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Hello Everyone,
The summer months have flown by but soon we will welcome the fall weather.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all of the members that have joined us from the Fox Cities area.
We are looking forward to resuming our monthly Gen-eral Membership meetings. Please join us this month on Sept 13th at Roepke’s Village
Inn.
A BIG THANK YOU goes out to all of you who helped in any way to make our Trap Shoot a success! It was a fun night enjoyed by many. Thank you to all who participated in the event or sponsored the event in any way!
Our 2016 Parade of Homes is right around the corner. Our committee has been
busy behind the scenes putting everything into place. We hope you can join us and tour the homes.
Thank you,
Tom Heiberger
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE By Tom Heiberger, Christel & Heiberger Builders, Inc. Membership 2
Parade of Homes 3
All Things Political 4
MSHBA Expansion 5
Trap Shoot 6
WBA 7
WBA GA 1 0
Inside this issue:
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Sept. 13 MSHBA BOD/GM Mtg
Roepke’s Village Inn 5:30 pm BOD Meeting 6:30 pm GM Meeting
Sept. 13 Trap Shoot Comm. Wrap-up Mtg 6:15 pm at Roep-ke’s Village Inn
Sept. 15 Parade of Homes Committee Mtg. 7:30 am at Christel & Heiberger Builders
Oct. 6 WBA Board Day Glaci-er Canyon Conference Center, Wis. Dells
Oct. 6 Parade of Homes Pre-view Night
Oct. 7-9 MSHBA’s Parade of Homes
October 11 BOD/GM Meeting
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M i d - S h o r e s H o m e B u i l d e r s A s s o c i a t i o n , I n c .
Volume 7, Issue 9
September 2016
Celebrating 15 Years! 1998-2013
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September 13 Roepke’s Village Inn
W2686 St Charles Rd, Chilton
5:30 pm Board of Directors
6:00 pm Cocktails (cash bar)
Dinner is off the Menu
6:30 pm General Membership Meeting & Dinner
Meeting Topic: We are
excited to announce MSHBA’s expansion into Outagamie County!
Bring a guest or colleague and help kick
off the fall season! Note: BOD & GM meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month from September thru May.
MSHBA PRESENTS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
MSHBA recently awarded $500 scholarships to two area stu-dents. Garrett Sweere and Bryce Koenigs, both of Hilbert, were selected among the many that entered from Calumet County school districts. Garrett is enrolled in a construction management curriculum and Bryce will be studying architec-ture and interior design this fall. Presenting the awards is Scholarship Chairperson, Steve Thielman of Drexel Building Supply and MSHBA EO, Tena Hartwig.
THANK YOU FOR RENEWING YOUR MEMBERSHIP! G&H Trucking & Excavating, Inc. Premier Financial Credit Union
MEMBERSHIPS PENDING: Associate: Pinnow Sheet Metal Inc. Heather Holly-Pinnow 740 Leeward Ct. Oshkosh, WI 54901 Sponsor: Mike Karls
Associate: Automated Products Inc. Sean Kelly 1812 Karau Dr. Marshfield, WI 54449 Sponsor: Glenn Christel
Mid-Shores HBA offers a 3-Pay Dues Payment Program…
MSHBA offers an option to pay your dues in three consecutive monthly payments of $140.00. Your membership will take into effect on your final payment. A 3-Pay Dues payment contract will be included with your renewal statement.
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Still need your new WBA login information? With WBA’s transition to a new website and database, they need all members to set up a new username and password. However, it's simple! Just email Samantha at [email protected] or call (608) 242-5151 ext. 13 to set up your new login credentials.
Builders...you can help MSHBA win a $100 VISA gift card. WBA is offering it to the local with the largest percentage gain of builders that set up their login. The deadline is in two months.
WBA Board Meeting Glacier Canyon Conference Center, Wis. Dells
Thursday, October 6
2017 WBA Installation A date has been set for the 2017 WBA Installa-tion Dinner & Celebration for incoming 2017 WBA President David Belman. The event will take place on Friday, January 27th at the Inter-continental Milwaukee in Milwaukee, WI. The WBA Member Day Meeting will proceed the evening event. More details TBA.
MSHBA Membership
2016 MSHBA OFFICERS
President Tom Heiberger Christel & Heiberger Builders, Inc.
