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It's Time to Start Thinking About Awards Programs By Michael Krissoff, AEMA-ARRA-ISSA Executive Director
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onoring colleagues and agencies for jobs well done is a welcome task, one to which we look forward every year in anticipation of the AEMAARRA-ISSA Annual Meeting’s Awards Breakfast. With all the nitty gritty, detail work, and deadlines you guys deal with on a daily basis — breakdowns, labor problems, missed deliveries, weather — it has to be satisfying, maybe even comforting, to know that someone is watching and appreciative of the good work you do and of the agency folks and taxpayers for whom you do it. Your good work deserves some acknowledgement and so does that of the champions at the user agencies with whom you partner for innovation and sustainability. And the way to do that is to use the opportunities afforded you by the AEMA, ARRA and ISSA Awards Programs. They cost nothing to enter, just some time invested, and the returns, if you use them appropriately can pay big dividends if you leverage the public relations when you get back home.
discipline (nomination deadline October 1). The ARRA Richard E. Lowell President’s Award, at the discretion of the president, crowns an individual who, through longterm involvement, worked to advance the goals of the association.
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AEMA has its Hall of Fame and Recognition of Achievement to honor individuals (nomination deadline October 31), and the Past Presidents Award to recognize a specific project (nomination deadline December 1). The AEMA Presidents Award is given at the discretion of the President for special recognition not covered by the other honors.
The ISSA President’s Award for Excellence was created to showcase those contracting achievements that exemplify the highest quality, workmanship, and best standards of practice in slurry/ micro (nomination deadline November 30). And initiated in 2016, ISSA offers the ISSA Award for Excellence in Pavement Preservation, given to an industry champion, a public official or agency that has made outstanding contributions to the pavement preservation industry, using an application represented by ISSA (slurry surfacing, micro surfacing, chip sealing, cape sealing, crack treating, and other asphalt emulsion-based surface treatments) (nomination deadline November 30). The deadlines cited are absolute, meaning entries received after the specified date will not be considered. Complete ballots, criteria and other relevant information appears at aema.org/awards, arra.org/awards, and slurry. org/awards. Don’t let those unsung heroes and incredible go unnoticed. Nominate them for an AEMA, ARRA or ISSA Award.
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ARRA offers the John A. Miller Award for Excellence in Cold Planing, the Charles R. Valentine Award for Excellence in Cold Recycling, and awards for excellence in hot in-place recycling and full-depth reclamation/ soil stabilization. Each of these is given to an agency or engineering form champion who has developed a pioneering program in the respective
Summer is a different time of year for your AEMA-ARRA-ISSA-PPRA headquarters. Seems everything we do is deadline-oriented, and we’re always at work on projects three, sometimes, six, and up to 12 months or more in advance of the actual calendar. Seems like no sooner had we closed the doors on the 2016 Annual Meeting, we were back in the office cleaning up the
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administrative chores, counting the money, paying the bills, writing the minutes of the board meetings, then following through on housekeeping, new initiatives, and updating websites. In the middle of that came fine-tuning for the annual June Board meetings here in Annapolis. The 2017 Annual Meeting Program Committee got down to work, and the AEMA ISAET Committee, the ARRA Semi-Annual Meeting Committee, and the ISSA 2017 SSWS Committee started dotting a lot of is, crossing a lot of ts, and filling in a lot of blanks. Meanwhile, newsletters get published and distributed, along with a number of other communiques and arrangements for this fall’s meetings and ARRA’s regional seminars this summer plus two in-place recycling conferences. See Asphalt Contractor’s last issue for what happened during one of these regional meetings. (Visit ForConstructionPros.com and search 12251920).
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