The following reports are from APPA's 1998-99 officers for activities and services provided this past year. The officers are listed by their 1998-99 titles.
President's Report
L. Joe Spoonemore
What a year! What an experience! What great friends! What an association APPA truly is! Have you ever stepped on a treadmill and then turned it on to find that someone had left it on high speed? Naturally, to avoid being transitioned to the horizontal and ejected like a stuck board on a table saw, you begin running at top speed-immediately! This analogy holds true to this past year with one very basic exception-the APPA organization has many people holding your hand and keeping you from being launched backwards into never-never land.
This past year we were once again blessed with a veteran team of VP's who took on an ambitious list of corporate and individual objectives and followed through beautifully. The details of their efforts can be found in their individual reports.
Following the transition from our former executive vice president, Wayne Leroy, to our new EVP, Lander Medlin, the APPA staff leapt to the challenge with true professionalism. Under Lander's tutelage we have not only survived, we have indeed prospered. At the beginning of my year Lander and I came to an agreement on what the objectives for our year together should be. Her response to this agreement has been aggressive and appropriately responsive. In outline form we have worked tirelessly and successfully on the following objectives:
As if this list of EVP objectives was not enough, we also formalized our association "Priorities of Objectives" into a matrix of some specific projects with specific completion dates. This form of scheduling and work control has been very beneficial and also graphically demonstrated our collective progress.
When I began outlining this report I promised myself that it would not become "State-of-the-Unionesque" filled with boring minutia. However, the APPA team via its committees, officers, members, staff, and friends have accomplished much to be proud of. So, let's proceed by giving ourselves a few pats on the back.
Our fiscal health is better than I have personally ever known it. The fiscal year end net result was $385,000 surplus, of which $150,000 was put into cash reserves. We have taken advantage of attractive interest rates and commenced the refinancing of the Alexandria office. The term will be reduced from 30 years to 15 years, the interest rate will fall from 8.55 to 7.4 percent, and we will eliminate the traumatic balloon features of the original contract. The expected savings to APPA is approximately $800,000 in total cost of the mortgage loan. Our annual budget is supported largely on income from products and services other than membership dues. Our dues contribute just one-third of our total income. This graphically illustrates that we are not providing services strictly on the backs of our members.
Relative to our communication initiative we have done very well using the recently invigorated website as our centerpiece. We now have online registration, searchable Speaker's Bureau, meeting minutes, priorities of initiatives, surveys, and membership directory. When you couple the website with our e-mail discussion list, APPAinfo, and our suite of topical publications it is clear why APPA is considered to be a premier member-friendly association. Our recent publications on hot topics such as benchmarking, deregulation, privatization, and electric metering are first class efforts. We have also shown ourselves to be very responsive to emergent issues by notifying, on-line, the membership of such issues as the Federal Information Readiness and Disclosure Act. This heads-up was soon followed by Web and Facilities Manager articles on Y2K surveys appraisal and compliance recommendations.
More complex constant improvement issues often requires a team effort in the form of Task Force committees. The Task Force concept allows for the tapping of regional expertise and greater member involvement. We currently have Task Force activity with 1) Ground Staffing Guidelines, 2) Trades Staffing Guidelines, 3) K-12 Support, and 4) Small College Support. We hope to see significant progress in the respective reports to the Board at the 1999 Conference.
Yes, we have done well, but we cannot rest on our past performance. There are any number of other organizations who would welcome the opportunity to assume the leadership role in higher education facilities management. We can maintain our leadership position only by holding our learning and research initiatives. As evidenced by the overwhelming interest in attendance at our Institute and the welcome response to our Academy, it can be said that we are doing a great job of communicating lessons learned. To continue to expand the envelope, however, requires our complete attention to researching and defining avant-grade processes, materials, technologies, and organizational advances. To this end, we have assigned a blue-ribbon team to continuously identify research initiatives that can be developed in concert with the Fellowship capstone to our Academy series or fleshed out using strategic-partner/task force program.
As we begin the process of reviewing and updating our "strategic initiatives," I would hope that we are mindful of our core values and that we continue to build on the stable foundation prepared by our predecessors. As evidenced by the interest in APPA that has been shown on a global scale, we definitely have international name recognition. What this indicates is that our foundation has expanded and that we must be aggressive in making our services available and beneficial to all of our Global Partners while maintaining our service intensity with the founding membership. We have a well-defined mission, a great staff, committed officers, and a supportive membership. WE CAN DO IT!
