surveyors Foundation, Inc.
- Texas Department of Transportation
... and more!
JOIN TSPS
Online: Click here to join
Mail: You can download the member application, fill out and mail to: TSPS, Attn: Membership, 2525 Wallingwood Drive Ste 300, Austin TX 78746
Fax: Download the member application and fax to the TSPS office 512-327-7872
For more information or have an application emailed to you, send a request to DougL@tsps.org
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Dues and Assessments
The annual dues of members of the Society, which shall be paid to the Secretary-Treasurer by all classes of membership except honorary and life members, shall be determined annually by the Board of Directors; and such determination shall be submitted to the membership at the Annual Meeting for approval or substitution of another amount for annual dues. If no action is taken at the Annual meeting, the annual dues for the preceding year shall be continued and paid.
Annual Dues shall be payable prior to January 1st of each year. The Secretary-Treasurer shall mail a bill to each member before that date, stating the amount payable. Members failing to pay dues by April 1 shall cease to receive any Society publications other than dues notice and any Annual Meeting Registration form. Members failing to pay dues ten days prior to the Annual Meeting shall have their votes disqualified. Members in arrears one year shall lose all privileges of membership until such arrears are met, and members more than two years in arrears shall be automatically dropped from the Society.
(Dues are not deductible as charitable contributions, however, they may be deducted as a trade or business expense. 9% of your dues are to be used for lobbying activities and therefore are not deductible. Consult your tax advisor.)