A Message From 2009-2010 CSI-SLC President Richard Baxter

2010-2011 Board of Directors Election Results

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

CSI-Salt Lake Chapter member,
 
I’ve been so busy the last month, that I’m not sure I gave everyone the results of our elections.
 
Our nominations committee came up with one nominee for each board position.  All members were then given the opportunity to offer other nominations.  Since we ended up with only 1 nominee in each category, it was not necessary to cast ballots.
 
The results were as follows:

Newly Elected Positions:
President Elect: David Keesler
Vice President: Logan DeWitt
Treasurer (Financial Chairman): Jake Alder
Director – Industry: Jim Sheltmire
Secretary: Tanya Dodge

Continuing in second year of 2-year term:
Director – Professional: Cortney Roundy

Automatic Positions:
President: Jim Rohbock
Immediate Past President (Advisor): Richard Baxter
 
This new executive board will become effective on July 1st, 2010.
 
I am truly thankful to all our outgoing board and committee members and the service they have rendered this year. We owe a lot to Jim Butler in particular, who has served us as Treasurer for many years and will not continue as Treasurer this coming year.  We are also unfortunate in losing our long-time liaison with the Salt Lake Community College, Norm Clark.  We owe him a lot for all the student involvement he has encouraged over the years.
 
Jim Rohbock is already filling up the committee chair positions.  I hope that everyone will contact him and let him know of your interests in being more involved this year.  We have a need for assistance with planning our next Symposium and we are looking for other liaisons with local schools.
 
This year, I have focused primarily on restoring the chapter to the levels I’ve often heard it it was in the past.  We have gained 12 new members in spite of the few loses brought on mostly by the struggling economy.  We have had consistent good attendance to our programs, including a lot of non-member attendance.  Our symposium was a success.  All-in-all it has been a good year.
 
But there are many areas that we have still neglected.  We need to increase our presence at the local schools and increase the understanding of the need for CDT certification.  We need more interaction between our regional and national CSI members.  We need to help architects understand the value of CSI membership regardless of their spec-writing status.
 
I attended the CSI Regional Conference a few weeks ago and the CSI National Conference last week.  I often regret that more of our chapter members are not experiencing the friendships and networking that I have been making at these conferences.  I’m not a big fan of traveling, but I never come home regretting having attended a CSI conference.  I think that most of us underestimate the value of the resources we can gain at these meetings.
 
We have only two more programs scheduled for this year.  I hope I’ll see all of you at tomorrow’s tour of Codale Electric Supply.  In June we are trying something different for our Awards Program.  We will be having a picnic and our families are invited.  I think it is about time we met some of the people that support us behind the scenes and that we give them an opportunity to meet the kind of people that join CSI.  This final meeting will be a members-and family-only event.
 
Richard Baxter
CSI President – Salt Lake Chapter
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