Now, as I accepted the torch from Pieter, I pass it on to Maggie with sincere thanks to the Board and all those individuals that have contributed to the success of my year as your President. Rest assured that as Immediate Past President, I will continue to work in support of Maggie, John, and the APPA membership.
Immediate Past President's Report
Pieter J. van der Have
As Immediate Past President, I had the pleasure of chairing the Nominating Committee meeting during the mid-year Board Meeting. At previous times, I had heard tales of horror regarding blood and gore fairly flowing during some of those meetings. Each of the regions, understandably, had traditionally been supremely supportive of their own nominees. Frankly, I was not looking forward to my opportunity to chair one of these events. I had emotionally prepared myself for a session reminiscent of some of the my HR meetings here on campus.
Blessed as that day was, things did not work out as I had feared. I credit that to several conditions, not all of which I can attribute to my own cleverness. First, not all regions had candidates for each of the positions. That obviously gave those regions some clear flexibility in exercising their voting privileges. Second, several of the regions openly and willingly chose to support a strong candidate, regardless of point of origin. I particularly like that flexibility, since it tends to show that we are more interested in the success and strength of APPA rather than in our own regional egos.
Finally, I had decided earlier that since we wanted no more than two candidates for each position, we could avoid much conflict by giving each senior representative two votes. In this manner, each could vote for his/her own regional nominee, as well as for one other. By requiring each to vote for two nominees (where at least two existed), we allowed the chosen two to percolate to the top. The opportunity for conflict and argument, and the need for bargaining, had been greatly reduced if not eliminated. As a result, that meeting became a pleasant memory of one of my final "official" acts as Immediate Past President.
My other major involvement has been with the Professional Leadership Center. Doug Christensen, Bill Daigneau, Bill Middleton, Lander Medlin, myself, and a small host of others, have been on several occasions to identify realistic strategies for this PLC. We are preparing a presentation to be laid before the Board in Cincinnati, one which hopefully allow us to achieve the goals presented to us by a previous Board. If we are successful, we will have laid the keystone to the leadership academy. We'll know more about that very soon. This concludes my final report. Thanks for your friendship and your support! Long live APPA!
President-Elect's Report
Maggie Kinnaman
The 1998-99 year has been one filled with intense activity that can best be reviewed in the context of our Strategic Plan. Our vision, Global Partner in Learning, is a method for creating a responsive, flexible, streamlined service organization based on the wants and needs of those it serves. We cannot change the wind, but we can adjust the sails. And like it or not, the winds of change are blowing briskly; so adjust we must, and rapidly to maintain our course.
The two objectives of our plan are to:
Following are the five current strategic initiatives and several examples of how we're addressing them. More information can be found in each of the vice presidents' reports.
Personally, this past year has been a real challenge for me but also a great source of gratification. In my dual role as APPA's President-Elect and ERAPPA's Senior Regional Representative, I was fortunate enough to visit Corner Brook, Newfoundland; Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin and Melbourne in Australia; the MAPPA meeting in Twin Cities, Minnesota; and the ERAPPA meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. As was indicated earlier, I went to these Regional meetings with a mission. I wanted to listen closely and summarize feedback from the Regions. In total, I came away from those meetings with over 50 items of INPUT to APPA, and I'm happy to report that all those items have been either addressed directly incorporated into programs for the future.
Each place that I visited reinforced my initial perception. In all locations, my hosts were hospitable and anxious to showcase what their Region or Chapter had accomplished. And let me say that those accomplishments are great. In addition, all were willing to share their best practices as well as lessons learned. In my travels, I've found that APPA, across the board, is an awesome association because it is made up of people who are incredibly talented, dedicated and committed to the facilities profession.
APPA involvement at the international level has also given a real appreciation for all that the 13 APPA staff are able to accomplish. Our first initiatives list developed last September had over 45 initiatives; the recently updated list has over 110 items, of which 60 have been completed. These 110 items are over and above all of the ongoing projects that APPA accomplishes, such as Facilities Manager, the Institute, the Leadership Academy, the Annual Meeting, Awards and Recognition, FMEP, finances, and last but certainly not least, member and customer service. If you've ever wondered what that APPA staff in Alexandria is up to, ask your Regional Representatives to share the initiatives list with you.
The recently conducted member survey indicates that members are looking for:
In reviewing my original platform statement, I believe that it is still valid as the day it was crafted. Guided by our Strategic Plan, we must forge strong partnerships with Regions, Chapters, business partners and other associations so that we can realize our vision as a Global Partner in Learning and as the Association of Choice for facilities professionals. Success will be achieved as collaboration replaces redundancy and competition.
