ASLA honors outstanding New Jersey students

On Wednesday evening, three members of the NJASLA Executive Committee
interviewed the Department's nominees for ASLA Student Honor and Merit
Awards.  Each student spent around 30 minutes discussing design work,
portfolio, and career goals with the panel.  The Committee commended the
students for excellent presentations, graphics and designs.   I am happy to announce these results:

2008 HONOR AWARD
    Sarah Clark
    Christina Reimer

2008 MERIT AWARD
    Zachary Caruolo
    Dominick Pensabene

All four students are members of the graduating class of May 2008.

Many thanks to Bruce Davies ASLA, PP, Jeff Tandul, CLA, ASLA, M.Arch, and
Nick Tufaro, CLA, PP, RLA, for their time, thoughtful questions, and
encouragement!

JM Hartman, PhD
Landscape Architecture Department Chair

Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Cook Campus

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Landscape Architecture
Practice Act Now has
Companion Bill in the Senate!

The Upgrade to Practice project moved significantly this month.  On  May 15, 2008, Senator Robert M. Gordon(District 38) introduced a companion bill (Senate Bill # 1849) with the same wording of  Assembly Bill 2146.  It was immediately referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce

On May 19, 2008, the full Assembly approved the A2146 by a vote of.74 to 5 . With this success, A2146 will be combined with S-1849 and we will push for a minor housekeeping revision from the Floor and a subsequent Senate vote on June 9, 2008.

As you can imagine, this is a very busy time in the Statehouse with a Budget vote pending and a Summer Break, looming in June.  NJASLA Executive Committee, Legislative Committee and staff are fully committed to success in this endeavor in 2008.

NJASLA Executive Committee Meeting,
May 20 2008
Announces results of 2008 Chapter Officers Election

With a grand total of forty members voting for their choices for open positions within the NJASLA Executive Committee, the following results were recorded last night at the Executive Committee Meeting:

President Elect 2008
  Winner:       Karen Twisler     22 votes
                      Nick Tufaro         15 votes
                      Jeff Tandul          2 write ins

Vice President
  Winner:        Jerry Lewis        37 votes

Secretary
   Winner:        David Lustberg  37 votes

Treasurer
Jeff Grob President appointed Scott Levy (Immediate Past President) to fulfill the remaining term of Treasurer abandoned by Karen Twisler in her ascent to  the President Elect 2008 position.

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WANTED!!!
 ALIVE AND KICKING MEMBERS!!!!

VOLUNTEERS FOR NJASLA PROJECTS AND
NOMINATIONS FOR 2009 NJASLA ELECTION

NJASLA is only as good as its volunteers. We accept all members and fresh ideas.*

The NJASLA 2009 Annual Meeting will be January 25 thru 27, 2009, but the Annual Meeting Planning Committee needs Your help Now.
. Specifically:

Conference call-in #:         888-872-2038
Passcode:                            5839#

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Member Nominations For 2009 NJASLA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
           
            Every year the NJASLA Executive Committee is searching for leaders to assist in important decisions and activities to advance landscape architecture in the state and nationwide..  Usually three positions are open: President-Elect, Vice President and Secretary or Treasurer. Usually, the election is held in September, with nominations accepted NOW!!!!!.

Interested members are encouraged to nominate potential officers by contacting the sitting president, Jeff Grob, or NJASLA Today staff. starting NOW!!!!!.

*We also accept slightly stale, unused  ideas, after a minute in the microwave oven.

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NJDEP Amends MTD Stormwater Certification Letters

The NJDEP is currently developing a re-suspension test protocol for those manufactured treatment devices (MTDs) that seek approval for use as an online water quality device. An online water quality device allows the passing of storms greater than the NJDEP water quality design storm through the device. Until such protocol is developed and testing has been submitted and deemed acceptable under that protocol, all MTDs approved on this Webpage shall be used offline for all storms that exceed the NJDEP water quality design storm effective April 11, 2008. Projects that have been deemed administratively complete by the Division of Land Use Regulation for a permit requiring stormwater review as of April 11, 2008 may continue to utilize the design as specified in the certification letter. If no permit is required from the Division of Land Use Regulation, projects that have been deemed administratively complete by the municipality as of April 11, 2008 may continue to utilize the design as specified in the certification letter. All other applications subject to the stormwater management rules at N.J.A.C. 7:9 shall utilize these MTDs offline. Please note that many of the certification letters have been amended to incorporate extensions.
The information is available at http://www.nj.gov/dep/dsr/bscit/CertifiedMain.htm.

Storm Water Treatment Technologies:

Stormwater Management StormFilter® (CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, Inc.)

Vortechs®Stormwater Treatment System (CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, Inc.)

CDS - High Efficiency Unit (CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, Inc.)

Downstream Defender® (Hydro International)

Aqua-Swirl Concentrator (AquaShield, Inc.)

VortFilter System  (CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, Inc.)
AquaFilter Filtration Chamber (AquaShield, Inc.)
VortSentry® System  (CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, Inc.)

CDS - Filtration System (CONTECH Stormwater Solutions, Inc.)

Terre Kleen Stormwater Device (Terre Hill Concrete Products)

Stormceptor OSR Device (Imbrium Systems Corp.)

FloGard® Dual-Vortex (KriStar Enterprises, Inc.)

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Dear Valued C2Ed Customer,

After December 31, 2007, continuing education and L.A.R.E. readiness courses will no longer be offered through the C2Ed website.  We thank you for your support and apologize for any inconvenience this decision may cause.

Continuing Education Courses:

Although C2Ed will not be providing continuing education courses after December 31, 2007, we will continue to maintain your records of course completion for a period of six years.  In the event that you are audited by your licensure board, CLARB can provide verification of participation on your behalf for previously completed C2Ed courses. 

If you purchased any of the following printed correspondence courses from the C2Ed website, they must be completed and returned to the Council office by June 30, 2008.  Courses received after June 30, 2008 may not be accepted by your board for licensure renewal. 

Please return completed final exams for scoring to:

            CLARB
            3949 Pender Drive
            Suite 120
            Fairfax, VA  22030

L.A.R.E. Readiness Courses:

CLARB will continue to provide practice tests for sections A, B and D, and Diagnostic Vignettes for sections C and E of the L.A.R.E.  Please visit the CLARB website for additional information.