920-898-2820 [email protected]
President-Elect Dave Amel Premier Properties Realty, LLC
920-980-4477 [email protected]
Treasurer Sara Cardinal Premier Financial Credit Union
920-898-4232 [email protected]
Secretary Pam Van Dera FirstMerit Bank ● 920-427-2362
Past-President Jerry Mallmann Chilton Furniture
920-849-9023 [email protected]
2016 DIRECTORS
Ted Birschbach Birschbach Builders LLC
920-238-9253
Kevin Schmitz K & J Construction and Design LLC
920-849-8811
Darlene Schwobe Zander Press Inc. 920-756-2222
Ted Klapperich TK Hardwood Floor Co. LLC
920-894-3232
WBA Directors Dan Schneider Pam Van Dera Glenn Christel
NAHB Director Dan Schneider
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PO Box 125 New Holstein, WI 53061
www.midshoreshomebuilders.com
Executive Officer Tena Hartwig 2104 Mary Ave.
New Holstein, WI 53061 Phone (920) 898-5030 Fax 9920) 827-1232
Scholarship Thank You Thank you for choosing me as the recipient of one of your scholarships. This will assist me in the pursuit of my degree.
Sincerely.
Garrett Sweere
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Webinar Explains How to Comply with Final Crystalline
Silica Rule The final rule on crystalline silica issued by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration goes into effect June 23, and the construction industry has exactly one year to comply.
Bradford Hammock, a partner at Jackson Lewis P.C., whose practice focuses exclusively on safety and health issues, recently recorded a free webinar—OSHA’s New Final Rule on Crystal-line Silica: What You Need to Know—to help home building industry professionals better understand the final rule and how it will affect their business.
Specifically, it provides information about per-forming construction work on silica-containing materials, details on how the rule will affect construction job sites, what is necessary to comply with the final rule, key compliance dates and the rule’s historical significance.
The webinar is sponsored by the Construction Industry Safety Coalition, composed of 25 trade associations representing every construction trade, task and activity of the member associa-tions. For more information, visit buildingsafe-ly.org.
[Please note that while the webinar session is open to the public, a password—CSC4—is re-quired to view it.]
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How to Comply with the Overtime Rule
There are significant ramifications for many employers. Click here.
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SAVE THE DATES for the 2017 Home & Garden Expo
The dates for MSHBA’s 2017 Home & Garden Expo have been set for March 4 & 5 at Vande Hey Brantmeier, Chilton. Setup will start on
March 3.
“Watch the September 27
Tempo for the 2016 Parade of Homes
Book”
Mid-Shores Home Builders Association Inc. invites you to participate as an advertiser and/or sponsor of the 14th Annual Parade of Homes. Your support of this event at any of the following levels will be greatly ap-preciated!
Additional Opportunities: Contribute to the 2016 Parade of Homes….a variety of opportunities are available.
Door Prize Sponsor: Donate a $25 gas card to be raffled off to parade at-tendees. Sponsors will be recognized – 6 are needed
Garage Space: Showcase your busi-ness by renting garage space at a pa-rade project. Contact Tena for an agreement .
Preview Night Sponsor: Sponsor the Preview Night Party on October 6. You will have an opportunity to talk with
MSHBA’S 14th Annual PARADE OF HOMES - Oct. 7-9
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parade builders, the parade committee and MSHBA's Board of Directors.
Promote your Business at the Parade of Homes: Business flyers or promo-tion pamphlets no larger than 8.5”x11” and promotional gift type logo items such as pens, notepads, golf balls, etc. are needed to be used as attendee give-a-ways at the Parade of Homes. 300 pieces are needed. Please drop off all items at 2104 Mary Ave., New Hol-stein or at Christel & Heiberger Build-ers, Inc., 2820 Altona Ave., New Hol-stein by noon, October 3.
So here we are. The national conventions are over; the can-didates have been selected, and the 2016 Presidential race is on. So what have we got?
We have two candidates who have enor-mous “unfavorable” ratings-way south of 50%-which is usually a death-knell for any candidate running for office. But, this is not a normal year!
For the first time, we will have more peo-ple voting against a candidate than vot-ing for a candidate. Think about that! There are more voters that will cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton because they cannot stand to vote for Donald Trump and there will be more voters voting for Donald Trump because they cannot cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton.
This race will be won by the one candi-date that can get the support of less than 5% of the voters, because all of the other voters already have their minds made up.
This will be one of the nastiest, if not the nastiest campaigns in U.S. history. No matter who wins, they will be one of the most unpopular Presidents ever to take the oath of office in January. They will attempt to unite a deeply-divided nation that shows little regard for the opposi-tion. Depending on the congressional elections, we may see another 4 years of grid-lock with neither party making any attempt to compromise and becoming firmly entrenched in their ideological foundations.
