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Thank you to the 2010 Golf Tournament Participants, Sponsors, & Dinner Guests

WEEKLYBULLETIN

The annual Golf Tournament held at Indian Valley Golf Course was a successful event. Thank you Indian Valley Golf Club. All the money raised goes to support the MBA Scholarship Fund. Once again, the golfers enjoyed oysters and margaritas served on the 13th hole, hosted by The Dutra Group and Cal-West Rentals.

Many thanks to all who participated and sponsored this wonderful event.

Congratulations to all the winners!

President Jeff Grady ~ Grady Consulting Services

Vice President Mark Silvia ~ Marin Mechanical Inc

Chief Financial Officer Rick Nichelini ~ Nichelini & Sons Inc

Secretary Jeff Mertel ~ Mertel Carpets Inc

Past President

Keith Dotto ~ Dotto Glass, Inc.

2009-2010 MBA Directors & Officers

AimiDutra~TheDutraGroup

BarryArends~ MorrisRoofing

DaveTrahan~ PatriotMechanical

TylerDoherty~ CalWestRentalsInc

GaryFrugoli~ ConstructionConsultant

PeterMigale~ MigalePaintingCompany

JimSchalich~ SchalichBrothersConstruction

DickGhilotti~ GhilottiConstructionCompany

DaveGarbarino~ MarinSanitaryService,Inc.

JeffPottorff~ NorthBayLandscapeManagement

Staff

Klif Knoles ~ General Manager Paula Krause ~ Assistant General Manager Sue Peterson ~ Controller Karen Adams ~ Insurance Administrator Diane Van Renselaar ~ Planroom Enid Lifson ~ Reception ~ Planroom Joan Szarfinski ~ Front Office Assistant Janet Alessandra ~ Website Weekly Bulletin ~ Notary Casey Mazzoni ~ Legislative Analyst Klif Knoles ~ Workers Comp Safety Director

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Thank you to the Golf Committee

Aimi Dutra

Paula Krause

Casey Mazzoni

Rick Nichelini

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Aimi Dutra The Dutra Group

Donating the Drink Cooler Bags

Dick Ghilotti Ghilotti Construction Hosting the Cocktail Hour

Cal-West Rentals & The Dutra Group

Hosting Oysters & Margaritas on the 13th Hold

Ghilotti Brothers, Inc Sponsoring Refreshments on the Course

Indian Valley Golf Course Jeff McAndrew & Staff 19th Hole Bar & Grill Fermin

And To ALL THE GOLFERS For Supporting

MARIN BUILDERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT

2 Giants Tickets-Club Level with Parking Beronio Lumber

The Simple & Savvy Wine Guide & Case of Wine Selected by Leslie Sbrocco Big Cat Advertising

Basket of Locally Grown Goodies Brigitte Moran

Free Weekend Rental-Margarita Machine Cal-West Rentals

$250.00 Buckeye Roadhouse Gift Certificate The Dutra Group

Basket of Enviro-Friendly Cleaning Products Fairfax Lumber

4 Bottles Wine(2)Murphy-Goode(2)Folie a Deux Forster Pump & Engineering

Apple I Pod Touch 8G Friends of MBA

$100.00 Gift Certificate, Shirts, Apron & Hat Marin Joes

4 Giants Tickets Club Level with Parking Golden State Lumber

Golf Scope, 1 Dozen Balls, Putter Grady Financial

Golf Bag & Golf For 4 Indian Valley Golf Course

$50.00 Gift Certificate Lombardis Deli

$500.00 Paper Shredding Certificate Marin Sanitary Service

Round of Golf for Four McInnis Park Golf Center

1 Cube of Bricks or Pallet of Pavers McNear Brick & Block

4 ft. X 6 ft. Shag Area Rug Mertel Carpets

$125.00 Whole Foods Gift Certificate Morris Roofing Co.

$125.00 Bungalow 44 Gift Certificate Morris Roofing Co.

