NEW MEXICO FACILITY MANAGERS NETWORK

July 2004

2010 Supplier Showcase is Scheduled for Friday, October 29th, at Albuquerque Convention Center

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Who Me, Xeriscape?

Whys and How's Explored July 21^st

With the drought gripping the West officially the biggest in 500 years, efficient  landscape water management for any facility manager is in the very near future.

Where do you begin?  How do you cost-justify these projects?  What is the deadline for implementation?  What are the short- and long-term impacts?

Find out on Wednesday, July 21^st , at the breakfast meeting of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network.  Over a southwestern-style breakfast buffet, beginning at 7 am at Garduno’s on the Green, information on xeriscaping will be presented.

George Radnovich with Sites Southwest has extensive experience in helping facility managers plan, execute, and cost justify the technologies necessary to manage their water resources, information current and critical to successful facility management.

Make your reservations today by calling Carolee at 505-331-2477 or faxing 505-771-2484, or emailing carolee@nmfmn.com.

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10^th Annual Golf Tournament Approaches Sold-Out Status

With Remaining Holes and Player Reservations Going Fast

With the registration deadline of July 30^th, 2004, fast approaching, you must sign up TODAY for the networking and scholarship fundraiser of the year for facility managers and those who support them!

“A total of fourteen holes are sponsored, but WE STILL NEED MORE GOLFERS to break our previous record of 125!” said Brad Sims, Facility Manager for the Villa Linda Mall and the vice president and treasurer of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network.  “This is our tenth anniversary, doing this event, and it promises to be the best ever!”

The beautiful, challenging Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course will play host to the throngs this year.  This year’s tourney is on Friday, August 13^th, with registration and range balls beginning at 7 am followed by a shotgun start at 8 am.

Suppliers: it is not too late to donate a doorprize for glory, laude, and honor at the barbeque banquet which immediately follows the tournament.  Call Carolee TODAY to get your effort noticed!

Come on, there is still time to get in under the wire!

Once again, Public Service Company of New Mexico has underwritten the event.  Proceeds go to support the endowment of an engineering scholarship at the University of New Mexico.

Sign up today!  The best way is to click her Registration form or use the form provided in newsletter.  Reservation deadline is July 30, 2004.  Questions?  Call Carolee at 505-331-2477.

Support from members and their companies make this tournament fun for all.  Your generosity with hole sponsorships and prize donations allows us to make the maximum donation to the Scholarship Endowment. Be ready to pitch in or sign up when one of our “Dialing for Duffers” team calls you.  Those folks are: Victor Rosenthal, Cathy Crismore, Jennifer House, Randy Sweat, Robert Cantrell, Sharon Bauer, Lori Anderson and Brian Werling.

Prizes welcomed:  Tools, electronics, dinner, movie and gift certificates, golf gear, items with your company logo.

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Isotopes Mania Strikes Again!

Overflow Crowd Hits Homerun in June

The Albuquerque Isotopes beat the Iowa Cubs as enthusiastic members of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network cheered them on at the second annual “Night at the Lab”.

Good food, good friends and a good ballgame added up to a great setting.  Perfect weather supported the scene when over 50 members, suppliers, and their guests and children visited the almost-new Isotopes’ park.

Once again the third-baseline private box offered great views of the game and the breath-taking Sandia Mountains at sunset and beyond.

Will we play ball again next year?

Seem like this venue is a homerun!

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Executive Director’s Column

Getting hole sponsorships sold and over one hundred players signed up for a golf tournament is a major feat.  I cannot do it alone and I want to give credit to my hard-working Golf Gang members who make this happen!

For the third year in a row, Dave Magee from Britton Construction has made this look easy.  He must be a super salesman.  Thanks Dave.

Very honorable mention goes to these folks as well:  Rick Johnson with Voss Lighting; Maria Haak, The Invironmentalists; Victor Rosenthal, Weatherproofing Technologies; Grace Getler, Maintenance Service Systems; and last but not least, Jennifer House, Staffing Solutions.

Please support these honest and hardworking individuals when they call on your business.  They are all the “real deal”.

Meantime, register TODAY to play golf with us on August 13^th!  Even if you don’t play very often, this is all in the spirit of fun and raising money for our scholarship at UNM.  Everyone is invited to join in.  Call me and ask what you can do!  

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From The President of NMFMN

Dear Members:

At our Board’s annual planning session in January, we assessed the organization’s work for 2003 and set our course for 2004.  I’d like to share the results of that session with you.   The Board of Directors committed to these priorities for 2004:

1.        Focus on recruiting more facility managers as members.

2.        Ensure that our meeting programs have content that will help facility managers be more effective on their jobs.  Adopting the theme “Increase Your Depth of Knowledge,” we also are working on other formats for educational opportunities for members and their facility staffs.

3.        Develop a Board rotation and succession plan to strengthen the organization and offer more opportunities for service for those who are interested.

We welcome participation from all members in recruiting new facility manager members, in suggestions for programs to increase depth of knowledge in facility management, and your expressions of interest in being of service to the organization.

These 2004 goals are built on our successes in 2003.  Here are the 2003 highlights, in chronological order:

1.        Sponsored the Facilities and Buildings Operations and Maintenance Show for the second year.  Growing in exhibitors, attendees and outreach, the FAB O&M show brings together a vast array of resources to serve the facility manager.

2.        Increased communication with American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), with whom we share the May meeting, and with the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), which shares the September meeting with NMNFM and ASHRAE.

3.        Attracted the second largest turnout in NMFMN history at the 9^th Annual Golf Tournament in August. Always filled with fun, friendly competition, good fellowship, and good contacts, the tournament serves the greater purpose of funding the Engineering Scholarship at the University of New Mexico.

4.        Contributed $5,000.00, raised from the Golf Tournament, to the Scholarship Endowment at UNM for deserving engineering students.  This brought the total for the NMFMN Endowment to over $22,000.00!

All of these successes were possible only because of your support and involvement, the work of our energetic Executive Director, and the dedication of our Board of Directors.  Thank you all

                                                                                                                                Mary Anne Giangola

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