It’s not that we didn’t see this coming. After the presidential and congressional elections of 2008, the Democrats were able to secure a veto proof majority in the U.S. Senate when our neighboring state of Minnesota elected Al Franken as it’s Senator. That gave them 60 votes in the Senate. The Democrat’s danced the “Happy Dance” and drank the “Kool-Aid” and began to ram through the Con-gress a series of measure that became increasingly unpopular with-in the coun-
try. Think “Stimulus”, think “Obamacare”. Remember, “We
won’t know what’s in it until we pass it”-Nancy Pelosi. Remember-“You can keep your doctor if you want him/her; you can keep your health care if you want it”. We saw a wave of new regulations, we saw the IRS scandal; we saw selective enforcement of federal law-depending on who you were, we saw our borders opened like a flood-gate, allowing un-documented aliens to freely enter and compete for our jobs. We saw American companies leaving the U.S. for better tax advantages, taking with them thousands of American jobs.
We saw many of the very foundations upon which America was built on, being declared political in-correct, and being changed by both legislative and judicial decisions.
And we wondered where the Tea Party came from? We wondered why Ameri-cans were so “angry”? The news media attempted to distinguish these Tea-Party supporters as “red-neck”, as lower edu-cated, as not understanding “the sys-tem”. The 2012 election came and went. And the angry became angrier!
And then we came to 2016-and it was not just the Republican party that unrest and dissatisfaction were starting to show. On the Republican side, a huge field of seemingly “high quality” candidates be-gan the pursuit of the party nomination. They were joined by Donald Trump-an “outside” candidate. Trump began to articulate so many of the feelings of the angry and his message began to reso-nate. And the angry got angrier!
On the Democratic side, from all appear-ance it was to be the Hillary coronation; except Bernie Sanders decided to rain on her parade. Bernie hit a chord with-in the Democratic ranks-he too lashed out at the “Establishment”; against the free-trade agreements that had bled Ameri-can jobs; of the “coziness” of Hillary Clin-ton to the Wall Street interests; of the
attempts to “rig” the Democratic nomi-nating process in favor of Clinton. No-body in the “Establishment” listened to Bernie, but thousands of citizens that had never shown interest in the political process felt invigorated and began to cast their vote for the “Bern”. And then the Wiki-leak of the DNC e-mails showed that exactly what Bernie had been railing about with-in the DNC was true. The process was rigged and Debbie Wasser-man-Schultz lost her job. And people got angrier!
And that brings us to this point in the 2016 Presidential election. The angry electorate-and we wonder why?
Gary
CAMPAIGN NOTE: Frank Lasee for Congress contacted MSHBA wonder-ing if any of its members would like yards signs. Contact Chad Dees at 920-412-7188 or let me know if you are interested in displaying a yard sign.
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ALL THINGS POLITICAL By Gary Roehrig, MSHBA Government Affairs Chair
Expanded Coverages Means Support for Area Home Builders and Buyers
In conjunction with the National Asso-ciation of Home Builders (NAHB), the Wisconsin Builders Association (WBA) announces the recent territory expan-sion of two WBA local associations into Outagamie County in northeastern Wisconsin, promising local, state, and national support for area home build-ers and buyers.
The WBA is made up of 22 local associ-ations throughout the state of Wiscon-sin and represents, at the level of the state legislature, the interests of more than 4,400 members involved in the home building industry. Working to-gether, the WBA ensures that builders and homeowners save tens of thou-sands each year in improved laws and regulations, and the organization’s unique 3-in-1 structure with local, state, and national representation allows members to effect change in their local communities and beyond.
Mid-Shores Home Builders Association, founded in 1998 and serving Calumet County, will now also represent the northern bordering communities of Kaukauna, Buchanan, Freedom, Van-denbroek, Combined Locks, Harrison, Kimberly, Little Chute, and Wrightstown.
Winnebago Home Builders Associa-tion, serving Winnebago County since 1990, will now serve the rest of Out-agamie County. These new territories were finalized by NAHB at its midyear meeting last week in Miami.
Jodi Vandermolen, Executive Officer of Winnebago, stated, “I am looking for-ward to providing the home building industry in Outagamie County with all the benefits of three tier member-ship.” To this sentiment, Tena Hartwig, Executive Officer of Mid-Shores, add-ed, “I am also proud to have this op-portunity to grow businesses in the Fox Cities area through all the services and benefits we can provide.”
Such benefits at the state level not only include real dollar savings from advocacy efforts, but access to con-tracts and forms worth thousands, a complimentary legal and building code hotline, discounts on continuing edu-cation, and hassle-free member rebate programs.