2 each $50.00 Il Davide Gift Certificates Nichelini & Sons

4 sets Giants tickets 4 Seats each Game Patriot Mechanical

$50.00 Trader Joes Gift Certificate Peter Arrigoni

2 each $100.00 La Toscana Gift Certificates Schalich Bros. Construction

1 Hour Kitchen Design Consultation Spacial Design

2 each $50.00 Gift Cards State Fund

3 Dozen Wilson Golf Balls T&B Sports

2 As Tickets with VIP Parking Van Midde & Son Concrete

Golf Tournament 2010

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Gross Score Results

1st Place

Raul Garcia Slim Chatfield

Barry Freeman Les Percebski

Blind Bogey Results 1st Tom Mathews Tom Williams Roy Forster Jim Schalich

Blind Bogey Results 2nd Matthew Olsen Tom Nordquist

Lee Borilla Tom Ganley

Blind Bogey Results 3rd Mark Silva Dan Ackley

Bill Tomrose Chris Diaz

Closest to the Hole 4 Mike McSweeney

17 Scott Nelson

Golf Tournament 2010

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Golf Tournament 2010

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Golf Tournament 2010

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After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. ~

Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his Puerto Rican accent

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~Jack Lemmon

Golf Tournament 2010

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Golf Tournament 2010

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Thank You to our Sponsors & Contributors for Your Support

of the Marin Builders Association Scholarship Fund

Alten Construction, Inc.

Cal-West Rentals

The Dutra Group

Fairfax Lumber & Hardware

Ghilotti Bros., Inc.

Ghilotti Construction Co.

Jerry Thompson & Sons Painting

Maggiora & Ghilotti

Nichelini & Sons

State Fund

THANK YOU TEE SIGN SPONSORS

Alten Construction, Inc. Marin Lumber

Bank of Marin Marin Sanitary Service

Barardi Tile Mayock Drywall

California Mortgage Advisors Mclennon Law Corp.

CTW Designs McNeil, Silveira, Rice & Wiley

De Mello Roofing McPhail Fuel Company

Fairfax Lumber Mertel Carpets

Ghilotti Bros., Inc. Migale Painting Company

Ghilotti Construction Nichelini & Sons

Greene Building Co., Inc. Northgate Garage Door

Hillside Drilling OnSpot Welding & Design

Hughes General Contractor Peter Levi Plumbing

Jacksons Hardware Powerhouse Building, Inc.

Jerry Thompson & Sons Painting Rempe Construction

Jim Judd for Congress Schalich Bros. Construction

Kies Strategies Shamrock Materials, Inc.

Lamperti Contracting & Design Tamalpais Paint & Color

Maggiora & Ghilotti, Inc. Valley Tree Service

Maher Accountancy Water Components

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BY:PhilVermeulen,LegislativeAdvocate

With the end of the legislative session just around the corner (August 31st is the last day of the session), yesterday was a key day for many of our bills. As previously reported, several of our bills were placed on what is called "Suspense" in the Appropriations Committee of the house they were in (some in the Assembly, the others in the Senate). Any bill with a projected cost of $100,00 or more to the state automatically goes to Suspense and is dealt with on Suspense Day, which happened to be yesterday. For your information, which bills get off suspense versus which do not really depends on politics "behind the scenes." I am proud to report, ALL of our bills that were on suspense made it out yesterday! This is huge, but then both were authored by Democrats which certainly made a huge difference! With this last hurdle resolved, ALL of these bills will be approved out of the legislature and head to the governor by the end of the month for his expected signature. Following is a brief recap of these bills: AB 2036 (Berryhill, Bill) - As many of you know, more and more public agencies are now requiring contractors and plan rooms to pay for sets of plans and specifications in order to bid on their public works projects. This bill would require public agencies to provide plans and specifications for free to ALL parties (including plan rooms) and would also require them to make the materials available by an electronic means as well. This measure would allow an agency to charge a deposit of up to $250 for the materials, BUT as long as the contractor returned them to the agency within 14 days of the bid opening, the fee would be refunded in full. This measure, which was set to go to suspense yesterday, but due to a hard core press of the Senate Appropriations Committee members during our testimony, we were able to obtain a 11-0 vote and avoided this p