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February 8, 2010 |
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* LB 552 - The Nebraska Construction Prompt Pay Act Passed on Final Reading February 5th
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LB 552 - The Nebraska Construction Prompt Pay Act Passed on Final Reading February 5th |
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The bill now awaits the Governors signature to become law for all construction contracts entered into on or after October 1, 2010. This has been a top priority bill for the Chapter for the past two sessions. Over two years ago the Building Chapter, NECA, MCA-Omaha and the Heavy Highway Chapter, along with our legal counsel from Woods & Aitken LLP started working on the language for this bill. After many drafts, reviewed by members from all the groups, we came to agreement on the language for the bill. Sen. Tom White introduced the bill last session and it had first round debate late in January. Very briefly, here is what the bill brings to the table for the industry: Click here to read.
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This bill adds one provision to the Nebraska Construction Lien Act. LB 822 will provide upstream contracting parties with notice of an actual lien filing. Currently, our statutes do not require any notice to be sent. Thus, unless a party is monitoring the County Register of Deeds office, they may have no idea that a contractor or subcontractor has filed a construction lien. Click here to read more.
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To review all other bill priorities, our position and a summary of each bill go to the Member’s Only Section of the website-Legislative Alert. Click here. The password and ID have not changed since last year. We will be changing the password at the end of February. Email us if you do not have password.
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You should have received the BCN in the mail over the weekend. Click here to view electronic version. Once again great articles provided by our Diamond and Platinum Sponsors! Look for these topics: -Employee Dishonesty-The Dark Side
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The first course in our BIM training series this winter was a great success. There were 33 people registered for the course. BIM TECHNOLOGY is the next course, which is a two-day course to be held on February 25/26. Click here for information and to register. (Note the BIM 101 is NOT a pre-requisite for TECH)
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Plan to attend this year’s AGC, AIA, ACEC Joint Industry Council’s Legislative Forum and Luncheon. Governor Heineman will be one of the speakers at the morning session and all the State Senators are invited to the luncheon. All the information will be out soon, but for now SAVE THE DATE!
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| New Members | ||
Please join us in welcoming Mainelli Mechanical Contractors, Inc. of Omaha as new specialty contractor members to the Nebraska Building Chapter! Visit their website to learn more: mainellimechanical.com
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| Regional Member Meetings | ||
Regional Member Meetings were held in the past 10 days and we beat the weather for all five meetings. Thank you very much to Kory George, Brian Koerwitz, Craig Dirrim, Monica Freeman and Todd Weidemann, all members of the legal team at Woods & Aitken LLP for providing the superb programs at all five meetings. A total of 125 members attended this round of Regional Meetings. Mark Duren and Josh Weiss, Lutz and Company CPA, deserve a big round of “Thanks” also. They also developed and presented a great program for Regional Member Meetings that were scheduled in November, December and the final one in late January.
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| Member Directory Update | ||
Time is running out to provide updated membership information to the Chapter office. On January 4th a mailing went out requesting each firm to update all company information and return to the AGC office. This is the info that will be published in the printed Member Directory. The Directory will be out in mid-March. Make sure that someone in your firm updates the information and returns the form to the Chapter office. Please provide update now, NOT after the Directory is printed. Remember, the printed directory is based on information received by February 15th. The electronic version of the directory is updated on a continual basis and can be found in the Member Only section of the website.
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| 2010 Membership Window Stickers | ||
| 2010 window stickers along with the new “members only” password for the website and a few other items will be going out to paid current members by the end of the month. |
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If there are other people in your company who would like to receive this E-Update, please send their e-mail address to agcnebuilders@windstream.net or call (402) 438-0400. |