According to an email update to its members last week, ASA leaders met yesterday in New Orleans with their counterparts from the Appraisal Institute and the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers for a joint board meeting.  The purpose of the “historic gathering” was to review the “first draft of the initial phases of the plan for the unification of the valuation profession.”  Similarly, in the current ASA Professional, W. David Snook writes that the “unification team…intends to present a framework of the unification proposal,” which “may change our future direction.”  The ASA will make details of the plan available after the meeting.