Around the CoRner

It’s three days after the end of InspectionWorld® 2016 and I am more energized than ever. First, you can’t beat the weather in San Diego; second, you can’t beat the friends you make; and third, you can’t beat the quality education when you attend IW. Please start planning now to join everyone in Las Vegas in January 2017! You will thank me (I accept small, unmarked bills and Starbursts®).

As promised, the Council of Representatives (CoR) considered your ideas and proposals during our annual meeting January 25 in
San Diego. Six of the proposals passed and two were tabled. Here are the proposals that I will present on your behalf to the ASHI
Board of Directors for their consideration:

1. Make it ASHI policy to encourage all chapters to treat home
   inspector members equally with regard to voting rights within
   the chapter and inclusion on lists of members in publications,
   advertising and websites as deemed appropriate by the specific chapter Board of Directors.
2. Have ASHI staff refer every new ASHI member to a chapter.
3. Hold the October Board of Directors meeting in the same location as the Leadership Training Conference (LTC), rather than at ASHI headquarters.
4. Provide a $300-per-chapter stipend to each chapter sending Council Representatives to the ASHI CoR Annual Meeting. (This could be in our CoR budget.)
5. Have ASHI staff and national leadership hold a web conference with all chapter leadership to address ASHI’s agenda and to hear the concerns of the chapters.
6. Have the Officer Nominating committee develop a series
   of questions to be responded to by nominees and make available
   video responses to the general membership.

Please take a minute to thank your representatives on the CoR who gave their time to address these important issues. Be proud that you belong to an organization that includes such folks who look after your needs and help your voice to be heard. I will report back
to you on these proposals after the Board deliberates in April.

~ Jim

James Funkhouser, Speaker, ASHI Council of Representatives, Speaker@ashi.org