Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors

MSPS 2009 Conference: 57th Annual Meeting

Start Date	End Date	Location		Event Registration
28 Jan 2009	30 Jan 2009	St. Cloud Civic Center 10 Fourth Avenue S. St. Cloud, MN 56301		Registration has ended.

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MSPS 57th Annual Meeting

Online registration is now closed. Please register on-site.

The guest program has been cancelled.

Schedule at a Glance
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
7:30 to 8:00 a.m.	Registration
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.	How The Land Surveyor Can Assist In Boundary Disputes, Clinton McLagan
4:30 to 7:30 p.m.	Ice Breaker, Kelly Inn
Thursday, January 29, 2009
	Session A	Session B	Session C
8 to 8:30 a.m.	Registration, Exhibit Hall Opens and Continental Breakfast
8:30 to 10:15 a.m.	Business Meeting
10:15 to 10:45 a.m.	Break: Visit the Exhibitors
10:45 to 11:30 a.m.	A1. Licensure Board Update & Complaint Process Lisa Hanni	B2. History of Minnesota/Canadian Border Don Borcherding	Please choose a session from A or B
11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.	Lunch, Visit Exhibitors
12:45 to 1:30 p.m.	A3. Minnesota County Coordinate System Eric Fuller	B4. Historical Surveying Instructions and Their Influence on Surveys of the 3rd and 4th Correction Lines, 4th Principal Meridian John Dahl	C5. Instrument Calibration for the 21st Century Bill Hazelton
1:35 to 2:30 p.m.	A6. Become a More Effective Public Speaker Rick Weyhrauch	B7. Loss Prevention Techniques for Surveyors Holly Newman
2:30 to 3:45 p.m.	A8. Trends in Surveying and Predictions for the Future Chris Ambourn	B9. Surveyor-Attorney Collaboration: How to Maximize Benefits for Your Customer Bryan Balcome; Matthew Anderson	C10. Chapter Meetings
3:45 to 6:00 p.m.	Jam Session, Visit Exhibitors, MLS Foundation Auction
6:00 to 6:30 p.m.	Social Time
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.	President’s Banquet, Kelly Inn
Friday, January 30, 2009
	Session A	Session B	Session C
7:30 a.m.	Registration Opens, Continental Breakfast
8:30 to 9:25 a.m.	A11. PLS Special Instructions - A Case Example John Freemyer	B12. Surveying the 35W Bridge Brad Canaday - MN/DOT; Joe Hamlin - MN/DOT	C13. De-mystifying Spiral Curves Lynn Caswell
9:30 to 10:25 a.m.	A14. The Intersection of Property Rights & Land Use Planning Philip Carlson	B15. Developing Your Talent: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Land Surveying Managers James W. Sipe	C16. Calculating Devices & Methods - Past & Present Casey Crisp; LSIT-SCSU Student Chapter of MSPS
10:25 to 10:45 a.m.	Break: Visit the Exhibitors
10:45 to 11:40 a.m.	A17. The Rectangular Public Land Surveys in the United States Rod Squires	B18. Electronic Transfer of Documents Mark Blankenship	C19. NGS Height Modernization David Zenk
11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.	Lunch, SCSU Faculty-Student Program, Scholarship Awards, Surveyor Awards
1:30 to 2:25 p.m.	A20. Landscapes of Minnesota John Fraser Hart & Susy Svatek Ziegler	B21. Surveying the 35W Bridge Brad Canaday, MN/DOT; Joe Hamlin, MN/DOT	C22. Proper Use and Care for your Total Station Steve Richter
2:30 to 3:25 p.m.	A23. Land Surveying Education in the 21st Century Bill Hazelton	B24. Spidernet - A Leica GPS Network Dan Forsberg, Leica
3:30 to 4:30 p.m.	Closing Session

Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009: Seminar day

Workshop/seminar, St. Cloud Civic Center: How the Land Surveyor Can Assist in Boundary Disputes 7.0 PDHs available

Wednesday Seminar Schedule

8 a.m.: Registration, materials pick up, rolls and coffee
8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Seminar
12 to 1 p.m.: Lunch
1 to 4:30 p.m.: Seminar

Seminar description:

Know when to refrain from setting monuments
Know the essentials of interpreting descriptions in Minnesota
Know the basics of Minnesota Boundary Law
Know how to lie with maps
Know the essential things to show on surveys for boundary litigation
Know how to testify in court
Know the essential things to show on the final survey to be filed in the land records

Clinton McLagan is licensed as a lawyer and land surveyor in Minnesota. He has successfully tried boundary, easement, real estate contract and mechanic lien cases from the trial court to the state supreme court. By teaching, writing and lecturing he has had his work reviewed by professionals for over 30 years.

Boundary Litigation Seminars, Inc. was created to give McLagan a means of sharing his unique experience, education and knowledge with lawyers and land surveyors in Minnesota.