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Oct 27-2015
News From Your Tallahassee Builders Association
In This Issue
GM Notice
Builders Care - Drive
Volunteers Needed
Hard Hat Happy Hour
ATT: Florida Contractors
Showcase Home
Remodelors Council Mtg
Parade of Homes
Saltwater Fishing Tournament
Advertising Opps
Quick Links
Home TBA Website
Find a Member
Florida Home Builders Association
Member Discounts
Events Calendar
 
               
Issue: # 42 Oct 27-2015  
This past week's General Membership Meeting featured our firstAnnual Associate Trade Show.  With over 28 vendors and 85 attendees, both builder and associate members were able to view the latest in products and services. The event will become a regular event held both spring and fall. Look for news on a spring event to come soon. A special thank you to all of the vendors.

Sincerely,
Alan Weekley, TBA President
Alan Weekley Homes 
General Membership Notice               

Attention TBA members:

 

The November General Membership Meeting set for November 19 is our Annual Business Meeting. Please note that the meeting will be the General Elections of the 2016 Slate of Officers.

 

The TBA staff will be emailing the 2016 Slate of Officers and Board of Directors plus our 2016 Proposed Budget to all members this week. If you have any questions or do not receive the forms via email this week, please contact Lynne Edwards, EO at 385-1414 or via email at .

 

Program: RMC Showcase Awards presentation and announcement of the 2015 Remodelers Council Showcase Award Winners.  

 

Date: November 19, 2015

Time: 11:30 -1 pm  

Location: Holiday Inn & Suites (Graves Road and I-10) 

  
Builders Care - Raise the Roof Drive and Update on the Welcome Home Celebration  
               
Our Builders Care Drive is closing in our goal of $5,000. Last week Jane and Randy Conn of ES Green & Company and Masoud Karimipour of Persica Homes both  joined the list on donators. 

Major Donors
Mark Worley, Worley Construction ($1,000)
David Perkins, Perkins Electric ($500)
Deborah McClellan, Hancock Bank ($350)
Wynn and Associates, Residential Design & Drafting ($200)
Jane Conn, ES Green & Company ($200) 
Brandon Jett, Jett Builders ($150)
$100 Donors
Alan Weekley Homes
Baker-Harris Insurance Agency
Construction Solutions LLC
Farm Credit of NW Florida 
Howdy's Rent A Toilet
Orange State Construction
Parrish Builders
Persica Homes 
Roberts Sand Company
Shane Lambert Construction  
Tallahassee Kitchen Center

Click HERE to View our Complete Contributors List

Please join us this Friday (October 30) at 11:30 am as we welcome home the family and hand over the keys to their home. Much thanks to all of our suppliers and our volunteers. "Words cannot express the gratitude that the TBA has for our members who have worked tirelessly over the last 6 months to renovate a home for 3 elderly sisters who have been misplaced for the last ten years," said Chair Vicki O'Neil ofCity of Tallahassee Natural Gas.

Volunteers wear your Builders Care T-Shirts to the event so members of the press and our association can personally thank you! The home will be available to tour beginning at 11 am. 

Date: Friday, October 30
Time: 11:30 am (11 am for viewing interior  of the home)
Location: 2018 Raa Avenue

Follow us on Facebook for promotion of our suppliers and volunteers and to see the latest images from the home. CLICK HERE for the complete donation list

 
 
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS               
Volunteers Needed for the Final Preparations This Week.
 
Tuesday - Thursday8 am - 5 pm
 
General Labor to finish minor jobs, carpenters to finish deck rails and cleaning of the interior of the home. 
 
All members are needed to help complete the home. Contact the TBA Office at 385-1414 to sign up.
 
