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NECA IN ACTION:
Your Staff and Leadership Activity Update from NECA's
National Office
November 16, 2010
As a chapter leader, we want
you to know more about how your officers and staff are
working for NECA members at our national office in our
weekly email update, NECA IN ACTION. Please contact the
staff member listed if you have any questions about an item
you see in NECA IN ACTION.
JOINING WITH REBUILDING AMERICA COALITION:
NECA is actively working with the Rebuilding America
Coalition to strategize next steps for the 112th
Congress. Lake Coulson
and Kristen McDonough
participated in a meeting at the office of the United
Nations Foundation last week to discuss key issues and next
steps for formulating tax incentive legislation with a focus
on energy efficiency while emphasizing job creation. As a
powerful voice in the commercial sector, the Rebuilding
America Coalition is working to developing several policy
initiatives such as financing/lending issues within the
energy efficiency marketplace and to reach out to identify
prospective model retrofit programs that have been
successful on the state/local levels.
MEMBER LEADERS VISIT NATIONAL OFFICE:
John Grau
met with two of the incoming NECA Vice Presidents,
Gary Tucci
with District 10 and
George Adams with
District 6 for their Executive Committee orientation
briefing this week. Tom
Wolden, incoming Chair
of NECA’s Political Leadership Council, visited the national
office last Friday to get a briefing from the national
government affairs staff and ECPAC’s 2011 legislative
goals.
GETTING A CHAPTERS-EYE VIEW:
Lake
and Rex Ferry
attended the San Francisco NECA chapter’s annual
installation event last weekend. Chapter Executive
Tom Coleman
emceed the event and the new Board members were installed
with Jim Young
coming in to serve as Chapter
President and Ken
Paganini continuing
service as Governor. During the event, incoming President
Jim Young
also became NECA’s newest
Political Leadership Council member.
ENDORSING NECA MEMBER FOR ACCSH:
Jerry Rivera
put together NECA’s endorsement for Thomas Marrero Jr. to
serve as a member of the Advisory Committee of Construction
Safety and Health (ACCSH). The ACCSH is a continuing
advisory body established by statute that provides advice
and assistance in construction standards and policy matters
to OSHA’s Assistant Secretary.
CURT MEETING:
Dan Walter
was at the Construction Users Roundtable meeting last week,
along with Rex Ferry
and IBEW President Ed Hill. They heard from large industrial
customers who report that business is still down and that
the financial impact of safety on project costs is still a
primary concern.
ESFI MEETING IN FLORIDA:
Dan Walter
and John Grau attended
the Electrical Safety Foundation, Inc. board meeting last
week. ESFi is largely focused on consumer electrical safety,
but is planning initiatives for workplace safety. During the
meeting, John met with the top executives of many major
electrical manufacturers and discussed the outlook for the
electrical industry for the coming year. Dan will be serving
on ESFi’s board of directors next year.
CELI IN FLORIDA, TOO:
Greg Mankevich
and several national NECA staff were in Orlando last week
for the bi-annual Chapter Executives Leadership Institute,
an intensive training program for chapter managers. Around
35 chapter executives participated. This year's program
included a mock CIR session that was very well received.
NAED IN FLORIDA, AS WELL:
Rob Colgan
led a workshop on the "energy solutions contractor" and how
distributors can interact with and support the evolving role
of the electrical contractor at NAED's Eastern Region
meeting in Orlando earlier this week. John Grau met with
NAED President Tom Naber to discuss issues of mutual concern
with electrical distributors.
NFPA TECHNICAL CORRELATING COMMITTEE UPDATE:
Mike Johnston
met with the NEC TCC Membership Committee by conference call
last week. Nathan Philips was recommended to fill Johnston's
vacancy as chair of Code Making Panel 5 left when Johnston
accepted the appointment as TCC chair. NECA Codes and
Standards Committee representative Nathan Philips has been
recommended to chair NEC CMP-5 for the 2014 NEC cycle. John
Thompson (UL) will has been recommended to succeed Wayne
Brinkmeyer as chair of NEC CMP-11.
NEIS COORDINATION WITH BICSI:
Michael Johnston
and Aidan McCallion
held a teleconference meeting with BICSI to resolve several
outstanding comments proposed for one of NECA’s new
standards, NECA 607
Telecommunications Bonding and Grounding Planning and
Installation Methods for Commercial Building.
The canvass members came to agreement
on resolutions for all outstanding issues.
NECA LARGE CONTRACTORS MEETING: John Grau
met with the NECA Large Contractor group in Washington, D.C.
The group discussed detailed reports regarding NECA/IBEW
market recovery efforts across the country given by the four
NECA regional executive directors. They also met with the
President of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, Karen
Harbert and received a 2011 legislative priority preview
from Lake Coulson.
MAKING WORLDWIDE CONNECTIONS:
John Grau
and Dan Walter
met with CEO and COO of NELFO (Norwegian Electrical
Contractors Association to discuss our NLMCC. The Norwegian
group was also pre-planning a trip for their board to visit
the U.S. next year.
CABLE SPLICER CERTIFICATION MEETING IN HOUSTON:
Bill Triplett
represented NECA at the National Cable Splicer Certification
annual board meeting in Houston on October 4. Steve
Anderson of the NJATC was re-elected as president.
MARKET DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS FOR EV INFRASTRUCTURE CONTINUE:
Rob Colgan
hosted a conference call last Nov. 1 with an Electric
Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program working group,
co-chaired by Bernie Kotlier (California LMCC) and Jennifer
Mefford (NECA & IBEW - SE Michigan. This group is a subset
of the NECA economic development group that met in Boston
working on a training and certification program for Electric
Vehicle Charging Equipment (EVSE). The group has drafted a
statement of purpose and is recruiting industry partners
from utilities, auto manufacturers, EVSE manufacturers, and
energy storage manufacturers, as an advisory board. The
working group is holding weekly conference calls and has
participation from chapters, locals and training centers
around the country.
MODELING THE NEW ENERGY ECONOMY:
Rob Colgan
also participated in a conference call on Nov. 4 with Energy
Economic Modeling of Santa FE Springs,
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