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2011-01-11T15:47:00.004-05:00

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2010-12-29T10:49:00.004-05:00

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January 4, 2011
9:30 AM

RSVP: Membership Chairman: Devon Brookshire http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=mfvuivbab&oeidk=a07e38ruc04f2529a03

*Self-introduction of Local Membership chairs( 1 minute)·
*Welcome & Opening Remarks-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)

*Anti-Trust Guidelines-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)

Old Business ( 20 minutes)

Approve minutes from previous meeting/below (1 minute )

New area expansion update/Lakeland, Miami, Tallahassee - Pat McLaughlin (4 minutes)

A/R 2010 -Pat McLaughlin/Sandy Cinque (10 minutes)

Update MAF Board- Devon Brookshire (5 minutes)

New Business (25 minutes)

Masonry Association Strategic plan update--Pat McLaughlin(5 minutes)
Review 2011 Membership Levels/Pledge sheet/Combined dues process-Devon Brookshire ( 5 minutes)Masonry Awards update-Joe Lesstino/Jeff Turley/Deb Bartolucci (5 minutes)

CLT/Promasonry update-Mike/Ryan/Rocky Jenkins (5 minutes)

New Website highlights update-Deb Bartolucci (5 minutes)

Chapter updates (10 minutes)
Northwest Cheryl Berard, Northcentral-Jim Allen, Northeast-Robert Carlton, Central-Wally Dayem, West Central-Kelly Kendall, Tampa-Bob DiPietro, Southwest-Danielle Larson, Southeast-Sofia Silva,Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer

Marketing/Economic schedule presentations for 2011-Pat McLaughlin (5 minutes)

Set Contractor Member Chapter Goals for 2011-Devon Brookshire (10 minutes)

Discuss ideas for 2011 MEMBERSHIP DRIVES ( 5 minutes)

Set Next teleconference date

Adjourn

Meeting Minutes from September 17, 2010

The Membership Committee convened on Friday, September 17, 2010 qwertyuiop[]\Aasat 8:00 AM at the MAF ConventionChairman: Devon Brookshire devonbrookshire@msn.com opened the meeting with a· Self-introduction of committee chairs and meeting attendees. Committee representatives present were: Cheryl Berard/Northwest, Jerry Painter/NorthCentral, Robert Carlton/Northeast, Jay Snyder/Central, Kelly Kendall/Westcentral, Allison Willmeng/TampaBay, Danielle Larson/Southwest, Sofia Silva/Southeast, Dave Pfeffer/Treasure Coast. Other attendees included convention guests and representatives from the NCMA and MCAA.Devon Brookshire welcomed the group & provided opening remarks.Devon Brookshire stated that the meeting was conducted under the Anti-Trust Guidelines. Motion to waive reading/Motion- Keith Sommer/Second -Rocky JenkinsAttendees reviewed minutes from previous meeting. Motion to approve-Rocky Jenkins. Second Wally Dayem.Pat McLaughlin explained recent update on the next area to form an MAF chapter, which would be in Polk Co.An accounts receivable aging was provided to each chapter to compare to their local members and membership dues collection process.Devon Brookshire provided an update from the last MAF Board of Directors meeting, suggesting to the group that there will be discussion on ways to get new members to join the MAF at the upcoming Strategic Planning Session on Oct. 1 & 2 that would be affordable to the contractors.Pat McLaughln overviewed highlights of the two days ahead at the Convention, encouraging everyone to participate in the days' meetings and introduced three guests, two from the MCAA and 1 from the NCMA. Guests were very encouraging saying that Florida was setting the pace for the rest of the country with their progress relating to the promotion of Masonry and formation of a state association. Pat introduced the Convention Survey for feedback on convention activities, location and would be used to determine whether the MAF would return to the Sirata in 2012. A drawing would take place after the Farewell Breakfast. The winner of the Convention Survey drawing was Shelly Honsberger/Tarmac Titan America.All attendees were encouraged to visit the Awards meeting which was the next meeting of the morning; learn more about the awards process and have a local awards representative from their chapter.Rocky Jenkins provided a Commercial Lead Tracking overview and encourage everyone to attend the Promasonry meeting to learn more about the progress to promote to architects, specifiers and designers.Joyce Rivas introduced the Member Surveys and Non-Member surveys which have gone out by mail to the 32 contractor members and 150 select non-member contractors in the state of Florida. Results to be reviewed at upcoming Strategic Planning session. All Members that had not completed a survey yet, were encouraged to do so at the convention booth. Nametags with a green dot indicated convention guests. Members were encouraged to seek out attendees that were visitors and make them feel welcome.Website highlights were reviewed by Joyce Rivas and include the new Enforcement and Speaker's bureau blogs and Members Only section of the website. The newest addition is the 'WHY MASONRY' link. nutes)Chapter updates from Northwest-Cheryl Berard, Northcentral-Jerry Painter, Northeast-Robert Carlton, Central-Jay Snyder, West Central-Kelly Kendall, Tampa-Allison Willmeng, Southwest-Danielle Larson, Southeast-Sofia Silva,Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer stated across the board that they are struggling with membership due to the economy. Treasure Coast reported that they were making some good progress with having quality speakers with topics that are important to their membership including building inspectors, licensing officials and that their apprenticeship programs was up and running and had good attendance during fall orientation.
Pat McLaughlin briefly reviewed what would be covered in his Economic report which had new information related to the residential market He encouraged chapters to schedule him for meetings in their local market in which he will provide local information. The next local meeting scheduled for October 21st is in the Treasure Coast.
Devon Brookshire noted that that Member goals have been revised to incorporate the reduction in contractor members in the state from 500 to 298. Quarterly goals will be set accordingly after the upcoming strategic planning retreat.Current

Contractor members goal of 56 = 24 NEW contractors members

Current/ Goal /# Contractors in MarketTampa 5 / 8 / 58Northwest 6 / 8 / 21Central 5 / 9 /62North Central 3 / 5 /12Southeast 4 / 6 / 33Southwest 4 / 7/ 43Treasure Coast 3 / 5 / 23Northeast 1/ 4 / 22Ocala 1/ 4 /24Total 32/ 56/298Total as of March 2010 39/ 68/ 452*2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast.Pending: # of Contractors in chapters not formed- Miami/ 23 Contractors, Tallahassee/18 Contractors,S. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors.

Devon Brookshire presented checks to the winners of the Membership Drive 1st place-Bob Dipietro/Dave Pfeffer 2nd place Wally Dayem/ Frank Cox. Three chapters shared the winning checks for the chapter prize: Tampa, Orlando and Treasure Coast.nDevon thanked everyone for their participation and encouraged members to stay involved and attend the teleconference on September 28th.

Meeting Adjourned

Note: The September 28 teleconference was later cancelled until after the Strategic Planning Retreat. Membership Teleconference rescheduled for January 4th.

Committee meeting minutes September 17, 2010

2010-09-30T16:39:00.000-04:00

The Membership Committee convened on Friday, September 17, 2010at 8:00 AM at the MAF Convention

Chairman: Devon Brookshire devonbrookshire@msn.com opened the meeting with a· Self-introduction of committee chairs and meeting attendees. Committee representatives present were: Cheryl Berard/Northwest, Jerry Painter/NorthCentral, Robert Carlton/Northeast, Jay Snyder/Central, Kelly Kendall/Westcentral, Allison Willmeng/TampaBay, Danielle Larson/Southwest, Sofia Silva/Southeast, Dave Pfeffer/Treasure Coast. Other attendees included convention guests and representatives from the NCMA and MCAA.

Devon Brookshire welcomed the group & provided opening remarks.Devon Brookshire stated that the meeting was conducted under the Anti-Trust Guidelines. Motion to waive reading/Motion- Keith Sommer/Second -Rocky Jenkins

Attendees reviewed minutes from previous meeting. Motion to approve-Rocky Jenkins. Second Wally Dayem.

Pat McLaughlin explained recent update on the next area to form an MAF chapter, which would be in Polk Co.

An accounts receivable aging was provided to each chapter to compare to their local members and membership dues collection process.

Devon Brookshire provided an update from the last MAF Board of Directors meeting, suggesting to the group that there will be discussion on ways to get new members to join the MAF at the upcoming Strategic Planning Session on Oct. 1 & 2 that would be affordable to the contractors.

Pat McLaughln overviewed highlights of the two days ahead at the Convention, encouraging everyone to participate in the days' meetings and introduced three guests, two from the MCAA and 1 from the NCMA.
Guests were very encouraging saying that Florida was setting the pace for the rest of the country with their progress relating to the promotion of Masonry and formation of a state association. Pat introduced the Convention Survey for feedback on convention activities, location and would be used to determine whether the MAF would return to the Sirata in 2012. A drawing would take place after the Farewell Breakfast. The winner of the Convention Survey drawing was Shelly Honsberger/Tarmac Titan America.

All attendees were encouraged to visit the Awards meeting which was the next meeting of the morning; learn more about the awards process and have a local awards representative from their chapter.

Rocky Jenkins provided a Commercial Lead Tracking overview and encourage everyone to attend the Promasonry meeting to learn more about the progress to promote to architects, specifiers and designers.

Joyce Rivas introduced the Member Surveys and Non-Member surveys which have gone out by mail to the 32 contractor members and 150 select non-member contractors in the state of Florida. Results to be reviewed at upcoming Strategic Planning session. All Members that had not completed a survey yet, were encouraged to do so at the convention booth.

Nametags with a green dot indicated convention guests. Members were encouraged to seek out attendees that were visitors and make them feel welcome.

Website highlights were reviewed by Joyce Rivas and include the new Enforcement and Speaker's bureau blogs and Members Only section of the website. The newest addition is the 'WHY MASONRY' link. nutes)Chapter updates from Northwest-Cheryl Berard, Northcentral-Jerry Painter, Northeast-Robert Carlton, Central-Jay Snyder, West Central-Kelly Kendall, Tampa-Allison Willmeng, Southwest-Danielle Larson, Southeast-Sofia Silva,Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer stated across the board that they are struggling with membership due to the economy. Treasure Coast reported that they were making some good progress with having quality speakers with topics that are important to their membership including building inspectors, licensing officials and that their apprenticeship programs was up and running and had good attendance during fall orientation.
Pat McLaughlin briefly reviewed what would be covered in his Economic report which had new information related to the residential market He encouraged chapters to schedule him for meetings in their local market in which he will provide local information. The next local meeting scheduled for October 21st is in the Treasure Coast.
Devon Brookshire noted that that Member goals have been revised to incorporate the reduction in contractor members in the state from 500 to 298. Quarterly goals will be set accordingly after the upcoming strategic planning retreat.Current Contractor members goal of 56 = 24 NEW contractors membersCurrent/ Goal /# Contractors in MarketTampa 5 / 8 / 58Northwest 6 / 8 / 21Central 5 / 9 /62North Central 3 / 5 /12Southeast 4 / 6 / 33Southwest 4 / 7/ 43Treasure Coast 3 / 5 / 23Northeast 1/ 4 / 22Ocala 1/ 4 /24Total 32/ 56/298Total as of March 2010 39/ 68/ 452*2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast.Pending: # of Contractors in chapters not formed- Miami/ 23 Contractors, Tallahassee/18 Contractors,S. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors. Devon Brookshire presented checks to the winners of the Membership Drive 1st place-Bob Dipietro/Dave Pfeffer 2nd place Wally Dayem/ Frank Cox. Three chapters shared the winning checks for the chapter prize: Tampa, Orlando and Treasure Coast.n

Devon thanked everyone for their participation and encouraged members to stay involved and attend the teleconference on September 28th, which was later cancelled until after the Strategic Planning Retreat.

Meeting Adjourned

September 28 Teleconference CANCELLED

2010-09-23T12:27:00.002-04:00

Thank you all for your participation in our 2010 MAF Convention in St. Petersburg, Florida. Our previously scheduled teleconference for September 28 has been cancelled. We will reconvene for our next teleconference after the Strategic Planning seminar on October 1 & 2.

