BIA Online Magazine - June 2024 by BIA SoCal

Southern California BUILDER

The Magazine of the Building Industry Association of Southern California The

• Dan Dunmoyer, CBIA Championing Homebuilding In the State Capitol

• Chuck Hahn Putting the Power of Digital Advocacy To Work in Support of Homebuilding

• Chris Kahn BIASC’s Voice in Sacramento

• Carlos Rodriguez Supporting Homebuilding Locally

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What’s Inside

BIASC Chair & CEO Joint Message:

Nicole Murray BIASC Chair Division President, Shea Homes

Montejano BIASC Chief Executive Officer

The Strength of Each Member is the Team

In this month’s Southern California Builder issue, we spotlight our strategic partners who champion our cause and work alongside us to make a tangible impact. Their dedication and support are instrumental in our collective journey toward a better future for our building industry.

As we reach the midway point of 2024, California continues encountering a housing policy crisis while trying to address new emerging issues relating to energy, homeowners’ insurance policies, and new school construction while experiencing a massive multibillion-dollar state budget shortfall.

In this challenging environment, the one undeniable asset that exemplifies the value of the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIASC) is our unique ability to successfully collaborate. Our team efforts extend far beyond our chapters, members, and supporters, but also encompassing elected officials, our BIA counterparts, businesses, and other industries. By fostering a spirit of cooperation, we create synergies that amplify our advocacy efforts and drive meaningful change for the greater good of the building industry.

We wholeheartedly agree with Hall of Fame NBA coach Phil Jackson’s quote, “The strength of each member is the team.” Therefore, we are excited about this month’s magazine’s collaborative theme highlighting the people who make a difference for BIASC and our industry.

Thank you for your continued support and dedication to our shared mission. 

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Championing Homebuilding In the State Capitol

The son of a small homebuilder in Southern California, Dan Dunmoyer is a veteran of California’s public policy issues. Since 2018 he has served as President and CEO of the California Building Industry Association (CBIA), and every day he puts his experience to work in support of homebuilding. He recently discussed with Southern California Builder how CBIA partners with BIASC to push back against Perfect Storm threats to the industry.

Southern California Builder: What strengths does CBIA bring to the table in the ongoing effort to protect the homebuilding industry from what we call the Perfect Storm of legislation and regulations?

Dan Dunmoyer: While the local BIA chapters are focused on working primarily with their local electeds and local regulators on local and regional issues, we are focused on the statewide issues. That means working with the governor’s office, the legislature, the state regulatory agencies, and the courts. Our Board Chair, Tom Grable, says California doesn’t have a housing crisis, it has a housing policy crisis. I agree and let me amplify that further. This Perfect Storm was created by 54 years, if you go back to the enactment of CEQA, of policy concepts that impact every builder from Calexico to Eureka and in between, adding substantial costs and complexities to homebuilding. No other state has duplicated this. It’s not a partisan issue because it’s not just states like Texas and Florida who are outbuilding us two to one; even progressive states like Washington and Oregon have chosen not to implement all our costly housing policies.

SCB: What kind of resources do you have on your staff for dealing with all these issues?

DD: We have advocates on staff who work directly with legislators, the governor’s office, administrators of departments and agencies, and they are supported by our General Counsel. We also have someone who handles all the code issues because California has the toughest building codes in the nation, and we have both internal and external resources to

Dan Dunmoyer State Advocacy President & CEO, CBIA

help us move our message forward – that’s become our most effective way of confronting bad laws that are proposed. We have a team of up to ten contract lobbyists who work with all 120 legislators and regulators and we partner with key law firms when we need them to support our positions in court cases affecting housing. This collaboration allows us to work closely with the government affairs teams of our local chapters to generate the best outcome for homebuilders and homebuyers, because when we succeed, people can get a home at a better price. Our success translates into more attainable housing prices for everyone. When we don’t succeed, the cost of housing almost always goes up.

SCB: Tell us about your Housing Killers and Housing Creators.

DD: These are terms we use to educate legislators about the effects of bills they’ve authored or are considering. The Housing Killers are what create the Perfect Storm. It’s hard to believe there is a bill like this one, but Assembly Member Bennett authored a bill that basically said that it’s an unfair practice which means a violation of antitrust laws, if an investor in a housing project makes a profit. So, here’s a California legislator who has introduced a bill that is to the left of Communist China, because the Chinese government allows builders to receive a set profit. That’s an extreme example, and I’m glad to say that we were able to defeat that particular Housing Killer. Then, because sometimes a good offense is a good defense, we work with legislators and otherwise support bills that are Housing Creators, that reduce regulations, complexity, and costs.

SCB: If we didn’t have all of these talented people working on behalf of homebuilding in Sacramento, how bad would it be for California’s housing industry?

