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Welcome
New Members
Miami
Valley NARI would like to welcome three of our
newest members to the family. Universal Credit
Union has joined our association and is happy to
provide financing information for all of your
remodeling needs. DMI Restoration, Inc.
formerly Sure Clean Services as well as Gale
Insulation have also become members. Please
be sure to welcome them as the opportunity
arises.
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EPA
RRP Rule Certification May 11,
2010
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EPA
RRP Rule Certification May 13, 2010
The
EPA RRP Rule, What it Means to the
Contractor
Presented
by Don Ebding and Mark Fleming
Of
great concern to members of NARI are the legal and
insurance ramifications of the EPA's Renovation,
Repair and Painting Final Rule. As we learned
from asbestos, being Certified by the EPA may not
be enough to protect yourself and your
business.
Mr. Don Ebding of
Kinker-Eveleigh Insurance Agency graduated from
the University of Cincinnati and specializes in
contract review, establishing and maintaining
large fleet safety programs, OCIP/Construction
Wrap Programs, Worker's Comp Programs, and more.
Don will bring us up-to-date with the insurance
needs and concerns of this new Lead Ruling
including what you should be looking for in your
policy.
Speaking
from the legal issues perspective, Mr. Mark
Fleming has over 30 years experience in the
construction business. He has been a
residential and commercial general contractor and
construction manager. He has extensive
experience as a litigation consultant, working
with his clients to analyze individual dispute
situations and provide the objective and technical
assessment needed to reach resolution in
settlement negotiations, mediation or
arbitration. In the event a case proceeds to
trial, Fleming has served as an expert witness and
is able to support his clients in every phase of
the legal process. Mark will educate us in how to
protect ourselves concerning the RRP
Initiative.
The breakfast will
take place at the Ramada Plaza North, 2301 Wagner
Ford Road. Registration and networking begin at
7:30 a.m. Breakfast and the program are from 8:00
a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Register today at www.naridayton.org or call (937)
222-6274 and RSVP today! Registration fees
are $10 for NARI Certified Professionals, $20 for
NARI members or $30 for
non-members. |
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Membership
Meeting May 25, 2024
Gas
Safety and Efficiency
Presented
by Mike Wilson
Join
us as Mike Wilson of Vectren talks about "Gas
Safety and Efficiency" including new marking
standards that will be implemented in April.
We can all afford to learn ways to be safe as well
as ways to help conserve energy, to cut costs and
to protect our beautiful
planet.
The luncheon will take place
at the Ramada Plaza North, 2301 Wagner Ford Road.
Registration and networking begin at 11:00
a.m. Lunch and the program are from
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Registration fees are
$25.00 for members and $30.00 for
non-members. Register today at www.naridayton.orgor call (937)
222-6274 and RSVP
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RRP
Certification June 11, 2024
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Miami
Valley CTC Honors Miami Valley NARI
Miami
Valley NARI was presented with the honor of
"Employer of the Year" on Friday, April 30th by
the Miami Valley Career Technical Center. The
Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC) is
located in Clayton and serves 27area high
schools. MVCTC offers over 50 career
technical programs for high school juniors and
seniors, and lifelong learning opportunities for
adult students in their Adult Education
programs. Since its beginning in 1971, the
MVCTC has matured from a quality vocational school
to a world-class career technology
center.
Miami Valley NARI and MVCTC
have worked together for the past six years with
their participation and support of the Welcome
Entry Way contest held annually at HomeWorld. Of
those six years MVCTC has taken first place three
years and tied for first with Upper Valley JVS one
year.
In addition, many Miami Valley
NARI member companies have utilized the resources
and graduates of MVCTC to improve their
businesses, develop fine craftsmen and future
remodeling industry leaders.
Board
members John Bordenkircher, CKBR of Kitchen
Solvers along with Debbie Fritz of Main Street
Construction were on hand to accept the
award.
The Association is honored to
receive such an award and together with their
members look forward to the continued relationship
they've had with MVCTC's programs, administration,
instructors and
students.
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New
Member Benefit
The
Board of Miami Valley NARI recently voted to
partner with PB Disaster Services to provide
information on their services to our members. In
1995, PB Disaster Services was selected by FEMA as
the prime contractor for one of two nationwide
contracts to inspect homes damaged as a result of
a Presidentially declared emergency or natural
disaster. The Disaster Housing Inspection
Services Program provides emergency grants, often
within hours of inspection, for property owners
whose dwellings have been damaged by natural
disasters. In performing the work, PB Disaster
Services calls on a large network of independent
contract inspectors that are able to complete
inspections within 24 hours of being deployed.
