Mark your calendars now for the 2009 Regional Meetings. These meetings provide a chance for members to meet and share ideas and concerns. Following is the 2009 schedule. Details on time and location for each meeting will be posted soon.

Monday, February 2—Region X  and Region II
Tuesday, February 3—Region IX and Region I
Wednesday, February 4—Region VIII and Region V
Thursday, February 5—Region VII and Region IV
Friday, February 6—Region VI and Region III

Bonded Builders Warranty Group will award a $35 gas gift card to members of North Carolina Home Builders Associations who bring in their first ever new member that is approved by your association. Along with the $35 gas card we will provide a framed certificate of recognition printed on fine parchment paper.

Simply send Bonded Builders a list of names of recipients so you (or we) can give the award at your membership meeting. All we ask is that, as in any promotion, you let your members know the gas card is from Bonded Builders. This promotion is simply designed to support local home builder associations and does not require builder participation in our programs. Any member of your association is eligible to receive this award when they bring in their first ever new member to your Association. Others can also receive the award by bringing a paid new member application to a local golf tournament. Their recruit may also receive this award should they play in the same tournament.

Special additional promotion through January 10, 2009: Bonded Builders Warranty will give a $35 gas card to ANY member who brings in a member between now and Jan. 10, 2009. And, if it is their first ever member, Bonded Builders will give them two gas cards!

Attention Local Executive Officers and Elected Secretaries: If you have not already returned your forms, below you will find the forms you can use to register your Local Officers, State Directors and Committee Chairpersons with NCHBA.  It is very important that you send this information to us by DECEMBER 31, 2008.  This is the first link in a chain of information we need in order to keep our communication lines open with you.

We need to know who your incoming President will be and who will serve as Executive Officer or Elected Secretary in this next year.  Your local association President, who should be a builder member, is automatically a State Director.