September 17 Membership Committee Meeting

2010-09-10T15:40:00.003-04:00

Membership Committee
Friday, September 17, 2010
8:00 AM
MAF Convention Chairman: Devon Brookshire devonbrookshire@msn.com

· Self-introduction of committee chairs and meeting attendees
· Welcome & Opening Remarks-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)
· Anti-Trust Guidelines-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)

Old Business ( 5 minutes)
Approve minutes from previous meeting/below (1 minute )
New area expansion update/Lakeland, Miami, Tallahassee - Pat McLaughlin (1 minute)
A/R 2010 -Pat McLaughlin (1 minute)
Update MAF Board- Devon Brookshire(2 minutes)

New Business (10 minutes)
Convention 2010 update-Pat McLaughlin/Convention surveys (2 minutes)
Masonry Awards-Joe Lesstino/Jeff Turley (2 minutes)
CLT/Promasonry update-Rocky Jenkins (2 minutes)
Contractor surveys- Joyce Rivas (2 minutes)
New Website highlights-Joyce Rivas (2 minutes)

Chapter updates (10 minutes)Northwest-Cheryl Berard, Northcentral-Jerry Painter, Northeast-Robert Carlton, Central-Jay Snyder, West Central-Kelly Kendall, Tampa-Allison Willmeng, Southwest-Danielle Larson, Southeast-Sofia Silva,Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer

Marketing/Economic presentation update-Pat McLaughlin (1 minute)
Orlando/May 19-Complete, Tampa/May13-Complete,mWestCentral/June 15-Complete,Northeast/June 16-Complete, Southwest/August 19-Complete, Treasure Coast-October 21, Southeast-None scheduled, Northcentral-None scheduled

Contractor Member/Goals for 2011-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)
Contractor members goal of 56 = 24 NEW contractors members
Current/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 5 / 8 / 58
Northwest 6 / 8 / 21
Central 5 / 9 /62
North Central 3 / 5 /12
Southeast 4 / 6 / 33
Southwest 4 / 7/ 43
Treasure Coast 3 / 5 / 23
Northeast 1/ 4 / 22
Ocala 1/ 4 /24
Total 32/ 56/298

Total as of March 2010 39/ 68/ 452
*2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast

Pending: # of Contractors in chapters not formed- Miami/ 23 Contractors, Tallahassee/18 Contractors,
S. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors

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Adjourn

July 6, 2010 Membership committee meeting minutes

The Membership Teleconference on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 was called to order at 9:45 AM by Committee Chairman Devon Brookshire devonbrookshire@msn.com

Self-introductions of Attendees: Chip Otwell/Northwest, Robert Carlton/Northeast, Kelly Kendall/West Central, Devon Brookshire/TampaBay, Sofia Silva/Southeast, Dave Pfeffer/Treasure Coast. Chapters not represented on teleconference: NorthCentral, Central, Southwest.

Devon Brookshire welcomed attendees and called meeting to order under theAnti-Trust Guidelines-Devon Brookshire/Motion to approve Robert Carlton/Dave Pfeffer (second)

Old Business

Approval of minutes from previous meeting/Motion to approve Robert Carlton/Kelly Kendall (second)

.Joyce Rivas reviewed documents section of the Membership blog which includes a printable statewide calendar of events and encouraged Membership representatives to print copies and distribute to local chapter members, Any changes, modifications or updates of local information can be made by e-mailing Deb@floridamasonry.com. The Membership blog page contains links to a comprehensive Member list which is updated monthly as new members join.

Membership representatives are encouraged to send Joyce Rivas any local speaker information from local speakers so that the information can be posted for other chapters to reference for effective monthly meeting presentations on the Speakers bureau blog and the Enforcement blog contains updates and information related to activities of that committee.

Pat McLaughlin provided updates related to new chapter activities in Lakeland, Miami and Tallahassee. Lakeland chapter start-up is being spearheaded by participants in the local apprenticeship training program, MarcoBay. Miami chapter continues to search for a start-up champion. Dave Pfeffer will discuss opportunities with the SE chapter members. Tallahassee has an apprentice training program as well as beginning stages of Promasonry/Lead tracking relationships that should eventually develop into opportunities for a new chapter

Pat McLaughlin review A/R 2010 to date with committee. Copies of AR will be distributed with the minutes to the local committee representatives for follow-up with the local chapter.For copies or questions regarding specific questions, please contact Sandy Cinque sandy@floridamasonry.com

Devon Brookshire provided an update from the state MAF Board-Dues for 2011 will be combined local and state.

Introduction of market survey that will be presented to the board will be posted on the membership blog. Once approved, the survey will go out to current MAF contractor members and 5 selected non-member contractors from each region

New Business

Pat McLaughlin reviewed updates to Convention 2010 reviewing http://www.mafconvention.com/ website and sponsors to date.Deb Bartolucci updated the committee on the status of the Masonry Awards. The deadline has been extended to July 15th to give contractors as extra few weeks to submit projects. A promotional e-mail was distributed listing participants to date:Berard Creative Concepts, Painter Masonry,Oceanside Masonry,Bradley Masonry,Central Broward Construction,Pyramid Masonry and David Nelson Masonry.

Robert Carlton reminded Membership representatives to encourage submissions for Lifetime Achievement. Deb Bartolucci will be marketing this award via Constant Contact in July

Joyce Rivas reviewed the CLT/Promasonry update overview and encouraged all membership participants to get to know their local leadtracking team leaders utilizing the information to encourage new contractor members to get involved in promotion of their trade and to be sure that all chapter members are aware of the progress in their local markets.

Deb Bartolucci reviews new Website highlights which include the Membership Drive information, Facebook promotion and the ability to obtain a member password for access to the Members ONLY section of http://www.floridamasonry.com/

Chapter updates

Northwest-Chip Otwell. Pensacola will be hosting a Clay Shoot to raise fund to support their apprenticeship training program. They are having a meeting in August to finalize the details. This year they will be sending a representative to the state convention to compete. They are receiving good support from their local school affiliation. Their chapter is having productive meetings and their is good interest in the association bearing in mind the current economic challenges.

Northcentral- Chip Sykes- NO REPORT

Northeast-Robert Carlton. Pat McLaughlin did a great job at their recent meeting presenting the local economic market data. They had a very successful Fastest Trowel with over 50 people attending and will be sending 3 teams to the state convention. Their leadtracking team led by Paul Rivers is doing a great job and there is a L&L scheduled for July with a very influentual architect. The continue to work on growing their membership.Central-Frank Cox NO REPORT

West Central-Kelly Kendall. Pat McLaughlin presented the local economic market data at their last meeting. They have established a good relationship with their local school and instructor in preparation for start-up of a training program. Brian Fulcher is organizing the lead tracking activities in the area and the suppliers are very supportive of the start-up of the chapter and the challenges of getting more contractor members.

Tampa-Devon Brookshire. The core group of associate and contractor members are still involved in TampaBay and they are working to encourage new contractor members to get involved in both promotion and apprenticeship training. They had a good meeting in May where Pat McLaughlin did his economic presentation and the local chapter presented their architectural scholarships for the year to deserving students. Tampa continues to raise money to support apprenticship through their local golf tournament and other fund raising activities

Southwest-Danielle Larson NO REPORT

Southeast-Sofia Silva. The SE meeting for July was cancelled for a summer break. They are planning to resume in August. They have a new local chapter member, Ron Kendall Masonry that is a state contractor member. Their meetings continue to be held in Pompano and they have had very effective local chapter meeting speakers over the past few months.

Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer. The Treasure Coast chapter has taken the summer off and will resume in August with their next meeting on August 19. Their scheduled speaker is a Building official from Martin County. Apprenticeship training formally ended in May at Indian River College. Students volunteered to layout a BBQ project for the summer which they donated to the college. Dave Pfeffer will forward press to the MAF to include in publications. This project will give good exposure to Masonry and generate interest in Masonry training.

Pat McLaughlin reviewed the status of the Marketing/Economic presentations that have been given at the local chapter level. There will be a statewide economic presentation at the state convention in September. Local chapter presentations will be available again in October. Please contact pat@floridamasonry.com about 30-45 days prior to allow for preparation for your local chapter presentation. Dave Pfeffer scheduled the Treasure Coast chapter presentation for October 21st.2010-

2nd quarter presentationsOrlando/May 19-CompleteTampa/May13-CompleteWestCentral/June 15-CompleteNortheast/June 16-Complete2009 presentationsPensacola-September 2nd/CompleteSoutheast-September 9th/CompleteOrlando-September 16th/CompleteSouthwest-September 17th/CompleteNortheast-October 21st/CompleteNorthCentral-November 18th/CompleteTampaBay-December 3rd/CompleteNorthcentral-December 15/CompleteTreasure Coast/January 21/Complete

Devon Brookshire reviewed Contractor MembersGoals for 2010.

Current Contractor members goal of 100

Current/Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market

Tampa 7/ 14/ 21/ 78 Northwest 6/ 5/ 12/ 31 Central 7 /16/ 21/ 106 North Central 4/ 2/ 7/ 13 Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43 Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63 Treasure Coast 3/ 4/ 5/ 27 Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55 Ocala 1/4/5/36

Total 39/ 68/ 105/ 452

2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast.Pending: # of Contractors in chapters not formedContractors Miami/ 23 ContractorsTallahassee/18 ContractorsS. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors

Next meeting set for October 5, 2010 changed to September 28th @ 9:30 AM

Membership Teleconference rescheduled to September 28th

2010-07-27T12:13:00.003-04:00

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July 6 Membership committee meeting minutes

2010-07-08T13:45:00.008-04:00

The Membership Teleconference on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 was called to order at 9:45 AM by Committee Chairman Devon Brookshire devonbrookshire@msn.com

Self-introductions of Attendees: Chip Otwell/Northwest, Robert Carlton/Northeast, Kelly Kendall/West Central, Devon Brookshire/TampaBay, Sofia Silva/Southeast, Dave Pfeffer/Treasure Coast. Chapters not represented on teleconference: NorthCentral, Central, Southwest.

Devon Brookshire welcomed attendees and called meeting to order under theAnti-Trust Guidelines-Devon Brookshire/Motion to approve Robert Carlton/Dave Pfeffer (second)

Old Business

Approval of minutes from previous meeting/Motion to approve Robert Carlton/Kelly Kendall (second).

Joyce Rivas reviewed documents section of the Membership blog which includes a printable statewide calendar of events and encouraged Membership representatives to print copies and distribute to local chapter members, Any changes, modifications or updates of local information can be made by e-mailing Deb@floridamasonry.com. The Membership blog page contains links to a comprehensive Member list which is updated monthly as new members join. Membership representatives are encouraged to send Joyce Rivas any local speaker information from local speakers so that the information can be posted for other chapters to reference for effective monthly meeting presentations on the Speakers bureau blog and the Enforcement blog contains updates and information related to activities of that committee.

Pat McLaughlin provided updates related to new chapter activities in Lakeland, Miami and Tallahassee. Lakeland chapter start-up is being spearheaded by participants in the local apprenticeship training program, MarcoBay. Miami chapter continues to search for a start-up champion. Dave Pfeffer will discuss opportunities with the SE chapter members. Tallahassee has an apprentice training program as well as beginning stages of Promasonry/Lead tracking relationships that should eventually develop into opportunities for a new chapter.

Pat McLaughlin review A/R 2010 to date with committee. Copies of AR will be distributed with the minutes to the local committee representatives for follow-up with the local chapter.
For copies or questions regarding specific questions, please contact Sandy Cinque sandy@floridamasonry.com

Devon Brookshire provided an update from the state MAF Board-Dues for 2011 will be combined local and state. Introduction of market survey that will be presented to the board will be posted on the membership blog. Once approved, the survey will go out to current MAF contractor members and 5 selected non-member contractors from each region.

New Business
Pat McLaughlin reviewed updates to Convention 2010 reviewing http://www.mafconvention.com/ website and sponsors to date.

Deb Bartolucci updated the committee on the status of the Masonry Awards. The deadline has been extended to July 15th to give contractors as extra few weeks to submit projects. A promotional e-mail was distributed listing participants to date:
Berard Creative Concepts, Painter Masonry,Oceanside Masonry,Bradley Masonry,Central Broward Construction,Pyramid Masonry and David Nelson Masonry. Robert Carlton reminded Membership representatives to encourage submissions for Lifetime Achievement. Deb Bartolucci will be marketing this award via Constant Contact in July.

Joyce Rivas reviewed the CLT/Promasonry update overview and encouraged all membership participants to get to know their local leadtracking team leaders utilizing the information to encourage new contractor members to get involved in promotion of their trade and to be sure that all chapter members are aware of the progress in their local markets.