DD: That’s a great question and we do try to quantify it. We also know that each year we save our membership at least $100,000 in additional costs from our opposition and advocacy efforts, so over time we have been able to stop hundreds of thousands of dollars, per home, in additional costs. There are a

number of examples where a bill is generally well-intentioned, doing something like protecting species or promoting greater energy efficiency. These are not bad ideas; it’s just that they can price so many families out of housing because in 2023 just a $1,000 increase in the price of a new home eliminated more than 7,500 California households form being able to buy a home.

SCB: How does CBIA approach regulatory issues, which are another component of the Perfect Storm?

DD: We’re constantly working on that because we have a massive $300 billion dollar government with scores of agencies, including at least 40 that directly regulate homebuilding. There’s constantly movement within these government bodies to regulate housing and require us to do things most people would never think of, like regulating stormwater runoff on job sites or adding costly energy efficiency requirements. For example, most states update their building codes every decade, but in California it’s every 18 months, and we must monitor that because the proposed changes can demand more insulation, more solar roofing, different roofing types, different widths of walls, all-electric homes – all of which sounds good, but costs more. We already have the most energy efficient, water efficient, fire-resistant homes in the nation, so we have to push back in the name of affordability. We’re not opposed to energy efficiency, for example, but can it be cost effective? Could it be recoupable? What good is this perfect home if only millionaires can afford it?

SCB: What are your priorities then this year?

DD: On the Housing Creator side, we have two priorities. One is the passage of a legislative measure, AB 247, which would put a school bond on the November ballot. In California, builders pay for a third of the cost of building a school, with the local community paying a third through local bonds, and the state paying the other third through its school bond account, which is becoming depleted. If we had to pay all the cost of a school, it would add $50,000 to $75,000 to the cost of a home. We are the only state in the nation that requires builders to pay for their schools, so to keep that cost down, we need to pass this new school bond.

The other priority is a bill, AB 2996, by Assembly Member Alvarez of San Diego that tries to help address the current home insurance crisis. We need this bill now because so many insurers have left the state. Many companies and individuals are coping with this by using a mechanism called the FAIR Plan, and AB 2996 aims to support its growth and financial stability to ensure it can cover more claims in the event of a major fire. This is not an issue we normally address, but the situation is hurting our industry and its customers. Just look at condominiums, the product that’s supposed to help make housing more affordable.

Homeowner Association policies have gotten so expensive that we have stopped building condominiums.

SCB: What are you doing on the wildfire front?

DD: In addition to opposing legislation that attempts to address wildfires by restraining new home development, we are supporting a bill, AB 3150 by Orange County Assembly Member Quirk-Silva that would help us on the wildfire mapping. Currently, the state fire marshal only has the legal authority to recognize hazards, but not to recognize reductions in risks. This bill would allow him to reclassify an area from a high fire severity zone to a lesser classification if the builder, or the community, reduces the risk. Take Rancho Mission Viejo, for example. It’s very fire safe, surrounded by orchards of avocado and citrus, their brush is irrigated and trimmed, and they use highly fire-resistant building materials. Efforts like that should be recognized.

SCB: Are there any regulatory agency initiatives that you’re working on that are equally important as the school bond or the insurance crisis?

DD: There are. One place we are very focused on is the regulatory requirements relating to the energy efficiency of new homes. We know – and we are working to share this point – that the greatest advancements in climate resiliency can be made by retrofitting the older of the 14 million existing homes in the state. Just caulking cracks, putting in dual-paned windows and adding a little more insulation can significantly reduce energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions compared to minor improvements in the new homes that we’re currently building. Then there are the delays our builders experience, which is unlike anything in any other state; and our impact fees, which are unlike anything in any other state and can be as much as $200,000 per unit; and the electrical grid, which is so overtaxed by California’s drive for electrification that even as we have brownouts and blackouts, they are pushing to electrify more, faster. Perfect storms and perfect squalls abound, so we’re always busy.

SCB: Do you partner with the local chapters to fight against the Perfect Storm?

DD: Absolutely. Take endangered species, for example. On the Western Joshua Tree, we work regularly with Carlos Rodriguez to make sure that the people we talk to fully understand how counties in Southern California are impacted, and we share strategies and intelligence back and forth. So BIASC and CBIA are very much in partnership – hand in glove, shoulder to shoulder, working together to solve species issues, regulatory issues, transportation issues, water issues, and all the other issues affecting homebuilding. 

Putting the Power of Digital Advocacy To Work in Support of Homebuilding

BIASC’s Grassroots and Digital Campaign Strategist Chuck Hahn had a city manager father and a school district manager mother, so he learned early how government –particularly grassroots politics – works. He talked with Southern California Builder about how he’s been putting that experience to work for BIASC for the past six years.

Southern California Builder: How did you come to do digital advocacy for BIASC?

Chuck Hahn: I landed my first internship during my second semester of college, and from there, my career in government took off. I kept getting offered paying jobs after that, to the point where I barely got school done, but these opportunities provided practical knowledge and realworld experience that you don’t get in classrooms. I’ve spent twenty-plus years in Sacramento politics, mastering how to use grassroots advocacy, so Jeff [Montejano] brought me onboard at BIASC so we could use those grassroots tools and skills to advocate for housing.

