President's Message

It is an honor to have been elected as the new President of ACI – Central New York during our Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet. I now have the distinct obligation to “fill some big shoes” as our Immediate Past President, Chris Latreille, P.E., with Ryan Biggs Associates, has substantially changed our organization for the better. Prior to Chris being President, Gary Markinson, with Saunders Concrete, got the ball rolling by bringing on a local and dynamic Administrator, Amanda Latreille, with Amalat Consulting. Through Gary and Chris’s leadership and hard work we have greatly improved the operation of ACI CNY. An incomplete list of our recent accomplishments follows:

• A new website! Not only is it modernized, it is useful to our members and to the Association Board:

-On-line registration
-On-line bill pay – yes, we now accept credit cards!
-Calendar of events
-Automated invoicing
-Centralized membership database
-Email notification and announcements to our members
-Tracking of registrations for upcoming events

• Outstanding dinner meeting speakers over the fall and winter, which last year included:

-Coal Fly Ash in Concrete, Ken Hover
-Self Consolidating Concrete Field Demo, Ron Vaughn @ Whitacre’s Shop
-Masonry manufacturing plant tour @ Barnes & Cone
-Concrete Pavement Design, Doug O’Neil
-Designing RMC for Sustainability & Efficiency

• Highly successful Awards Banquets:

-Excellent project submissions
-Excellent judge panels
-Updated evaluation forms and criteria
-And a well planned and executed event.

Our Board of Directors will be meeting this summer to develop our Fall and Winter Dinner Meeting programs.  Once topics and speakers are decided, announcements will be made.

I am looking forward to serving as President for the next couple of years, and will do my best to keep the Association moving forward.

Thanks,

Greg Novitzki, P.E., LEED A.P.
June 2013

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