Facilities management professionals turn to their association of choice when seeking credible tools that effectively tell the facilities story and when gathering resources to help cope with workplace realities. In response, we must be focused on the rapid development, delivery, marketing and continuous improvement of tools such as the SAM, FMEP, RR-USA, and resources such as Basic Tools for Facility Supervisors, the Institute for Facilities Management, and the Leadership Academy.
I will be honored to serve as your President in our quest for the credible tools and effective resources to best serve the needs of all of our members.
Secretary-Treasurer's Report
Howard A. Wells Jr.
The graphs on the next page depict APPA's finances for 1998-99. As you can see from these graphs of both revenues and expense, the association is healthy financially, reflecting a net surplus of $385,333. Given the positive direction and solid financial footing over the past couple of years, we were able to place $150,000 in our cash reserves account at the end of this fiscal year.
Many factors must come together to achieve such a positive result: 1) a membership that remains dedicated to the continuation of its professional association; 2) sell-out educational programs such as the Institute for Facilities Management and the Educational Conference & Annual Meeting in San Jose, California; 3) a magazine that remains so high in quality that suppliers flock to advertise; 4) good publications that are timely in their content and delivery; and 5) solid financial and administrative management of the association's assets.
The detailed income components stem from the following areas: 36.4% from membership dues; 25.7% from educational programs; 17.4% from publications, advertisement, and subscription sales; 15.8% from the San Jose Annual Meeting & Educational Conference; 1.8% from the Department of Energy/Rebuild America Program grant activities; and 2.9% from other activities.
Membership dues supports the activities of retention and recruitment, governance, APPANet, Facilities Manager magazine, public policy, research and development, scholarships, and a significant portion of general operations. In summary, APPA's finances depend on one-third membership dues and two-thirds non-dues revenue generating activities such as education and publications. This places significant importance on a solid membership base that correspondingly supports other revenue generating activities. When all these factors come together as they did again this year, the results are a high degree of financial success.
In addition, I am pleased to report that the APPA staff explored a series of options for the possible "refinancing" of our headquarters building. The economy has been such that our window of opportunity occurred in early 1999. After the Board reviewed and approved several options this past February, APPA staff were able to secure a 15-year fixed rate mortgage at a 7.4 percent interest rate. With mortgage rates at their lowest, this alleviated the future requirement on our present 30-year note (27 years remained) with a 10-year balloon due in the year 2006 to have to refinance in a uncertain future market. This move will ultimately save the association approximately $800,000 in total cost of the mortgage loan.
As I mentioned last year, we cannot rest on one or two years' success alone. APPA's financial weakness still lies in its operating ratios of which there are three that are most important: 1) total liabilities to fund balance; 2) expendable assets to liabilities; and 3) expendable fund balance to total expenses. We want to continue to pay close attention to these three operating ratios in order to stabilize the liquidity of our assets. The Board set this as a target for long term continuous improvement and this year's $150,000 deposit into cash reserves, plus the refinancing of our building, moves us closer to our future targeted financial goals. We are pleased to report that APPA is moving in a positive direction to achieve financial stability and still add significant value to the membership through the delivery of high quality programs, products, and services.
I thank all of you for the privilege of serving as Secretary-Treasurer. I know that Phil Cox will continue to provide support to Lander Medlin and Chong-Hie Choi, who deserve the credit for the exceptional financial success we enjoy.
VP for Educational Programs Report
Gary Reynolds
Future meetings are planned for Fort Worth, Texas for July 16-18, 2000 with the theme Spurring Change, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada for July 22-24, 2001. The normal regional rotation would put the 2002 Annual Meeting in the Rocky Mountain region, which has tentatively recommended Denver as their first choice. However, we are having difficulty finding space in Denver on dates that are acceptable.
A major thrust of this year's Education Committee will be to fully explore options for the Annual Meeting that will increase its relevance to our membership. I would like to see us increase the average Annual Meeting attendance from around 500 to 600 or more.
At the fall Education Committee meeting there was considerable discussion about the target audience of the Annual Meeting. The committee concluded its deliberations with a consensus to target the vice president/director/associate director levels for the APPA Annual Meeting with the concept that the regional annual meetings would provide peer interaction and educational opportunities for assistant directors, managers, and supervisors. If the annual meeting truly focused at this level of target audience it will have major implications for meeting content, program content, vendors, etc.