Deb Bartolucci reviews new Website highlights which include the Membership Drive information, Facebook promotion and the ability to obtain a member password for access to the Members ONLY section of http://www.floridamasonry.com/

Chapter updates
Northwest-Chip Otwell. Pensacola will be hosting a Clay Shoot to raise fund to support their apprenticeship training program. They are having a meeting in August to finalize the details. This year they will be sending a representative to the state convention to compete. They are receiving good support from their local school affiliation. Their chapter is having productive meetings and their is good interest in the association bearing in mind the current economic challenges.
Northcentral- Chip Sykes- NO REPORT
Northeast-Robert Carlton. Pat McLaughlin did a great job at their recent meeting presenting the local economic market data. They had a very successful Fastest Trowel with over 50 people attending and will be sending 3 teams to the state convention. Their leadtracking team led by Paul Rivers is doing a great job and there is a L&L scheduled for July with a very influentual architect. The continue to work on growing their membership.
Central-Frank Cox NO REPORT
West Central-Kelly Kendall. Pat McLaughlin presented the local economic market data at their last meeting. They have established a good relationship with their local school and instructor in preparation for start-up of a training program. Brian Fulcher is organizing the lead tracking activities in the area and the suppliers are very supportive of the start-up of the chapter and the challenges of getting more contractor members.
Tampa-Devon Brookshire. The core group of associate and contractor members are still involved in TampaBay and they are working to encourage new contractor members to get involved in both promotion and apprenticeship training. They had a good meeting in May where Pat McLaughlin did his economic presentation and the local chapter presented their architectural scholarships for the year to deserving students. Tampa continues to raise money to support apprenticship through their local golf tournament and other fund raising activities.
Southwest-Danielle Larson NO REPORT
Southeast-Sofia Silva. The SE meeting for July was cancelled for a summer break. They are planning to resume in August. They have a new local chapter member, Ron Kendall Masonry that is a state contractor member. Their meetings continue to be held in Pompano and they have had very effective local chapter meeting speakers over the past few months.
Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer. The Treasure Coast chapter has taken the summer off and will resume in August with their next meeting on August 19. Their scheduled speaker is a Building official from Martin County. Apprenticeship training formally ended in May at Indian River College. Students volunteered to layout a BBQ project for the summer which they donated to the college. Dave Pfeffer will forward press to the MAF to include in publications. This project will give good exposure to Masonry and generate interest in Masonry training.

Pat McLaughlin reviewed the status of the Marketing/Economic presentations that have been given at the local chapter level. There will be a statewide economic presentation at the state convention in September. Local chapter presentations will be available again in October. Please contact pat@floridamasonry.com about 30-45 days prior to allow for preparation for your local chapter presentation. Dave Pfeffer scheduled the Treasure Coast chapter presentation for October 21st.

2010- 2nd quarter presentations
Orlando/May 19-Complete
Tampa/May13-Complete
WestCentral/June 15-Complete
Northeast/June 16-Complete
2009 presentations
Pensacola-September 2nd/CompleteSoutheast-September 9th/CompleteOrlando-September 16th/CompleteSouthwest-September 17th/CompleteNortheast-October 21st/CompleteNorthCentral-November 18th/CompleteTampaBay-December 3rd/CompleteNorthcentral-December 15/CompleteTreasure Coast/January 21/Complete

Devon Brookshire reviewed Contractor MembersGoals for 2010. Current Contractor members goal of 100
Current/Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 7/ 14/ 21/ 78
Northwest 6/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 7 /16/ 21/ 106
North Central 4/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 3/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55
Ocala 1/4/5/36
Total 39/ 68/ 105/ 452

2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast
Pending: # of Contractors in chapters not formedContractors Miami/ 23 ContractorsTallahassee/18 ContractorsS. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors

Next meeting set for October 5, 2010 changed to September 28th @ 9:30 AM

July 6- Membership Teleconference Agenda

2010-06-21T15:44:00.011-04:00

Agenda

Membership Teleconference
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
9:30 AM
RSVP Committee Chairman: devonbrookshire@msn.com.
http://www.gotomeeting.com/
Dial 312-878-0202
Access Code: 782-780-362

To save time, please do a self-introduction of your name and area you are representing as you log into the call. THANK YOU.

Welcome & Opening Remarks-45 minutes meeting goal-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)
Confirm Area Participants-Joyce Rivas (1 minute)
Anti-Trust Guidelines-Devon Brookshire (1 minute)

Old Business ( 10 minutes)
Approve minutes from previous meeting/below(1 minute )
Review Calendar, Membership blog document section and resources-Joyce Rivas (2 minutes)
New area expansion update/Lakeland, Miami, Tallahassee - Pat McLaughlin (2 minutes)
Review A/R 2010 -Pat McLaughlin/copies available via Sandy Cinque (3 minutes)
Update MAF Board-Dues 2011/Sample market survey Devon Brookshire(2 minutes)

New Business (10 minutes)
Convention 2010 update/sponsors-Pat McLaughlin (2 minutes)
Masonry Awards-Joe Lesstino/Jeff Turley/Deb Bartolucci (2 minutes)
CLT/Promasonry update/take information to your local chapters-Rocky Jenkins (2 minutes)
New Website highlights- Deb Bartolucci (2 minutes)

Chapter updates (10 minutes)
Northwest-Chip Otwell
Northcentral- Chip Sykes
Northeast-Robert Carlton
Central-Frank Cox
West Central-Kelly Kendall
Tampa-Allison Willmeng
Southwest-Danielle Larson
Southeast-Sofia Silva
Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer

Marketing/Economic presentation update-Pat McLaughlin-(2 minutes)
Schedule 2nd/3rd quarter 2010 local chapter presentations May, June, July, August, September. Demand measurement for this presentation included in Membership survey.

Orlando/May 19-Complete

Tampa/May13-Complete

WestCentral/June 15-Complete

Northeast/June 16-Complete

Southwest/August 19

Pensacola-none scheduled
Southeast-none scheduled
Northcentral-none scheduled
TreasureCoast-none scheduled

Completed 2009
Pensacola-September 2nd/Complete
Southeast-September 9th/Complete
Orlando-September 16th/Complete
Southwest-September 17th/Complete
Northeast-October 21st/Complete
NorthCentral-November 18th/Complete
TampaBay-December 3rd/Complete
Northcentral-December 15/Complete
Treasure Coast/January 21/Complete

Contractor Members/Goals for 2010-Devon Brookshire (5 minutes)
Contractor members goal of 100 = 62 NEW contractors members

Current/Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 7/ 14/ 21/ 78
Northwest 6/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 7 /16/ 21/ 106
North Central 4/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 3/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55
Ocala 1/4/5/36
Total 39/ 68/ 105/ 452

2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast

Pending: # of Contractors in chapters not formed
Contractors Miami/ 23 Contractors
Tallahassee/18 Contractors
S. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors

Set date for next meeting October 5, 2010

Adjourn

April 6 Minutes Membership Teleconference

9:30 AM Devon Brookshire welcomed attendees with opening remarks.

Joyce Rivas Confirmed Area Participants

Devon Brookshire reviewed Anti-Trust guidelines. Motion to Waive reading-Dave Luebs-Second-Rocky Jenkins.

Minutes from previous meeting posted on blog reviewed. Motion to approve-Dave Luebs-Second Rocky Jenkins

Enforcement and Speakers bureau new blogs were displayed.

Links are posted under the blog section of http://www.floridamasonry.com/ or directly via http://www.mafenforcement.blogspot.com/ or http://www.mafspeakers.blogspot.com/ and on the Membership blog.

Pat McLaughlin overviewed the activities of the newly formed enforcement committee and the process for submitting illegal activities through the links on the blogs. The speakers blog is available for reference by the local chapters as a resource for quality speakers. Please give information from your area speakers to joyce@floridamasonry.com so that they can be listed and utilized by all.

Pat McLaughlin overviewed the Lakeland, Miami and Tallahassee new chapter activities. He will be meeting again with the Miami chapter and had an initial meeting in Lakeland. Marco Bay is interested in spearheading that chapter and there has been interest in forming an apprenticeship program in the area. Tallahassee and Miami are both in the process of having Promasonry activities which could be used as a starting committee to form a local MAF chapter.

Outstanding A/R 2010 list for 2010 was prepared by Sandy Cinque and reviewed as line items with assignments to local contacts for feedback YES or NO as members for 2010. Joyce Rivas will distribute the list to be returned by Monday, April 12th prior to the MAF state board meeting.

Devon Brookshire reported the local and state dues will be combined for the 2011 year. The new pledge sheet will be approved at the upcoming board meeting.

Pat McLaughlin introduced the newest Member benefits via Construction Journal who will offer a 10% discount to existing MAF members who subscribe to the service. Construction Journal will support the state association via membership for any new customers that choose to subscribe to their service. Construction Journal has a list of MAF members on file.

Membership committee members are encouraged to take this information back to their local chapters.

Proposed Membership Drive incentive plan was reviewed and will be proposed to the state board for approval on April 15.

Sample flyers were displayed and are posted on the Membership blog.Dave Luebs and Deb Bartolucci overviewed the convention website, discussed the competition and plans for Marketing and promoting the convention via e-mails beginning April 19th.

Deb Bartolucci reported that there have been no Masonry Awards submitted yet for the state convention. Deadline is the first week in July. Deadline for AIA awards is April 20th. 5 AIA submissions have been received to date.

Promotional materials will be given out at the Promasonry meeting on April 7th and local presentations have been given to AIA chapters around the state encouraging submissions for the newly established relationship between AIA and the Masonry Association of Florida.

Rocky Jenkins provided a Lead Tracking/Promasonry update. Please have your local promasonry team member provide you with up to date statistics about your local area and statewide progress. The next Promasonry meeting is Wednesday, April 7th from 9:30-2:30 at the FC&PA building 6353 Lee Vista Blvd. in Orlando.

Deb Bartolucci reviewed new additions to http://www.floridamasonry.com/ including the printable calendar, convention, awards and promasonry CEU's being given by Don Beers as part of the Leadtracking initiative.

Confirm Area chapter Bloggers are as follows:Northwest-no commitment, Northcentral-no commitment, Northeast-Brian BussellCentral-Terri Brown,West Central-to be determined (Kelly Kendall) ,Tampa-to be determined (Dave Luebs), Southwest-no commitment, Southeast-Sofia Silva, Treasure Coast-Joel CherninMarketing presentation update-Pat McLaughlin

Schedule 2nd quarter 2010 local chapter presentations May, June & July. Requested: Orlando/May 19, Tampa/May13

Membership Local Area updates/Goals for 2010-Rocky Jenkins.

Share ideas with the other areas about what you are doing to build membership in your local areas.-Devon Brookshire

Local chapter representatives Contractor Target databases have been sent to the local chapters-Devon Brookshire reviewed goals for-42 contractor members with goal of 100 = 58 NEW contractors members2010.

Contractor Member Goals by Area are posted on Membership blog

Date for next meeting was set for July 6, 2010

Meeting was Adjourned at 11:30 AM

Will someone ride the bus with you when the Limo breaks down?

2010-04-21T11:26:00.002-04:00

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks." - Oprah Winfrey

The past few years have brought changes to the masonry industry, some very good ones. However the economy has and continues to provide the most dramatic and devastating challenge many have ever felt.

The best thing about tough times is that you learn alot about your relationships both professional and personal. When things are good, everyone wants to go along for the ride. When things are bad, you find out who is on 1st and who isn't even playing the same game you are.

Over the past months, I find myself being prouder than ever of my affiliation with Masonry. I've watched as associate competitors work side by side to promote the industry and contractors help fellow masons hiring employees with the knowledge that the workforce will change again when the next job is obtained.

New members have willingly written checks, some paying dues in full believing in our mission.

Members from 2009 continue to renew membership dues, some making payments in monthly or quarterly installments; yet, still making the decision to renew membership because they believed in the strength of the association and the association's efforts to promote the masonry trade as a necessity not a luxury.

