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Hello Everyone,
This is a very busy time of the year for all of us. Hope you are all handling the pressures set upon us and find the time to enjoy your work and your time off!
Looking forward to having our general membership meetings begin again start-ing September 13. We are hoping to have a good group of members joining us and making our associa-tion the best it can be.
The Parade of Homes com-
mittee continues their work on this year's Parade. The focus now is filling ad space in our Parade of Homes Book. We hope you might consider promoting your business in this years publication. Please call Tena to learn more about this opportunity.
Our next Mid-Shores event is the Trap Shoot on Au-gust 24. This one is geared less toward business and more toward fun. There's still time to enter your
team, or perhaps become a sponsor. Please contact Tena or Pam if you would like to get involved with this event in one way or another.
Thank you,
Tom Heiberger
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE By Tom Heiberger, Christel & Heiberger Builders, Inc. Membership 2
Regulatory Rules 2
All Things Political 3
Trap Shoot 4
Parade Ad Sales 6
WBA GA 9
Inside this issue:
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: August 2 Trap Shoot Commit-
tee Mtg. 7:30 am at Seven Angels Restaurant
August 4 Board of Directors Mtg 7:00 am at Seven Angels Restaurant
August 4 Mandatory Parade Builder Mtg. 7:30 am at Sev-en Angels Restaurant
August 4 Parade of Homes Committee Mtg. 8:30 am at Seven Angels Restaurant
August 24 MSHBA 50 Bird Trap Shoot 4-7 pm at Outdoors, Inc.
the Cutting Edge
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 8
August 2016
Celebrating 15 Years! 1998-2013
“LIKE US ON FACEBOOK”
MSHBA Proceeds in Process of Acquiring a Portion of Outagamie County
MSHBA is closer to obtaining additional membership territory. On July 11, MSHBA, Winnebago HBA and the surrounding local associations approved a split of the surren-dered territory of Outagamie county. NAHB’s Directors will make the final decision at its August 11 Board Meeting
The Board of Directors of Mid-Shores Home Builders Association Inc., is requesting to add to its existing territory the municipalities of the City and Town of Kaukauna, the Towns of Buchanan, Freedom and Vandenbroek, and the Villages of Combined Locks, Harrison, Kimberly, Little Chute and Wrightstown of Outagamie County. Winnebago HBA is working to acquire the remaining portion of Outagamie county.
MSHBA is proud to have the opportunity to continue the mission of a 3 in 1 member-ship in the Fox Cities and are excited to work together with new members to provide them with services and benefits to make them successful.
MEMBERSHIPS DUE: March: Builders Supply of NE Wisconsin May: City Wide insulation Inc. G&H Trucking & Excavating, Inc.
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.
MSHBA is Featured is the Badger Builder!
If you haven’t had a chance yet, checkout the recent issue of the Badger Builder. MSHBA is featured in the Association Spotlight. You can view the article at http://www.wisbuild.org/badger-builder.html
WBA Board Meeting Glacier Canyon Conference Center, Wis. Dells Thursday, October 6
SAVE THE DATE 2017 WBA Installa-tion 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
MSHBA’S 14th Annual PARADE OF HOMES
Advertise your Business in the Parade Book!
Parade Dates: Friday, Oct. 7 4-8PM
Saturday, Oct. 810AM-5PM
Sunday, Oct. 9 10AM-4PM
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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.
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
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sion. Additional Summaries Available for Recent-ly Passed Property Rights Bills The bills that received the biggest push to close the legislative session in 2016 were two pieces of legislation to provide greater property rights options for landowners in Wisconsin. As you know, one centered around water law changes and another dealt with law changes to provide greater statewide uniformity to land use laws across the state.
Now that both SB 459 (now 2015 Wisconsin Act 387) and AB 582 (now 2015 Wisconsin Act 391) have been signed into law by Gov-ernor Walker, we wanted to provide a more in-depth summary of all of the provisions in each bill that will help landowners, home-owners, builders/remodelers, and land de-velopers for many years to come.
For more information concerning changes to water laws and the provision included in 2015 Wisconsin Act 387 click here. Also, additional information on statewide uniformity efforts of several building and development issue can be found by clicking here.