More about these two local associa-tions can be found online at midshore-shomebuilders.com and whba.net, or by visiting wisbuild.org.
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Wisconsin Builders Association Announces Expansion of Territories for Mid-Shores Home Builders Association and Winnebago Home Builders Association
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Jerry Arenz Memorial Trap Shoot August 24
Thank you Sponsors! Youth: Darboy Stone & Brick Station: Karr-Bach Builders, Inc., Scott Umland Insurance Services, LLC, TK Hardwood Floor Co. LLC, Christel & Heiberger Builders, Inc., Drexel Building Supply, Overhead Mid-Shores Disposal and Roffers Concrete Construction. Top Gun, Food or Event: Karr-Bach Builders Inc., Zander Press Inc., Kasper Building Supply, State Bank of Chilton, and Master Plan Land-scapes LLC Early Bird: K & J Construction and Design LLC Special thanks to everyone that donated paddle and bucket raffle prizes, door prizes and made food!
Thank you for your support of MSHBA’s 13th Annual 50 Bird Trap Shoot. In honor of Charter member & past Trap Chairman, the shoot was renamed “The Jerry Arenz Memorial Trap Shoot.” Outdoors Inc. retained the Top Team title and Tony Thede beat out the com-petition for the title of Top Gun…Congratulations!
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SAVE THE DATE!
The Wisconsin Builders Association Invites You to
A Wine Tour & Tasting Reception
Saturday, September 17th at 1:00 PM Villa Bellezza Winery & Vineyards
Pepin, WI
Benefiting
Special Gold Key Dinner to Follow at the Historic Anderson House at 6:00 PM
Wabasha, MN
Contribution for Winery Tour, Tasting, Reception, & Gold Key Dinner, per couple
$1000*
Suggested contribution for Winery Tour, Tasting, & Reception,
per couple $365
Suggested contribution for Winery Tour, Tasting, & Reception,
per individual $185
*If you are already a Gold Key contributor, you do not need to pay again to attend.
The Pepin/Wabasha area is a perfect weekend getaway. Experience the beautiful fall colors within the wine trail, golf along the bluffs, stay at a historic lodge, and enjoy local eateries & drinking establishments. For more information on Villa Bellezza Winery & Vineyards, click here. Please contact Monica Sommerfeldt Lewis by email [email protected] or phone 800-962-8297, or contact Amy Harris ([email protected] / 202-266-8110) to RSVP or for any questions. Be sure to make lodging reservations early!
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primary by businessman Paul Nehlen. Neh-len is basically running a repeat of the Don-ald Trump presidential primary campaign, which is odd considering Trump was reject-ed handily by GOP voters in the 1st Congres-sional District in the spring presidential pri-mary in Wisconsin.
In the e-mail, members were urged to “Vote for Housing on August 9” and to “Reach out to your family, your friends, your business associates. Let them know you support Paul Ryan.”
This joint NAHB/WBA effort is substantial because it is the first time that NAHB has directly contacted members in any part of the country asking them to specifically sup-port a candidate who supports housing.
Look for additional efforts like this in other parts of the country as NAHB continues to expand their efforts on the political front in 2016 and beyond.
Speaker Ryan defeated Paul Nehlen 84% to 16% in the recent primary election.
Kelly Picked for Wisconsin Supreme Court Vacancy Conventional wisdom is not always correct. For months, Wisconsin capitol observers (myself included) had been predicting that former state representative and current Judge Mark Gundrum would be appointed by Governor Walker to fill the open positon on the Wisconsin Supreme Court being va-cated by the retirement of Justice David Prosser, Jr.
Governor Walker went in a different direc-tion with his appointment when he an-nounced that attorney Daniel Kelly had been appointed to fill out Prosser’s term on Wis-consin’s high court.
As a founding member of the law firm Rogahn Kelly, Daniel Kelly is recognized as a leader in Wisconsin's legal community. Prior to beginning his own private practice, he was a partner at Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren in Milwaukee, one of Wisconsin's largest and most respected firms. Kelly also served as a law clerk and staff attorney for the United States Court of Federal Claims, Office of Special Masters, and as a law clerk
August 17, 2016 Walker to Cabinet: No New Spending in State Budget As Governor Walker and his cabinet begin the process of putting together their budg-et requests for the 2017-2019 state budget, one message was recently sent out to all state agency heads: no spending requests that exceed what was requested in the 2013-2015 State Budget.
