Date
June 2, 2026, 5:00 pm
Location
Sacramento City College (Cafeteria)
3835 Freeport Blvd,
Sacramento, CA 95822
Cost
Parking: $2
Pizza Dinner: $25.80
No Dinner: $10 in raffle tickets
County Surveyor Panel:
Brian Gillooly (Sacramento)
Brian Frazier (El Dorado)
Ben Bardakjian (Placer)
Chris Ferrucci (Solano)
August Hanks (Santa Clara)
Doug Sutherland (Butte)
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Curtis Gutierrez
Mohammad Farhad hamidi
Eric Ochoa
Charles Rawls
Nick Walsh
James Ryan
Charlie Neuman
Michael Schwoyer
Warren SMITH
Ethan Bentley
Brian Grove
Brian Gillooly
Madison Gruginski
Nathan Fickert
Karl Sharlette
Jorge Ledesma
Jimmy Byrum
Annette Hovorka
Darin Similai
Erik Lindahl
Andrew Chafer
Birk Ellis
Jerry Aplass
Jake Gomez
Jason Paris
Nicholas Labedzki
Tori Randell
Erik Poulsen
Russell Smith
Jon Hose
Kalie Tapp
Alex Zasso
Ron Monsour
Eric Wilson
Marti Ikehara
Jon Scarpa
Dennis Barber
Daniel Schwartz
Ana Pellegrino
Eric Thalken
Dean Jurado
Adam Bishop
Erik Poulsen
Michael Farrauto
David Brent
Jim White
Robert Ray
Neil Busch
Matthew Souza
Pedro Jarquin
Cristina Rubio
casey ressler
Seaver Klug
Ian Wilson
Andriy Buchko
Justin Cisneros
Michael Chiara
Jimmy Byrum
Carina Garcia
Roger Perez
Morgan Thalken
Questions for the Panel
What attributes or skills are desired by hiring professionals for entry level surveyors without credentials?
Will there be Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza? Detroit Style?
Do differences in opinions in between county surveyors affect the review process of maps filed in each county?
What does your County think about offering a fixed cost Record of Survey?
What is your county's policy to perpetuate endangered monuments? Construction? Fire? Durable monument requirements?
Knowing what you know now, What piece of advice would you give to yourself at the beginning of your career?
Regarding review of Records of Survey, do you believe your office is staying within the review authority provided under Section 8766?
What’s the biggest easy fix that you see getting submitted but have to return for redline edits.
What are three topics/items which the survey community is doing right, and what three topics/items could we being doing better?
What do you feel your responsibility is to protect the community from bad or subpar surveyors?
What are the most common errors found in record map submittals that get redlined?
Are you hiring?
How is your county addressing the hyperbolic rise in AI generally and has it had any role within your department?
What would be your top 3 messages/concerns that you wish to convey to the private practice survey community to improve upon as it relates to working with the county processes?
County surveyor is a type of leadership role in the survey community as it relates to guidance of the practice from a regulatory standpoint; What leadership principles have you exhibited or learned in your role that you didn't experience in private practice that could be modeled as a best practice for the private sector?
What about public service role is different, for better or worse, than what you experienced in private practice?
What characteristics of the person or best practices do you notice within your county's private practice surveyors, whether small or large company, that you attribute to better than average work product and better than average interactions with the county process and requirements?
What is one item submitting surveyors in your county can improve upon?
What is something that you are seeing that you would like to correct, or make people aware of
Are there any changes you wish to see in the department or role of county surveyor as it relates to the interfacing with the private sector? Or changes in the private sector interfacing with government?