Committees

Annual Charity Event Committee
Once a year NASLA collects donations and volunteers time to a local charity. The committee is responsible for getting volunteers within the membership or from the community at large to join the walk and/or collect donations for the fundraiser. This event is also an opportunity for NASLA to promote our image as a community resource and educational tool by providing a booth at the event. Contact Helen M. Stone for more information.

Annual Golf Tournament Committee
In the late spring of every year, NASLA provides an opportunity for members and friends of the Society to tee off at a local golf club. The committee is responsible for coordinating with the facility's tournament director and caterer, promoting the event through various media types, keeping track of event attendance and fund collection, facilitating event registration and awards ceremony, coordinating prize donations, having trophies made, and preparing survey materials/feedback. Contact Tammi Gaude for more information.

Annual Landscape Architecture Awards Committee
The Landscape Architecture Awards presentation is an annual event to be held during the end of the year Pink Flamingo Banquet celebration. The committee will be responsible to prepare and distribute guidelines, categories, and applications for entry; set up judging of entries; prepare power point presentation; and coordinate the purchase of trophies for category winners. Final approval shall me coordinated with the NASLA executive committee and the Executive Director. If you are interested in being part of the Annual landscape architecture awards committee, please contact Mike Duran.

Community Relations Committee
The community relations committee is responsible for preparing and issuing press releases, securing publication of community interest articles for the media, announcing events, awards, competitions, and coordinating public speaking engagements. . If you are interested in being part of community relations committee, please Tammi Gaudet.

Continuing Education
Currently Continuing Education units are not applicable in the state of Nevada.

HALS Program
The Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) records historic landscapes in the United States and its territories through measured drawings and interpretive drawings, written histories, and large-format black and white photographs and color photographs. NASLA has a Southern Nevada District Officer who is responsible for cataloging data with the HALS Chief Cultural Resource Manager in Washington D.C. and answering questions about any of the local historic sites. Contact Susan Jones for more information.

LARE Workshop Committee
NASLA provides an opportunity for individuals preparing for the Landscape Architect Registration Exam to take a 3-day intensive workshop for Section E of the exam. This review course is instructed by UCLA Professor Jerry Hastings who was a Master Grader for CLARB and also wrote LARE Review Section E Vignettes: Grading, Drainage, and Stormwater Management. The committee is responsible for choosing date/location of event, coordinating with the course instructor and location facility's manager, promoting the event with various media types, keeping track of enrollment and fund collection, preparing survey materials/feedback, and providing lunch for all attendees. Contact Tammi Gaudet for more information.

Monthly Luncheon Speaker
The Monthly Luncheon Speaker committee is responsible for scheduling an educational speaker (from the approved speaker list prepared by the NASLA Executive committee) once a month following the sponsor presentation. Speaker presentations should be 45 to 50 minutes in length. The NASLA will arrange for travel expenses for the speaker on an as needed basis. Please contact Tammi Gaudet if you are interested in joining this committee or have suggestions for speakers.

National Landscape Architecture Month (NLAM)
The NLAM Committee provides an opportunity for our chapter to reach out and inform people about landscape architecture as a viable profession, as a means to help create a sustainable environment, as a way to help encourage healthier lifestyles, as a way to beautify residential areas, and as a way to help protect against terrorist attacks. The 2007 theme is “Discover careers in Landscape Architecture”. If you are interested in becoming a member of this committee or have any suggestions on how to promote this years theme, please contact Amie Wojtech.

Pink Flamingo Banquet Committee
The end of the year Pink Flamingo Banquet celebration includes dining, live entertainment, raffles and silent auctions, the annual landscape awards ceremony, the bi-annual student scholarship awards ceremony, and socializing/networking with professionals in landscape architecture. The committee is responsible for choosing the date/location of the event, coordinating with the location facility's manager and caterer, design of invitations and promotional signage, establishing event theme and preparing decorations, facilitating raffle and silent auction events, preparing survey materials/feedback, and coordinating event entertainment/speaker. Contact Tammi Gaudet for more information.

Political Action Committee
The Political Action Committee identifies and seeks out meaningful change to our local guidelines, codes, laws and anything else directly related to our profession. The PAC will promote Landscape Architecture through cooperative and positive change. The PAC is not about promoting self-serving policies. It is about leadership in our profession and bringing our collective expertise to serve those in our community. We possess a different skill set than our colleagues in the related disciplines and we have a professional obligation to be involved. Please contact Mike Duran if you are interested in joining this committee.

Scholoarship Program - Mike Duran

Student Mentor Committee
The Student Mentor Committee will be responsible for preparing and implementing a student mentor program. This program is intended to match students with practicing landscape architects for the purpose of encouraging, teaching, advising, and helping students grow intellectually and professionally while attending a program in landscape architecture. Please contact Erin Reiswerg if you are interested in joining this committee.

Website Management Committee
The Website Committee is in charge of working with NASLA’s web designer to provide up to date information for the website.  Any changes to the website including but not limited to layout changes and content changes, need to be approved by both the website committee and the NASLA executive committee. Please contact Carrie Cottrell if you are interested in joining this committee.