Cullen for Governor? With the 2016 general elections coming clos-er into focus, some speculation has begun on who will challenge Governor Walker in 2018, assuming that he decides to seek a third term. So far the list of possible chal-lengers has included current state senators Kathleen Vienhout (D-Alma) and Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse), along with Congress-man Ron Kind (D-La Crosse).
Recently, the online political news website wispolitics.com reported a fourth candidate that is considering a bid for governor in 2018, former two-time State Senator Tim Cullen of Janesville.
Multiple sources on the democrat side con-firmed to wispolitics.com that Cullen was kicking around the idea of a run for gover-nor, and later confirmed his interest when he was quoted as saying, "I think about it every day, but I'm a ways from making a final decision.”
July 18, 2016 Danger Signs for GOP in Marquette Law School Poll A lot has been written on what effect the outside-of-the-box selection of Donald Trump will have on GOP voters across the county, including whether or not Trump will have a negative effect on turnout and down ballot races for state assembly and state senate. If the data in a recent Mar-quette Law School Poll on GOP voter inten-sity is any indication, there appears to be some concerns for down ticket GOP candi-dates and a drop off of those GOP voters who say they will be voting in November.
The decrease in voter intensity by GOP vot-ers is matched by an increase in intensity by Democrats for the November General Election. A recent Marquette Law School Poll reported that "differences between registered and likely voters reflect shifting enthusiasm among Republicans and Demo-crats. In this new poll, 78 percent of Re-publicans say they are certain they will vote in November, a drop of 9 percentage points from the 87 percent who said so in March. Meanwhile, Democratic intentions to vote have increased, rising in June to 84 percent certain to vote from 81 percent in March. These shifts in likely-voter inten-tions account for the stronger support for Democrats in both presidential and senate races among likely voters than among all registered voters. By contrast, in June 2012, 90 percent of Republicans said they were certain to vote in November, as did 80 percent of Democrats."
Low voter intensity (i.e. lower voter turn-out) by the GOP, coupled with the fact that Governor Walker has a 57% disapproval rating, could be a major issue in some key legislative races. For instance, in some key assembly races the GOP candidate has lit-tle margin of error because the seats are very close to 50%-50%, and, if even 1-2% of usual GOP voters stay home this could make a big difference in the final vote and may have a big effect on the margins of the majority for the 2017-2018 legislative ses-
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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President of Encore Construction in Middle-ton and former WBA Advocacy Group Chair, is one of the members of the Legislative Council Study Committee on the Preserva-tion of Burial Sites. Other members of the committee include State Representatives Amy Loudenbeck, Robert Brooks, Dave Con-sidine, and State Senator Jon Erpenbach. Joining Mr. Wuebben as public members of the committee are Conrad Goodkind, Presi-dent, Board of Curators, Wisconsin Histori-cal Society; William Green, Director, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College; David Grignon, Historic Preservation Dept. Director, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wis-consin; Kira Kaufmann, Principal Investiga-tor, Midwest Archeological Research; Justin Oeth, Attorney, Reinhart Attorneys at Law; E. Glen Porter, Owner, Highland Memorial Park; Bill Quackenbush, Preservation Rep-resentative, Ho-Chunk Nation; and Robert Shea, President, Wingra Stone Company.
Nelson to Get $1 Million in Help for Congres-sional Bid When looking at the 8 congressional dis-tricts in Wisconsin, there is really only one that is being hotly contested in 2016—the 8th Congressional District. Congressman Reid Ribble’s retirement, combined with the competitive nature of the district (especially in a year with the race for president at the top of the ticket), this is really the only truly competitive seat to keep an eye on this fall. The GOP must wait for the August primary between State Senator Frank Lasee and Mike Gallagher before they know who will be going up against current Outagamie County Executive and former State Repre-sentative Tom Nelson in November.
Whether it is Lasee or Gallagher, it appears that Mr. Nelson will be supported by at least $1 million in independent ads in his bid to take the seat for the democrats for the first time since the 2008 election.
Recently, rollcall.com reported that at least $950,000 had been spent by two independ-ent political action committees to reserve television time in the Green Bay television market to aid Nelson’s bid for congress.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently stepped up with a pur-chase of $730,000 in television time to add to a buy that was made in April by the House Majority PAC of $220,000.
