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Winner of the 2008 NUCA
Excellence in Community Service Award
Winner of the 2009 NUCA
Special Events Service Award
Winner 2010 Special Events Service Award for our
2010 Trade Show
February 2015
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Contents:
Officers & Directors
New Members
NUCA Upcoming Events
February 18th Meeting
NUCA National Convention
Casino Cruise
Scholarship Golf Tournament
NUCA Legislative Update
Clean Water Council
Football Mania Update
Associate Member - Kelly Tractor
NUCA Foundation Scholarships
811 Safety Day NUCA of Southwest Florida
Since 1990
Thank you to all of our members and sponsors who
support NUCA by working together for the betterment of our
industry - locally, statewide and nationally.
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Keep this in mind
Weak desires bring weak results, just as
a small fire brings a small amount of heat.”
~Napoleon Hill
NUCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
DIRECTORS
Bob Keiling—Christo, Inc.
Doug Reese—B C Underground
Jim Murphy—J. P. Murphy, Inc.
Heath Draper—Linder Industrial Machinery
Mike McDonnell—Oldcastle Precast
David Scafidi—Mitchell & Stark Construction
Nate Hopkins—Rohaley & Sons Plumbing
Brett Eckenrode—Southwest Utility Systems
Frank Gibson—Denco Construction
Mike Sappah—B. J. Enterprises
Bruce Wendorf—Forsberg Construction
Pres Bliss—Honorary Member
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT Bob Russell—Guymann Construction
PRESIDENT ELECT Aaron Hunt-Branch—Guymann Construction
VICE PRESIDENT Mitchell Penner—
Mitchell & Stark Construction
SECRETARY Chris Stewart—Flygt, a Xylem Brand
TREASURER Jerry Haas—Coastal Precast of Florida
PAST PRESIDENT Jeff Boyd—Boyd Irrigation
NUCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA—2015
Contractor News
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Welcome New Members
NUCA of Southwest Florida proudly represents the
Underground & Excavation Industries since 1990.
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NUCA of Southwest Florida
P. O. Box 62207, Fort Myers, FL 33906
239-939-1952 PH.
239-790-1369 FAX
www.nucaswfl.com
NUCA Events
S.F.W.M.D.—February 18th
NUCA of Florida Board Meeting—March 23rd
NUCA National Convention—March 24th—March 26th
NUCA of Florida—Legislative Session—April 7th & April 8th
Membership Cruise—April 17th
Scholarship Golf Tournament—May 1st
NUCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
Gold Level National Partner
FEBRUARY MEETING
NUCA of Southwest Florida
Membership Meeting
DATE: Wednesday, February 18th
PLACE: Holiday Inn Airport—Town Center
9931 Interstate Commerce Dr., Fort Myers
Speakers—Brad Cook & Scott Korf
South Florida Water Management District
Please R.S.V.P. to NUCA of Southwest Florida
New times:
Social Hour - 5:30 PM Dinner - 6:00 PM
Cost $40.00 per member Cash Bar
We must guarantee our reservations and pay for no shows.
Your understanding with our policy is greatly appreciated.
We welcome guests and potential members to attend
Utility Contractor News
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We would like to invite all of my fellow utility and excavation contractors and associate members to attend NUCA’s 50th anniversary convention. We can assure you that this year’s event will not only be informational and fun, it will also be memorable. Those of us who survived the recent recession are slowly but surely seeing work pick up.
And this year’s convention was put together to provide the information and tools for companies to examine their operations, learn ways to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve profits, and bring some innovative thinking into your company.
One of the best things about our conventions is interacting with peers from all over the country to discuss issues you are facing in your company and hear how other contractors resolved these issues. We also enjoy sharing helpful information with other contractors. Attendees will have many chances to interact—happy hours, informal dinners, roundtable discussions, social events, and just sitting around waiting for the next event to begin. There are a lot of other conventions out there, but the NUCA convention is unique because nearly all attendees are company owners or management—the people that have to confront company problems and make the tough decisions. We can’t put a value on having access to hundreds of other company owners under one roof.
One of the most exciting things about this convention is our celebration of NUCA’s 50th anniversary. Associations come and go, but the fact that NUCA has survived 50 years—despite facing many periods of economic diversity— says something about the kind of organization NUCA is and the constitution and commitment of its membership. And that is something that we can all be proud of. We encourage all of you to come to warm, sunny Florida and enjoy the educational opportunities, camaraderie, and great social events.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Fred Chesney
Centerline Utilities, Inc.
Palm City, FL
Gary Lawson
Ditch Witch
Perry, OK
Convention Co-Chairman
DOWNLOAD THE CONVENTION BROCHURE
NUCA of Florida—Board Representatives
BOB RUSSELL
BRUCE WENDORF
CHRIS STEWART
NUCA National—Board Representative
BRUCE WENDORF, Chairman-Elect
Cruise—Dinner—Music—Casino
Mark your calendars—Friday, April 17th
Join NUCA of Southwest Florida:
Kick-off the weekend on the big “M”
Casino Cruise at Fort Myers Beach
Details will be sent out and posted soon.
Associate Member Kelly Tractor
Uitility Contractor News
Pres Bliss—Golf Committee Chairman since 1994
Jerry Haas—Scholarship Committee Chairman since 1990
Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament—May 1, 2015
Heritage Palms Golf & Country Club
NUCA of Southwest Florida
Utility Contractor News
NUCA Legislative Update
The President released his Budget plan for Fiscal Year 2016. It will take me a while to get through the whole thing, but I wanted to get you some information about what’s in it as soon as I could. I’ll bullet some of the highlights I’ve found so far:
The budget proposes to again cut the SRF program. While simultaneously publically voicing support for building infrastruc-ture, the FY16 proposed budget cuts $54 million from the Clean Water SRF and the Drinking Water SRF from $2.35 bil-lion to $2.3 billion.
