Letter from the President

Sara Majzun, BCT Alarm Services, Inc.

“Our Home & Remodeling Show is now

a 2-day event and takes place on February 26th and 27th at Emerald Event Center in Avon. We are almost sold out of booths, so if you have not turned in your exhibitors contract be sure to get that in ASAP.

2022: NEW YEAR,

Same Great Association!

Here we are at the end of another January! It's cold and grey out, but this is the time of year that business is heating up. We are past the holidays and the spring housing market is fast approaching. The North Coast Building Industry Association is here to help you any way that we can! I am grateful and excited to be taking on the role as president for a second term. We have a phenomenal group of leaders in the association this year and I firmly believe that we have put all of the right people in the right seats and we are going to kick ass this year. Last year there were lots of big ideas that came to fruition and those ideas are moving full speed ahead this year!

The first is the mentorship partnership with the Lorain County JVS. Tim King from K. Hovnanian Homes and John Toth from Floor Coverings International have been working tirelessly on getting this program off the ground and I am very excited to see that our kickoff meeting with the students takes place at the beginning of next month! We all know that growing our workforce is one of our BIGGEST goals at the NCBIA and this program is setting out to do just that!

On the same topic of workforce, I am extremely excited to announce that at our March General Membership meeting we will have Ed Brady who is the head of NAHB’s HBI (Home Builders Institute) program. Our goal is to invite all of the superintendents, high school principals, and guidance counselors that are in our footprint to this meeting as well so that Ed can explain to them the benefits of the HBI/Home Depot program and how it can help the schools. If you are not familiar with HBI, the Home Depot Grant or any other of NAHB's workforce development initiatives, I STRONGLY suggest you attend this meeting. It will be one you cannot afford to miss!

Lastly our biggest consumer event of the year is coming up at the end of February! Our Home & Remodeling Show is now a 2-day event and takes place on February 26th and 27th at Emerald Event Center in Avon. We are almost sold out of booths, so if you have not turned in your exhibitors contract be sure to get that in ASAP. You do not want to miss your chance at talking to over 2000 people! The committee is hard at work making sure this will be an excellent event for our vendors this year and we hope that even if you don’t have a booth that you stop by the show and check it out and say "hi" to your fellow members!

We have had some awesome forward momentum the past few years, despite what has been going on in the world around us. I cannot wait to see how we can blow 2022 out of the water!

#TeamNCBIA