Dear Members,
It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over, and kids are back in school. Summer has been fun for us! We had a successful 2nd CSI Bowling Tournament in July where even the “losers” were winners. This will definitely be an annual event for our chapter, and we know it will grow over the years. We had a great time and the tournament could not have been a success without the generous support of our sponsors. SESCO Lighting was our premier event sponsor, Fluor sponsored our drawing prizes, Ameristar provided our CEU lunch and Memphis Reprographics made us look good, as they always do, by providing our signage and printing. We will close out our Summer season of events with a morning CEU and hands on training with Schluter Systems on August 30th. This will be a great opportunity to take what you learn and put it into practice. We hope you can attend!
In July we had a very productive transfer of power (TOP) meeting. The best thing that I can say that came out of the TOP, is that we got organized. We spent time reviewing the way we do things, as well as discussing how to improve the Chapter. We are streamlining our internal and external communications, we are creating a shared calendar to stay on top of what is going on in our community, we are re-investing in our committees and will be having regular committee meetings that will allow us to be better. Our big plan is to be better communicators to our members. We will be bringing back our monthly member business meeting to keep you informed on what our plans are, what events we have for you, any changes you need to know from National CSI and more. But most importantly, the monthly meeting will provide us an opportunity to hear from you. We want your ideas, thoughts and opinions and we want you to engage with us. We hope to see you every month at each member meeting, as well as at our chapter events. The first monthly member meeting will be next month at noon, date and location to be announced. We are very close to having a monthly location established and once that is in place, you will receive an email with the details. The business portion of the meeting will be kept to no more 15 minutes with time for comments and questions after. We are currently working on an exciting line up of speakers and we will keep all new engagements up to date on the CSI Memphis website. Please consider attending, this is your chapter and we know you can help us make the CSI Memphis Chapter one of the best in the country.
The changing of the Summer season to Fall always makes me feel a bit nostalgic. I’m excited about our Fall lineup of events. Our first event is an awesome opportunity on September 29th with New Millennium Building Systems, who will be providing a lunch CEU with a plant tour immediately after. This will be our first plant tour in a good while, so I hope you can make it.
I urge you to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to keep in touch with what we have been doing, as well as what we will be doing. You can find us and follow @memphiscsi on Instagram and at CSI Memphis on Facebook.
As always, we look forward to seeing you over the course of the year….
Lisa Perkowski