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SPRING 2008 Page 11 MEMBERSHIP CORNER Cont. from p.3 Club. I am so proud to be working with such a dedicated group of people. month and if you are in need of any They go above and beyond the call of special class we will be happy to try duty when asked to perform assistance to schedule it for you. Just give ACT a to ACT staff and our members. I would call at 520-624-3002 and let us know like to thank those who have stepped what you need. up the last few months to assist in our Now some exciting news on monthly meetings, Thank you again. our website. We now have writable In addition, we also will be forms for you to just click on the form, holding the safety meetings we have whether it is the dinner meeting, golf scheduled in July and August along tournament sponsorship, classes or with the Development Services Construction seminar, and type in the blanks, attach Industry meetings the second it to an email to subs@actaz.net and Friday of each month at 8 am. you will be registered for that event. ACT’s office doesn’t close for No printing, then faxing or mailing, those months so you can access the although you might want to call us Business Practice Interchange Network with your credit card until we have program just by calling ACT. Those of our secured site – don’t put a credit you that don’t know what ACT’s BPI card on the form you are e-mailing Network program is and are interested until it says THIS IS A SECURED in finding out how it works should call SITE. We are working on that now! ACT at 520-624-3002 for more information. The faxes are still pretty safe but only if you send it to the correct fax number In closing, I want to let all the 520-624-3049; you can still put your members and friends of Ted Edwards, credit card number on those. TEPCO Inc., know that I am doing June will be our last General well, although he is sorely missed, he Membership Meeting for this fiscal is out of pain. By the way we did have year; we always take July and August the two grandchildren we were expect- off from membership meetings– ing, both of them boys – one in Febru- we’ll call it summer break–although ary and the other May 16th. Both are we still have the ACT Ambassador’s healthy and doing well. Thank you Club meeting on the 4th Tuesday of again for all your concerns, cards and each month, even July and August. phone calls. See you at the June Let me take this opportunity to state a meeting. few words about ACT’s Ambassadors IT’S NEVER BEEN EASY Cont. from p.2 the GC that I’m being “red-tagged” because of a ?????. It doesn’t matter, it’s going to be a fight and it’s going to cost. And, finally it is time to get paid, which many times are the most difficult part of the projects. I’m talking about getting all the money due, plus change orders & extras, and getting it ON TIME! Then it’s on to the next job. It’s never been easy but subcontractors do it day in and day out. They love to see their projects rise out of the dirt and know that school, Questions of the Month By: D. Charles “Chuck” Freitas 1. If the polar bear population is in such dire straits, then why do governments still issue hunting permits? 2. If “growth” is to be restricted to an urban core (Tucson Weekly, May 1-7), then how will the no-growth side convince the neighborhood groups that high-rise residential buildings are good for them AND mass transit? 3. Would nonvoting taxpayers ever realize that their inaction costs them money, every day, because of higher taxes, bigger bond programs, special interest group subsidies and poor political leadership? 4. If signing the Kyoto Treaty will help control “global warming”, then why have carbon emissions gone up, not down, in countries that signed up? 5. What if businesses declared a holiday on charitable contributions as an offset to increased taxation? 6. Who pays taxes on (open space) private land purchased by government entities? hospital, home and all the buildings they constructed will stand for years to come. Speaking about years, there is a very positive change that has come through time for subcontractors. Just think back 4,500 years ago when the subcontractor doing the limestone block work on the Great Pyramid had to tell the pharaoh that he was behind schedule. The delay damages then were simple, “off with his head,” bring in the new guy. Good things do happen–it just takes time. 7. The world is growing by more than 70 million people per year. Why isn’t birth control making headlines instead of global warming?