December 4, 2013 

Volume 5, Issue XII

Summer Education Week

Oct 27 - Nov 1, 2014

This newsletter in its entirety on the website 

Scheduled education, courses & seminars 

There was GREAT Chapter support for the Education Foundation Auction this year in Reno. You can see by reviewing the Chapters list below who donated to the 2013 Auction, that 68% of Chapters made donations to the Auction this year! What a wonderful show of support for the Foundation which benefits all members with development of education, rewriting educational materials, etc. Read more about Chapter support and view a list of chapters who made donations.  

We would like to express a special thank you to the following chapters for their support of the 84th ASFMRA Annual Meeting.  Your support goes a long ways to making this event successful.  

2013 Chapter Sponsorship Support - Reno, NV

ASFMRA membership is growing both at a National level as well as Chapter level. You can see by reviewing the comparison of 2011, 2012, and 2013 fiscal year end numbers the Chapters membership numbers for this year end (2013) compared to last year end (2012) have increased by 107. That is fantastic growth at the Chapter level! The National membership numbers have also increased for this year end compared to last year end by 83! You can also review the information to discover if your Chapter was one of those who increased their membership numbers last year.  

Thanks to all of the great support from chapters the attendance hit a big high of 501 at the ASFMRA Annual meeting this year. That level of attendance has not been achieved since the year 2000! The sponsorships were also a chart topper. The auction was one of our better ones bringing in $38,000. Many thanks go to all of the chapters for their great support of the meeting.  

It's never too early to get the meeting dates on your calendar.  Work is already underway to expand the success of our Annual Meeting. Next year's meeting will be held in Tucson, Arizona at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa. Meeting dates are October 27 - November 1, 2014. Plan to come early and to enjoy some of the fun activities available only in Tucson. Read more about the 2014 Annual Meeting.

The Young Professionals Network (YPN) of ASFMRA has a small leadership group that meets monthly via conference call. The leadership team consists of Eric Wilkinson, AFM, from Illinois; Brian Field, ARA, from Minnesota; Scott Bozzo from California; Dru Palmer from Arizona and Sara Wilson from Colorado.  This team held a round table discussion at the annual meeting this year to help plan some activities for next year's Summer Education week. In addition the team is planning to contact universities including N.W Missouri State, Iowa State and the University of Illinois, as well as Arizona, and Colorado State Universities.  

During the Chapter Officer Workshop at the ASFMRA Annual Meeting, our staff shared the new promotional brochures fresh off of the press. There are three new brochures designed to help members communicate with other professionals and clients about the value of ASFMRA. One brochure is focused on membership another on education and a third on the benefit of the designations.  These are available for you and for your meeting. Please contact Michele at mstockman@asfmra.org for orders. It should be noted that we do have a new table top display that is focused on membership development available as well. We also have new PowerPoint presentations  that are customizable for membership and for education promotion. Read more about promotional tools that are available. 

The Appraisal Foundation announced a number of appointments in October. Richard Edmunds, ARA, AAC, NY was installed on The Appraisal Foundation Board of Directors replacing Paul Bierschwale, ARA, TX who is now the Chair of the Alliance for Valuation Education (AVE) Mark Lewis, ARA, TX, was appointed for a three year term to the Appraiser Qualifications Board.  Board appointments were made during The Appraisal Foundation's most recent Board of Trustees meeting on October, 26, 2013 in Santa Monica, California. All appointees will begin serving their term on January 1, 2014.  

The International Property Measurement Standards Coalition (IPMS) has been meeting for some time now. ASFMRA is a part of this group but as an organization only and have attended one meeting. Doug Hodge, ARA, MI has represented ASFMRA with the group and has participated in a number of conference calls. The group is expected to move from building measurement to Land measurement in the next year.   

Ohio Chapter News

The Ohio Chapter annual meeting and education seminar is scheduled for January 28-29, 2014 at the Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington located in Worthington, Ohio.

Get full meeting details or register.
For specific questions, contact Barry Ward, OH Chapter Secretary/Treasurer, 614-688-3959 or Ward.8@osu.edu.