Dates to Remember
Dates have been set for several upcoming events.  Please mark your calendars and watch your email for registration information.  Also, if you are interested in volunteering to help or in being an event sponsor, please contact the chairperson for that event.

October 10th is the October Dinner Meeting with several IMPORTANT events including: Membership Blitz Free Dinner Offer, Adoption of New WCBA By-laws; Guest Speaker Linda Heipp; Chance to Win a Free Expo Booth; Great Food & Drinks!

Click here for more info or to register online!

February 14th - 16th of 2014 is the 2014 Builder's Expo.  Pencil in the date and watch for more details. 

We are asking all members to bring another business owner who may benefit from WCBA membership to the WCBA Dinner Meeting on October 10th!  DINNER IS FREE for yourself and a qualified potential member guest, over a $40 value.

Don't miss this opportunity to help increase the WCBA membership while enjoying a delicious and free meal!  Click here to find more information and to register you and your guest online today!

Attention all WCBA members! The Washington County Builders Association board of directors, in collaboration with the Home Builders and Remodelers Expo Committee, has unveiled a special promotion wherein all WCBA members are eligible to WIN A FREE EXPO BOOTH! In an effort to increase awareness and attendance of the WCBA dinner meetings, the following promotional offer has been approved by the board and is now available to all WCBA members as of September 12^th, 2013.

It's this simple:

1)     Watch for your emailed invitation to the next dinner meeting.

2)     Register and attend the meeting. You will automatically be entered into the drawing.

3)     Be the lucky individual whose name is drawn at the Holiday Party in January!

Your name will be entered into the drawing EACH TIME YOU ATTEND a WCBA dinner meeting. In that way, each meeting you attend increases your chances to win.

Why not come out and enjoy a few hours of networking and dining with your industry peers? A good time is always had by all. A featured guest speaker always provides valuable education. And now you have even more reason to attend! Since there are only three meetings between now and the 2014 Expo, get in NOW while the odds are REALLY in your favor!

The next meeting will be held at Wegner's Cedar Lake Inn on Thursday, October 10^th. Click here to register or for more details about that meeting in this newsletter, and keep an eye out for the October dinner meeting Invitation which will be emailed out soon.

See you at the next dinner meeting... and the 2014 EXPO!

Even though it is still only 2013, the 2014 WCBA Expo preparation has already begun, with the dates set for February 14, 15, & 16, 2014. Join the Expo committee and help with the WCBA's largest fund raiser. You can help make 2014's event even better yet. All committee volunteers will be given first choice in their spot for the 2014 Expo.

This year's event will feature guest speaker Gus Gnorski, speaking both on Saturday and Sunday. Gus had been one of the most successful speakers in the years of having seminars and at the Expo in last year's event. The rest of the details are in the planning stages, and you can help with your ideas!

If you would like to join the committee, give me a call, Jeff Feyrer (Expo Director) @ 262-305-1673 or send me an e-mail JTF71961@yahoo.com. I hope to hear from you!

Although it seemed as if the races might not get going at first due to some nasty rain, the track crews did their best and 28 attendees for the Associations first Slinger Speedway VIP event got to watch all the thrills and spills at world's fastest quarter mile oval September 1^st.

What a night with VIP seating, pit tours, rides in the pace car, fireworks, great food and appetizers including beer, soda and liquor all night and of course time with your fellow association members.  If you missed this one make sure you keep an eye on this event for next year and mark your calendars, it is well worth the price of admission! 

One of my goals as President has been to look at the workings of the Association to see where improvements would be needed, to provide ideas, listen to suggestions and recommendations and finally with the help and support of the Board incorporate those ideas into a working policy.

One of the very first was to change the name of the Association from the West Bend Builders Association to the Washington County Builders Association.  I, as did the Board of Directors felt that this would help the Association encompass a much larger geographical area and bring in new members. With your approval the name was changed.

Secondly, we looked at how the Association was financially positioned.  We were spending a great deal of money on a beautiful office space but it was highly underused.   Now with the help of technology we can have a remote office in the "cloud", have our meetings at area locations with a variety of guest speakers and thus saving the membership valuable money that now can be given back to the community via scholarships and used to enhance your membership experience.

Now the time comes to look at the roots of the Associations By-Laws as they were written many years ago.  After much discussion and deliberation your Board has rewritten the By-Laws to bring them up to date and reflect today's Association.  Please take a moment to read the New By-Laws and/or the Existing By-Laws with Noted Changes via the links provided and come to the October Meeting for a discussion and vote.  This is an important meeting and I urge all members to attend and suggest that any member who cannot make the meeting to please call me so that your vote and/or comments about the potential new By-laws can be recorded.

Remember that this is your Association and we sincerely want your input.  See you at the meeting!