Institute for Facilities Management
Registration for the January 17-22, 1999 in Reno, Nevada ran at a record pace and was sold out before Christmas at a little over our target of 480 participants. Because of our increased tuition and the staff's excellent job at keeping down expenses, we had a record net profit of $209,000. This is 48 percent higher than any previous net profit. The Institute Subcommittee is continuing to look at the curriculum and debating the implementation of potential changes to further enhance the program.
Leadership Program
The three programs being offered this year and their dates are shown below:
Attendance is still a concern. The Professional Effectiveness Skills program offered in February had only 12 participants and lost $41,133 including a penalty from the conference center. The Individual Effectiveness Skills program in March had 27 participants, was very well received and made a small profit of approximately $5,500. The Organizational Skills program has 27 registrants and should at least break even.
One of the reasons the PES did not do well is that it is being marketed as the third program in a series of programs and that we have not graduated enough students through the other two programs to fill the third program. While we do have a number of graduates from the old Notre Dame Executive Institute, we do not have too many from the old Foundations of Leadership program or the IES program. Also, I believe that the third program has limited appeal to many of our members who do not have an interest in the "higher" level issues that part of the PES curriculum. Perhaps we need to not offer the program again until we've created enough pent up demand from graduates of the first two programs to warrant offering it. We are also looking at a different location and time frame with the current thinking of moving the PES to sometime in June.
In addition to attending the three programs in order to graduate from the leadership program, the candidate must complete a creative component task such as presenting a paper at the annual meeting, writing an article for Facilities Manager, or completing research that can be archived in a Learning Resource Center. It is proposed that a person completing the three programs and the creative component be granted the status of APPA Fellow.
Doug Christensen and Bill Daigneau are working on a governance structure for the Leadership Programs. Some of the members would be from outside APPA (and would cover their own expenses to participate) to ensure that the programs do not become inbred. As a task force they would be appointed by the President and would act within a limited charge and time frame. This is similar to how we redesigned the Institute with a task force and then handed the governance over to the Institute Subcommittee of the Education Committee. Final governance of the Leadership Programs has not been decided as the components of the Leadership Academies (Education Committee), research (Information Services), and recognition (Professional Affairs) cross all VP lines.
K-12 Initiative
I met with Dave Petersen who works at the Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools and is a member of the K-12 Task Force. The discussion centered on how the Education Committee could support that effort. There are approximately 15,000 school districts in the country and there is a need to provide a lower cost information transfer process than the current Institute provides. We explored the idea of developing a one week "condensed" version of the program that would be based on only the absolutely essential issues. I asked Dave to review the Institute curriculum and APPA's Facilities Management manual to identify a core curriculum. In addition we talked about the changes needed in the syllabus of the courses, identifying faculty, and developing a marketing strategy. This one-week program may also meet the needs of a number of members who operate in a similar functional way as K-12 school districts.
PETS
The PETS program has now been moved onto APPANet and is identified as the Speakers Bureau. The first phase of development includes a speaker list, rÄsumÄs, and other information pertinent to the speaker's presentation such as availability, etc. The second phase will include information on how to plan and put on a seminar. This model will allow our membership to have access to the information they need to organize a seminar at their convenience. There is a search engine where you pick from our four core competency areas and list search keywords. The site then returns a list of speakers from which to choose. The staff has done an outstanding job with this site. We now need to continue to add to the faculty and to promote it. The Education Committee will continue to work with the staff to administrator the site and to develop policies to ensure that it remains a quality service.
International Seminars
At this point APPA is not offering any seminars at the national or international level. The international seminars have not been dropped and if appropriate topics arise a seminar can be put together fairly quickly. APPA recently participated in a Rebuild America sponsored program in Ohio on electric deregulation. We are still exploring the possibility of an East Coast site for a similar APPA sponsored program.
Summary
As noted at the Winter Board meeting, a major thrust of this year's Education Committee work will be to fully explore options for the Annual Meeting and to nurse the new Leadership Academy along to ensure full attendance and successful programs. Now that the redesign of the Institute is substantially complete it will be important to ensure that the Annual Meeting and the Leadership Academy (our other two major educational programs) continue to meet our membership's needs and are a relevant experience for our attendees. In addition the Education Committee will work with the staff to expand the new Speakers Bureau.
These past two years have seen an exciting and important change in APPA's educational offerings as every program has undergone significant review and improvement and entirely new offerings have been provided. And while much has been done, much remains. I very much appreciate the opportunity that I've had to be a part of this important and exciting effort.