Location: 2018 Raa Avenue
Welcome Home Celebration  
Mark Friday, October 30th at 11:30 on your calendars...and join us at the Welcome Home Celebration for the Colson Sisters. We will officially turn over the home with a ribbon cutting ceremony and and offer a tour of the home beginning at 11am. This has been a 6-month project for our volunteers and a great community event so we are asking for all TBA members and our suppliers and volunteers to please plan to attend. Wear your Builders Care T-Shirts for group photos. Follow us on Facebook for promotion of our suppliers and volunteers and to see the latest images from the home.

Follow the TBA at  www.facebook.com/TallahasseeBuildersAssocation 
Hard Hat Happy Hour               
Mark your Calendars!  This week's Hard Hat Happy Hour will be    
October 29, 5:30 pm to 7 pm
 
Sponsored by Barkley Consulting Engineers  (3494 Martin Hurst Road)
 
Attention New Members: Join us at 4 pm at Barkley Consulting Engineers for our New Member Orientation and Welcome.
 
ATTENTION Florida Contractors               
Earn 7 FREE CEUs on November 6 when the TBA host's Florida's Energy Codes and How to Pass the Blower Door Test Class at the Betty Easley Conference Center from 8 am - Noon for residential construction and 1 pm - 4 pm for commercial construction.Click Here for more information and to register.
Showcase Home               
Builders: Tom and Susan Vieth of Vieth Construction.
Our TBA Showhome will once again raise toys for the Toys for Tots organization this December when we open the home on December 11th for TBA Members andDecember 12-13 for the general public. Look for more information on this event in  the  coming weeks.
Remodelers Council Meeting and Luncheon        
Wednesday, October 28 at Old Town Cafe at 11:30 am. Roundtable Discussion featuring discussions on unlicensed activity and design trends for 2016.

Showcase Awards Winners will be announced at the TBA's November General Membership Meeting.
Parade of Homes               
The Committee has begun soliciting for the 2016 Parade of Homes (May 7-8 andMay 14-15).  Click here for the Builders Package. Early Bird Discounts are $1,550 for a single home and $1,350 each additional home. After January 15 rates are a flat $1,750 per home.  The KICK-OFF Parade of Homes Party will be held on January 14, 2016. Location and time to be determined.

Our next committee meeting is: November 3 at 11:30 am at the Tallahassee Democrat Office.              
  
Saltwater Fishing Tournament Committee Meeting  
The TBA Saltwater Fishing Tournament Committee beganmeeting last week and will meet on a bi-monthly basis over the next 6 months. Meetings have been moved to Buffalo Wild Wings located on Magnolia  Drive across from the Winn Dixie Shopping Plaza. 

Date: Wednesday, November 4
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Buffalo Wild Wings on Magnolia

Open to all members who wish to participate in planning the 2016 Fishing Tournament.
Advertising Opportunities  
 TBA would like all of our members to know about our advertising opportunities that allow the association to build a non-dues revenue stream. Many of these are for members only and are limited in the number of participants:
  • 2016 Membership Directory (printed and online versions) Members ONLY. Please use your online access and log in to check your TBA account. Check emails, business activity and phone contacts as these will be printed on Jan 1. Go totallyba.com and member log in. 
  • Homes and Land New Home Communities Map - Jackie Johnson of H&L will be reaching out to all members in regard to this new pull out map printed in each issue of the number one real estate magazine in our area.
  • 2016 HomeShow Onsite Guide - This full color guide is handed out to all attendees at February's Home and Garden Show and is a keepsake book filled with the latest in trends. Interested in providing an article, please send to[email protected]. 
 
Meet our newest staff member this week at our Hard Hat Happy Hour - Erin Waizini joined the TBA as our Executive Assistant early last week and has been busy working on our new website as well as designing our new template. We are excited to have her aboard! 

Be sure to see the TBA events calendar for many educational and networking opportunities.  
 
Sincerely,  
 
Lynne Edwards
Executive Officer
Tallahassee Builders Association
P.O. Box 1212
Tallahassee, FL 32302
Email:  [email protected]  
Mobile:  (850) 251-7477 
Office:  (850) 385-1414 
Fax:  (850) 561-6868