SCB: The first big test of BIASC’s digital advocacy came with COVID, didn’t it?

CH: Yes, COVID generated the first big digital campaign by BIASC. The quarantine made digital advocacy more influential because government officials were not in their offices, so you couldn’t go visit with them face to face. So, we pivoted to online advocacy tools. We also had to convince leaders that homebuilding was a critical industry that could not be shut down during the quarantines. If that hadn’t worked, the economic consequences would have been substantial. Direct emails and telephone advocacy

became a very powerful grassroots tool and BIASC’s members really helped by joining in, generating a great deal of volume of contact and influence.

The other thing COVID did was gear up the industry for the campaigns that were to follow. At the outset, we were using our own manual system, but it was too cumbersome to be as effective as we needed. We shifted to automated tools that were quicker, more effective, easier for users, and had full analytics and reporting. These new tools allowed rapid, high-volume communications to go out to decision-makers at crucial points in time.

SCB: How does social media figure into digital advocacy?

CH: Social media is now a big part of how people gather and share information, and it is only going to continue to have a greater, broader influence. We use paid social media ads to direct citizens to a website where they can contact their elected officials and other key decisionmakers. We make the ads simple and quick, like “Help make homes more affordable.” We make it easy for people to participate, and with social media we’ve brought new people into the game to be our advocates, plus broadened our audience far beyond the BIA membership.

SCB: All the responses you generate are great but are they enough?

CH: They are important because they let leaders know what their constituents and local leaders are thinking, but they are just one piece of the process. We also

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BIASC’s Voice in Sacramento

BIASC’s Sacramento lobbyist, Chris Kahn, has been working in and around the State Capitol for 30 years, starting as a Senate Fellow upon graduation from college. He has worked as Chief of Staff for a Senator and Assembly member, as senior staff for a state agency, ran the legislative operations of two governors, and was a partner in a large Sacramento lobbying firm before setting up his own consulting practice. “So, I really have no skills to do anything else but this,” he laughed when talking to Southern California Builder about being the Association’s lobbyist in Sacramento, a position he has held since 2018.

Southern California Builder: What does being the lobbyist for BIASC in Sacramento entail?

Chris Kahn: You might think it only involves working with the legislature and the governor’s office, but it’s much more than that. I do a lot of that, of course, as does CBIA, but BIASC wanted to add an extra layer, to have someone who could dig in and focus specifically on the issues that impact homebuilding in Southern California. So, my job also involves working with state agencies, like when the General Stormwater Permit was up for renewal, collaborating with the industry’s coalition partners here, and even helping at the local level in Southern California, which involves making sure that legislators understand what could happen in their districts because of regulations and legislation.

SCB: Why is it so challenging to get housing-friendly legislation through Sacramento?

CK: We get a lot of legislation coming at us, both good and bad, and it often seems to be more bad than good, and there are regulations and local initiatives, all of which can hinder homebuilding in Southern California. It’s my job to utilize Sacramento to help support the positives and reduce the negatives. I believe most legislators want to be supportive of the homebuilding industry – it’s just that a lot of times

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they’re focused on other areas that they don’t realize have a big impact on homebuilding. That often revolves around climate-oriented legislators who want to do more about the climate threat and are looking to do things that they don’t realize have a negative impact on housing. I often have to meet with them and educate them about that, often using the Housing Killer list of bills that CBIA puts out to reinforce my arguments. There are obviously threats and there are legislators who are working to try to help with those threats and to make changes, but when it comes to issues like insurance and CEQA reform, we have pushed forward many positive efforts, but there’s just not always a lot of success. So, we just keep pushing.

SCB: So, how are things going on the wildfire legislation front?

CK: We’ve seen a lot of bills dealing with high severity fire areas, many of which basically come down to moratoriums on building in those fire areas. One problem is that the definitions they were using in those bills made everything a high-risk area – there was one bill in particular that I think would have considered downtown LA to be a high fire zone. I talk to legislators about what we’re doing to mitigate, even eliminate, fire risk by building smart, and last year was a big success, with us stopping a very major bill in that regard. There was a follow up bill that, again, isn’t moving this year, but I’m keeping my eye on it. This is an area were BIASC’s great digital advocacy effort had a profound effect.

SCB: Is the increasing public concern about the negative effects of the housing crisis helping with our CEQA reform efforts in the legislature?

CK: It has. Senator Wiener, who now chairs the Budget Committee but previously chaired the Housing Committee, was trying to get at CEQA reform and did some good, but largely, we’re still just not seeing it being enough. A lot of

what I’m doing up here is working on efforts to make some changes and seek reform. Obviously, people know that we have a housing crisis and we’re not anywhere near building the numbers that we need, and that CEQA is not helping with that. So, we do see bills every year to make some improvements but getting them to the finish line in the face of opposition from the environmental community is still a challenge. I’m hopeful that there will be opportunities because we have a governor who says he will sign reasonable CEQA reform bills if the legislature sends them to him.