A promotional association, MAF encourages business amongst its members. Take a moment and view the list of members below. These companies are along for the MAF ride, so be sure to support them. Joyce Rivas

A-1 Block
1617 S Division Ave
Orlando FL 32805
Adam Freeman
407-422-3768 x 17
adam@a1block.com
Adrian Engineering, Inc.
509 South M Street
Lake Worth, FL 33460
Don Beers
561-310-9902
don@floridamasonry.com
Advanced Masonry Systems
5403 Ashton Court
Sarasota, Fl. 34233
Richard Karp
941-926-3155
dennis@advmasonry.com
Allan Spear Construction
2225 NW 66th Court
Gainesville, Fl. 32653
Allan Spear
352-538-6200
allan@allanspearco.com
American Cement Company, LLC
P.O. Box 445, 4750 EC 470
Sumterville, Fl. 33585
Skip Keith
352-569-5393
skeith@americancementcompany.com
Amerimix - Bonsal
2941 5th Ave N
St Petersburg FL 33713
Jorge Chiappo
800-851-3231
bill.hughes@oldcoastalapg.com
B&M Masonry, Inc.
104 Gann Road
Marietta, GA 30008
Travis Turner
770-560-7556
travis@bmmasonryinc.com
BBA MCI
1616 Old Potters Lane
Clarksville IN 47129
Victor S Beeler II
812-282-0042
vbeeler@bbamci.com
Bedrock Industries
10500 Rocket Court
Orlando, Fl. 32824
Roger Paul
407-859-1300 x 323
rpaul@bedrockreadymix.com
Bell Concrete Products Inc
PO Box 7
Bell, FL 32619-0007
Jack Smith
352-463-6103
bellconcretep14@bellsouth.net
Berard Creative Concepts
5391 Stage Coach Tr
Gulf Breeze FL 32563
Cheryl L Berard
850-393-5137
cy1mason@aol.com
Block USA
2570 Ruffner Road
Birmingham AL 35210
Bill Holden
205-314-6400
billh@blockusagroup..com
Bradley Masonry Inc.
P.O. Box 6165
Pensacola, Fl. 32504
Jimmy Bradley
850-432-3958
jbradmason@aol.com
Brick Industry Assoc SE Region
1810 Overlake Dr. Suite A
Conyers GA 30013
Bryan Light
770-760-0728
blight@bia.org
BrickAmerica, Inc.
1800 NW 22nd Street
Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33311
Larry Beach
866-866-2529
sales@BrickAmerica.com
Capital Concrete and Masonry Solutions
134 Poole Blvd.
St. Augustine, Fl. 32095
Robert Carlton
904-824-6686
Robert@ccmsjax.com
Carolina Stalite Company
P.O. Box 1037
Salisbury, NC 28145
Kenneth Harmon, PE
800-898-3772
kharmon@stalite.com
Cast-Crete
PO Box 212757
Royal Palm Beach, FL 33421
Mike Ryan
561-307-0708
mryan@castcrete.com
Cemex Constr Mat'ls of Florida
1501 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach FL 33406
Karl Watson
561-833-5555
khwatson@cemexusa.com
Cemex Constr Mat'ls of Florida (Cement)
1501 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach FL 33406
Karl Watson
561-833-5555
khwatson@cemexusa.com
Central Broward Construction
931 NW 53 CT
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33309
Justin Lord
954-791-2772
justin@cbcfl.com
Central Concrete Supermix/Superblock
4300 SW 74th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33155
Agustin Miijares
305-805-3226
gus@supermix.com
Coastal Masonry,Inc.
1909 NW 16th Street
Pompano Beach FL 33069
Randy Jensen
954-984-0600
randy@coastalmasonry.com
Cocoa Inc
1205 W Columbia St
Orlando, FL 32805
John Kennedy
407-425-9095
cocoa10@bellsouth.net
Commercial Concrete Systems, Inc.
6220 Taylor Rd #101
Naples, Fl. 34109
Peter Shoup
239-592-1101
ccsipete@yahoo.com
D Lenn Masonry
2831 Pierce Road
Cantonment FL 32533
Drew Lenn
850-433-7396
dlmasonry@aol.com
David Nelson Masonry, Inc.
5281 Palmetto Woods Drive
Naples, FL 34119
David Nelson
239-455-8664
davidnelsonmasonry@yahoo.com
Doyle Masonry, Inc.
919 N. US Highway 1
Fort Pierce, Fl. 34950
Mike & Dean Doyle
772-216-5160
mike@doylemasonry.com
Environmental Stoneworks, LLC
5429 N. 56th St.
Tampa, Fl. 33610
Troy Underwood
813-621-7755
tunderwood@estoneworks.com
Euclid Chemical Company
19218 Redwood Road
Cleveland, Oh. 44092
Carol Rode
216-692-8328
crode@euclidchemical.com
Falcon Contractors, Inc.
PO Box 990043
Naples FL 34116-6060
Daniel Lagemann
239-455-3421
falconcmu@yahoo.com
Florida Block and Ready Mix
5208 36th Ave South
Tampa, FL 33619
Dave Drake
727-422-6137
ddrake@floridablock.com
Florida Silica Sand Company
4491 So SR #7
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33314-4048
Aaron Herwig
954-923-8280
aherwid@fsscompany.com
GBL Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 112319
Naples, Fl. 34108
Danielle Larson
239-348-9120
daniellelarson@gblgroup.com
General Masonry
10 Industrial St
Fort Walton Beach, FL. 32548
Jeff Murie
850-244-2901
jeff@generalmasonry.gccoxmail.com
George Lenze Construction
1917 Passero Ave.
Lutz, Fl. 33559
Joe DeVita
813-948-3205
J-Devita@verizon.net
Gilbert & Byrd Masonry Contractors, Inc.
6346 118th Avenue
Largo, Florida 33773
Marc Gilbert
727-541-2662
GBMasonry@yahoo.com
Gordy's Equipment
2680 NW 15 CT
Pompano Beach FL 33069
Gary Kalb
954.978.6000
doug@gordysequipment.com
Henley Concrete & Masonry
396 S Main Street
Crestview FL 32536
Virgil Henley
850-689-1983
virgilhenley@embarqmail.com
Holcim US
P.O. Box 649
Theodore, AL 36590
David Collins (GM-Fl)
251-443-1800
david.richman@holcim.com
Holcim, Inc.
PO Box 649
Theodore, Al. 36590
David Collins
678-977-0570
Hommes Masonry, Inc
334 E. Bay Street
Winter Garden, Fl. 34787
Jaimes Homar
407-654-2648
estimating@hommesmasonry.com
J.A.M. Construction
521 SE 11th Avenue
Gainesville, Fl. 32601
Jim Allen
352-258-0201
jim@jam-construction.com
Just Concrete & Masonry, Inc.
P.O. Box 196205
Winter Springs, Fl. 32719-6205
Pete Cruz
407-327-5595
pcruz@justconcreteandmasonry.com
Kevin J. Brandel Masonry Const. Inc.
1791 Blount Rd. #502
Pompano Beach, Fl. 33069
Kevin Brandel
954-970-0818
brandelmasonry@gmail.com
Ledbetter Masonry and Construction, Inc.
P.O. Box 12401
Lake Park, Fl. 33403
Steve Ledbetter
561-848-0575
lmcijill@hotmail.com
Lott's Precast
P.O. Box 771255
Winter Garden, Fl. 34777-1255
Paul Lott
407-656-2112
lottsconcrete01@embarqmail.com
M.I.T.
304 Kachuba Ct
Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
JIm Gulde
407-834-1976
jim@masonryinfo.com
Maschmeyer Concrete Company
1142 Watertower Road
Lake Park, Fl. 33403
Troy Maschmeyer
561-844-9994
troy@maschmeyer.com
Masonpro
1717 Acme Street
Orlando FL 32805
Jay Snyder
407-839-4321
masonpro@fdn.com
Masonry Arts, Inc.
8285 N. Palafox St.
Pensacola, Fl. 32534
Jeff Younger
850-479-1400
jyounger@masonryarts.com
Master Construction Products, Inc.
501 Thorpe Road
Orlando, Fl. 32859
Kevin Decker
407-857-1221
kevind@masterconstructionproductscom
Medallion Financial Resources
211 Nokomis Avenue South
Venice, Fl. 34285
James Ball
941-486-0305
medallionfr@verizon.net
Mike Flynn Masonry
22510 NW 188th St.
High Springs, Fl. 32643
Mike Flynn
352-538-9479
mikeflynnmasonry@hotmail.com
Mortar Net USA
4771 Sweetshade Drive
Sarasota, Fl. 34241
Jerry Combs
941-915-8213
jcombs@mortarnet.com
Oceanside Masonry
15821 Mercantile Court #1
Jupiter FL 33478
Shawn McGee
561-691-8993
s.mcgee_osmi@bellsouth.net
Oldcastle Coastal
9009 Corporate Lake Dr Ste 165
Tampa FL 33634
Steve Berry
813-367-9780
steve.berry@oldcastleapg.com
Oldcastle Coastal - Distribution
9009 Corporate Lake Dr. #165
Tampa, FL 33634
Jason Barr
813-767-8699
Jason.barr@oldcastleapg.com
Overberg Masonry Inc
2501-C Orient Road, Suite C
Tampa, FL. 33619
James White
813-621-5635
mooney1@tampabay.rr.com
Painter Masonry
2425 NE 19 Drive
Gainesville FL 32609
Jerry Painter
352-378-7511
jerry@paintermasonry.com
Power Concrete Products, Inc.
2207 Silver Star Road
Orlando, Fl. 32804
Jeff Illick
407-59-9591
powerconcretepro@bellsouth.net
Powers Steel & Wire
4118 E. Elwood St.
Phoenix, AZ 85040
Bill Powers
602-437-1160
Bill@powerssteel.com
Preferred Materials, Inc.
13101 Telecom Dr. Suite 101
Tampa, Fl. 33637
Rob Duke, President
813-712-9948
rduke@preferredmaterials.com
Prestige Concrete Products
8529 South Park Circle #320
Orlando, Fl. 32819
Jorge Wagner
407-802-3540
jawagner@vcsmc.com
Pyramid Masonry
405 Zell Drive
Orlando FL 32824
Keith Sommer
407-948-4310
ksommers@pyramidmasonry.net
Quality Precast Co.
P.O. Box 11
Brandon, Fl. 33509
Preston Sparkman
813-685-5615
prestons@qualityprecast.com
Quikrete Companies
1501 Doyle Carlton Dr. #209
Tampa, Fl. 33602
Bryan Pinder
305-684-0967
bpinder@quikrete.com
Quikrete/Spec Mix (Sussex)
W225 N 6236 Village Drive
Sussex WI 53029
Jeff Leonard
800-657-0789
thopkins@quikrete.com
Ready Building Products
7000 Progress Drive
Punta Gorda, Fl. 33962-2433
John Watchel
239-961-4814
readybuildingjohn@yahoo.com
Red Brookshire of Florida
11700 58th ST N Ste D
Tampa FL 33617
Devon Brookshire
813-980-1123
devonbrookshire@msn.com
Ron Kendall Masonry, Inc.
4611 Park Breeze Court
Orlando, FL 32808
Simon Morris
cmorris@ronkendallmasonry.com
Southern Foam Insulation Inc
2593 Clark St #108
Apopka FL 32703
Mike Brown
407-293-8773
mike@southernfoaminsulation.com
Southern State Masonry
4599 - 10th Avenue N
Lake Worth, FL 33463
Ed Howley
561-968-7789
ehowley@aol.com
Steven Counts, Inc.
6760 NW 27th Ave. Rd.
Ocala, Fl. 34475
Joey Staley
352-369-8884
jstaley@scipaveit.com
Supranos Systems
9809 SW Malibu Terrace
Palm City, Fl. 34990
John Ambrose
561-239-2672
johnambrose@supranosusa.com
Sutton Brick & Stone
P.O. Box 292460
Davie, Fl. 33329
Paul Sutton
954-472-7646
sales@suttonbrick.com
Tailored Foam of Florida
3900 St. Johns Parkway
Sanford, Florida 32771
Scott Sanders
407-468-9544
ssander@tailoredfoam.com
Target Masonry Inc.
1901 NW 22nd Street
Pompano Beach, FL 33069
Susan Havens
954-941-4001
targetmasonryinc.@bellsouth.net
Tarmac - A Titan America Business
455 Fairway Drive Suite 200
Deerfield Beach FL 33441
John Malcolm
954-425-4260
jmalcolm@titanamerica.com
Tejas Textured Stone
2155 W. Landstreet Road
Orlando, Fl. 32809
Nick Albanese
407-240-6444
dominic.albanese@tejasstone.com
TNT Equipment
1075 E. Story Rd
Winter Garden, Fl. 34787
John Medez
239-349-1061
jmendez@tntequip.com
Tucci Masonry, Inc.
2718 Pemberton Dr.
Apopka, Fl. 32703
Alexander Tucci
407-298-6200
tuccimasonry@gmail.com
Turley Construction and Restoration
2278 Heydon Circle W
Naples FL 34120
Brett Turley
239-961-1108
brckman1970@yahoo.com
United Masonry, Inc.
13096 SE US Hwy 301
Belleview, Fl. 34420
Brian Kendall
352-245-2041
unitedmasonry@gmail.com
Vulcan / Florida Rock
5920 W Linebaugh Ave
Tampa FL 33624-5096
Rick Edwards
813-962-3213
edwardsr@vmcmail.com
Vulcan / Florida Rock (Cement)
5920 W Linebaugh Ave
Tampa FL 33624-5096
Rick Edwards
813.962.3213
Edwardsr@vmcmail.com
W.R. Taylor & Co.
17 Manresa St.
Pensacola, Fl. 32502
Chip Otwell
850-432-6163
chip@southalabamabrick.com
WR Grace
1200 NW 15th Avenue
Pompano Beach, FL 33069-1945
Dudley Bobolts
561-866-9651
dudley.l.bobolts@grace.com

April 6 Minutes Membership Teleconference

2010-04-06T07:37:00.007-04:00

In attendance:

Devon Brookshire-Chairman,Pat McLaughlin-MAF Executive Director,Joyce Rivas-MAF Membership,Deb Bartolucci-MAF Marketing,Sandy Cinque-MAF Administration,Sofia Silva-Southeast,Kelly Kendall-West Central, Southwest-No representative,Northwest-No representative,NorthCentral-No representative,NorthEast- Johnny Woodell,Orlando-No representative,TampaBay-Dave Luebs

9:30 AM Devon Brookshire welcomed attendees with opening remarks.

