b"Tennessee Roofing Contractors have Outstanding Meeting John Drew, Midwest Roofing Co. F dayandSaturday,Januaryauctionprizeswere articles fromConvention inleOctori Nashvil in 12thand1 RandyF h oftheTen T footbalber. 3th,is ernesseeitansI JohnJ.Camp Co.,Inc. and Iteam, which were extremely p u Inwith indibellop our conversations attended the T Associa la vidualcontr , RandyandI ennesseer.actorstionofR fingC rsOn Friday night, Randy and hisfoundthemtobe veryreceptive oo ontracto(TAR winterwife Vickie tookmeout to theandproudofthefactthatthe C)meeting. The meeting was held at the Union StationOpryland H fordinner andaMRCA wasbringing its con notelveHotelinNashville,Tennessee.tour.Whata fabulousplacetotionT . Most of them toennesseeRandy is amember and alsoh aAfter ouritknewthat wewere coming but TARCaveconvention!visit the chair ofMRCA's Conventionissee why John Stephen seemed fuzzy on detaipast that. easy toIs romot and TomreCAbeuting HosVP ionsCommittee. AssonKnight a so enthu MR willdistrib materian MRCAp presid , I wassiastic about coming here.It hasals about then tion throughastent co venaskedtoa endthemeeting bysomethingforeveryone,evenaoutT andsurrounding tt ennessee What ausMRCA Affiliate Rela ons Chair Edcigarfor a cionados. We alsostates this Spring, with the help of fabulo ti barfiWilliams.toured downtownille, whichT NRCA, industrypublicaNashv ARC, p to ha aWemade thetripboth asanis built on the banks of the Cum tions,tributors and d ectlacevedis ir mailenti affiliategoodwill gesture,berlandR verypicturesqueings. relationsiver, conv on! and asadvance publicnsand clean. Contractors who comeAt themeetin wefound two anrelatio g, Contractorsmeetinginpreparationforthehere in October will have a greatpeopleto joinR andJohn whoandy MRCA's upcomingcon ion attime.MaxwellofMaxwell Roofing & come hereinO oberventctNashville's Opryland@OnSaturdaywemetfortheSheet Metal Inc.,illethe Hotel Con Nashv on grea embe shipnvention will have atvention Center. I believe that weannualm r meeting.MRCACo HostPromotime.counts.mm ARC were successful on bothTARCmembers face many of thetions Co ittee. We asked TTheTennessee Associationofsame problems as the rest ofinPresident Crockett HerbertR. D. usof Roofing C tractors has a theindustr inclu sh HerbertandSons Companyin on mem y,dingortages b ofabout 60 contractors,ofemployees,imageproblemsNashville andJohnMcNicholas ership and almost 40 supplier members.and regulation.from Johns Man in Murfreesville TARCarygroup thatOneoftheregulatoryiss boro to join the MRCA Coisve friendlyuesnvenreminds me a lotIowa Roof wasveryinteresting.Tennesseetion HosV ions Committee. of thePromotstatevery acting ContractorsAssociation.Wehas aarchitectural and engi Both areive in TARC. enjoyed meeting with members ofneering board that has decided allSeveral of the contr tors thac at th rand executive director,roofing work in the state must h we talked to were interested in ei boardavethe Kim.notonlya permit,butalsoaMRCACertified RoofingTorchSettleWe met on Friday afternoon forsignedset of drawings approvedWeldingApplicatorProgram two seminars. T first one was abefore thepermit is issued.This(GERTA) program. There is a law he Tennesseeequgoodsessiongearedmostlyparticularregulationhasespe inthatr irestraintowardindependentcontractorsciallycausedadditionalh lesingbeforeu torch-applied urd sing andpartn abouthowtoandexpensefor reroo g jo .systems on roofs. We took the libershipsfin bssavemoney on your incomeFurthermore,somecountieserty of telling them that we would tax. T otherwasonelderlycareenforce theregulation ands eprovide to training in heom rchconnecinsurance. After these seminars, Ido not. Some jobs have been shuttionthe convention. One withconfewroupheldthat said awords to the g indown becauseofit.T MRCAtractor to mehe would bring behalf ofMRCA. WeadjournedConventionP Com hise. rogrammitteewhol crewandreconvened for a tradeshow,andHosVP C itteeTheTARCmeeting provided romotionsommreceptiona silentauction,will be working withto puto sta gtional pndTARCut ndin educa rograms whichwas fundedbysupplierstog a specialpanel disand n opportunities. We ethercus etworking a aof fu Most of the silentsion on thisissue for theMRCAC ued on page 7 ndlotn.ontin6"