MONTHLY DINNER MEETING
Chaparral Country Club
1260 Mohave Drive
Bullhead City
Date: October 11, 2023
Guest Speaker: Mark Clark (Anticipated)
Cocktails & Social: 6:00pm
Dinner served at 6:30pm sharp! Cost is $15.00 per person
*REMINDER* – RESERVE BY CALLING LAURA AT
928-758-4959 or 928-727-5238
Please note: We pay for all meals ordered. Once you have made your reservation, you will be charged for your dinner even if you do not attend.
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President’s Letter
The new acting registrar of contractors, Cindy Casaus, has reactivated the industry’s advisory board to the registrar’s office. The advisory board was first constituted by Mike Goldwater and functioned effectively for 25 years before being terminated by Jeff Fleetham around 2015. Mr. Fleetham apparently did not feel a need to have industry input in his office. The Mohave Valley contractors took an active part in the advisory board from 1991 until about 2014. At any rate, we have been granted a seat on the new board and we will take an active role with the registrar.
The city of Bullhead City is actively seeking a grant of three-hundred million dollars ($300,000,000.00) to install infrastructures to take water directly from the Colorado River rather than pumping ground water, as we currently do now. As I understand it, we would have to give up part of our annual water allocation to receive this grant. Without explanation for this action, I fail to see how the City of Bullhead benefits from this proposal. I have invited Mark Clark, Bullhead’s Director of Utilities, to be our guest speaker at our Wednesday, October 11th, meeting. At this time, he has not confirmed his attendance, but if he cannot make it, I will try to get someone else from the city to address this proposal.
Make your dinner reservations today!
Larry D. Adams
President
Call To Order
The regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at Scooters, 2750 Miracle Mile, Bullhead City, AZ. The meeting was called to order at 12:51 p.m., by President Larry Adams.
Attendees
President Larry Adams, Secretary/Treasurer John Caponetto, and Director Catherine Lopez-Rajaniemi. Absent: Directors Shane Chester, Tonya Frederickson, Chris Morgan, and Darryl Franklin. Guests: Linda Saldana. We did not have a quorum.
Minutes
President Adams asked everyone if they read the Newsletter.
Treasurer’s Report
President Adams asked for a motion to dispense reading of the Treasurer’s report until tomorrow night’s general meeting.
Old Business
President Adams informed the Board that the new acting Registrar of Contractors, Cindy Casaus, met with the Board and some of the items discussed were unlicensed contractor activities, what it takes to get a license, and licensing process. They also took a tour of the Academy of Building Industries school.
New Business
Secretary/Treasurer Caponetto said that on September 5, 2023, water allocation was approved by MVIDD. The application fee was $763.80, and he will let the school know how much it cost. Secretary/Treasurer Caponetto said he called Jaime Kelley appreciating her offer of water allocation to the school and will send a written letter to Ms. Kelley thanking her, but that they got an offer they couldn’t refuse.
Secretary/Treasurer Caponetto said he heard from Selberg Associates that they got replies from Mohave County regarding the site plans. Some of the items mentioned were that the font on the site plans were too small, wrong zone classification, needed dimensions for parking lot. They had a list of eight items that Mohave County sent to Selberg Associates. Secretary/Treasurer Caponetto will track this. He also said that he has heard nothing from ADOT.
President Adams said that Mohave County has gotten impossible. How many months has it been to get site plans approved? We had to spend an additional $3,000 to Selberg Associates to get site plans approval.
Secretary/Treasurer Caponetto said he read in the newspaper that the Board of Supervisors have approved a recommended approach by the building department to an alternate method of evaluating soils. He said he talked to Gibert at Mohave County and Gilbert said that they are doing soils evaluation tests instead of Geotech testing of soils. The soils evaluation tests are less restrictive. The cost will be three to four hundred dollars.
Secretary/Treasurer Caponetto said that we made $1,132 on our CD of $70,000 at 5% for four months, with Foothill Bank, and he is renewing the CD for another four months at 5%. President Adams has to go to the bank and sign the papers for the renewal.
Adjournment
President Adams asked if anyone had anything else to discuss. The meeting was adjourned at 1:19 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Laura L. Harrison
September 13, 2023