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Please pay attention to your membership renewal date. Support your
Chapter! Many of you participated in last year’s Cash and Treat membership
campaign that took place in October. We are pleased to report that at the state
Board meeting in September it was voted that this campaign would take place
again this year! For those new members who join during this time, you receive
three free months of membership so your membership will expire in January
2015. Start recruiting! The state and Chapter will both be awarding you!
The FSPA has launched their new website at
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Check it out; it is great! This will show you the many benefits available to
you as a member. One of the valuable benefits is the Scholarship Program.
As a member, your children and children of employees of your company may
participate in the scholarship program. Check out the website for additional
information.
At the state Board meeting,
Ken Brown, Insurance by Ken Brown,
spoke
about commercial automobile rates. Finding competitive rates is getting
harder – the auto industry has suffered 106 percent in losses this last year.
Ken suggested having employees who drive your vehicles sign a document
that indicates they, the employee, would be responsible for the deductible if
they were to have an accident in your vehicle. You may contact
Insurance
by Ken Brown
if you’d like a copy of the contract.
It is not too soon to start thinking about the upcoming Everything Under the
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Expo to be held February 13-14, 2015. There will be 43 classes offered
and volunteers are needed! If you are taking a class, please volunteer to be
an ID checker or a room monitor. It was voted at the state Board meeting that
a Chapter must have the same number of volunteers as spaces on the state
Board or we will be charged a fee. The Northeast Florida Chapter must have
five volunteers.
Please make sure you read the president’s article in the September
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regarding the heat pump issue. This affects your industry.
Additionally at the Board meeting, all the Chapters voted not to move forward
with the service bill initiative. The Residential Pool/Spa Servicing Specialty
Contractor rule was approved effective June 30, 2014.
