1990 - A Cadastral Professor       In his address to the 1990 Annual General Meeting, President Irwin Maltais outlined the three priorities of the Association: 1. Addressing inadequate fees and income levels for the members of the Association; 2. Establishing a cadastral professorship at the University of Calgary; 3. Resolving the controversy and frustrations surrounding the issue of Real Property Reports. Relative to priority #2, the Canadian Council of Land Surveyors had voted to withhold accreditation from the University of Calgary due to inadequate cadastral content. At the time, there was one compulsory cadastral course and one additional optional course in cadastral studies which was introduced in September 1990. At about the same time, the Association learned that the Survey Science Program at the University of Alberta was to be discontinued. As a result the ALSA Council established an ad hoc committee to oversee the definition of course content and pursue funding arrangements for the professorship. Mr. Maltais reported to the membership that Council had written a letter to all municipalities explaining the Real Property Report and its intended use and recommending that only Real Property Reports be used for issuance of compliance certificates. At about the same time, the Association was advised that the BC Land Surveyors Association lost a court of appeal decision in which a non-land surveyor carried out Building Location Certificates. Mr. Maltais also indicated that there were major problems with the full implementation of the standards of Real Property Reports, as there seemed to be confusion around the actual requirements of the standard. In other matters, the membership rescinded the more detailed advertising regulation, introduced in 1986, and replaced it with a more general guideline, reflecting the government’s position that it was no longer appropriate to enforce professional advertising through regulation. The membership also introduced an underlying commentary to the Code of Ethics and placed it in the Manual of Good Practice. Back - 1989 - A New Manual Come Hell or High Water Forward- 1991 - Eliminate Redundancy and Provide Consistency