• Breakfast with legislators and: 
• Speaker  of the House Kevin Cotter
• Senate Majority Leader Arlan B. Meekhof
• Advocacy meetings with members in their offices
• A government affairs update
• Luncheon with special guests receiving ABC of Michigan's Legislator of the Year awards

• Business Leaders (CEOs, Senior Level Executives, Business Owners)
• Employees and Field Managers (Front-line professionals)
• Managers and Supervisors
• Young Professionals
• Those interested in the political process

Editorial published in the Detroit News, January 26, 2015. Accessed & available here: www.detroitnews.com

"A new effort has been launched in the Legislature to repeal the economically crippling prevailing wage law. Led by Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, the three-bill package should be passed so that Michigan can get rid of the archaic law, which has been in effect since 1965.

Prevailing wage requirements create artificially high costs for building schools and government facilities and work against job creation. It mandates that such public projects pay non-union workers the same wages bargained by union workers in an area.

A study by the Anderson Economic Group found that from 2002 to 2012 the act cost Michigan taxpayers an average $224 million per year on construction projects for K-12 districts, community colleges and public universities. The almost one-quarter of a billion dollars that was overspent annually could have built more than 315 schools, notes Chris Fisher, president and CEO of Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, Lansing.

The prevailing wage is based exclusively on collective bargaining agreements that cover just 19 percent of the state workforce but are imposed on 100 percent of construction workers on public projects..." Click here to read the full editorial.