Obviously, a great deal of time and political change will likely occur before the candi-dates above make a final decision on run-ning for governor or not. The biggest deci-sion will come first from Governor Walker on seeking a third term. If Walker decides against another run, this would create an open seat and likely would increase the number of candidates that would ultimately run on both sides of the political aisle.
The day after the November general elec-tion, you will likely see this story begin to get even more attention with all eyes on Walker for a decision likely in early to mid-2017 on his intentions for a 2018 reelection.
Wuebben Named to Study Committee on the Preservation of Burial Sites Each summer when the legislature is ad-journed and the focus of most legislators turns to their reelection efforts, marching in parades, and knocking on voter’s doors, the Wisconsin Legislative Council begins re-searching important topics to address dur-ing the next legislative session. Legislative Council Study Committees are appointed by the Joint Legislative Council and are unique because the members of each committee consist of members of the
legislature and citizen volunteers who have expertise and experience in the area being studied. Typically, study committees have a wide variety of legislators and citizens who have differing backgrounds and approaches to the issue they are tackling over the sum-mer months.
Members of the Joint Legislative Council recently approved the establishment and the membership of nine separate study committees who will be trying to come to consensus to solve a number of issues over the coming months. One of the study com-mittees will try to strike a delicate balance to preserve Native American burial sites while still allowing for development and excavation around these areas. This issue came to light last session with the introduc-tion of a bill to address the issue, and efforts to also address the topic as part of the state budget bill. After those efforts were unsuc-cessful, the next step in the process was the establishment of the study committee to see if a compromise could be achieved and ultimately addressed next session.
We are happy to report that Chad Wuebben,
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istration unveiled new efforts to standardize and codify a way to combat the threats as-sociated with climate change, including new requirements for builders. While no changes have been finalized, NAHB is closely monitoring these proposals, in-cluding:
Federal Funding Requirements. The depart-ments of Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture are reviewing requirements for builders and developers seeking to con-struct federally funded housing to ensure they align with the most recent model build-ing codes and standards for resilient con-struction.
Codes and Standards for Resilience to Tor-nadoes. A coalition of federal agencies is developing state-of-the-science tornado hazard maps to underpin a new perfor-mance-based standard for design of build-ings and other structures to better with-stand tornadoes. These maps and the new standard will help design professionals en-sure that future buildings are better equipped to endure the impacts of high winds and debris. Resilient Building Codes Resource Website. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched a webpage to promote more resilient com-munities through the use of the latest stand-ards and criteria, building codes and climate science.
Smart Growth Code Changes. The Environ-mental Protection Agency will publish the Smart Growth Code Fixes for Climate Adap-tation report, which includes a menu of changes jurisdictions can make to zoning and building codes and related policies to prepare for and adapt to climate change while bringing other environmental, eco-nomic, social and health benefits. The report will be available this fall. Supporting Code Adoption and Enforce-ment. The federal Implementation Strategy for Increasing Disaster Resilience through Federal Support for Building Code Adoption and Enforcement will be released later this year.
For additional information about NAHB’s response to these initiatives, contact Vice President of Construction, Codes and Stand-ards Neil Burning at [email protected] or call 800-368-5242 x8564.
Why is there so much spending by the dem-ocrats in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional Dis-trict? A few factors likely are driving the spending in the 8th. One is the political make-up of the seat and the year. With the unpredictability at the top of the ticket with GOP voters’ lukewarm attitude toward Don-ald Trump, and the fact that this is a more democrat friendly seat in presidential elec-tion years are big factors. Another obvious reason is that an open seat is typically much easier to win than one being held by a popu-lar incumbent like Reid Ribble.
Also, Tom Nelson is an “A” recruit for the democrats, and they are backing that up with a substantial investment to help aid his campaign. Finally, one other factor that is driving this spending is that there are not a lot of truly competitive and open seats for the democrats to target in 2016, which may have pushed this seat up the list of areas that they have decided to invest in to try to retake the majority in the House of Repre-sentatives in 2016.
White House Proposes New Resilience Efforts From NAHB: At the May White House Confer-ence on Resilient Building Codes, the Admin-
