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PRESI DENT’S MESSAGE Frank Krause, Krause Construction, Watertown, SD Hello. It is hard to believe it is March already, these last two months have really flown by. But time flies when you’re having fun. Look at it this way, we are closer to spring and the building season. I have visited a few Home Shows, which are in full swing now. I went to the Brookings and Watertown shows, and will travel to Aberdeen and to Sioux Falls this weekend, March 6,7 & 8. Then it will be Lewis & Clark the following weekend, and Black Hills March 27-29. So it looks like I’ll have a busy March, which I’ve committed to do, and I enjoy it. I want to let our members know we are here for them and support them at the state level. The two shows I’ve attended so far were great, with a lot of people seeming very positive and ready to get something done, and the exhibitors were very pleased with the crowds. One thing I did hear from a lot of builders was about the shortage of help. Hopefully we will see a solution to this workforce problem. New housing is at the highest we’ve seen for several years, in line with what it was before the housing market crash. But the help to get them built is not there. The legislative session is about over. Bring Housing Home is slated for March. We will let you know the time and date soon. Hopefully we can meet with them all and voice our opinions on important housing issues, so they can take them back to Washington. Thank you to everyone who is taking charge of the SDHBA business until we can hire a new Exec Officer for the state. It is a lot of commitment on everyone’s part. Thank you! As always, do business with a member, be safe, and God bless. If you need to contact me, my phone number is 605-237-9165, and my email is [email protected]. I will respond as soon as possible. Frank March/ April 2015 EDI TI ON Newsletter of the South Dakota Home Builders Association I ssue Builder News is published by the South Dakota Home Builders Association (SDHBA), affiliated with the National Association of Home Builders. SDHBA P. O. Box 1218 Pierre, South Dakota 57501-1218 OFFICE (605) 224-2761 FAX (605) 224-0820 WEBSITE www.sdhomebuilders.com EMAIL [email protected] BOARD OF DI RECTORS President-Frank Krause, Watertown 1st VP-Jeff Lage, Rapid City 2nd VP– Lynn Mennis, Brookings Sec’y./Treasurer-Jim Tolley, Black Hawk Past President-Tim Frohreich, Yankton State Rep Duane Bickett, Sioux Falls National Director Dwight Eich, Rapid City Alt Nat Director-George Houtman, Brookings Assoc. Nat’l Director Candi Menke, Sioux Falls Alt Assoc Nat Direct-Chane Patten, Sioux Falls PAC Trustee-Curt Cartwright, Rapid City John Kokales, Aberdeen Pat Tollefson, Aberdeen Chris Frost, Aberdeen Kevin Foss, Aberdeen Daene Boomsma, Rapid City Desi Mendel, Rapid City Denise Born, Rapid City Rick Askvig, Rapid City Ralph Siemonsma-Spearfish Garth Johnson, Brookings George Houtman, Brookings Ronda Houtman, Brookings Dennis Buys, Brookings Daryl Christensen, Sioux Falls Matt Swenson, Sioux Falls Terry Konechne, Sioux Falls Chane Patten, Sioux Falls Mike Austad, Sioux Falls Todd Boots, Tea Scott Hjellming, Sioux Falls Peter Ronning, Sioux Falls Brad Mair, Sioux Falls Mel Zelmer, Tea Nick Kisch, Yankton Lee Retig, Yankton Lisa DeRose Watertown Cory Obbink, Watertown Mark Reishus, Watertown Eric Skott, Watertown Heath Scnee, Pierre Ryan Krueger, Pierre LOCAL HBA PRESI DENTS Corey Saurewein, Aberdeen HBA Dave Asbridge, Black Hills HBA Don Denure, Brookings Regional HBA Cully Lebert, HBA of the Sioux Empire Curt Weiman, Lewis and Clark HBA Nick Osterkampr, Oahe HBA Matt Moyer, Watertown Area HBA Mission Statement The South Dakota Home Builders Association is a statewide non-profit trade association made up of professional builders, remodelers and associate members. We promote home ownership and quality affordable housing through active participation in industry related issues. We are the voice of the homebuilding industry in South Dakota.