These inspectors use handheld computers loaded
with government provided software to capture
damages to the property. This data is then used to
generate a report that allows FEMA to make an
award determination, often within hours of the
completed application.
During the
past 14 years, PB Disaster Services has completed
more than 4 million inspections for FEMA in
connection with disasters such as Gulf Coast
hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005, the
four devastating Florida hurricanes in 2004,
and the terrorist attacks in New York City on
September 11, 2001. PB Services existing contract
with FEMA runs through 2011. In their quest
for qualified inspectors, they are looking to NARI
for support.
PB Disaster Services is
currently recruiting inspectors to join their
inspection teams. As detailed in this "Inspector Brochure", the steps
to becoming an inspector are simple and free
of charge. It takes a registration to generate a
fingerprint and eQuip package (all inspectors must
be fingerprinted and adjudicated by Federal
law). Upon completion of the background
check and some online training, the inspector is
ready for deployment.
What
does this mean to the remodeling contractor opting
to take part? You will be called upon to
deploy in the case of an emergency or natural
disaster. The deployment is typically
between one and three weeks with all expenses
paid. The decision to deploy and for how
long is up to you. Deployed inspectors do an
average of 13 inspections per day at a rate of
about $50 per inspection.
Miami
Valley NARI is working with PB Disaster Services
to put together a local group registration and
training in Dayton in the coming weeks. This
training will be free to all members wanting to
participate and does not obligate the member to
anything besides a few hours for registration and
training. This local training will provide
members with a chance to speak candidly with a PB
Services professional and learn more about this
opportunity to not only serve fellow Americans
during a disaster but to provide an optional
source of revenue during slow
periods.
You can read more about the
benefit at www.pbdisasterservices.com/inspectors.
Once a date for the local registration and
training is confirmed, all members will be
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LEED
for Neighborhood Development Launched
The
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Congress for
the New Urbanism (CNU) announced the launch of the
LEED for Neighborhood Development
green-neighborhoods rating system, a program
reported to integrate the principles of smart
growth, new urbanism and green
building.
Please click here for the entire
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EPA
Tightens New Lead Law
The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tightened
its brand-new lead-safe law by eliminating a
loophole that had allowed residential contractors
to opt out of the requirements with the
homeowner's consent.
The EPA's
"Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting" (RRP)
rule took effect on Thursday, April 22, after a
two-year implementation period.
The rule
requires lead-safe certification of contractors
and renovation firms that disturb a specified
amount of paint in pre-1978 homes, schools and
day-care centers. Contractors must also provide
owners and tenants of those facilities with an EPA
lead-hazard pamphlet.
The Rule was implemented
with the opt-out provision unresolved. The
provision would have exempted a contractor from
compliance if he or she notified the homeowner
about the Rule, and the homeowner then agreed to
sign a waiver for the
contractor.
Critics, who include
trade associations and retailers, said that
eliminating the option would make an already-broad
Rule even broader, hitting even the smallest
contractor with red tape and fees.
On
Friday, April 23, however, the EPA announced that
it was eliminating the provision; homeowners may
not allow a contractor to opt out of full-scale
compliance.
The Rule's implementation
came two years after the Rule received final
approval and six weeks after a challenge by a
dozen retailers and trade associations. The
critics contended that contractors had not had
sufficient time or training opportunities to
prepare and that another federal program in the
works would require similar training. Eliminating
the opt-out angered critics
further.
Seven states have adopted
their own RRP programs in lieu of the federal
program. They are Kansas, Rhode Island, Utah,
Mississippi, Wisconsin, Iowa and North
Carolina.
Contractors will have an
opportunity to personally question EPA about the
Rule in a free webinar to be held June 24, 2023
that will focus on compliance and enforcement.
Visit www.pwc-magazine.com/webinars to
register for the
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BWC
Open Enrollment
Please
click here for CareWorks marketing
piece showing the BWC's return to work scores over
a seven year period. CareWorks continues to be a
leader in this area along with bringing additional
savings to members through their exclusive
provider network partnership with Medical Mutual
of Ohio. Their partnership provides additional
discounts up to 20% below BWC fee schedule. Many
of their competitors just reimburse to the BWC
schedule, thus there is no additional medical cost
savings to members not with
CareWorks.
Return to work performance and medical cost
savings are the two areas that employers should be
very concerned with as BWC continues to make
changes to the calculation of premium rates. This
is why it is important that our members are with a
MCO focused on these two areas of managed
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