VP for Information Services Report
Joseph D. Rubertone
I wish to thank all of the committee for their enthusiasm, responsiveness, and commitment to our goals and projects. I feel it has been a very productive year!! I would be remiss not to recognize several longstanding members whose terms expired in June: Phil Cox, Cornell University (ERAPPA); Sue Kirkpatrick, University of Michigan (MAPPA); Duane Timmerman, University of Wyoming (RMAPPA); and Larry Givens, University of California/Irvine (PCAPPA). On behalf of the entire APPA membership, thanks for all of your contributions.
I would also like to welcome our newest regional members, and I look forward to working with each of them: Joe Lalley, Cornell University (ERAPPA); Tom Dale, University of Saint Thomas (MAPPA); Mark Shively, University of Wyoming (RMA); and Chris McAlary, California State University/Pomona (PCAPPA).
The completely reformatted, biannual Comparative Cost and Staffing Survey was made available to membership in early June, with a requested return date of July 1999. The membership received written notification of the surveys availability, and may obtain a copy of the survey on APPANet, from Fax on Demand, or call the APPA office to request one.
You are all probably aware, this new survey instrument will once again attempt to capture square foot cost as accurately as possible. The committee has made significant efforts to insure the integrity of the survey information you received, and consequently released the survey later than anticipated. However, we feel much of that time can be recovered with improved processing of the completed data. The committee anticipates publication of its final report in September 1999.
Members are encouraged to complete the survey, and in an effort to increase participation, the committee has decided to offer several incentives. The incentives include a free copy of the published report, and a $10 off coupon for any APPA publication, subscription, or educational program.
The Strategic Assessment Model was identified last year as the committee's highest priority! As some of usmay remember, this program has endured several false starts in the past. I am quite pleased to report that last year not only saw the completion of some unfinished business as it pertained to the 1996 SAM Survey, but important progress toward the future.
The 1996 SAM survey was completed by 112 member institutions, however, formal interpretation of the benchmark data collected was never released to the respondents. Through the efforts of a consulting firm, Creative Concepts, Inc., the data was finally scrubbed and formatted into a matrix that reflected the survey's original intent for the 18 benchmarks. This confidential data was then processed into a customized report for each respondent institution, and was mailed in the fall of 1998. The reports, which were well received, utilized the 18 core benchmarks of the survey and showed the individual institutions how they compared to the other 111 respondents.
The SAM project took on a bright, new direction this year! The Information Services Committee, after many hours of deliberation, strongly recommended to the Executive Committee, and the entire APPA Board, that a new SAM Task Force be formed. The general recommendation was to try to utilize as many members of the first two SAM Task Forces as possible, in order to capitalize on their experience and knowledge. All of the plans came to fruition with the appointment of a SAM Task Force in early April. Members Maggie Kinnaman, University of Maryland, Don J. Briselden, Phillips Exeter Academy, David A. Cain, Illinois State University, Douglas K. Christensen, Brigham Young University, Tom Harkenrider, Constructive Concepts, Inc., Laura Long, LTL Collaborative, L.L.C., William S. Rose, University of Alaska/Anchorage, and Joseph D. Rubertone, Quinnipiac College, met on May 4th and 5th, 1999, in Alexandria. They thoroughly reviewed all assumptions and concepts of the previous 18 benchmarks. The two days of meetings ended with each member agreeing to review portions of the survey, and communicate with each other by e-mail, until the Task Force meets again at the June meeting in Cincinnati. After having had the opportunity to participate in the meetings, I am encouraged that a new and improved survey, with a broader range of benchmarks, will be the final result.
I would like to thank President-Elect Maggie Kinnaman, not only for her continued commitment to this vital effort, but also the generous utilization of the Presidential Discretionary Fund, which has allowed the Task Force to meet.
February 1, 1999 saw the much anticipated, and planned for conversion of the APPANet website. After significant deliberation, the committee decided at its November meeting, to roll-out the website so it would coincide with the winter board meetings. Hopefully, all of you have visited APPANet recently, and have observed that it is now formatted to reflect our organization's four core competencies: General Administration and Management, Maintenance and Operations, Energy and Utilities, and Planning Design and Construction. The site continues to provide all of the other previously available information, features, and the highly utilized Job Express.
In an effort to assist the staff in obtaining and placing additional content under the four core competencies' sub-pages, the committee has appointed "godparents" to spearhead the effort.