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PRESI DENT’S MESSAGE
Frank Krause, Krause Construction, Watertown, SD
Hello. It is hard to believe it is March already, these last two months have really flown by. But time flies when you’re
having fun. Look at it this way, we are closer to spring and the building season.
I have visited a few Home Shows, which are in full swing now. I
went to the Brookings and Watertown shows, and will travel to Aberdeen and to Sioux Falls this weekend, March 6,7 & 8. Then it will be Lewis & Clark the following weekend, and Black Hills March 27-29. So it looks like I’ll have a busy March, which I’ve committed to do, and I enjoy it. I want to let our members know we are here for them and support them at the state level.
The two shows I’ve attended so far were great, with a lot of people seeming very positive and ready to get something done, and the exhibitors were very pleased with the crowds. One thing I did hear from a lot of builders was about the shortage of help. Hopefully we will see a solution to this workforce problem. New housing is at the highest we’ve seen for several years, in line with what it was before the housing market crash. But the help to get them built is not there.
The legislative session is about over. Bring Housing Home is slated
for March. We will let you know the time and date soon. Hopefully we can meet with them all and voice our opinions on important housing issues, so they can take them back to Washington.
Thank you to everyone who is taking charge of the SDHBA business
until we can hire a new Exec Officer for the state. It is a lot of commitment on everyone’s part. Thank you!
As always, do business with a member, be safe, and God bless. If you
need to contact me, my phone number is 605-237-9165, and my email is [email protected]. I will respond as soon as possible.
Frank
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Builder News is published by the South Dakota Home Builders Association (SDHBA), affiliated with the National Association of Home Builders. SDHBA P. O. Box 1218 Pierre, South Dakota 57501-1218 OFFICE (605) 224-2761 FAX (605) 224-0820 WEBSITE www.sdhomebuilders.com EMAIL [email protected] BOARD OF DI RECTORS President-Frank Krause, Watertown 1st VP-Jeff Lage, Rapid City 2nd VP– Lynn Mennis, Brookings Sec’y./Treasurer-Jim Tolley, Black Hawk Past President-Tim Frohreich, Yankton State Rep Duane Bickett, Sioux Falls National Director Dwight Eich, Rapid City Alt Nat Director-George Houtman, Brookings Assoc. Nat’l Director Candi Menke, Sioux Falls Alt Assoc Nat Direct-Chane Patten, Sioux Falls PAC Trustee-Curt Cartwright, Rapid City John Kokales, Aberdeen Pat Tollefson, Aberdeen Chris Frost, Aberdeen Kevin Foss, Aberdeen Daene Boomsma, Rapid City Desi Mendel, Rapid City Denise Born, Rapid City Rick Askvig, Rapid City Ralph Siemonsma-Spearfish Garth Johnson, Brookings George Houtman, Brookings Ronda Houtman, Brookings Dennis Buys, Brookings Daryl Christensen, Sioux Falls Matt Swenson, Sioux Falls Terry Konechne, Sioux Falls Chane Patten, Sioux Falls Mike Austad, Sioux Falls Todd Boots, Tea Scott Hjellming, Sioux Falls Peter Ronning, Sioux Falls Brad Mair, Sioux Falls Mel Zelmer, Tea Nick Kisch, Yankton Lee Retig, Yankton Lisa DeRose Watertown Cory Obbink, Watertown Mark Reishus, Watertown Eric Skott, Watertown Heath Scnee, Pierre Ryan Krueger, Pierre LOCAL HBA PRESI DENTS Corey Saurewein, Aberdeen HBA Dave Asbridge, Black Hills HBA Don Denure, Brookings Regional HBA Cully Lebert, HBA of the Sioux Empire Curt Weiman, Lewis and Clark HBA Nick Osterkampr, Oahe HBA Matt Moyer, Watertown Area HBA Mission Statement The South Dakota Home Builders Association is a statewide non-profit trade association made up of professional builders, remodelers and associate members. We promote home ownership and quality affordable housing through active participation in industry related issues. We are the voice of the homebuilding industry in South Dakota.
