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SFBA NARI
MISSION
STATEMENT
SFBA NARI embraces the entire
remodeling com-munity and provides members with
the benefits of a national organization dedicated
to the remodeling in-dustry. We offer mem-bers
opportunities for enhanced profession-alism,
camaraderie, business growth, and success through
education, advocacy, networking, recognition and
promotion. We create opportunities to inform the
public about NARI through education-al activities,
community service, public relations and our
everyday inter-actions.
NARI'S CORE
PURPOSE
To advance and promote the
remodeling industry's professionalism, product and
vital public purpose.
NARI'S BIG
AUDACIOUS GOAL
All remodelers will want to be part of
NARI and customers will insist on contracting with
our members.
SFBA NARI
MEMBERSHIP
$430 - Annual
Dues
$50 - New
Membership
Application Fee
To see all the benefits of
membership or to get an application, visit
www.sfbanari.org
or call (415)
391-2886.
SFBA NARI NEWS
Published
monthly by the San Francisco Chapter of
NARI.
Opinions expressed herein
are solely those of the authors and not
necessarily those of the
members, officers or
directors of SFBA NARI.
2011 SFBA NARI LEADERS
Officers
Co-Presidents:
Jeff Kann
Matt
Podesta
Secretary:
Chip Doyle
Treasurer:
Mark Calender
Chairman of the Board:
David
Ostrom,
MCR,
CKBR Executive
Director: Judy Tufo Board
Counsel: Bryant
Byrnes
Board of Directors
David Frane
Pablo Fuentes
Cameron Habel, CR,
CKBR, CGBP
Michael Hamman
Heidi Headapohl
Treve Johnson
Toby Karlitz
Steve Mongan
Ryan Neuhoff
Kim Northrop
Sally
Power
Mike Roth
National Representatives
Everett Collier, CR
David Freer
David Ostrom, MCR,
CKBR |
San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter of
the
National Assn of the Remodeling
Industry |
P.O. Box 883783
San Francisco,
CA
94188-3783
Judy Tufo
Executive
Director
Phone: (415) 391-2886
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Message
From Our Co-Presidents |
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Our
Chapter's Leadership conducted a Strategic
Planning Meeting on January 15, which also
served as an introduction to new Board
members. Our thanks again to
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Jeff
Kann |
Everett
Collier of Collier Ostrom, who presided as the
Facilitator during
the meeting. He did a
tremendous job of keeping the meeting lively
and
on track. The Chapter is
fortunate to be served by 19 talented Board
Members, 13 returning and 6 new, who represent a
great cross section
of our industry. They all brought fresh ideas and
energy to the meeting.
Our thanks for their involvement!
We
established 4 key goals for the 2011-2012 Chapter
fiscal year: 1) Raise
total membership to 140 members; 2) Increase
chapter awareness through
use of electronic
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Matt
Podesta |
media;
3) Raise meeting attendance to an average of 40
per meeting; and 4) Increase committee
participation to 2-3 members for every
committee. Don't be surprised
if you find yourself contacted by a committee
chair!
Take
advantage of what your membership can provide by
getting involved.
You will truly benefit, personally and
professionally, from your
involvement.
The
January meeting was an excellent example of what
our Chapter can offer
its members. Thanks again to
our exceptional Moderator, Alf Nucifora, Chairman
of the Luxury Marketing Council, and the panel of
speakers, which included Contractors Steve Plath,
Plath & Company and Michael McCutcheon,
McCutcheon Construction and Interior Designers
Darlene Jurow, Jurow Design Associates, and Gioi
Tran, Applegate Tran Interiors, as well as all
those who were involved in orchestrating
this
event. These are the types of events that
strengthen our Chapter.
Let's
continue the support from the record-setting
January attendance and
plan on attending the February 9 Chapter meeting
at Zephyr Showroom in San Francisco. We
will learn directly from those most familiar with
the process on how to work successfully on City
projects, where there are remodeling opportunities
for
our members. We
look forward to seeing you!
Jeff
Jeff
Kann
2011
Chapter Co-President
Matt
Podesta
2011
Chapter
Co-President |
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January
Chapter Meeting - Joint Meeting with
ASID |
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Joint
Meeting Between SFBA NARI and the California
North Chapter of ASID A Rousing
Success
The
January 2011 joint meeting of SFBA NARI and the
California North Chapter of ASID was held at the
Tileshop in Berkeley. The event was a
rousing success. Attendance was at 100
people; it is the most that we have seen at a
Chapter meeting in a long time. It was a
complete sellout.