Joyce Rivas Confirmed Area Participants

Devon Brookshire reviewed Anti-Trust guidelines. Motion to Waive reading-Dave Luebs-Second-Rocky Jenkins.

Minutes from previous meeting posted on blog reviewed. Motion to approve-Dave Luebs-Second Rocky Jenkins

Enforcement and Speakers bureau new blogs were displayed. Links are posted under the blog section of http://www.floridamasonry.com/ or directly via http://www.mafenforcement.blogspot.com/ or http://www.mafspeakers.blogspot.com/ and on the Membership blog. Pat McLaughlin overviewed the activities of the newly formed enforcement committee and the process for submitting illegal activities through the links on the blogs. The speakers blog is available for reference by the local chapters as a resource for quality speakers. Please give information from your area speakers to joyce@floridamasonry.com so that they can be listed and utilized by all.

Pat McLaughlin overviewed the Lakeland, Miami and Tallahassee new chapter activities. He will be meeting again with the Miami chapter and had an initial meeting in Lakeland. Marco Bay is interested in spearheading that chapter and there has been interest in forming an apprenticeship program in the area. Tallahassee and Miami are both in the process of having Promasonry activities which could be used as a starting committee to form a local MAF chapter.

Outstanding A/R 2010 list for 2010 was prepared by Sandy Cinque and reviewed as line items with assignments to local contacts for feedback YES or NO as members for 2010. Joyce Rivas will distribute the list to be returned by Monday, April 12th prior to the MAF state board meeting.

Devon Brookshire reported the local and state dues will be combined for the 2011 year. The new pledge sheet will be approved at the upcoming board meeting.

Pat McLaughlin introduced the newest Member benefits via Construction Journal who will offer a 10% discount to existing MAF members who subscribe to the service. Construction Journal will support the state association via membership for any new customers that choose to subscribe to their service. Construction Journal has a list of MAF members on file. Membership committee members are encouraged to take this information back to their local chapters.

Proposed Membership Drive incentive plan was reviewed and will be proposed to the state board for approval on April 15. Sample flyers were displayed and are posted on the Membership blog.

Dave Luebs and Deb Bartolucci overviewed the convention website, discussed the competition and plans for Marketing and promoting the convention via e-mails beginning April 19th.

Deb Bartolucci reported that there have been no Masonry Awards submitted yet for the state convention. Deadline is the first week in July. Deadline for AIA awards is April 20th. 5 AIA submissions have been received to date. Promotional materials will be given out at the Promasonry meeting on April 7th and local presentations have been given to AIA chapters around the state encouraging submissions for the newly established relationship between AIA and the Masonry Association of Florida.

Rocky Jenkins provided a Lead Tracking/Promasonry update. Please have your local promasonry team member provide you with up to date statistics about your local area and statewide progress. The next Promasonry meeting is Wednesday, April 7th from 9:30-2:30 at the FC&PA building 6353 Lee Vista Blvd. in Orlando

Deb Bartolucci reviewed new additions to http://www.floridamasonry.com/ including the printable calendar, convention, awards and promasonry CEU's being given by Don Beers as part of the Leadtracking initiative.

Confirm Area chapter Bloggers are as follows:
Northwest-no commitment, Northcentral-no commitment, Northeast-Brian Bussell
Central-Terri Brown,West Central-to be determined (Kelly Kendall) ,Tampa-to be determined (Dave Luebs), Southwest-no commitment, Southeast-Sofia Silva, Treasure Coast-Joel Chernin

Marketing presentation update-Pat McLaughlin
Schedule 2nd quarter 2010 local chapter presentations May, June & July
Requested: Orlando/May 19, Tampa/May13
Membership Local Area updates/Goals for 2010-Rocky Jenkins
Share ideas with the other areas about what you are doing to build membership in your local areas.-Devon Brookshire
Local chapter representatives Contractor Target databases have been sent to the local chapters-
Devon Brookshire reviewed goals for-42 contractor members with goal of 100 = 58 NEW contractors members
2010 Contractor Member Goals
Area/Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78
Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 7 /16/ 21/ 106
North Central 4/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 3/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55
West Central 1/4/5/36
Total 42/ 65/ 105/ 452
2010/5 new members 2-Orlando, 2-Tampa, 1-Treasure Coast

Pending: New chapters
Contractors Miami/ 23 Contractors
Tallahassee/18 Contractors
S. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors

Date for next meeting was set for July 6, 2010

Meeting was Adjourned at 11:30 AM

Membership Teleconference April 6, 2010

2010-03-23T15:50:00.013-04:00

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Welcome & Opening Remarks-Devon Brookshire
Confirm Area Participants-Joyce Rivas
Reading of the Anti-Trust Statement-Devon Brookshire
Old Business Approve minutes from previous meeting http://www.floridamasonry.com/
Blog overview/Enforcement and Speakers bureau new blogs - Devon Brookshire
Calendar and area Contacts committees document-Joyce Rivas
New area expansion update/Lakeland, Miami, Tallahassee - Pat McLaughlin
Review outstanding A/R 2010 - Sandy Cinque
Whose in and whose out? -Pat McLaughlin and Joyce Rivas
Update from MAF Board meeting- Combined dues 2011–Devon Brookshire

New Business

Member benefits-Construction Journal-Pat McLaughlin
Proposed Membership Drive-Rocky Jenkins
Convention 2010 update-Jay Snyder/Dave Luebs
Masonry Awards-Joe Lesstino/Jeff Turley
Lead Tracking/Promasonry update-Rocky Jenkins
New Website highlights- Deb Bartolucci
Confirm Area chapter Bloggers - John Rehrer

Northwest-Cheryl Berard

Northcentral-Brian Fulcher

Northeast-Brian Bussell

Central-Terri Brown

West Central-Lance Hill

Tampa-Allison Willmeng

Southwest-Jeff Turley

Southeast-Sofia Silva

Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer

Marketing presentation update-Pat McLaughlin
Schedule 2nd quarter 2010 local chapter presentations May, June & July

Orlando/May 19

Tampa/May13

Completed 2009

Pensacola-September 2nd/Complete

Southeast-September 9th/Complete

Orlando-September 16th/Complete

Southwest-September 17th/Complete

Northeast-October 21st/Complete

NorthCentral-November 18th/Complete

TampaBay-December 3rd/Complete

Ocala-December 15/Complete

Treasure Coast/January 21/Complete

Membership Local Area updates/Goals for 2010-Rocky Jenkins
Share ideas with the other areas about what you are doing to build membership in your local areas.-Devon Brookshire
Local chapter representatives Contractor Target databases have been sent to the local chapters- Rocky Jenkins.

42 contractor members with goal of 100 = 58 NEW contractors members

Current Contractor Members

Area/Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market

Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78

Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31

Central 7 /16/ 21/ 106

North Central 4/ 2/ 7/ 13

Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43

Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63

Treasure Coast 3/ 4/ 5/ 27

Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55

Ocala 1/4/5/36

Total 42/ 65/ 105/ 452

2010/5 new contractor members 2-Orlando 2-Tampa 1-Treasure Coast

Pending: New chapters

Contractors Miami/ 23 Contractors

Tallahassee/18 Contractors

S. Central/Lakeland 15 Contractors

Review 2010 Calendar -Joyce Rivas
Set date for next meeting
July 6, 2010

Adjourn

Membership Committee Minutes January 5, 2010

The Membership committee held it's first 2010 Teleconference on January 5, 2010 at 9:30 AM via Go to meeting.com. Dial 712-338-7141 Access Code/Meeting ID 239-5556-651
Each area of the state was encouraged to have representation to take information for the new year back to their local chapters and RSVP Committee Chairman. "
To save time and record attendees a self-introduction was encouraged at log on.

In Attendance: Tampa-Allison Willmeng, Bob DiPietro, Ocala-Kelly Kendall, Brian Kendall, Lance Hill, Southeast-Justin Lord, Joe Lesstino, Northwest-Mac Creech NorthCentral-Jerry Painter Northeast-Robert Carlton Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer Central-Frank Cox MAF-Pat McLaughlin, Deb Bartolucci, Sandy Cinque, Joyce Rivas Promasonry/Membership committee subchairmen, John Rehrer/Blogs, Rocky Jenkins/Incentive programs Southwest-no representative

Devon Brookshire welcomed the group and thanked everyone for taking time to attend the teleconference. Self-introduction confirmed area participants and was documented by Joyce Rivas. Devon Brookshire reviewed the importance of the Anti-Trust Statement and waived reading Motion-Robert Carlton 2nd-Justin LordMinutes from previous meeting which are posted on the Membership blog at http://www.floridamasonry.com/ were reviewed and motion to approve- Mac Creech 2nd-Justin Lord

Pat McLaughlin reviewed the disposition of the current and new areas of the MAF around the state with expansion plans for 2010 to include Lakeland-Polk/Highland Counties, Miami, and Tallahassee. For those involved in development and growth in these areas details for contacts will be maintained on the Membership blog page. Right hand column at the base of the calendar.

Sandy Cinque reviewed the status of outstanding receivables for 2010. Good progress has been made since the third quarter of 2009 regarding collection. Sandy can be contacted directly at sandy@floridamasonry.com for specific details on local area members.

Devon Brookshire's update from the MAF Board meeting for Combined dues. Will be discussed this year to be proposed for 2011. Dues will continue to be billed separately for local and state dues for 2010.

Pat McLaughlin discussed upcoming trip to North Carolina with Joyce Rivas to meet executive board and observe insight into benefit promotion, certification and other processes of that organization. He will provide a full report to the board of directors from that meeting.

Devon Brookshire reviewed the letter that was sent out to all members with their January 2010 invoices. A copy of the letter is maintained in the documents section ofthe Membership blog for future reference.

Devon Brookshire reviewed the 2010 Pledge sheet which includes credit card payment options and a 'hardship' option for any members wishing to join the association who are experiencing financial challenges. This can be submitted by any local chapter Membership or board member and is forwarded to Jay Snyder/ for MAF board committee review. The 2010 pledge sheet is available on http://www.floridamasonry.com/ and a copy will also be available for access and reference via the Membership blog page.

Devon Brookshire announced that http://www.mafl.org/ website is officially closed as of December 2009. Anyone accessing the website will be forwarded to http://www.floridamasonry.com/ New e-mails for MAF staff are: Pat@floridamasonry.com, Don@floridamasonry.com, Joyce@floridamasonry.com, Deb@floridamasonry.com, sandy@floridamasonry.com . Please change your address books to reflect these new e-mails. E-mails for the Foundation remain: al@masonryeducation.org and mj@masonryeducation.org.

Deb Bartolucci overviewed the many facets of our new website at http://www.floridamasonry.com/ with particular focus on the new chapter blogs which will be used by the local chapters for their member communications. Other highlights included: Promasonry section and information, Convention highlights and http://www.mafconvention.com/ link and other information related to membership and chapter growth and activities.

John Rehrer requested a person from each Area be assigned to champion the chapter Blogs and participate in training to be held in late February. Please respond to jrehrer@titanamerica.com with the person for your area who will be the local 'blogger'.