AFFI LI ATED LOCAL ASSOCI ATI ONS:
Aberdeen HBA Jennifer Hieb 20 12th Ave SW PO Box 201, Aberdeen, SD 57401 (605) 225-2055 FAX (605) 225-2365 EMAIL [email protected] www.aberdeenhba.com
Black Hills HBA Cheryl Bettmeng, Executive Vice Pres. 3121 West Chicago Rapid City, SD 57702-2313 (605) 348-7850 FAX (605) 348-7864 [email protected] www.blackhillshomebuilders.com
Brookings Regional BA Nancy Ahlers, Executive Officer 510 Main Street Suite 12 PO Box 323 Brookings, SD 57006 (605) 692-5405 FAX (605) 692-5406 [email protected] www.brookingsregionalbuilders.com
Lewis & Clark HBA Judy Studebaker 420 Broadway Ave PO Box 582 Yankton, SD 57078 (605) 661-7215 FAX (605) 260-8526 EMAIL [email protected] www.lewisandclarkhomebuilders.com
Watertown Area HBA Vern Brenden, Executive Officer 110 8th Ave SE, Ste 2 PO Box 1271 Watertown SD 57201 (605) 878-3033 FAX (605) 878-3034 EMAIL [email protected] www.watertownhomebuilders.com
HBA of the Sioux Empire Julie Terrell, Executive Vice President 6904 S. Lyncrest Place, SF SD 57108 (605) 361-8322 FAX (605) 361-8329 EMAIL [email protected] www.hbasiouxempire.com
Oahe HBA Monacha Ellerton , Executive Officer PO Box 221 Pierre, SD 57501 (605) 222-9069 FAX (605) 224-1659 [email protected]
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Local HBA’s Upcoming Events 2015
♦ Oahe Home Show April 18-19
♦ Black Hills Parade of Homes May 2-3
♦ Sioux Empire Parade of Homes May 9-11 &16-18
♦ Aberdeen Parade of Homes June 7th
**Please check local association websites
for updates to Calendar of Events**
Visit www.NAHB.org/MA
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Curt Cartwright Rapid City Win-
dow & Glass 2015 NAHB PAC
Trustee for SD
The 2015‐2016, 2 year Build Pac cy‐
cle is here. A quick look at what hap‐pened in 2013‐2014. If you contributed and paid your share THANK YOU. Your local Build ‐Pac com‐mi ee will be holding fund raisers this year and will be asking again for your support. Get involved today!
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Meet your 2015 Leadership * * 2015 Executive Board* *
President—Frank Krause Past President— Tim Froerich First VP—Jeff Loge Treasurer—Jim Tolley 2nd VP—Lynn Mennis Secretary—David Asbridge
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Legislat ive Committee
Report
Todd Boots, Chairman
The 90th South Dakota legislative session has wrapped up for 2015. The total for bills introduced was a total of 429. This is the lowest amount of bills in the history of our legislature. The bills that we supported in this session have all been passed and signed by the Governor. The two main ones should help out our in-dustry. HB1072 - Provide information regarding post secondary tech-nical institutes be given to parents of middle school and high school students HB1105 - The workers compensa-tion bill to provide affidavit that a person is not an employee for pur-poses of workman's compensation The other bill we watched closely was SB1 the funding for roads and bridges. It was changed and amended and past the last day. This bill when passed had an emergency clause in it so it will go into effect April 1st. Hopefully this money will be well spent and they can get ahead on some of these roads and bridges before they need a total replacement and that will cost quite a bit more. I feel next year will be the year of education with two tasks force being formed to help with K-12 education and the other in school
boundaries. On the education side also is a House Joint Resolution that was pasted this year and that is HJR1003. This has to do with the Board of Regents and School Districts and giving the option for Tech Schools to have their own board. This will be a change to the Constitution so it will be on the next general election ballot. This to me would be a good thing and something we will need to discuss and see what kind of action we would want to take. To me this would be a great thing for the Tech Schools. On the national scene we have gotten our Bring Housing Home meetings set up. They will take place Monday April 6th. Please RSVP if you haven't yet. We are scheduled to start at 12:30 PM with a premeeting. We will get started at 1:00 PM with Sen. Thune, then Rep. Noem at 1:45 PM, then ending with Sen. Rounds at 3:00 PM. If you could please review the NAHB bring housing home material that is on the website. This went well last year and I hope it does again this year. Again I would like to say Thank You to all for their work during session and as we move forward in 2015. There is still work to do this year. If any members have any questions or comments again please feel free to contact me. My cell phone number is (605) 359-5778 and my e mail address is [email protected]. Also one more thing. Please keep helping to get the word out about The Ride For Housing Poker Run on August 1st. And for members to get more info you can go to blackhillshomebuilders.com/pokerrun or call (605) 348-7850
See you all at the end of April at the spring board meeting -- Todd Boots CityWide Insulation 605-359-5778
Member Message Board
CONGRATULATIONS To the BHHBA for win-ning the NAHB Wants You Video Challenge …. They won the category of - Best Video from a HBA! What a great honor—and again another plug for South Dakota and how great our local associa-tions are!