Eliminates the Dept. of Ag. Water and Wastewater Community Facilities Loan Guarantees. This is a part of the Rural Utility Service that helps rural areas finance water infrastructure projects.
Eliminates the Water Quality Research and Support Grants program from EPA.
Repeals a host of Energy, gas and oil production tax credits including the Domestic Manufacturing Tax Deduction for Oil and Natural Gas Companies, the expensing of intangible drilling costs, and percentage depletion for Oil and natural gas wells. These tax provisions will increase taxes on oil and natural gas producers by about $40 billion.
Reauthorizes surface transportation (MAP-21 and the Highway Trust Fund) for six years at $478 billion.
Requires employers to make part time employees eligible for their retirement savings plan if the employee has worked an average of 500 hours per year for at least three years.
Includes nearly $1.9 billion for the Dept. of Labor’s worker protection agencies. This will be used to encourage an increase in the minimum wage, empower OSHA and MSHA ($990 million), and expand civil monetary penalties for safety violations.
Corporate Tax rate would be cut to 28% paid for by eliminating tax expenditures and credits.
Businesses with gross receipts less than $25 million would be allowed to use ‘cash’ accounting for their tax accounting. This would allow small businesses to write off up to $1million in investments in equipment up font- eliminating most of the need for depreciation rules.
Would implement a 19% minimum tax on foreign earnings of U.S. companies without loopholes or deferrals. A one-time 14% transition toll on up to $2 trillion of untaxed foreign earnings will be used to pay for the HTF.
As I said, this is just the highlights from a quick read. There will be more to come. It will be helpful, in developing the next Political Insiders I send, if you would send me any questions you may have!
Will Brown
Director of Government Affairs
National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA)
Representing Utility & Excavation Contractors
3925 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 300
Fairfax, VA 22030
(p) 703.890.7813
When we discussed President Obama's plans for a new Water Finance Center and a new type of
bond to finance water infrastructure projects in our January 21 and 28 blog posts , we said that
while we thought those ideas held promise, we retained a bit of skepticism over the source of their
funding, and wondered in particular if the Administration might seek to pay for them through cuts to
the EPA’s State Revolving Fund (SRF) allotment. Given that the President has proposed signifi-
cant cuts to the SRF program in the past, including hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed cuts
in early 2014, we were on the lookout for similar cuts in his fiscal year 2016 budget plan. We prom-
ised to scrutinize the details of that plan, and we did. Unfortunately, we were right to be skeptical.
Despite its generosity to infrastructure generally (requesting $478 billion to be spent on the High-
way Trust Fund and mass transit projects over the next six years), the President's budget proposes
cuts of $54 million from the Clean Water SRF and Drinking Water SRF, from $2.356 billion to
$2.302 billion. .
As we have noted before, preserving SRF funding is critical because these funds finance projects
that not only deliver clean water but grow our economy by providing jobs and supporting business-
es in rural, urban and suburban communities all over the country. CWC believes that these pro-
posed cuts are misguided, and reflect a failure to recognize the comprehensive and intertwined na-
ture of our infrastructure. Our country's infrastructure is not only the roads that carry our products
to market, but the water treatment and delivery systems that allow our businesses to produce
goods and services that rely on use of those roads. We will be lobbying strenuously to prevent wa-
ter infrastructure funding from being a casualty of the 2016 budget process, and we will keep you
updated on our efforts.
Clean Water Council | February 4, 2015 at 11:36 am |
Administration’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Plan
Proposes Cuts to SRF Funding
Clean Water Council The Clean Water Council (CWC) is a group of national organizations representing underground construction contractors design
professionals, manufacturers and suppliers, labor unions and other committed to ensuring a high quality of life through sound envi-
ronmental infrastructure. Working in concert, CWC's 39 national organizations, advocate federal legislation and policies that will
promote clean water and improve the nation's failing infrastructure.
Football Mania
The NUCA of Southwest Florida Football Mania Sweepstakes for the
2014 football season ended on December 28, 2014, how exciting it
was to issue prize money amounting to $1,250.00!!!
Tim Durban
Krystal Sullender
Bruce Wendorf
Chris Stewart
Don Nespoli
Rob Massey
Mitchell Penner
Edward Williams
Mike McDonnell
Thank you to all those that purchased tickets, and Mike McDonnell
of Oldcastle Precast for a successful fundraising event.
OSHA reminds employers to post OSHA 300A injury/illness summary February through April
OSHA is reminding covered employers to post OSHA's Form 300A, which summarizes the total number of job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred during 2014 and were logged on OSHA's Form 300, the log of work-related injuries and illnesses. The summary must be posted between Feb. 1 and April 30, 2015, and should be displayed in a common area where notices to employees are usually posted.
Employers with 10 or fewer employees and employers in specific low-hazard industries are normally exempt from federal OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping and posting requirements. Due to changes in OSHA's recordkeeping requirements that went into effect Jan. 1, 2015, certain
previously exempt industries are now covered. Lists of both exempt and newly covered industries are available on OSHA's website. Visit the Updates to OSHA's Recordkeeping Rule Web page for more information on recordkeeping requirements.
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