The
panel did a fabulous job in walking through the
process of a successful remodel from the point of
view of the designer as well as the contractor, as
well as remodels that did not go well and the
reasons why. The discussion was frank and
honest. The theme that resonated through the
panel was communication and how important
continued communication is between the designer,
contractor and homeowner.
Alf
Nucifora, Panel Moderator, did a wonderful job of
keeping the panel's discussion on point as well as
asking great and thought provoking
questions.
Rave
reviewes have been made all around; there has been
nothing but positive feedback, with people
wondering when we are going to have another panel
meeting.
Our
sincere thanks to Claudia Hacker of Tileshop and
her staff for being gracious hosts for this
meeting. Our dinner buffet was fabulous and
was enjoyed by all.
Our
sincere thanks also goes out to our Moderator and
Panel Members:
Moderator
Alf
Nucifora, Chairman
Luxury
Marketing Council
Contractor's
Panel
Steve
Plath
Plath
& Company, Inc.
Michael
McCutcheon
McCutcheon
Construction
Interior
Designer's Panel
Darlene
Jurow
Jurow
Design Associates
Gioi
Tran
Applegate
Tran Interiors
Thanks
to all for a great meeting!
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| February
Chapter Meeting |
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Doing
Business on Agency Projects
Succeeding
in the Field on City
Projects
February 2011
Chapter
Meeting
Wednesday
February 9,
2011
6:00pm-8:30pm
Zephyr
Showroom
2277 Alameda Street
San Francisco, CA
94103
ABOUT
ZEPHYR:
Co-founder Alex Siow seized on
the idea that everything in the home is an
opportunity for personal
expression.
He
began by elevating the hood to its rightful place:
no longer an afterthought, the hood stands above
all, as distinctive in its performance as it is in
its
beauty.
Since
the launch of their first hoods in 1997, they have
remained true to their vision of delivering the
unexpected-by deliberately seeking to change the
marketplace.
Zephyr was first to recognize the
unmet demand for more powerful, professional-grade
hoods in the home. And they answered with the
Power series, high-CFM performers that put air
quality concerns to rest with quiet efficiency-and
raised the bar with self-cleaning, filter-free
technologies never before
available.
Having earned a reputation for well
constructed, high-powered range hoods, Zephyr set
its sight on redefining the industry by focusing
on style and design. In 2000, the Europa
Collection ushered in a new millennium with a
design-forward clarion call to those who could
find little inspiration above the
range.
Since
then, they have taken their vision ever higher,
working with some of the world's best designers to
find beauty in the everyday and create collections
that are truly unlike any
other.
"Learn More"
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"Doing
Business on
Agency
Projects"
George
Bridges
Senior
Contract Compliance Specialist
San
Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Learn how contractors can obtain
and profit from jobs on publicly funded
projects. Not all of these jobs are
large and out of reach; there are jobs that
smaller contractors can consider.
"Succeeding
in the Field on City Projects"
Roberto
Lombardi, CFM, LEED AP
Facilities
Director
San
Francisco Public Libraries
Learn how the real world of
constructing municipal buildings in San
Francisco works.
Once you are awarded a City
construction contract, how you understand and
interact
at the site with Department of
Public Works personnel, the design team,
consultants, and client department is
crucial to a successful job. We'll
discuss how the team members can work most
effectively together on the project, and answer
questions you may have about the City
construction
process.
About the
Speakers
George Bridges is a Senior Contract 
Compliance
Specialist with the San Francisco Redevelopment
Agency (SFRA). George has been with
the SFRA since 1998. In his position, he
administers and negotiates the SFRA's Program in
Economic
Diversity/Economic
Development and Small Business Enterprise in the
Mission Bay Project Areas. He also
monitors SFRA projects for compliance issues
regarding prevailing wage and workforce goals
and analyzes and evaluates statistical
information relating to the enforcement of
contract provisions.
George
received his BS in Marketing at Ohio State
University and is also a Certified Economic
Development Finance Professional and
a Master Compliance
Administrator.
