1. Solicit candidates for election to the Board of Directors.
   1. The goal should be to identify at least two candidates for each position to be filled (although the bylaws do not require two nominees). The Board shall consist of 12 members, one member from each of six highway districts of the Iowa Department of Transportation and six members representing the state at-large. Terms of office shall be for two years.
   2. Provide biographical material to SLSI executive director for inclusion in newsletter or on ballot to be mailed to membership prior to annual meeting.
   3. Arrange for ballots to be counted prior to annual conference and for results to be announced at the annual conference.
2. Nominate, receive and review recommendations or nominations for SLSI awards.
   1. Rub Lubsen Excellence Award (Prior to 1997 this was the Excellence Award. In 1997 the award was renamed in honor of longtime ISU professor Rudolph Lubsen.

It is intended that the award be granted annually for outstanding performance in a land surveying project or for outstanding service in a matter related to surveying.

1. Candidate must be a member of SLSI.
2. Candidate must be a registered land surveyor in the state of Iowa.
3. Candidate must be recommended or nominated by a Professional Engineer or Land Surveyor registered in the United States. Award is to be made in recognition of work done on an Iowa project, or, if outside of the state, by an Iowa registrant. The project must be of such a nature as to bring credit to the Society of Land Surveying of Iowa.

Activity for which recognition may be given may be in any one of the following areas:

 

1. Direct supervision of a noteworthy land surveying project.
2. Teaching activities and improvements in land surveying education.
3. Recruiting new talents.
4. A "prime mover" for development of passage of significant legislation pertaining to land surveying.
5. Design of new equipment or development of new land surveying techniques.
6. Public relations and/or improvement of the public image of the land surveyor.

1. Candidate must be a member of the Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa. Candidate must be registered in Iowa as a Land Surveyor.
2. Award is given in recognition of a paper presented at any meeting of the Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa, or any meeting of a state society of land surveyors of any other state, or any meeting of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping; or a paper published in any engineering or land surveying organization's magazine. The paper shall pertain to land surveying. The paper must have been prepared and presented or published within ten preceding years of the year in which it is considered for award to the author.

1. Award is to be given to a person who has performed extraordinary service to the Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa or who has performed extraordinary service to the land surveying profession in such a manner as to be of notable benefit to the state of Iowa.
2. The candidate need not be a member of the Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa nor a registered land surveyors.

The honor and awards program shall be administered by a standing committee of the Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa. The committee shall consist of three members of the Society.

The president of the Society shall appoint members of the committee.

Members of the committee shall be appointed for a three-year term, with one member's term expiring each year.

Members may be re-appointed to serve a consecutive three-year term, but shall not be eligible to serve more than two consecutive three-year terms.

Vacancies on the committee shall be filled by appointment of the SLSI president for the balance of the remaining term.

The committee terms shall coincide with the ending of the SLSI Annual Meeting.