DATE: March 26, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Development Services Department
TITLE: MODIFY AN EXISTING LICENSED LAND SURVEYOR POSITION TO CITY LAND SURVEYOR AND ELIMINATE AN ASSOCIATE ENGINEER POSITION
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council approve the modification of an existing authorized full-time benefitted Licensed Land Surveyor position to a full-time benefited City Land Surveyor position in the Development Services Department, eliminate one Associate Engineer position and use the salary savings to support the modification of the surveying position, effective immediately.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
The Development Services Department has one existing authorized Licensed Land Surveyor position in the Engineering Division's Land Development section. The position is responsible for a number of survey-related items including, but not limited to:
* Providing field survey services in support of various City projects and programs;
* Reviewing parcel maps, final maps, Encroachment Removal Agreements, lot mergers, easement dedications/vacations, right-of-way dedications/vacations, and Certificates of Compliance;
* Reviewing Building Division submittals that require verification of easements and rights-of-way information;
* Reviewing entitlement projects for accuracy of provided survey information;
* Maintaining the City's Survey Control Network;
* Verifying various property line determinations for City Attorney's Office, Property Management, and Risk Management staff;
* Monitoring and maintaining the City's Survey Benchmark System;
* Overseeing the monument preservation program (existing Capital Improvement Program Project);
* Assisting the general public, developers, design firms, utilities and contractors with survey-related questions and providing survey information including record maps, street centerline ties/notes and other survey related documentation; and,
* Signing maps and processing documents ...
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