Governor Walker stated in a letter dated July 25, 2016, “Just as in the last biennial budget, I am directing most agencies to maintain their overall fiscal year 2017-2018 and 2018-19 GPR (general purpose revenue or tax dollars) budgets at the fiscal year 2016-17 adjusted base.”
Walker also provided some guidance and direction on where he would like to see state agencies focus their dollars and poli-cy goals for the upcoming state budg-et. “Agency requests should focus on providing new opportunities for our world-class workforce and continue to enhance our state’s economy. Agencies are encour-aged to take a fresh look at all programs and identify ways to realign resources in order to fund initiatives within their cur-rent base, rather than seek additional re-sources the taxpayers can’t afford. Our common goal is to deliver an efficient and accountable government for the taxpay-ers.”
By law state agencies are required to sub-mit their budget requests to Governor Walker on September 15, 2016. Typically, a state budget is introduced in February/March of odd numbered years.
NAHB and WBA Alert Members on Paul Ryan Primary Support Recently the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) continued their effort to be more influential in the election process by working with WBA to contact members in the 1st Congressional District and urge them to vote for Speaker Paul Ryan in the primary election on Tuesday. Congress-man Ryan was being challenged in the GOP
By Brad Boycks
Executive Director, WBA
Brad Boycks Executive Director Wisconsin Builders Associa-tion® [email protected] (608) 242-5151 ext. 16 Visit our web site: www.wisbuild.org
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“Home builders live and work in their com-munities. We see the effects of flood insur-ance rate increases in both our personal and professional lives,” Noel told legislators.
He thanked them for their successful efforts to roll back the unintended consequences of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which failed to foresee how costly rate increases from the sale or transfer of homes in the flood plain could decimate local econ-omies.
Because of these fixes enacted in 2014, “NAHB has estimated that there was $755 million more in new construction and $361 million a year in additional remodeling,” a boon to these small businesses still reeling from the recession, Noel said.
The builders also spoke about the problems associated with inaccurate Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs). They can inflate home prices, hike premiums for home owners and create havoc for small businesses, particu-larly the home builders, remodelers and oth-er contractors working on residential con-struction projects in the nation’s flood-plains.
In Florida, Robles said, it’s almost a given that homes will be built in or near a flood-plain, so as FEMA continues its FIRM up-dates, precision is key.
“There have been reported cases of FEMA neglecting to factor in privately funded flood-control structures, or drawing in rivers or streams where none exist,” Robles testi-fied. “Home owners are being incorrectly mapped into floodplains and forced to pur-chase unneeded flood insurance. It typically takes years for these mistakes to be fixed, often requiring a lengthy and costly process for the community, builder and home own-er.”
The NFIP also guides future development – but this federal program must continue to allow local communities to control their own growth and development options, NAHB said in its testimony. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who chairs the committee, thanked the speakers, adding that new construction is the solution to NFIP solvency and paying premiums, not the problem.
The NFIP must be reauthorized by Sept. 30, 2017.
for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
"I am deeply honored that the governor would appoint me to succeed Justice Prosser," Daniel Kelly said. "I look forward to working with my new colleagues in serv-ing the people of this great state by faithful-ly applying the laws of our land."
Daniel Kelly's community involvement in-cludes serving as the president of the Mil-waukee Lawyer's Chapter of the Federalist Society and as a member of the State Advi-sory Board to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Kelly earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and a Juris Doctor from Regent University in Virginia. Kelly is married and has five children, and he and his family reside in North Prairie, Wisconsin.
Members Stand Out at Flood Insurance Hearing From NAHB: Flood insurance rate increases hurt home owners, businesses and commu-nities and will cripple the home building in-dustry as it’s just beginning to right itself. It’s a message that Congress needs to hear as it looks at how the National Flood Insur-ance Program (NFIP) is working in the real world – and today, NAHB delivered it not just once, but twice. Recognizing the importance of this issue to home builders and NAHB’s key role in the NFIP debate, we were presented with the unprecedented opportunity to have two members testify. Randy Noel, a home builder in La Place, La., and NAHB 2nd Vice Chair, and home builder Kevin Robles, past president of the Tampa Bay Builders Association, each testified be-fore theSenate Committee on Small Busi-ness & Entrepreneurship.
NAHB has a long history of supporting the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), but as Congress reauthorizes the program, it must ensure that it remains predictable, universally available and fiscally viable so home builders can continue to provide safe and affordable housing to consumers, these builders said.
Rate increases have the most direct impact on low-income home owners who could be stuck paying premiums they cannot afford, while trying to sell a property that others have difficulty qualifying to purchase.