SCB: Is there progress on the home insurance front?

CK: I think we can say there’s progress, but we’re not at a solution yet. The Governor is responding to our concerns by trying to accelerate the work of the Insurance Commissioner to get results sooner than the end of the year. He’s working to accelerate progress through bills that are being introduced as part of the budget that would acknowledge the crisis and ensure that the companies get what they need to be able to stay in California and offer policies in California. The budget needs to be wrapped up by the end of June, so we’ll know one way or another very soon. There may also be opportunities in August, the last month of the legislative session. Once we know what the plan is and if it’s workable and something we support, then I will be talking to legislators with the full force of the BIASC’s effective digital advocacy program behind me.

SCB: Are there some legislative issues you’re working on now that our members may not think BIASC’s lobbyist would be working on?

CK: I think a good example is the effort we’ve been fighting for three plus years now against a movement to clamp down on the number of warehouses being built in the state. An Inland Empire Assembly member really took the lead on that, starting back when we were having huge supply chain issues, in large part because there was just no warehouse space for these ships to download to – and at that time they’re trying to say that we’re going to build even fewer warehouses. It was mind boggling. That author was surprised to hear that there was a homebuilding impact from this, in terms of materials and appliances and everything else that we need for home construction. Plus, a number of BIASC members have projects that include a warehouse component, designed to fit in very nicely, with buffers and separation of truck and car trips. Her bill essentially would have stopped those projects in their tracks. BIASC took

the lead on fighting it since most of these warehouses are being built in the Inland Empire – in fact, one bill was at one point amended to cover only Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

I utilized our friends at CBIA and the California Chamber of Commerce and other business associations, along with labor and even the tribes, and CBIA’s designation of the bills as Housing Killers helped a great deal. Even so, the bills kept moving, but at the end of the day we were able to stop them. The digital advocacy program that BIASC put together on this was tremendous. I think that grassroots effort really showed Sacramento that this was not the way to go. We had to stop the bill again earlier this year, but even with that success, it’s now re-emerged. It’s an ongoing fight, so I have to keep reminding the legislators that we’re building with environmental justice in mind and ensuring that appropriate buffers are in place, and that the truck fleets are being electrified. These types of bills need to be coordinated with the efforts of state regulators and local entities like SCAG.

SCB: What are you doing to help with the difficulties builders are having getting electrical hook-ups in a timely manner?

CK: We’ve seen from our members that especially on larger housing developments, we’re having an issue with our utilities on ensuring timely grid connections because capacity is such a huge issue. The state really needs to focus more on this because with the push and mandates for electrification, they have to make sure the capacity is there. We are starting to see bills where people want carve-outs. Schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, affordable housing and more all have strong reasons why they should be given priorities for connections. This year there was even a bill that would put broadband at the head of the line. Along with BIA’s coalition partners, I pointed out that this is an issue for every industry, so the state should be addressing the problem, not playing favorites. That helped in getting the bill held at the Appropriations Committee, with a big thanks to BIASC’s digital advocacy. Hopefully we’ll see a leadership role coming out of the Administration to make sure that if we’re going to embark on this effort to electrify everything, we’re going to make sure that the power is there.

SCB: Do you also work to curb the ability of regulators to constrain housing?

CK: Yes, we’ve been fighting efforts that are often climatecentric that would have that effect. For example, there

was recently a push to give the Coastal Commission more authority over homebuilding in the context of sea level rise. The coastal zone keeps growing and affecting more areas where homes can be built, and mitigating for sea level rise is so expensive that the bill would have a major impact on home building – basically, a moratorium. Fortunately, we were able to stop the bill.

There’s also the Endangered Species Act, with what BIASC and the San Bernardino County Chapter are doing on the Joshua tree front, and also with the potential listing of a number of bumblebee species. That’s one of those things where when they’re a candidate for listing, you have to treat them as if they’re listed under the California Endangered Species Act. But there’s no guidance right now on how you’re supposed to deal with them, so we’ve made a number of inquiries with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to get them moving on providing some guidance to our folks.

Also, over the last few years, we were laser focused on the stormwater general construction permit. That was really an educational effort for the governor’s office to let them know that their State Water Resources Control Board was pushing

effluent limits in Southern California that couldn’t be met. The digital advocacy effort was really effective here, helping to resolve our concerns in the final permit

SCB: You said you also work at the local level. Can you give us an example?

CK: Sure. Look at the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) numbers. We’re dealing with some cities that aren’t properly dealing with their allocations. It’s tough to deal with, because on the one hand, you want to see local control and you want to see cities dealing with their housing needs as they see fit, without one-size-fits-all approaches. But at the same time, if you’ve got cities and counties that are not looking for growth, sometimes the state has to step in. In addition to working with the Governor’s office and the Department of Housing and Community Development, I work with the local legislators to make sure they understand why the state has an interest. It’s the same thing with Climate Action Plans – they need to know that they can have dramatic impacts on housing in their counties if they’re not well designed. 

