The InterConnection VOLUME 9
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MAY/JUNE 2021
State of the Association Remarks Phil Lattanzio, CCE President & COO
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ast year I wasn’t able to deliver my annual State of the Association address, but my remarks were published in our newsletter and they ended with this statement, “It’s going to be an interesting year, to say the least. No one right now has any real idea of where we are headed; but we do know that the Association has stood for over 125 years and we shall survive this crisis as well.” How true. It was a very interesting year. Not one I want to repeat, but it was interesting. And we did survive the crises of the pandemic even better than I had hoped we would. Our Board and my remarkable staff came through with ideas on not only how to survive, but how to make the proverbial lemonade from the lemons we were dealt. So, let me start by thanking both the Board and the staff, and especially Patrick Nelson, our outgoing
Phil Lattanzio, CCE, President and COO NACM Connect, delivering the State of the Association Address during the Annual Business Meeting via a ZOOM.
Chairman, who didn’t miss a beat leading us through this extraordinary year. I also want to thank Erica White for her continued service on the NACM National Board of Directors. Having her on the National Board ensures the voices of the NACM Connect membership are heard.
The Association applied for and received funds under both rounds of the Federal Paycheck Protection Program. We have already received forgiveness of the first draw loan and expect to receive forgiveness of the second later in 2021. The funds received gave the Association an Continued on page 4>>
Notes from the Outgoing and Incoming Chairs Incoming Chair, Mike Hill, CCE
Connect staff during this difficult time.
would like to first share my condolences to the entire NACMConnect family on the recent passing of 30-year employee Pat Speyer. I will miss seeing Pat during my frequent visits to the NACMConnect headquarters in Rolling Meadows, IL. Not to mention, seeing her wish me a good weekend or happy holidays in e-mail responses when I submitted our trade data. My thoughts and prayers are with the entire NACM-
I would like to thank NACM-Connect and all the members for allowing me to serve as Chairperson in 2021. It is one of the greatest honors of my life. I am very excited to work with everyone to help NACM-Connect continue to emerge from such unprecedented times in our world. I want to recognize our outgoing Chair, Patrick Nelson for his tremendous leadership during the COVID pandemic of 2020. The same goes for outgoing Board Members
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Dave Zahller CCE, Staci Cima CCE, Diana Hoffmann, and Tracey Bland. I am confident that our new Board Members Edward Patrick, Deborah Rollman CICP, Dale Semple, and Regina Stricklin CBF will be up for the challenge of filling such large shoes. I would like to commend Phil Lattanzio, Lillian Novak, the rest of the good people at NACM-Connect, and all the vendor partners for their outstanding efforts during a very difficult 2020. They really did an exceptional job adapting Continued on page 6>>
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