CSLA’s new President Linda Irvine has held the position of Manager of Parks and Open Space Development for the Town of Markham, Ontario since 1988, and is responsible for overseeing, managing, and coordinating all new park development within the Town as well as managing selected urban design projects for the municipality.
Neil Dawe was elected as CSLA’s President-Elect at the CSLA Annual General Meeting held Saturday, August 15th in Toronto. Mr. Dawe founded his firm Tract Consulting Incorporated in 1998. His team focuses on four customer service areas: landscape architecture, professional planning, graphic design and interpretation and exhibit design.
For more information about our new elected leaders, click here.
Excerpt from a Message from CSLA President Linda Irvine, OALA, CSLA, ASLA
I am introducing the “President’s Communiqué” is a unique way to insure that each member is kept current on CSLA’s major initiatives, and that alternatively, members have the opportunity to reflect on my messages and to directly “reply back” to me with their comments and opinions.
Click here to read the complete message.
CSLA Executive Director Paulette Vinette, CAE and President, Linda Irvine, OALA, CSLA, ASLA at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Chicago, September 2009.
As part of our required due diligence process, the CSLA Board has reviewed our financial operations model and concluded that CSLA will revise its current practice in order that we may capture significant Input Tax Credits (ITC) and reduce our annual expenses.
At
the August 2009 BOD meeting the following motion was passed:
Commencing 2010, CSLA will make members dues and all
operations taxable. If feasible,
CSLA will reduce Component Organization fees to offset the new GST payment
members will have to make for this transition year.
The outcome of this action is that commencing 2010, your CSLA dues will be taxed with GST. The Board has further approved that for this first year of GST taxation, our dues will be reduced by an equivalent amount so the total amount paid remains the same. The majority of our members will be able to structure their accounting to benefit by claiming this ITC. This action is necessary for the CSLA to prepare in advance of possible future HST tax changes proposed in the coming year.
For background information on this decision, click here.
CSLA has notified LA educators about the CSLA April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM) poster contest. The poster design should communicate landscape architecture’s contribution to Canada and the winner will receive $500 and extensive coverage of their award-winning work. For complete details, click here.
Over 250 delegates enjoyed the 2009 CSLA national Congress & Trade Show, hosted by the Ontario Landscape Architects Association (OALA) August 12 - 15 at the Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel. To enjoy Congress highlights, click here.
For news about CSLA's 2010 Congress in Edmonton, August 17-20, click here
CSLA President Cathy Sears, AALA, CSLA; OALA President Lawrence Stasiuk, OALA, CSLA; Congress Co-Chair Jim Melvin, OALA, FCSLA and Toronto Mayor David Miller, Honorary OALA member.
CSLA bestowed seven awards during its 75th Anniversary Congress Gala on August 15th:
CSLA Lifetime Achievement Award:
Macklin
Hancock, OALA, FCSLA
Michael
Hough, OALA, FCSLA
CSLA
Schwabenbauer Award:
Cecilia
Payne, OALA, FCSLA
CSLA
Teaching Award:
CharlesThomsen, MALA,FCSLA of the University of Manitoba
Douglas Paterson, BCSLA, FCSLA of the University of British Columbia
CSLA President’s Award:
Gérald Lajeunesse AAPQ, OALA, FCSLA
Ronald Middleton, AALA, FCSLA
For complete details, click here.
L-R: CSLA Recognition Awards Chair Chris Grosset, NUALA, CSLA; Michael Hough, OALA, FCSLA receiving the CSLA Lifetime Achievement Award; Outgoing President Cathy Sears, AALA, CSLA
New 2009 CSLA Fellows: Pierre Bouchard, AAPQ, FCSLA; Colleen Mercer Clarke, OALA, FCSLA; Heather Cram, MALA, FCSLA; Wendy Graham, AAPQ, FCSLA; Achim Jankowski, APALA, FCSLA; John Laird, NUALA, FCSLA; Jim Vafiades, OALA, FCSLA; Laurie Lamb Wagner, MALA, FCSLA.
The 2008 CSLA Annual Report can be read online – click here - or we will be pleased to mail you copies. Email paulette@csla.ca
CSLA’s Landscape/Paysages magazine is available online – click here
All CSLA members received a hard copy in the mail
and back issues are available at no charge.
Her Excellency Michaëlle Jean sent written 75th Anniversary greetings to CSLA that were read at the 2009 Congress opening. The Governor General wrote:
Canadian landscape architects have succeeded in their field, standing on equal footing with their international counterparts as they strive not only for a physical expression of function and form, but also for an experience rooted in aestheticism and grace.
To view entire message- click here
CSLA volunteer leaders Professor Alan Tate and CSLA Awards of Excellence Chair Dean Spearman, MALA, CSLA are working to update the 2010 CSLA Awards of Excellence Program. Look for details in your inbox and on www.csla.ca in November.
The ILO has published a definition of landscape architects which begins with: “Landscape architects plan and design landscapes and open spaces for projects such as, parks, schools, institutions, roads, external areas for commercial, industrial and residential sites, and plan and monitor their construction, maintenance, management and rehabilitation.”. It then proceeds to list nine tasks. To view the complete definition, click here.
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