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As BIASC’s Chief Policy Officer, Carlos Rodriguez works with the Chapters’ government relations staff to protect our members’ interests before hundreds of municipalities and agencies throughout the region. He discussed some of the current highprofile efforts with Southern California Builder.

Southern California Builder: Perhaps the most important recent victory of BIASC’s government relations team involved the Southern California Association of Governments’ Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, the RTP/SCS. How did that come about?

Carlos Rodriguez: The RTP/SCS is the region’s long-term vision to balance mobility and housing needs with economic and environmental goals, so it is important to BIASC’s members. We worked closely with SCAG for two years to keep the RTP/ SCS from being weaponized into a tool that could be used to challenge new housing developments. We were able to address our concerns by including language in the plan that ensured it could not be used to challenge local projects. We have developed strong relationships with the leadership of SCAG’s Regional Council, including its former president, Buena Park City Council Member Art Brown, and its new president, San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman, and SCAG’s staff was open to hearing suggestions from us. What resulted was an RTP/SCS that will stimulate economic growth through more than $751 billion in transportation investments, that promotes housing affordability by recognizing the need for 1.6 million new housing units over the plan’s 25-year horizon, and that assures local control to better assess local needs and concerns.

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Edison, to provide information on what we see coming in the development pipeline so there’s alignment with their forecasts for infrastructure completion. The committee also gives us the opportunity to have continuing collaboration on troubleshooting projects that might otherwise be dealing with delays.

BIA has been working with Edison for years, but creating this committee gives us a stronger base to work from. The Energy Committee is a platform where every member can participate, provide input, give us a real-time perspective as to progress, and bring up new issues. We also engage with local government, to prevail upon them to help ensure that there’s a path forward to meeting the capacity demands. And it helps that BIASC also supports Edison, as we did with their Riverside Transmission Reliability Project, which was approved and now will expand power supply to the City of Riverside. Any member who wants to join the committee should contact Ana Gromis at agromis@biasc.org.

SCB: How are things proceeding on the inclusionary zoning front?

CR: What we’re seeing with the state’s increased RHNA allocations, particularly on the affordable low-income housing side, is that municipalities are trying to show that they are making a good faith effort to increase the production of lowincome housing by supporting the flawed inclusionary zoning concept. That doesn’t work because inclusionary zoning can add $20,000 to $50,000 to the price of a unit, making it harder, not easier, for first-time buyers. Our challenge is to work with cities so they look at more effective ways to promote affordability.

Riverside is a good example of how we do this, where Lou Monville was a catalyst for getting the city to find another way to go about addressing these concerns. As a result, Riverside withdrew its proposed inclusionary zoning ordinance after two years of effort by the BIA and other stakeholders so it could look at other options. In the end they proposed and approved, with Riverside BIA’s support, a Local Affordable Housing Trust Fund that will provide the financial resources needed to close the

gap in funding for affordable housing projects. And in Orange County, Adam Wood worked with the City of Costa Mesa to ensure that when that city passed its inclusionary zoning ordinance, it exempted all for-sale construction, in recognition of the vast differences between for-sale and for-rent new residential development.

Also in Orange County, BIA is working with Anaheim to support efforts to establish a municipal housing trust similar to Riverside’s. As part of this effort, we supported Disney’s new Disney Forward resort proposal, which will provide $30 million towards creative solutions to the city’s housing crisis.

SCB: How are efforts to control rising fees going?

CR: We are always on the alert for fee increases since they are a burden on our homebuilder members and on affordability. A recent example is in San Bernardino County, where the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) wanted to increase its sewer connection fee by 70%, or $3,000 per unit to finance new facilities VVWRA said it needed to accommodate future growth in the region. We support future growth, so rather than fighting the fee increase outright, BIA got VVWRA to pause the fee adoption until a feasibility study could be completed to confirm both the scope and estimated costs of new facilities.

We have another big challenge in San Bernardino County, which is the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Plan now being developed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). Our purpose here is to ensure that nothing goes awry, that the plan is simple and straightforward, so that the mitigation cost per tree is more like a few hundred dollars and not $10,000. We’re now engaged in a couple of workshops to ensure that as we move forward, there aren’t any additional costs.

SCB: Workshops are a regular part of BIASC’s approach, aren’t they?

CR: Yes. For example, the Orange County Chapter launched a new series of workshops on pressing topics facing the homebuilder community. We had several hundred attendees over the multiple events, where we have explored everything from new CEQA legislation to compliance requirements under the new building code. And on May 30, BIA hosted a workshop on the Public Utilities Commission’s decision to not refund the up-front fees builders pay for electric and gas hook-ups if the project includes any natural gas. That will add another $7,500 to the cost of a new unit so we hosted a workshop to dig into the details of this change and discuss the most effective ways to address it.

SPONSORSHIPS

$3950 | Tournament Sponsor

Free foursome of golf with (1) Mulligan per player.

