NCCELSA

April Meeting

Our speaker was Natalie King P.E., Senior Registrar, Civil Engineer for the California Board of Registration of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists

1. She started with a little history about the Board. In March of 1928 the St. Francis Dam in Los Angeles failed and took more
   than 600 lives with it. A big investigation took place and one of the final conclusions was to require Civil Engineers to
   become Licensed and sign and stamp their plans. The Surveyors already had Licensing requirements at the time of the Dam
   failure.
2. The Board of today is made up of 8 public members and 7 Practitioners (traffic engineers, civil engineers, surveyors, etc.).
3. All the exams are now administered online and under the auspices of NCEES, except for the PE-Structural.
4. The PE-Civil exam is now administered year-round.
5. She spoke about multiple topics such as how the tests are administered, timing of the tests, online testing, the need for written
   contracts, the requirement to file an Organization Record of your business. Requirements to be contained in written
   contracts. The complaints that they receive. Non final plans being designated as such, and a lot more.
6. Many of their forms are accessible online.
7. The Professional Board has quarterly Bulletins and Meeting Notes. Natalie encouraged us to become involved with the
   BPELSG Board.
8. This was a special meeting for our group. We did a big outreach to City Engineers, surveyors, directors, and the likes, within
   San Diego County to attend the meeting. We had a very good attendance of nearly 40 professionals and others.
9. If you would like a copy of her presentation slides please contact the Secretary.

APRIL MEETING
Our speaker was Natalie King P.E., Senior Registrar, Civil Engineer for the California Board of Registration of Professional
Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists, and she was introduced by Doug Logan. She discussed the following issues:

February Meeting

• Our Speaker was Attorney Whitney Hodges of SheppardMullins. She spoke to us on recent legislation that affects development.
• In 2022 the In 2022 the California State Legislature approved the 2022 Housing Legislation Update – Effective January 1, 2023. The legislation was introduced to help provide more housing and more affordable housing in California. The legislation was broken down into 7 different areas, They were California Building Code Revisions,, Streamlining Housing Approvals, Density and Parking, ADU’s, CEQA Litigation, Builders Remedy, and their 2023 forecast. The legislation made some radical modifications to plan processing, zoning changes, additional units on single family lots, eliminating long standing setbacks from property lines, reduced parking, etc.

NOVEMBER MEETING

NORTH COUNTY CIVIL ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS ASSOCIATION

MINUTES OF THE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2022 MEETING:

Meeting held at Cocina del Charro, 1020 West San Marcos Blvd, Ste 50, San Marcos, CA

The meeting was called to order by Vice President Gary Wynn at 6:40 PM.   He introduced our speaker Craig Caes, Supervisor of the Land and Water Quality Division of the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.  Accompanying him he brought JoAnn Fang who is assisting him on the upgrades to the LAMPS program and Heather Bounomo the Director of San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.

Mr Caes discussed the following issues :

1. The need for better standards in the preparation of As-Builts of the onsite water treatment systems so they can be located in the field at a future date.
2. Real world issues were discussed such as the difficulties in placing a rebar marker at the ends of lines and leaving the septic tank lids exposed.
3. He mentioned the possibility of requiring an onsite meeting with the designer at the time of drilling the test holes.
4. The utilization of existing percolation testing rates of adjacent parcels that had been tested for determination of percolation rates could be allowed when the soil and conditions are similar.
5. He acknowledged that processing times for new leach field systems are excessive, (currently three to four months), but the training of new staff hires is being done with the expectation that processing times will be reduced.
6. There was some discussion of Nitrate reports and he stated that few people actually knew how to do them.
7. The County is looking for input from the private sector regarding updates to their Lamp Manual.

OTHER NEWS

1. The Board of Director’s meeting was held at The Broken Yolk on Las Posas Blvd in San Marcos. on December 8, 2022.
2. The board will look into a virtual presentation by the County on SB-9.
3. Upcoming speakers will be from Cavignac and Associates on insurance issues for Engineers and Surveyors and a presentation on Geotextiles.

ATTENDANCE/MEALS USED:    14-people attended our meeting representing 11-firms.

The meeting adjourned at 8:32 PM.

Bob Sukup, Secretary

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