Committees

Annual Golf Tournament Committee
NASLA provides an opportunity for members and friends of the Society to tee off at different valley golf courses.  The committee is responsible for coordinating with the facility's tournament director and caterer, promoting the event through media outlets, keeping track of event attendance and fund collection, facilitating event registration and awards ceremony, coordinating prize donations, trophies, and preparing survey materials.  Please contact Wayne Salom for more information.

Annual Landscape Architecture Awards Committee
The Landscape Architecture Awards presentation is an annual event coinciding with the Pink Flamingo Banquet celebration. The committee prepares and distributes guidelines, categories, and applications for entry; set up judging of entries; prepare power point presentation; and coordinate the purchase of trophies for category winners.  Please contact Stan Southwick for more information.

Public 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.  Please contact Sherie Moore for more information.

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. Please contact Karen Klaassen 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.  Please 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 Caryl Davies 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 the 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”. Please contact Caryl Davies for more information.

Pink Flamingo Banquet Committee
The end of the year Pink Flamingo celebration includes dining, entertainment, raffles and silent auctions, the annual landscape 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. Please contact Amie Wojtech for more information.

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 info@nvasla.com for more information.

Website Management Committee
The Website Committee works with the web site designer to provide up to date Chapter information, photos and content.  Please contact info@nvasla.com for more information.