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SDHBA MEMBER-
SHIP REPORT
Lynn Mennis HBA Membership Chairper-son April is among us and things are at full throttle. Most peo-ple in our industry are very busy planning for new pro-jects. Looks to be a fantastic year. The workforce group has been working with the SD Department of Labor/Apprenticeship, in develop-ing a 2 year Residential Car-pentry Program curriculum and students would earn a National Career Readiness Certificate. It is getting close to reality. We are applying for a grant up to 5000.00 matching funds grant from the Challenge/Build/Grow/Grant. The South Dakota Education Campus of Brookings is our latest Student Chapter. The rebates have been sent out to the associations par-ticipating in the member ad-vantage program. Most asso-ciations reported several hundreds of dollars for their association. The SD State Association has qualified for
the 1st quarter toward their goal of getting 40% of the rebates back for non-due revenue. The Q1’15 Rebate claim forms will be due May 15th for those builder Members participating. All associations are signed up for the “I Want You” 2015 membership drive. The state associations goal is to reach 2000 members. New members and retention will help us attain that goal. Re-member that double and tri-ple spike points could be possible in your associations qualified member drive months, May then Sept or Oct, ask you eo. Most of the Home Shows have been completed and have had good success, sev-eral had moved to new plac-es and their numbers in-creased dramatically. The EO position for the state HBA is still trying to be filled with a qualified candidate and we just have not had a good quali-fied individ-ual that would be
able to fit and grow our as-sociation, yet. I am excited about what our members can accomplish. I like the positive direction that we are headed. I appre-ciate the different views shared together to work things out. So if your excited!!!!! And your positive!!!!! And want to be appreciated!!!!! Go out and recruit a new member and show them the values it has to offer.
SDHBA Builder Members Are Eligible To Participate I n The Governor’s House Program
Two Bedroom Or Three Bedroom Options—For Details Call The
South Dakota Housing Development Authority at 605 -
773-3181
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LOCAL HBA MEETI NGS: Aberdeen HBA Board – 1ST Thursday of month, noon at The Pizza Ranch, Aberdeen, SD.
Black Hills HBA Board– 3rd Thursday of month, 3:30 p.m. @ BHHBA Membership – 3rd Tuesday, @ TBA
Brookings HBA Board – As needed Membership – 3rd Thursday of month, Noon @ TBA
HBA of the Sioux Empire Board – 3rd Wednesday of month, 11:30 a.m., HBASE office Membership—Last Thursday of month, 5:30 p.m. Various Locations
Lewis & Clark Area HBA Board – 1st Tuesday of month, 7 p.m., Office-420 Broadway, Yankton Membership—3rd Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. Minerva’s Yankton
Oahe HBA, Pierre Membership— First Tuesday of month, 11:30 a.m., Perkins, Fort Pierre
Watertown HBA Board—As needed Membership – 3rd Tuesday of month, 7 p.m., WAHBA Office
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