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| Event | South Brunswick Chapter Partnership |
| Date | Saturday, October 28, 2023 |
| Address | Brunswick Community College Building B, Room 150 50 College Road, NE Bolivia, NC 28779 |
| Time | 8:00am - 4:30pm |
| PDHs | 7.5 |
| Member Price | $ 175.00 |
| Non-Member Price | $ 225.00 |
| Description | Partnership with the South Brunswick Chapter of NCSS Check-in begins at 7:30 am and concludes at 4:30 pm. Breakfast and Lunch are included. Topics:
Mike Benton will present an actual case analysis from his years of service on the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. He will also discuss surveyors' ethical responsibilities. Gary Thompson will discuss changes to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), including details on the horizontal/geometric datum, geopotential/vertical datums, and tidal datum coming in 2025. He will also discuss related State Plane Coordinate System updates. Instructors: Richard M. (Mike) Benton, PLS - Mike Benton was born and raised in Goldsboro, NC. He graduated from Eastern Wayne High School in 1976 and attended the college transfer program at Wayne Community College from 1976-1978. He graduated from Coastal Carolina Community College with an AAS degree in Surveying Technology in 1982. In 1991, after living and working several years in Greenville, NC, Mike moved back home to Goldsboro and established Benton & Associates Land Surveying and Mapping, PA. Mike has been an active member of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) since 1991, serving as the chairman of the Formal Education Committee from 1993-2000, President of NCSS in 2003 and the North Carolina Delegate to the Board of Governors for the National Society of Professional Surveyors from 2008-2013. On November 06, 2012, Mike was appointed by Governor Beverly Perdue to serve on the Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. Gary W. Thompson, PLS - Gary Thompson is the Deputy Risk Management Chief, North Carolina Emergency Management/Risk Management and Chief of the North Carolina Geodetic Survey/Risk Management/NC Emergency Management, and reappointed chairman of the National Geodetic Advisory Committee. He has held a professional license as a Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) in North Carolina since 1980. He has served as president of both the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) and the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). Gary is an emeritus member of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCBEES), and a commission member of the ABET Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission. |