Company banner displayed at course

Company logo on all marketing materials

Optional display table on hole at course with prime location

(4) Tickets to BIS Kick off Party on 9/18 at 7pm Pechanga Lawn

Event Space

$2050 | Raffle Sponsor - no golfers

All Below Benefits for both options:

Company rep can assist with raffle prize drawings at banquet

Company banner displayed at course.

Company logo on all marketing materials.

Optional display table on hole at course

(2) Tickets to BIS Kick off Party on 9/18 at 7pm Pechanga Lawn Event Space

$1350| Beverage Sponsor - no golfers

All Below Benefits for both options:

Company banner displayed at course.

Company logo on all marketing materials.

Company logo on drink ticket for players

Optional display table on hole at course

$1350 | Lunch Sponsor - no golfers

All Below Benefits for both options:

Company banner displayed at course

Company logo on all marketing materials

Company logo on drink ticket for players

Optional display table on hole at course.

$1350 | Cart Sponsor - no golfers

All Below Benefits for both options:

Company logo on all golf carts

Company logo on all marketing materials.

Optional display table on hole at course.

$1350 | Hole In One Sponsor

Company logo printed on Hole-In-One signage.

Company logo on all marketing materials.

Optional display table on hole at course

BIAOC Annual 57th Golf Tournament

PURCHASE EXPERIENCE

Large Volume Homes

Tri Pointe Homes

High Volume Homes

Honorable Mention:

Tri Pointe Homes

DESIGN EXPERIENCE

Large-Volume Builders

Tri Pointe Homes

High-Volume Builders

Century Communities

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Honorable Mention:

Landsea Homes

FIRST YEAR QUALITY

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Tri Pointe Homes

High-Volume Builders

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FIRST YEAR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

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Tri Pointe Homes

High-Volume Builders

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Landsea Homes

MOST IMPROVED DIVISION

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TEQUILA TASTING BIA ORANGE COUNTY

PRICING

BIASC Members: $95

NextGen Members: $75

Non-Members: $130 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Register online at members.biasc.org/events If you have any questions, please contact Laura (Barber) Salgado at lbarber@biasc.org or 949-777-3861

TEQUILA TASTING BIA ORANGE COUNTY

SPONSORSHIPS

CADILLAC MARGARITA $2,500

One (1) Available

8 tickets to attend Company logo on marketing materials Company logo recognition at event

PALOMA $1,250

One (1) Available

5 tickets to attend Company logo on marketing materials Company logo recognition at event

TEXAS RANCH WATER $500

2 tickets to attend Company name on marketing materials

Company name recognition at event

TEQUILA SUNRISE $1,000

4 tickets to attend Company logo on marketing materials Company logo recognition at event

ON THE ROCKS $250

Company name on marketing materials

Company name recognition at event

BIA Riverside & San Bernardino

Tickets SPONSORSHIPS & TICKETS

BIASC MEMBERS SPONSORSHIPS Sponsorships

Early Bird (Until 6/30) $105

Regular Rate (7/1 - 8/12) $125

Last Minute Rate (After 8/13) $135

TABLES

BIASC Member Table of 10 Attendees

Early Bird - $1,050 Regular - $1,275

BIASC Member Table of 10 Attendees w/ 2 Bottles of Wine

Early Bird - $1,250

Regular Rate - $1,525

BIARC UNDERWRITER Sponsor

Table of 10 (inc. 2 UND Tickets)$835

BIARC UNDERWRITER Sponsor

Table of 10 (inc. 2 UND Tickets) w/ 2 bottles of wine - $1,035

BIASC IE BUNDLE Sponsor Table of 10 (inc. 4 BUNDLE Tickets) - $625

BIASC IE BUNDLE Sponsor Table of 10 (inc. 4 BUNDLE Tickets) w/ 2

bottles of wine - $825

BIA Riverside Annual Golf Tournament

BASEBALL NIGHT

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Pre-Game Networking: 5:10 PM

Game Start: 7:10 PM

Network with us at the pre-game happy hour and ballpark dinner and then head to your seat and enjoy the game! Tickets sell out fast for this event so make sure to get your tickets now.

EARLY BIRD TICKET PRICING (ENDS 6/27)

Member Game Ticket w/ Pre-Game Networking at Loge Terrace: $150

Member Game Ticket ONLY: $60

Member Group of 10 Tickets w/ Pre-Game

Networking at Loge Terrace: $1500

Non-Member Game Ticket w/ Pre-Game Networking at Loge Terrace: $175

Non-Member Game Ticket ONLY: $85

REGULAR TICKET PRICING (AFTER 6/27)