Pat McLaughlin reviewed his market data schedule for 2009, all areas with the exception of Treasure Coast have benefited from this presentation. TC is scheduled for January 21st, note change from original date of January 20th on calendar. These presentations will be done twice a year in your local areas. The 2010 next data will be available after May 1st. Please contact Pat at pat@floridamasonry.com to schedule for him to attend your May, June, July meetings and make a presentation.

Rocky Jenkins reviewed Membership goals for each chapter and proposed a membership 'challenge' be presented to the MAF board for approval. The committee was wholeheartedly in agreement and welcomed the Motion from Rocky Jenkins. “In an effort to infuse focus and energy into the process of soliciting new members and renewing existing members the Membership Committee recommends that the Board approve a Membership Drive Program.”2nd-Robert Carlton.

Contractor Target databases have been sent to the local chapters-with a goal of 100+ contractor members. Currently we have 39 contractor members = 62 NEW contractors members which is 15% of total contractors in the market containing approximately 452 contractors.

Current Contractor Members /Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78
Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 5 /16/ 21/ 106
North Central 5/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 1/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55
Ocala 1/4/5/36
Total 39/ 65/ 105/ 452

Pending: New chapters -Miami/ 23, Tallahassee/ 18, Lakeland/Polk 32 Contractors

Joyce Rivas reviewed the 2010 Calendar which is currently on the right side of the Membership blog. The calendar lists the meeting dates for the entire year and other important industry dates. At the bottom of the list, each chapter's dates are listed and have been transferred onto the chapter blogs for easy reference. Joyce is requesting confirmation that all dates are correct prior to transfer to the formatted general calendar of the website at the end of January. Areas that do not have an * next to their chapter have no confirmed accuracy yet.

Devon Brookshire set the dates for 2010 Teleconferences: April 6, July 6 and September 17th at the MAF Convention at the Sirata in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Meeting adjourned 10:45

Giving 'birth' to a blog

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What's the PO!NT of blogging

...the Birth of a masonry baby named 'blog'

Joyce Rivas

What's a blog you ask? A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

Our masonry blogs can be whatever we want them to be. There are millions of blogs, like people, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

As I was encouraging use of the blogs, as is typical one of the contractors trapped me with an unanswerable technical question-the story of my life,"What does BLOG stand for?" he bellowed. I thought for moment and said, that's a very good question. I have NO idea!

Since I'm promoting this 'blog thing' I thought it best that I be able to answer this very basic question in some ethical manner or be 'burned at the stake on some well constructed plum and level brick BBQ.

Curiously, I GOOGLED...response below in the rare case you are still reading. I'll select # 1 Web log. Although after reading I pledged to try to avoid my blog falling into the #3 category.

Acronym/Definition
1. BLOG
Web Log
2. BLOG
Better Listings on Google
3. BLOG
Big Load of Gossip

Personally, I see our Masonry blogs as filing cabinets for the multitude of information that we need to warehouse and provide to our members, giving them what they need to know in a manner that they can actually find it. We are living in the day of information overload, I can say that I continually struggle with a good way to be sure that everyone knows 'what' they need to know 'when' they need to know it and have them be able to 'find' it. It's a huge challenge!
Blogging effectively organizes our statewide activities and local level happenings with minimum cost as the work is primarily maintained by local chapters and each individual 'blogger'. These are non- $80- per hour-IT individuals, who in our world are called 'MAF volunteers'.

Blogs can save postage. Blogs can save you from hunting for hours for an e-mail in your files. Blogs can even be fun.

In a nutshell-BLOGS are one of the best ways to have the information available to you, our members via our website at http://www.floridamasonry.com/ without having to pay for an IT person to post it on the website.

Consider our blogs a way for you and everyone to see what is happening at the
Board and Executive level, Legislation, our many committees, Membership, Convention, Promasonry/LeadTracking and Enforcement. In general a 'blog' can give us everything we need to know about the entire state with a few keystrokes.

Since Blogging was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.

And we're pretty sure the whole deal is just getting started, so we're incorporating them into our website at http://www.floridamasonry.com/. "BLOGGERS"

When starting a blog, companies need to be prepared to embrace 'openness, willingness to share information and be ready to invest in resources to support flexibility' In 2003 Intel's blogging experience began, Technology@Intel . In the name of technology Intel's Blogging started as a grassroots initiative among employees. CEO Paul Otellini recognized the benefits of blogging and launched his own employee blog the next year. Other Intel executives soon followed, culminating in a fully IT-supported platform by 2005. Team-based wiki collaboration led to the enterprise-wide “Intelpedia,” which today contains over 15,000 articles from employees defining, collaborating in and documenting the vast Intel workplace. In 2008, Intel launched a global training initiative (Digital IQ) that invited employees to participate in social media. Within weeks employees began directly sharing their experiences and knowledge on places like Twitter, Facebook, technology websites, BBSs in China and other worldwide support forums.
They created many social spaces to foster dialogue and make important contributions to a widening range of issues relevant to their customers, employees and to the future of technology. Fast-forward to 2010, and Intel now offers corporate blogs in over 25 languages on topics ranging from corporate responsibility and research to jobs and customer support.

The Po!nt: Although we do not yet have blogs in 25 languages like Intel, maybe someday we'll have a spanish blog? Baby steps...baby steps. Building a successful online community is a process, not the flip of a switch, but one that requires an active commitment from all participants....so find your local area 'blogger' or your committee blogger and get involved!

Guess what, I posted this on MY blog and all we had to do to publish the E-news was link to the Blog. A revelation in eliminating all of those PESKY Attachments....yaaaaaahoooo to blogging!

The proud parents

www. Floridamasonry.com

announce the birth of their new

FLORIDA MASONRY multifacted, time and money saving baby

Named 'blog'!

Membership '1st quarter 2010' TO DO

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1. Next teleconference- April 6, 2010 -9:30 AM- Mark your calendar. Check Membership blog for sign-in info

2. Member companies-submit logos and company information to deb@floridamasonry.com for website

3. Contact sandy@floridamasonry.com for questions on state AR and your members. Billing for state and local chapter will be separate for 2010. Discussion for combined billing for 2011/MAF state board

4. Rocky Jenkins is introducing a Membership Drive competition/details to follow on Membership blog

5. 2010 Chapter membership goals are to have a total of 50 contractor members statewide/currently 39 .

6. Pledge sheet can be printed from www.floridamasonry.com and distributed to local chapter members. Included is a 'new' monthly payment option, credit card payment option and hardship consideration to be reviewed by MAF state board- masonpro@fdn.com: Click here: FLORIDA MASONRY FLORIDA BUILDS WITH BLOCK BRICK STONE

7.MAF state invoices for renewing members was sent out December 2009 for 2010 1st quarter.

8. To schedule a Marketing report date during May, June & July for your local chapter pat@floridamasonry.com

9. Visit http://www.floridamasonry.com/ for everything 'masonry' in Florida

10. Convention September 16, 17 & 18 to be hosted by West Coast/Tampa chapter-Mark your calendars

11. We are looking to have a 'blogger' for each area of the state that will maintain local chapter blogs on the website 10. 2010 calendar of meetings, activities and committees is on right side of membership blog for reference. Will be transferred to General calendar February 1

Visit to the NCMCA

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L- R Pat McLaughlin, MAF Executive Director, Joyce Rivas MAF Membership/ Promasonry, Gary Manning NCMCA President and Larry Kirby NCMCA President Elect receive greetings on January 5-7 from the NCMCA, North Carolina Masonry Contractors Association . Although the outside climate was in the teens and frigid we were 'warmed' by the association's willingness to share time and information with us . Not to be confused with the NCMA, the initial purpose of our trip to the NCMCA was to learn as much as possible about the successful Certification program that has been implemented over the past 3 years by Lynn Nash, Executive Director. In the first 2 hours, we absorbed far more than we could have ever anticipated capturing in 2-days and have returned to Florida with fresh ideas and hopes to have continued relations with this wonderful group. Amazingly enough, they felt that 'we'---yesssss, little 'ol newbie us??? provided reciprocal value to their association. All in all it was a terrific learning experience. See Pat's report at the link below! Respectfully in all things created to grow and benefit the masonry trade-jr

Membership Committee Minutes January 5, 2010

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The Membership committee held it's first 2010 Teleconference on January 5, 2010 at 9:30 AM via Go to meeting.com. Dial 712-338-7141 Access Code/Meeting ID 239-5556-651

Each area of the state was encouraged to have representation to take information for the new year back to their local chapters and RSVP Committee Chairman devonbrookshire@msn.com"

To save time and record attendees a self-introduction was encouraged at log on.

In Attendance: Tampa-Allison Willmeng, Bob DiPietro, Ocala-Kelly Kendall, Brian Kendall, Lance Hill, Southeast-Justin Lord, Joe Lesstino, Northwest-Mac Creech NorthCentral-Jerry Painter Northeast-Robert Carlton Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer Central-Frank Cox MAF-Pat McLaughlin, Deb Bartolucci, Sandy Cinque, Joyce Rivas Promasonry/Membership committee subchairmen, John Rehrer/Blogs, Rocky Jenkins/Incentive programs Southwest-no representative

Devon Brookshire welcomed the group and thanked everyone for taking time to attend the teleconference.

Self-introduction confirmed area participants and was documented byJoyce Rivas

Devon Brookshire reviewed the importance of the Anti-Trust Statement and waived reading Motion-Robert Carlton 2nd-Justin Lord

Minutes from previous meeting which are posted on the Membership blog at http://www.floridamasonry.com/ were reviewed and motion to approve- Mac Creech 2nd-Justin Lord

Current Contractor Members /Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market

Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78

Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31

Central 5 /16/ 21/ 106

North Central 5/ 2/ 7/ 13

Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43

Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63

Treasure Coast 1/ 4/ 5/ 27

Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55

Ocala 1/4/5/36

Total 39/ 65/ 105/ 452

Pending: New chapters -Miami/ 23, Tallahassee/ 18, Lakeland/Polk 32 Contractors

Joyce Rivas reviewed the 2010 Calendar which is currently on the right side of the Membership blog The calendar lists the meeting dates for the entire year and other important industry dates. At the bottom of the list, each chapter's dates are listed and have been transferred onto the chapter blogs for easy reference. Joyce is requesting confirmation that all dates are correct prior to transfer to the formatted general calendar of the website at the end of January. Areas that do not have an * next to their chapter have no confirmed accuracy yet.

Devon Brookshire set the dates for 2010 Teleconferences: April 6, July 6 and September 17th at the MAF Convention at the Sirata in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Meeting adjourned 10:45

January 5, 2010 9:30 AM Membership teleconference

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January 5, 2010 Agenda

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Agenda
Membership Teleconference, January 5, 2010 9:30 AM
RSVP Committee Chairman: devonbrookshire@msn.com

To save time, please do a self-introduction of your name and area you are representing as you log into the call. THANK YOU.

Welcome & Opening Remarks-Devon Brookshire
Confirm Area Participants-Joyce Rivas
Reading of the Anti-Trust Statement-Devon Brookshire

Old Business
Approve minutes from previous meeting http://www.floridamasonry.com/ Membership blog

Devon Brookshire

New area expansion update/Lakeland, Miami, Tallahassee - Pat McLaughlin

Review outstanding A/R 2009- Sandy Cinque

Update from MAF Board meeting-Membership levels/2010, Combined dues 2011–Devon Brookshire

New Business

Member benefits-North Carolina January 6 & 7 Pat McLaughlin
2009 Letter sent with 2010 dues renewal to all Members- Devon Brookshire
Review of new pledge sheet- Devon Brookshire
Member communications-Closed http://www.mafl.org/
Open-www.floridamasonry.com. New e-mails: Pat@floridamasonry.com, Don@floridamasonry.com, Joyce@floridamasonry.com, Deb@floridamasonry.com, sandy@floridamasonry.com - Devon Brookshire
http://www.floridamasonry.com/ New Website highlights- Deb Bartolucci
Area chapter Blogs training www.floridamasonry.com- John Rehrer
Marketing presentation update-Pat McLaughlin/Schedule 2nd quarter 2010 local chapter presentations May, June & July

Pensacola-September 2nd/Complete
Southeast-September 9th/Complete
Orlando-September 16th/Complete
Southwest-September 17th/Complete
Northeast-October 21st/Complete
NorthCentral-November 18th/Complete
TampaBay-December 3rd/Complete
Ocala-December 15/Complete
Pending- Treasure Coast/January 20
Lakeland-pending new local chapter
Miami-pending new local chapter
Tallahassee-pending new local chapter

Membership Local Area updates/Goals for 2010-Rocky Jenkins

Share ideas with the other areas about what you are doing to build membership in your local areas.-Devon Brookshire/Local chapter representatives

Contractor Target databases have been sent to the local chapters- Rocky Jenkins. Introduction of Membership Drive traveling trophy. 38 contractor members with goal of 100 = 62 NEW contractors members.s 15% of total contractors. Breakdown of remaining goal by area (15% of each market)

Current Contractor Members /Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78
Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 5 /16/ 21/ 106
North Central 5/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 1/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55
Ocala 1/4/5/36
Total 39/ 65/ 105/ 452

Pending: New chapters
ContractorsMiami/ 23 Contractors
Tallahassee/ 18 Contractors
S. Central/Lakeland 32 Contractors

Review 2010 Calendar on Membership blog-Joyce Rivas
Set date for next meeting

Adjourn

Mark your calendar

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Next Teleconference
January 5, 2010
9:30 AM

OCALA new chapter kick-off on October 14th at 7:30 was attended by about 75 industry representatives. . . learning more about the 'NEW' Masonry Association of Florida and our activities to gain back market share and promote masonry systems in Florida.