Roberto
Lombardi is Director of Facilities at the San
Francisco Public Library
System
(SFPLS).
Roberto has been the Facilities
Director of the SFPLS since 2005. Prior to
joining the Library team, he worked
on a wide variety of projects, both in the
private and public sector, as a
carpenter, general
contractor, superintendent, and construction
manager. Projects he worked on ran the
gamut from custom remodeling and new homes, to
fire stations, historic buildings, schools, the
San Francisco City Hall, and Moscone West
Convention Center.
Roberto
currently lives in San Francisco with his wife
Laura, who is a civil engineer with the San
Francisco Department of Public Works, and two
daughters. | |
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| 2010 REMMIES Winners
Showcase |
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Each month we feature the photos
of two current
REMMIES winners:
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EPA Certified Firms |
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The EPA has created a "Lead-Safe Certified
Firm" logo, available for use by Certified Firms
who perform work under the EPA RRP rule:
Your user name is the application ID number
found on your certification letter from the EPA.
Your password is contained in an email sent to you
by the EPA after certification. If you no longer
have your password, you can obtain it by sending
email to: EPARRPFirm-Logo@battelle.org or
by calling
1-800-424-LEAD.
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NARI
National Announces 2011 CotY Regional
Winners |
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Alward Construction and
McCutcheon Construction Receive Regional
Honors
NARI National has
announced the Regional CotY Awards winners for
2011. The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter is
proud to announce that two of our members are
Regional CotY Winners:
Residential
Exterior Specialty
Alward
Construction, Inc.
Berkeley,
CA
Residential
Interior $100,000 And Over
McCutcheon
Construction, Inc.
Berkeley,
CA
These
Regional winners were also winners of our local
REMMIES Awards and received those honors at our
annual REMMIES/
Leadership Awards Dinner
held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San
Francisco on November 10, 2010.
Congratulations!
For A Complete Listing of
Regional Award Winners, Visit:
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New
SFBA NARI Members |
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Please
Join Us In Welcoming the Newest
SFBA
NARI Members:
Cambria USA, Inc. -
Hayward,
CA
Aveli
Salundi
Hudson Street Design of
Marin - San
Rafael, CA
Amy
Hutton
Ladner
Construction - Emeryville,
CA
Paul
Ladner
WELCOME TO THE SFBA NARI
FAMILY! |
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Member
Spotlight Winner for January
Joanne
Cannell Designs |
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January's
Spotlight Winner:
Joanne Cannell
Designs
Joanne
Cannell of Joanne Cannell Designs was the
lucky winner of January's Member Spotlight, and
Joanne will make a brief presentation on her
company at the February Chapter
Meeting on February 9.
The next
time you attend a chapter meeting, when you stop
to register and pick up your name badge, please be
sure to drop your business card in the glass bowl
for a chance to win a Member's Spotlight for your
company at an upcoming chapter
meeting!
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| Executive Director's Corner |
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 Is Your Membership Listing
Correct?
By:
Judy Tufo, Executive Director
Members,
have
you moved recently? Changed phone or fax
numbers? Have a new primary member
contact? Is your email and website
information correct?
Please
take the opportunity to check your membership
listing on our website, http://www.sfbanari.org, to make
sure your information is accurate. When
homeowners search our site, having your
information accurate is vital to potential clients
being able to contact you.
Please
give me a call at (415) 392-1886 or email me at judy@sfbanari.org, and I will
take care of any and all changes. I look
forward to hearing from
you!
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| Legal
Advice Column |
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New
Laws for 2011
By:
Bryant H. Byrnes,
Esq.
With the start of a new
year, contractors and fellow travels must be
mindful of the new and revised laws affecting the
construction industry.
Admittedly this is pretty dry stuff, but I
would recommend everyone take a minute to review
this information. And sorry to
say, but absolutely nothing got easier for
you.
Workers'
Compensation Enforcement Law - Tough
Love!
Effective January 1,
2011, the Contractors State License Board will be
allowed to issue "stop work" orders to any
contractor who fails to provide workers'
compensation insurance coverage for his or her
employees. (Oddly, this law
includes unlicensed contractors as
well.) Failure to comply with
the stop work order is considered a misdemeanor,
and punishable by up to 60 days in jail and/or
fines up to $10,000.
Employees affected by
the work stoppage would also be entitled to up to
10 days' pay for lost time.
