NC-ASHI Business Meeting
 
Meeting Minutes
April 2, 2005
 
 
Opening:
The regular meeting of the NC-ASHI was called to order at 1:00pm on April 2, 2005 in Raleigh by Larry Ross.
 
Present:
Larry Ross
Tom Edwards
George Van Horn
Nicole Edwards
Members and visitors of NC-ASHI
 
A.        Approval of Agenda
The agenda was unanimously approved as distributed.
 
B.        Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the previous meeting were unanimously approved as distributed.
 
C.        Open Issues
COR representation for NC-ASHI has been reduced by 50%.  George Van Horn is now the COR representative for the organization.  George went on to explain that the past year was a contentious year for the COR council.  There were no real issues for the COR council to vote on.  To send 2 representatives to these meetings was a strain for the chapter that yielded little results or information.  There has been a leadership change in the national COR council and George has hope that there will be a less contentious environment where more proactive decisions will come from the council.  At this point the COR council is basically a grooming ground for potential national ASHI board members.
 
Chapter leadership day is the most valuable meeting for COR reps to attend as far as information gathering goes.
 
D.      New Business
 
Treasurers Report:    Nicole Edwards reported the NC-ASHI treasury balance was currently $12,234.60.  Since August of last year NC-ASHI has paid Henry Jones (lobbyist) a total of $4,182.50.  NC-ASHI has also signed up 8 new ASHI candidates for the state since August 2004.
 
Education Committee:  Tom Edwards reports that the conference that NC-ASHI is co-sponsoring with NCSU will be held on August 12- 13th at NCSU.  The mandatory class for 2005 will be offered for the last time at this conference.  The November conference will be offering the new mandatory class for 2006.  The committee and executive director are currently working on instructors and the brochure.
 
NCHILB Liaison Report:   Tom Edwards reported that there had been no NCHILB meeting since the February 19th NC-ASHI meeting.  Tom also reported that the NCHILB committee for the standardized report has met once since formation to basically outline information gathering.
 
Report Action Committee:  David Jones read a statement from Steve Smallman who was unable to attend.  To paraphrase: Steve stated that he was sorry that a meeting of the committee had not yet been scheduled.  He was meeting with Fred Herndon of the NCLHIA next week to see if the 2 organizations could come up with a unified approach.  Henry Jones (lobbyist) has done some preliminary work.  The NCHILB will have to have public hearings in which will be the best opportunity to present logical arguments against a standardized report format.  This is the first level to which we can attempt to reverse the earlier motion.  Failing that there is some chance that the rules review commission may vote against it but only if the home inspection industry can make logical technical/legal  arguments, not right vs.wrong arguments.  Mike Carpenter of the Home Builders Association was contacted and the HBA is in favor of a standardized report format.  There is little chance that the HBA representative on the NCHILB (Larry Summers) will change his vote.
 
David Jones added that the NCHILB is probably going to move very slowly in regards to the standardized report issue.  There is much information gathering that needs to be done.  NC-ASHI and NCLHIA need to be proactive in coming up with alternatives.  David states that at this point he really doesn’t understand what the perceived problem is with home inspector’s reports as they are now.  The problem needs to be defined.
 
President Report:  Larry Ross reported that NC-ASHI will be sponsoring a radon certification course and exam in September of this year.  Location is to be announced.
 
E. Next Meeting
Next meeting will be held on June 4, 2005.  Location to be announced.
 
Adjournment:
Meeting was adjourned at 2:30pm by Larry Ross.
 
Minutes submitted by:           Nicole Edwards