Click here to view & print the flyer!

SCI Materials6760 NW 27th AvenueOcala, Florida 34475, Joe Staley 352-369-8884 was a gracious host. The schedule included:

5:00-5:30 Social & Networking
5:30-6:00 Block Plant Tour
6:00-7:00 MAF Presentation by Pat McLaughlin during dinner
7:00-7:45 Mason Bond Presentation/Demonstration
Preapprenticeship Students participated in the hands-on demonstration.

"Coming together is a beginning- keeping together is progress- working together is success."

Membership teleconference Minutes and Agenda

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Minutes
Membership Teleconference
September 29, 2009/ 9:30 AM
Attendees:
Devon Brookshire-Chairman , MAF Executive Director-Pat McLaughlin,MAF Membership-Joyce Rivas , MAF Administration-Sandy Cinque, MAF Engineer-Don Beers,Northeast-Robert Carlton ,Southwest-Amy Kiedel ,Tampa-Dave Luebs Lisa Pelham Al Heindorf ,Southeast-Sofia Silva,Treasure Coast-Dave Pfeffer ,NorthCentral-no representation, Northwest-Mac Creech,Orlando-Frank Cox ,Ocala-Joe Staley,Miami-Agustin Mijares

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Welcome & Opening Remarks-Devon Brookshire Area
Participant confirmation-Joyce Rivas
Reading of the Anti-Trust Statement-Devon Brookshire

Old Business
Devon Brookshire requested review and approval of minutes from previous meeting/Motion to approve- Dave Luebs. Second- Lisa Pelham
Pat McLaughlin reviewed the Status of Membership pledges A/R report with the following companies in the 60-90 and > 90 days. Membership committee members to follow-up and communicate status to Sandy Cinque sandy@floridamasonry.com
American Cement-Lisa Pelham
Ervin Bishop Construction-Al Heindorf
Falcon Contractors-Amy Kiedel
Florida Block and Ready Mix-Devon Brookshire
Heartland Payment Systems-Sandy Cinque, Deb Bartolucci
Kuhlman Concrete-Amy Kiedel
MortarNet-Lisa Pelham/Joyce Rivas
Supranos Systems-Dave Pfeffer
Sutton Brick and Stone-Sofia Silva
Tehas Textured Stone-Dave Pfeffer/Joe Lesstino
Van Goettling Masonry-Lisa Pelham
Pat McLaughlin reviewed the status of the new chapters. Both the Miami and Ocala point people were present on the teleconference. Ocala’s kick-off is scheduled for October 14th @ 5:00 PM at the SCI plant. Miami’s planning has begun; however date and location have not been confirmed. Joyce Rivas has been in communication with both areas to address questions, facilitate mailings, flyers and participated in planning teleconferences.
Devon Brookshire provided an update on the board meeting from the August meeting regarding the Membership levels for 2010 which will be $1250, $2000, $4500, $10,000 & $20,000. The $400 introductory level was only for the first year and will be removed beginning with 2010 fiscal year.
Pat McLaughlin discussed the protocol for proposed changes to state by-laws for additional chapters and introduced Robert Carlton who is the governance committee chairman. Presently the current by-laws will not require amending with expansion of two chapters. Discussion at the next board meeting will be included to amending from current 10 to new and proposed 12 chapters. Robert Carlton welcomed any input from the membership committee regarding the wording that the governance committee would include. Copy of state chapters map will be on the new www.floridamasonry.com website.
New Business
At the August convention Membership committee meeting the North Carolina Masonry Association benefits plan was cited as a good example of a thriving benefits model. A copy of North Carolina’s newsletter updating specifics of their association’s member benefits program will be on the members section of http://www.floridamasonry.com/ for review from the committee. Joyce Rivas read a excerpts from the newsletter and encourages the membership committee to familiarize themselves with the contents of the North Carolina groups progress. Medallion Financial Resources has organized a benefits plan for the Masonry Association of Florida. A letter from Devon Brookshire will be sent to all Members reminding them of the benefits program and containing a business card from James Ball. Jim will follow-up with member database contacts during late 2009/2010 and is available to attend local chapter meetings, make presentations as requested by individual chapters.
Joyce Rivas reviewed the timeframe for the transition of information from http://www.mafl.org/ to http://www.floridamasonry.com/ to be effective October 30. Member communications will now be a Blogs at http://www.floridamasonry.com-/ with training to take place via the member communications training from John Rehrer. Additionally the MAF is giving strong consideration to social media communications via FACEBOOK and Linked-in to better facilitate the flow of information from the state to the local membership.
Pat McLaughlin reviewed progress and plans regarding localizedMarketing presentations.
Pensacola-September 2nd/Complete
Southeast-September 9th/Complete
Orlando-September 16th/Complete
Southwest-September 17th/Complete
Northeast-October 21st
NorthCentral-November 18th
TampaBay-December 3rd
Pending-Treasure Coast, January 20, 2010. Ocala- intro 14th, Miami –after kick-off later this year
Local Area updates/Goals for 2009/2010-Devon Brookshire
The local chapters shared in notes below ideas with the other areas about what they are doing to build membership in local areas.
Joyce Rivas reviewed Contractor Target database status that were sent to local chapters. Frank Cox/Orlando, Gus/Miami and Robert Carlton/NE chapters asked for theirs to be readdressed to new membership chairpersons. SW/Amy Kiedel, SE/Sofia Silva, Tampa Bay/Lisa Pelham and NW/Mac Creech are in process. Treasure Coast is completed and returned. Joe Staley/Ocala said that he had received original and will be having his office follow-up with additional contractors that will be included in the mailing going out for 10/14 kick-off. All database targets will be maintained and able to be accessed via http://www.floridamasonry.com/
Membership-Producer Goal currently at 100%.
Membership-Associate Goal at 145% .
Devon Brookshire/Joyce Rivas reviewed goals set for each local area, that will in total reach the contractor membership goal of 100 masonry contractors, currently at 38. The market now is at 416 contractors.
Membership- Contractors at 93% of monetary goal and 38 contractor members with goal of 100 = 62 NEW contractors members needed which is 15% of total contractors.

Breakdown of remaining goal by area (15% of each market) :
Current Contractor Members/ Target/ Goal #/ Contractors in Market
Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78
Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 5/ 16/ 21/ 106
North Central 5/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5 /9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 1/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1 /8/ 9 /55
38/ 61/ 100/ 416

Pending: New chapters/Market total/109 ( 15% = 16 contractors)
Ocala/ 36 Contractors
Miami/ 23 Contractors
Tallahassee/ 18 Contractors
S. Central/ 32 Contractors
Devon Brookshire reviewed http://www.mafl.org/ will continue to be the ‘go to’ website for state information. Pledge sheets are located on the ‘JOIN OUR ASSOCIATION’ section of the website. By the end of October-ALL information, including pledge sheets and other member information, ProMasonry information and all links to resources will be available on http://www.floridamasonry.com/

Joyce Rivas requested that each chapter set all meeting and fundraiser events for 2010 during the last quarter of the year to better enable the state to assist with marketing and communication of the local events. Listed meeting times for the 3rd quarter of 2009. Suggestion was made for local chapter meetings that overlap consider a different night to get better attendance. Pat McLaughlin corrected the time for the MAF board meeting/October 13th to 1:00 PM (previously listed at 10:00 AM) on the original agenda and the Northeast October meeting to 1:00 PM (previously listed at 2:00 PM). Changes noted below

Important dates for last quarter of 2009:
October 6th ProMasonry Meeting/Orlando/FC&PA 9:30 AM -2:30 PM
October 13th State MAF Board Meeting/Orlando/FC&PA 1:00 PM (note change) October 14th Foundation Board Meeting/Orlando/FC&PA 10:00 AM
Ocala MAF New Chapter Kick-off/SCI 5:00 PM
Structural Mas Des. Sem/Dr. Brown/Tampa http://www.masonryeducation.org/
SouthEast MAF meeting 6:00 PM
October 15th SouthWest MAF meeting 6:00 PM
October 16/17 Masonry Workshop/Orlando www.masonryeducation.org
October 21st NorthEast MAF Meeting 1:00 PM (note change)
NorthCentral MAF meeting 3:00 PM
Treasure Coast MAF meeting 5:30 PM
Central MAF meeting 5:45 PM
NCCER Instructor Cert (21-23) Orlando www.masonryeducation.org
October 22nd Tampa MCAF/Low Key Golf/Pebble Creek aheindorf@cemexusa.com

November 6th CTC/Preapp. Manatee/Golf-The Preserve Golf Club@Tara
NorthCentral MAF Golf Tourney- 8:00 AM Thomas@allenspearco.com
November111h Northeast MAF meeting 2:00 PM
Southeast MAF meeting 6:00 PM
November 18th Gainesville MAF meeting 3:00 PM
Treasure Coast MAF meeting 5:30 PM
Orlando MAF meeting 6:00 PM
November 19th Southwest MAF meeting 6:00 PM
November 20th Masonry Workshop/Naples (11/20&11/21) CANCELLED

December 2nd Northwest MAF meeting 2:00 PM
December 3rd Tampa Bay MCAF meeting 6:00 PM
Struc.Masonry Des Sem/Dr. Brown/Miamiwww.masonryeducation.org
December 9th Northeast MAF meeting 2:00 PM CANCELLED
Orlando MAF meeting 5:45 PM
Southeast MAF meeting 6:00 PM
December 16th NorthCentral MAF meeting 3:00 PM Orlando MAF Meeting 5:45 PM December 17th Southwest MAF meeting 6:00 PM

Chapter updates

Southeast- Sofia Silva- Membership Drive for January. Contacting contractors. Has volunteers that are assisting.
Miami-Supermix will be the the lead for the new chapter. No date or location set yet.
Treasure Coast- Dave Pfeffer-upgraded the program to include speakers this coming month on the Jim Walters Act and discussion on enforcement to give members a good reason to participate. Need more members. Working to grow membership.
Southwest- Amy Kiedel. Formed a local committee to call on contractors. Shelley Honsberger is the Chairperson. Followed up with contractors that attended Pat’s marketing presentation who are interested in joining. Prorating contractors for 4th quarter dues.
Tampa- Al Heindorf. Meeting scheduled with Bob DiPietro. Get as many potential members to participate in December 3rd marketing meeting to kick-off for 2010.
Orlando- Frank Cox. Setting up a membership committee. 3 volunteers/1 per county that knows local contractors and use list to drive participation.
Ocala-Joe Staley. Planned meeting for October 14th @ 5:00 PM. Meet and greet. 6:00 Presentation. Food supplied by Mason Bond. Tour of Block plant. MasonBond presentation. Getting good support from Tampa. We are a producer and are being supported by Gainesville/Jerry Painter. Catalyst to get contractors to join an organization.
Northeast-Robert Carlton. Looking to use marketing presentation to push membership on the 21st. Several Contractors on the fence. Organizing a fundraiser Clay Shoot.
Northwest-Mac Creech. Lafarge and Quikrete will come on as local membership. Looking to have a membership drive in March/April 2010.
NorthCentral-No representation

Devon Brookshire’s membership letter reviewed for suggestions. This will be sent to all members and addresses the dues for 2010

Pat McLaughlin inquired about Membership Drive plans for 2010 which will be discussed at next meeting.