Stop work orders take
effect immediately, but may be contested by
submitting a written hearing request within 20
days of issuance of the stop work
order.
So heads up on your
workers' compensation coverage.
It is a understatement to say that being
shut down will be catastrophic - particularly when
most lapses in coverage are bonehead failures to
take care of routine paperwork.
Mechanics' Lien
Changes.
Civil Code Sections
3084 and 3146 - I addressed this in a
previous article but it bears
repeating. The changes
stipulate the definitions of "claim of lien" and
"mechanics' lien" are the same. It
also requires that a Notice of Mechanics'
Lien be served on the owner and/or person
believed to be the owner of the property or on the
construction lender or original contractor, and
that a "proof of service
affidavit" to the above individual(s)
be completed and signed by the person serving the
Notice of Mechanics'
Lien.
Failure to serve the mechanics' lien and
confirm a proof of service affidavit will cause
the mechanics' lien to be void and
unenforceable.
Practice
pointer: Mechanics' liens just
became much more complicated.
While you don't necessarily need to talk to
your attorney (although we would be delighted to
hear from you), read the new requirements before
you record your lien.
Jobsite Safety - More
Tough Love!
AB 2774 -
Starting now, if an
employer has an injury in its workplace or even
allegations of a serious hazard, the Division
of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH)
have clearer rules to make its
case. The purported core
principle of the new law is that a hazard posing a
risk of serious physical harm that is unacceptable
by modern standards should be treated as a serious
violation and penalized accordingly.
Major fines, such as $25,000, imposed on
employers are more likely to stick, and without
reductions.
In a nutshell, it has just
become easier for them to ding you - and for more
money! Be proactive,
preemptive, and keep those jobsites
safe.
License Fees to
Increase.
Effective July 1, 2011, a
new license fee structure will apply to those
renewing their licenses as well as new
applicants. For a listing of
the rate increases please the Board's website
www.cslb.ca.gov.
I won't bore you with the
Board's blurb - that it is entirely funded from
application, licensing, and renewal fees combined
with fines and penalties...and on and on.
Simply get out your checkbooks.
Where Is This
Stuff?
These changes in the law
are further explained in the 2011 edition of
Contractors State License Board's California
Contractor's License Law and Reference Book
and also can be found on the Board's website
www.cslb.ca.gov.
Previous
Articles.
For
my previous articles, please visit SFBA NARI's
website and click on the link "In the
News/Newsletter" under "For the Trade." They
are also available on my website under
"Articles." As always, my discussions are
summary in nature and intended to simply give the
reader a heads up on various topics and issues.
Bryant
H. Byrnes, Esq. practices construction law in
the San Francisco Bay Area and is counsel to the
NARI Board of Directors. Questions?
Please feel free to contact him by email at bhbatty@pacbell.net. |
| Upcoming
from NARI National
Online Courses and Webinars |
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NARI Certification Programs -
Virtual Training
CKBR Virtual Study
Group
February
24, 2011: 5:00 to 7:00PM Central Time
Green
Remodeling
Education
Course (2-hour sessions weekly
for 12 weeks)
Start
Dates:
February
21, 2011
April
13, 2011
NARI's green remodeling
course is multi-faceted, focusing on energy
efficiency and conservation, indoor air quality,
efficient use of resources, recycling of
demolition material and renewable energy sources,
among other topics. The program will run for 12
weeks with a 2-hour class weekly. Each class will
address specific topics such as building science
application, green remodeling guidelines, solar
applications, appliance selection and marketing a
green business.
Cost:
$495 for NARI Members
$695
Non-Members
Webinars
and On-Demand
Video Participate in live
webinars, or watch on-demand from NARI's growing
library.
NARI
Radio provides on-the-go education and
information,
and
is also available on iTunes.
Go to All NARI Radio
Programs |
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Build
it Green
Upcoming
Events |
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Certified
Green Building Professional
Training
Tuesday,
February 15, 2011
8:00am to 5:00pm
Wednesday,
February 16, 2011
8:00am
to 5:00pm (1 hour
exam at
4:00pm)
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Reducing Residential Electrical
Baseload Seminar
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
5:30pm
to 7:30pm PST
Location:
Dept of Environment, San Francisco,
CA
Cost:
$10/$15
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