NC-ASHI Business Meeting

Meeting Minutes

September 28, 2006

Opening:

The regular meeting of the NC-ASHI was called to order at 4:15pm on September 28, 2006 in Burlington by Tom Edwards chapter president.

Present:

• Tom Edwards
• Nicole Edwards
• John Guy
• Larry Conway
• Larry Ross
• Marion Peeples
• 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

C.        Open Issues

New Business

Treasurers Report:    Larry Conway reported the NC-ASHI treasury balance was currently $21,771.42. 

Education Committee:  Steve Elder and Tom Edwards reported that Rex Cauldwell was committed to teach on Electrical and Plumbing at the fall conference in Wrightsville Beach.  Glenn Church has graciously agreed to teach the NCHILB mandatory course at the conference.  It was also noted that getting the NCHILB to approve courses for CEU credits was very long and involved.  NC-ASHI would like to attempt to have 2 conferences per year.  Steve Elder told the meeting attendees that this would be his last conference as education committee chairman.  Nicole has agreed to get courses for future conferences pushed through NCHILB for CEU approval.

It was suggested that a possible speaker for a conference could be Ray McGee – code issues.

Report Action Committee:   There has been no meeting since last NC-ASHI meeting.

President Report:  Tom Edwards reports that DVD rentals of NC-ASHI tapes have increased.  Nicole has  taken in approximately $1200.00 in last year from rentals.  Currently there are 53 members in NC-ASHI.  Tom also reported that the position paper from NC-ASHI regarding recommendations on pre-licensing requirements and the deletion of “GC and Engineering loopholes” was currently in progress.

NCHILB Report:   David Jones reported that the NCHILB is forming a pre-licensing education committee next month.  They will be looking at the New York model of pre-licensing education of 140 hours to include 40 hours in the field and 100 hours in the classroom ( to be offered in a college type setting).  The home inspector associate designation would disappear. 

David also reported that the new appointee to the NCHILB was William T. Jones a home inspector from New Bern.  Jim Liles has been designated vice-chairman with Gerald Canipe as chairman.

October 19^th is the next scheduled meeting for the NCHILB education committee.

The NCHILB investigator is now doing random audits of home inspector reports

(4 a month).  They will be writing the most common errors on reports in the NCHILB bulletin.

Discussion:   

• Glenn Church suggested reducing NC-ASHI chapter dues.  The BOD directors will consider this after the profit from the educational conference is determined.
• There was discussion on the possibility of creating a resource library from NC-ASHI conference material.
• George VanHorn Has written a letter to the AG office in regards to the Allen Tate / E&O insurance issue.  George stated that this should  be considered restriction of trade. 
• Steve Elder proposes NC-ASHI sending a committee to the HBA for negotiations with Wendall Bullock.  Steve seems to think that Wendall would be open to seeing the presentation that the WSAR had put together.
• Larry Ross is to try and get a leadership relationship initiated between both organizations at the state level.

Adjournment:

Tom Edwards adjourned the meeting at 5:30 pm.  Next meeting to be announced via the website and email.

Minutes submitted by:           Nicole Edwards