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In order to try to make things smoother with announcements I will post on the blog and send out emails to members. If you would like to become a member or are currently a member please send an email to NCBAMN@gmail.com so that i can begin to collect email addresses of members.

Holiday Party 2014

The Holiday Party will be January 17th 2014

Please RSVP on Rh side of this page so we all

know how many will be attending.

 

Located at:

 

Graysolon Plaza

231 E Superior St

 Duluth, MN 55802

 

Happy hour from 6-7pm with dinner following at 7



BOARD MEETING CANCELLED!!!

The board meeting will be postponed 1 week due to weather. Everyone has too much snow to move.

Board Meeting Tuesday 12/3

This months board meeting will include both 2013 members as well as the newly appointed for 2014 members. Meeting will be held at the Drydock on the Midway Road at 5:30 with dinner at 6.

New Board Members for 2014

Decent turnout at Proctor Blackwoods for the 2014 voting process. Denny Checkalski from Kadingers Auto Salvage was voted in as Chairman with Rick Dunbar taking the Co Chair position. George Eisenman, Todd Nordwall, and Micky Sternberg will fill the 3 board positions. Jody is retiring and Jack Oswell along with Tim from Custom Coach will take the Treasurer and Secretary positions. I think Tim will keep everyone informed through emails so this blog probably wont be updated after today. Its been a pleasure serving on the board these last 10 years.
The Holiday Party will be Friday, January 17. Tim will pass along details as they become available.  

Affordable Care Act Workshop

AASP will hold an event for those of you that would like more information on the new insurance mandate. AASP members will get a break in pricing at $50.00 per person and $10.00 for additional attendees from each shop. Non members will pay $75.00 and $10.00 for any additional people. The seminar will be held at the Canal Park Lodge  Thursday, November 21st @ 9:00am -11:00am

General Meeting/ Proctor Blackwoods 11/5

Sept. 10 General Meeting

Meeting will be held at the Drydock on the Midway Road. Meet at 5:30 for dinner at 6

1st General Meeting of the fall 9/10/13

Watch this space for meeting location.
 The August board meeting schedule found to many board members on vacation and unable to attend. We moved the board meeting to the September meeting date and realized that was the Labor Day Holiday time and we've had poor attendance in years past so moved both meetings to September 10.

July 1 2013 NEW TAX LAWS

As all of you must know by now, July 1st starts a new way of calculating takes for our industry. My suggestion would be to discuss the new laws with your paint supplier as they now have the burden of determining what purchases they're going to tax repair facilities on. There is  information on the MN Dept. of Revenue site. Don't forget to turn on the TAX PAINT/MATERIALS in your estimating system. Another change this year is the Hazardous Waste Generator license application. They will all be done on line this year at the MPCA website http://cf.pcs.state.mn.us/wastelicenseapplication they are due August 7, 2013

NCBA General Meeting

A lot of you took advantage of the free estimating seminar the end of March. The general feeling was we should do it again, but have a full day of training instead of the half day session.
The next scheduled meeting will be Tuesday, May 7 @ 6:00, at Proctor Blackwoods . Valley Imports will sponsor the evenings meal.

April 2 Board Meeting

The April Board Meeting will be held, Tuesday 4\2 at The Shack in Superior Wi.  Meeting at the usual 5:30, dinner @ 6ish schedule.

March General Meeting

Terrific turnout for the new year. Kadingers sponsored the evenings dinner, and presented photos and information on a very well run and clean LKQ\ salvage yard operation. They provide daily delivery to our area out of their Solon Springs location. If you havnt already, give Kadingers a call 1-800-710-6643.
The NCBA has 3 new shops joining for 2013. Johnnys Auto Body \ Johnny and Kelly, Country Auto Body in Embarrass\ Reed Peterson and not really a new member but a new owner of Chestnut Collision and Restoration\ Wes Maki, Ralph and Barbs son. All of the new members attended the meeting and learned 1st hand about the training that the NCBA is sponsoring on 3/28. The class will be held at the Holiday Inn in downtown Duluth from 12:30 - 4:30. Not sure what room it will be in,  either ask or look for signs. Call Rick Dunbar if you havnt already notified Jody you would be attending. We need an approximate headcount for the venue as well as workbooks. Best Estimating Practices is a very important training seminar, AASP is holding a class in the cities the next morning and will be charging $100 for members to attend, so you see this is a great value at FREE for NCBA members.

March General Meeting

Due to weather and snow removal issues, the March General Meeting will be held Tuesday March 19. Kadingers will be sponsoring the evening and it will be held at The Shack in Superior, Wisconsin at 5:30, dinner at 6

Judell with AASP will be attending the March 5th meeting. She will go over any pertinent legislation currently being considered.

General Meeting March 5

The March meeting will be held at The Shack in Superior Wi. We'll meet at the usual time 5:30 with dinner at 6. Kadingers will be our dinner sponser for the evening.
Todd Paulson will go over the details for the upcoming estimate training on March 28. As it stands now, the class will be held at Lake Superior College from 12:30 - 4:30. It is open for anyone that wants a refresher, or any new estimators in the area for $25.00 a person which includes the printed materials. Any current NCBA member shops can send people free of charge. The speaker\instructor will be Bob Anderson, teaching "best estimating practices",  refreshments will be provided by Acar rental company.
Anyone interested in Lights on for Safety?

March General Meeting March 5

General meeting March 5 will go over the details for the estimate training March 28th. Watch this space for details of time and location.

Holiday Party for 2012 PAID members

Just a reminder that the upcoming Holiday party is for all 2012 paid members. The tradition of having it in January for the previous year, started many years ago. Everyone is just too busy during the traditional holiday time so the NCBA moved their party to the 3rd Friday in January.
If anyone has an opportunity to pick up some donations for door prises that would be greatly appreciated.
There will not be a General Meeting in January, it will wait until the March meeting instead of trying to have 2 gatherings in 1 month. March meeting will be the 1st Tuesday in March, location will be posted at a later date on this site.
DUES are due!!! They're still $200.00 Ive recieved from a few shops already, and would like to say welcome to Johnnys Auto Body in Superior, a new 1st year member.