The "Godparents" met, by conference call, in March with APPA staff to initiate the effort. The "Godparents" are Vickie DeWitt, General Administration and Management, C.R. Lyons, Maintenance and Operations, Larry Givens, Energy and Utilities, and Sue Kirkpatrick, Planning and Design Construction. The "Godparents" and staff would like to begin to solicit the many success stories that exist within our membership ranks. Additionally, we would like members to provide copies of Requests for Proposal or Contracts for APPANet posting. If you have any items you would like to submit, please feel free to e-mail webmaster@appa.org. We can use your help!
All the improvements to the Home Page have already resulted in APPANet seeing increased daily usage. Since it's February inception, we are averaging about 560 user sessions per day. Hopefully, as APPANet continues to become a more viable and dynamic tool for our membership, we will continue to see heightened user growth.
Facilities Manager, our flagship publication, has been overwhelmingly received by our members and advertisers. I have personally enjoyed the variety and depth offered by the magazine, and I continue to receive many positive comments from our members. While our editor, Steve Glazner, deserves the lion's share of the praise, I would like to thank all of our members who have taken the time to author the articles, which are clearly the heart of this publication. We should all be looking forward to future issues! New publications include:
APPA's discussion listserv, APPAinfo, continues to grow with subscriptions at 434!! This is up from 320 in February, 1999. Based on personal observation, the service is heavily utilized and quite helpful. Some of you may remember that this service was designed to replace the International Experience Exchange Program, which was abandoned in 1997 due to almost non-existent usage and an overly cumbersome database.
VP for Professional Affairs Report
Jack K. Colby P.E.
1. Status Report on Evaluation of the Facilities Management Evaluation Program (FMEP)
The Professional Affairs Committee (PAC) committed the majority of its annual meeting in November to the revisions to the criteria and to the processes currently used for the self evaluation and the team evaluations. The criteria were completely reworked to include existing topics in a new framework of Baldrige headings. Benchmark criteria were added from "SAM" and from the Baldrige program. Other recommendations from the survey were also incorporated. Progress was reported to the Executive Committee and to the full Board in February. Work continues on the criteria language and on specifics of the new format for the self evaluation and the site Team's documentation.
2. Status Report on Evaluation of the Award for Excellence
The PAC will utilize the revised FMEP criteria to revamp this program. A new point driven evaluation system will be used to select submissions worthy of the award. A new section was added to recognize innovations and best practices. Award recipients will receive extensive recognition at the national, regional, and institutional levels. Corporate sponsorship for cash awards is being considered. The PAC believes that this revamped program will raise the visibility of the Award and will enhance the recognition of Award recipients. Progress was reported to the Executive Committee and the Board in February. "Roll-out" of the new Awards format will occur as marketing materials are developed.
3. Guidelines for APPA Institute and Academy Scholarships Based on the senior rep's feedback to the Board in February, APPA scholarship funds will continue to be distributed to the Regions in lieu of shifting the funds to AFE cash awards. The PAC has concluded its current activity on scholarships by sending notices of the guidelines to each regional President and to the Sr. Rep. for each region.
4. APPA Seat on NEC/NFPA Technical Committee
Mike Anthony at the University of Michigan reports that our first application for a seat on one of the NEC technical committees is still pending but may not result in a seat being awarded due to the entrenched nature of the other representatives. Therefore, he will apply for a seat on another committee that may have a better chance for success. This application is in progress and will be enhanced by support from the VPPA, EVP, and the President.
5. ASHRAE Committee Participation by APPA members
I have made attempts to contact the Chair of the Ashrae committee on district energy. Our goal is to identify an APPA liaison to the committee to represent higher education issues for district energy systems. Efforts will continue to identify a representative to attend the committee meeting.
6. Award for Excellence Awards for 1998-99
To date in 1998-99, five institutions have submitted materials for evaluation by the PAC. The submission by Georgia State was brought to the Board in February. The submissions by East Carolina University and Memorial University of Newfoundland were evaluated and brought to the Board by fax ballot. The submissions by the University of Southern California and Slippery Rock University have been received and and are currently being evaluated. Recipients of the Awards for Excellence in 1998-99 will be recognized at the annual meeting, at their regional meetings, and in Facilities Manager magazine.
The "team" efforts of committee members Kathleen Mulligan, Brian Nielsen, John Harrod, Phil Garment, Ron Smith, Brian Fenn, and Medea Ranck are appreciated for this important task.