Date for next teleconference January 5th @ 9:30 AM

All areas are encouraged to share this information with their local chapters.
Meeting adjourned.

Membership Committee Minutes
August 7th-8:00-9:00 AM
3rd Floor/Blue Heron Room, 555 NE Ocean Boulevard, Stuart, FL 34996

In Attendance:
Devon Brookshire, Pat McLaughlin, Joyce Rivas, Adam Freeman, Keith Sommer, Terri Brown, Rocky Jenkins, Don Beers, Dave Luebs, Tom White, Wes Simmons, Sofia Silva, Jim Gulde, Jeff Turley, Doug Stewart,Jerry Painter, John Rehrer, Cheryl Berard, Ray Berard, Mac Creech, Robert Carlton, Joe Lesstino, Steve Berry and other covention guests-welcomed. Open meeting

Devon Brookshire welcomed the group, acknowledged the early AM hour and thanked everyone for their efforts to participate in membership activities
Devon Brookshire stated the meeting was being conducted with the guidelines of Anti-Trust policy available for review
All Attendees participated in Self-Introduction

Old Business
Devon Brookshire requested review and approval of minutes from previous meeting
Devon Brookshire distributed 2nd quarters' report to be presented at Board meeting. All were in approval of the report
Devon Brookshire introduced the Convention newsletter which contained the FOUNDING MEMBERS of the 'new' MAF:

ProducerA-1 Block Corporation B.E.T - ER Mix Bell Concrete Products, Inc. Block USA Cemex Construction Materials LLC Oldcastle CoastalPreferred Materials l Prestige Concrete Products Supermix/SuperBlock Tarmac America, Inc. l Vulcan Materials - Florida Rock Gold Plus Castcrete Powers SteelGoldAllan Spear Construction Bar-Fab of Florida, Inc. BBA MCI Brick Industry AssociationCarlton-Walker Masonry Central Broward Construction Coastal MasonryCocoa, Inc Gilbert & Byrd Masonry Contractors, Inc l Masonpro Oceanside Masonry Old Castle Coastal Distribution-Coloroc, Ruck and Harwood Brick Overberg Masonry Painter Masonry Pyramid Masonry Red Brookshire of Florida, Inc. Southern State MasonrySilver Brick America Carolina Stalite Falcon Contractors Florida Silica Sand Company George Lenze Construction, Inc.Gordy's Equipment of Broward Holcim J.A.M Construction Mike Flynn Masonry Ron Kendall Masonry, Inc.Tucci Masonry Van Goettling Masonry WR Grace Construction ProductsBronze Adrian Engineering Advanced Masonry Systems Amerimix Industries American Cement l Berard Creative Concepts l Bradley Masonry Buddy's Transport, Inc. l Commercial Concrete Products Commercial Concrete Systems l D Lenn Masonry David Nelson Masonry Ervin Bishop Construction l Euclid Chemical Company GBL GroupGeneral Masonry Ginty Construction, Inc. Henley Concrete & Masonry Master Construction Products Masonry Arts, Inc.l MIT Quality Precast Co. l Quikrete l Ready Building Products l Southern Foam InsulationSunchase Construction Tailored Foam Target Masonry, Inc. IntroductoryBedrock Industries l Blockbusters Form Block Heartland Payment Systems l Kevin J. Brandel Masonry Const., Inc.l Kuhlman Concrete Lott's Precast l Medallion Financial Resources l Mortar Net USA Power Concrete Products l Spring Lock Scaffolding Suncoast Builders and Development Supranos Systems(R), Supranos Holdings, LLC Sutton Brick l TNT Equipment l Tejas Textured Stone Turley Construction & Restoration, LLC l WR Taylor & Co.
Pat McLaughlin discussed the new territory chapter MAP and plans to request for a change in the By-laws to expand to areas in Ocala and Miami. Pat overviewed activities related to the new chapters including Tallahassee's intro meeting on June 4th, Ocala's kick-off meeting October 14th @ SCI and an introductory meeting at SuperBlock on July 28th. The kick-off meeting date in Miami is TBA. Polk Co is an additional area that has expressed an interest in apprenticeship and a local MAF chapter.
Devon Brookshire distributed the Contractor call report with status of local contractors compiled byJoyce Rivas. This report was the initial step in the development of a statewide database that will be distributed to each area in the latter part of 2009.

New Business
Devon Brooksire reviewed the chart showing Member Benefit participation and inquiries and encouraged company participation with Medallion Financial Resources,James Ball. Membership committee members suggested that James Ball contact each member company individually and return to the local meetings during the upcoming year; suggesting that much of this year's efforts have been aimed at building membership and not focused on the benefit portion of the the association. Cheryl Berard, Pensacola Chapter president asked to have Jim Ball scheduled to come to their meeting and introduce the benefits program. The next Pensacola meeting is September 2nd @ Taylor Brick. Dave Luebs pointed out that by participating in the program, the association can grow accordingly. Devon briefly discussed an opportunity to grow association participation via an Agent of Record campaign which is a simple and non-invasive way to continue current coverage and change agents. This will be discussed in greater detail at the next Membership teleconference. Joyce Rivas mentioned the long term goal being to evolve the benefits plan to the model of the North Carolina Masonry Association which would necessitate our group having approximately 5000 lives being handled by one agent.
Pat McLaughlin reviewed the current status of Membership pledges which would be included in the Membership report to the Board of Directors 39 Contractors, 39% of goal of 100 total contractors, Average contractor contribution is $2,381. 39 Associates with an average contribution of $1,855, total $148,300 dues from contractors and Associates, 110% of goal of $165,200. 13 Producers representing 75% of the industry cavities and 91% of the producer goal of 80% industry cavities.
John Rehrer overviewed the member communication website http://www.mafl.org/ and talked about the changes that will take place during the fourth quarter of 2009 transitioning information to http://www.floridamasonry.com/, which will become the 'new' state website. http://www.mafl.org/ will contain local chapter information and John will be training a local representative from each chapter to post their local information, including local database and calendar information on-line. Some of the chapters have already started to participate in the on-line posting as part of the process. Please contact jrehrer@titanamerica.com with the contact person for your chapter that will be responsible for local information.
Dave Pfeffer welcomed everyone to the CHEAPER. FASTER. BETTER. convention, and encouraged everyone to look for the 'green dot' on the nametags of those that were NOT current members of the MAF to welcome them. He reviewed a letter that would be sent out from Devon Brookshire to those who attended and participated that were NOT members. Dave answered questions, did some general convention housekeeping including the introduction of "Meet Clareece-our 50/50 Convention Cash Cow!" -3 ways to earn MooolahBuy moooolah for 50/50 drawing $1 = $1 of moooolah,Attend meetings $1 for each meeting you attend, play who wants to be a mooooolahnaire during Saturday night cocktail hour $10-everyone wins/chande to 'double' your moolah!
The meeting was concluded ahead of the planned schedule, so additional topics included having copies of local by-laws forwarded to the Association office to be kept on file
Jeff Turley and other chapters discussed credit card processing/pros/cons/fees/paypal and whether the state could support the local chapters, if requested
All participated in conversation relating to dues and dues structure for 2010 which will be included in MAF board meeting later in the day.
Meeting was adjorned at 8:58. Next membership Teleconference September 29th @ 9:30 AM. Information related to Membership and 'new' MAF at links on bottom of page.

Respectfully,
Devon Brookshire, Chairman
devonbrookshire@msn.com
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Agenda
Membership Teleconference
September 29, 2009/ 9:30 AM
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/394921442
Dial 215-383-1005 Access Code: 394-921-442
RSVP Committee Chairman: devonbrookshire@msn.com

To save time, please do a self-introduction of your name and area you are representing as you log into the call. THANK YOU.

Welcome & Opening Remarks-Devon Brookshire Area
Participant confirmation-Joyce Rivas
Reading of the Anti-Trust Statement-Devon Brookshire

Old Business
Approve minutes from previous meeting-Devon Brookshire
Status of Membership pledges and new area expansion update - Pat McLaughlin
Update from MAF Board meeting-Membership levels/2010 –Devon Brookshire
Status of Proposed change to state by-laws for additional chapters- Pat McLaughlin
New Business
· Member benefits-What is an Agent of Record letter? How could this benefit our association. Introductory letter being sent to all Members/November 2009

· Member communications- Changes/elimination of http://www.mafl.org/. Area chapter Blogs on http://www.floridamasonry.com-/ John Rehrer

· Marketing presentation update-Pat McLaughlin
Pensacola-September 2nd/Complete
Southeast-September 9th/Complete
Orlando-September 16th/Complete
Southwest-September 17th/Complete
Northeast-October 21st
NorthCentral-November 18th
TampaBay-December 3rd
Pending- Treasure Coast, Ocala, Miami

· Local Area updates/Goals for 2009/2010-Devon Brookshire
Share ideas with the other areas about what you are doing to build membership in your local areas. Contractor Target databases have been sent to the local chapters. Will be maintained for reference on www.floridamasonry.com

Membership-Producer Goal currently at 100%.
Membership-Associate Goal at 145% .
Membership- Contractors at 93% of monetary goal and 38 contractor members with goal of 100 = 62 NEW contractors members needed which is 15% of total contractors.

Breakdown of remaining goal by area (15% of each market) :
Current Contractor Members /Target/ Goal /# Contractors in Market
Tampa 9/ 11/ 21/ 78
Northwest 7/ 5/ 12/ 31
Central 5 /16/ 21/ 106
North Central 5/ 2/ 7/ 13
Southeast 5 /6/ 11/ 43
Southwest 5/ 9/ 14/ 63
Treasure Coast 1/ 4/ 5/ 27
Northeast 1/ 8/ 9/ 55

Total 38/ 61/ 100/ 416

Pending: New chapters/Market total/109 ( 15% = 16 contractors)
Ocala/ 36 Contractors
Miami/ 23 Contractors
Tallahassee/ 18 Contractors
S. Central/ 32 Contractors

· You have a new member that wants to join the MAF-‘Where can you get a pledge sheet?’
For the next 30-45 days, http://www.mafl.org/ will continue to be the ‘go to’ website for state information. Pledge sheets are located on the ‘JOIN OUR ASSOCIATION’ section of the website.
By the end of October-ALL information, including pledge sheets and other member information, ProMasonry information and all links to resources will be available on http://www.floridamasonry.com/

· Set dates for meetings 2010. See below/overlap of local meetings-Joyce Rivas

Important dates for last quarter of 2009:
October 6th ProMasonry Meeting/Orlando/FC&PA 9:30 AM -2:30 PM
October 13th State MAF Board Meeting/Orlando/FC&PA 10:00 AM
October 14th Foundation Board Meeting/Orlando/FC&PA 10:00 AM
Ocala MAF New Chapter Kick-off/SCI 5:00 PM
Structural Mas Des. Sem/Dr. Brown/Tampa http://www.masonryeducation/.org
SouthEast MAF meeting 6:00 PM
October 15th SouthWest MAF meeting 6:00 PM
October 16/17 Masonry Workshop/Orlando www.masonryeducation.org
October 21st NorthEast MAF Meeting 2:00 PM
NorthCentral MAF meeting 3:00 PM
Treasure Coast MAF meeting 5:30 PM
Central MAF meeting 5:45 PM
NCCER Instructor Cert (21-23) Orlando www.masonryeducation.org
October 22nd Tampa MCAF/Low Key Golf/Pebble Creek aheindorf@cemexusa.com
November 6th CTC/Preapp. Manatee/Golf-The Preserve Golf Club@Tara
NorthCentral MAF Golf Tourney- 8:00 AM Thomas@allenspearco.com
November 11th Northeast MAF meeting 2:00 PM
Southeast MAF meeting 6:00 PM
November 18th Gainesvilee MAF meeting 3:00 PM
Treasure Coast MAF meeting 5:30 PM
Orlando MAF meeting 6:00 PM
November 19th Southwest MAF meeting 6:00 PM
November 20th Masonry Workshop/Naples (11/20 & 11/21) www.masonryeducation.org
December 2nd Northwest MAF meeting 2:00 PM
December 3rd Tampa Bay MCAF meeting 6:00 PM
Struc.Masonry Des Sem/Dr. Brown/Miamiwww.masonryeducation.org
December 9th Northeast MAF meeting 2:00 PM
Orlando MAF meeting 5:45 PM
Southeast MAF meeting 6:00 PM
December 16th NorthCentral MAF meeting 3:00 PM
December 17th Southwest MAF meeting 6:00 PM

· Please review this information with your local areas at your next MAF meeting.