Member Game Ticket w/ Pre-Game Networking at Loge Terrace: $165

Member Game Ticket ONLY: $75

Member Group of 10 Tickets w/ Pre-Game

Networking at Loge Terrace: $1650

Non-Member Game Ticket w/ Pre-Game Networking at Loge Terrace: $190

Non-Member Game Ticket ONLY: $100

IN-FIELD HIT SPONSOR - $500

2 tickets to Game & Pre-Game Networking

Logo on all Marketing Material

Recognition at Pre-Game Networking

HOME RUN SPONSOR - $1,000

4 tickets to Game & Pre-Game Networking

Logo on all Marketing Material

Recognition at Pre-Game Networking "TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME" HAPPY HOUR SPONSOR - $1,500

6 tickets to Game & Pre-Game Networking

Logo on all Marketing Material

Recognition at Pre-Game Networking VS

BIAOC Women’s Leadership Conference

Build with S amsung

Samsung Bespoke AI offers home solutions designed for smarter living. Enjoy seamless experiences, from streaming videos to recipe recommendations to shorter laundry cycles, with our innovative appliance features.

BIA Los Angeles / Ventura Annual Golf Tournament

Sponsorship Opportunities

(4) Tickets to both events

Sponsor recognition at both events

Dedicated area for promotional display

Logo inclusion in promotional emails & online

registration page for both events

Recognition on social media for both events

(6) Tickets to both events

Sponsor recognition at both events

Dedicated area for promotional display

registration page for both events

Company listing in PR and/or media advisory high in the sky sponsor - $2,750

Logo inclusion in promotional emails & online

Recognition on social media for both events

Company listing in PR and/or media advisory

One 10-minute event presentation at either event July 17 - Summer High Mixer at Palm Springs Aerial Tramway November 7 - Shots in the Night Golf at Indian Wells Golf Resort

BIAOC Baseball Night

Angels vs Padres

Save the Date 2024 BIASC EVENTS

BIA Riverside Chapter Golf Tournament

BIASC Inland Empire Joint Summer Event

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June 1 2 June 1 5

BIA Los Angeles / Ventura Chapter Golf Tournament

BIA Riverside County Chapter Annual Wine Event A p r i l

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Monday, June 12, 2023

To Be Announced

SilverLakes Equestrian & Sports Park in Norco

BIASC Coachella Valley Summer High Mixer

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

BIA Orange County Chapter Whiskey Tasting Event

BIASC Greater Sales & Marketing Council Networking Event

Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Dacor Kitchen Theater in Irvine

BIASC Advanced Mechanics Lien Webinar

Friday, July 19, 2024

Virtual Event

BIA Riverside & San Bernardino County Chapter Joint BBQ Networking Event

Thursday, July 13, 2023

BIAOC Tequila Tasting

BIASC Special Evening with Industry Leaders

To Be Announced

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Shopoff Realty Investments in Irvine

BIA Orange County Annual Baseball Night

BIA LAV Annual Baseball Night

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Angels Stadium of Anaheim

Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles

BIA Orange County Chapter Golf Tournament

July 1 3 July 1 8 July 2 7

BIAOC Housing Conference

BIA Los Angeles / Ventura Chapter Top Golf

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Moulton Niguel Water District

Thursday, July 27, 2023 Top Golf in El Segundo

BIARC Summer Wine Event

Wednesday, August 21 2024

Wilson Creek Winery in Temecula

Thursday, August 17, 2023 Wilson Creek Winery August 1 7

BIA San Bernardino County Chapter & BIA Riverside Chapter Joint Top Golf Event

BIA Orange County Chapter Women in Leadership Conference

Save the Date 2024 BIASC EVENTS

BIA Riverside Chapter Golf Tournament

BIASC Mechanics Lien Webinar

April

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Monday, April 17, 2023

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Temecula Creek Golf Club

Virtual Event

BIASC Advanced Mechanics Lien Webinar

April

BIASC Greater Sales & Marketing Council Networking Event

Friday, September 12, 2024

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Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 To Be Announced

BIASC Builders vs. Associates Golf Tournament

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

April

BIASC Special Evening with Industry Leaders

Pechanga Casino & Resort in Temecula

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

Richard Nixon Presidential Library

BIASC Building Industry Show 2024

September 18-19, 2024

Pechanga Casino & Resort in Temecula

BIA Orange County Chapter Golf Tournament

BIAOC Chapter Installation Gala

Monday, May 8, 2023

November 2, 2024

May 8

Balboa Bay Club

Cota de Caza Golf & Racquet Club

BIASC Coachella Valley Shots In The Dark Networking Event

Thursday, November 7, 2024

BIA San Bernardino County Chapter & BIA Riverside Chapter Joint Top Golf Event

Indian Wells Golf Resort

June 1

June 9

BIASBC & RC Joint Top Golf Event Top Golf in Ontario

BIA Orange County Chapter Women in Leadership Conference

Friday, June 9, 2023

City National Grove of Anaheim

PLEASE WELCOME BACK OUR

RENEWING MEMBERS

APRIL 2 - MAY 31, 2024

2-10 Home Buyers Warranty

ALBD Electric & Cable

All American Asphalt

Allstate Environmental Solutions, Inc.

Altitude Home Loans

Alumadoor

American Bath Group / Aquatic

Automated Gate Services Inc

Balsa Construction, LLC

Best Management Construction, Inc.

BMLA

Brandow & Johnston

Brownstein Hyatt, Farber & Schreck

BSB Design

Builder Services Network

Builder's Insulation of Oregon, LLC d/b/a Builders

Insulation of California, LLC

C2 Collaborative

California Sub-Meters

CBC Framing, Inc.

CDS Insurance Services

CHASE - Home Lending

Christian Brothers Interiors

Clark & Green

Contech Engineered Solutions

Copper Creek Hardware Inc.

Curtis Allan Floor Covering

Customer Service Mortgage Corporation

D33 Design & Planning Inc.

DAHLIN Architecture | Planning | Interiors

Davies Imaging Group

DCSE Associates, Inc.

Design Masonry, Inc.

Eliant Inc.

Enterprise Fleet Management of Southern California

GFR Homes

Glenn Lukos Associates, Inc.

GMU Geotechnical Inc

Greenfield Fence Inc.

Guardian Capital

Guilin Cabinets

Gunn Jerkens

Hardwood Creations dba HCI

Heritage Plastering Inc.

Highland Fairview

Holiday Carpet & Floor Covering Inc

Housing Capital Company, A Division of US Bank

Impact Sign & Graphics LLC

innobath

Interior Logic Group

Jackson Tidus, A Law Corporation

JHA Environmental, Inc.

K & A Engineering, Inc.

Kellenberg Studio

KWC Engineers Inc

Largo Concrete, Inc.

Law offices of Helene Z. Fransz

Leonard Roofing Inc.

Lixil

LSA Associates, Inc.

Mannigan Design Inc

Marathon General Inc.

Matrix Surfaces Inc.

Mega Western Sales

MJD Concrete Works, Inc

Motivational Systems Inc

Murrieta Development

NUVIS

Objekt Designs, LLC

OJ Insulation Company LP

Optimum Group, LLC

ORCO Block & Hardscape

OrePac Building Products

Pacific Masonry Walls Inc

Pacific Ventures Management LLC

PLEASE WELCOME BACK OUR RENEWING MEMBERS

APRIL 2 - MAY 31, 2024

Paragon Framing Inc.

Pillar Building Group LLC

Plante Lebovic LLP

Plumbing Concepts, Inc.

Premier Contractors Inc.

Professional Staffing Ventures

Provident Bank

Rain Bird Corporation

Ravello Holdings, Inc.

Recreation Brands of Southern California

Recupero & Associates Inc

Regan Roofing Inc

Related California Residential

Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Inc.

Residential Warranty Company, LLC

Resource Building Materials

RHA Landscape Architects Planners, Inc.

Robert Hidey Architects Inc

Roy E Whitehead Inc.

Savannah Design Group

SDK Atelier

Shaw & Sons

Shea Homes

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Simpson Strong-Tie

Sitescapes Inc. - Landscape Architecture & Planners

Southern California Group

Southwest Plastering Inc.

Stantec

Structa Wire Corp.

Sub-Zero Group West, Inc.

Suncoast Post-Tension, Ltd.

Sunjoint Development LLC

SunPower Corp.

SZR Law

T&B Planning Inc

T&R Construction Group

T.M. Cobb Co.

Tejon Ranch Company

Temeka Group

Teserra

The Management Trust

TRI Pointe Homes

Trinity Framing

True Air Mechanical, Inc.

TWR Enterprises, Inc.

Umpqua Bank

Union Roofing Contractors Association

Unscripted Interior Design

Urban Advisory & Building Group, LLC

Vintage Design

VintageGroup

VISIONSCAPE

Wallcraft Drywall Inc.

Westlake Royal Stone Solutions

WFG Title

WHA | Architects . Planners . Designers

Whitewater Rock & Supply Co

Whittingham Public Affairs Advisors

Win-Dor

Wolff Horticulture, Inc.

Woodgrain

WSH Management, Inc.

X-Act Finish & Trim, Inc.

Zimmerman Group Inc.

Zoom Recreation

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Building a Sustainable Future with Leadership, Advocacy and Resolve

Introducing the Builders for Better Communities Foundation (BBCF), a new charitable nonprofit that will serve to promote diversity, equity, and inclusiveness on behalf of the Building Industry Association of Southern California within the Southern California region.

Designated as a 501(c)(3), the Builders for Better Communities Foundation is a new charitable nonprofit that will serve to promote diversity, equity, and inclusiveness on behalf of the Building Industry Association of Southern California within the Southern California region.

Supporting AFFORDABLE HOUSING opportunities for U.S. Veterans and their families is a cornerstone of Builders for Better Communities Foundation (BBCF).

California’s housing crisis continues to have a significant impact on the most vulnerable, including our veterans. BBCF will advocate to improve the HOUSING AVAILABILITY and AFFORDABILITY for those veterans. Learn more at buildersforbettercommunities.org.