Summary of Minutes
LMC Board of Directors Meeting
Jan. 16, 2019 • Rockhurst University
Attending: Tim Bell, Teri Casey, Greg Davey, Brian Dietz, Mike Kane, Jason Mendenhall, Bob Jacobi.
•Thanks to Rockhurst University for hosting.
•M/S/C to accept the financial report subject to audit.
•M/S/C to adopt the 2019 Issues Agenda. (Attached)
•The 40th Anniversary Celebration and 20th Awards Dinner April 18 will recognize the LMC founders and the first recipient of the Leadership Award, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. A goal of $40,000 in revenue recognizing the 40th anniversary was adopted.
•M/S/C to nominate the following officers for election April 18: Alise Martiny, Secretary; Don Greenwell, Treasurer; Mike Kane, Executive Committee. Further nominations will be made later.
•The next Board meeting will be Wednesday, April 10, at 9 a.m. (note the later starting time) at Rockhurst University.
•The Construction Industry Committee was noted for its work. Rosana Privitera Biondo and Mark One Electric Co., Inc., were thanked for hosting the meetings, and condolences were noted on the recent death of Mark One’s founder Carl Privitera.
•M/S/C to adjourn at 10:30 a.m.
2019 Issues Agenda
Federal
•Support construction of the Keystone pipeline project.
•Oppose a benefits tax in federal health care reform.
•Any future stimulus funds include significant vertical construction projects.
•Support continuation of Davis-Bacon in any new federal infrastructure program.
•Oppose federal “right-to-work.”
Missouri
•The LMC supports reasonable and effective economic development incentives. While the LMC
supports ensuring that tax credits and other incentives are cost effective, we want to preserve
those tax credits crucial to economic development such as the historic tax credit, tax increment
financing and enact an angel tax credit and data center incentives.
•The LMC opposes legislation to impose “right-to-work.”
•The LMC supports maintaining and increasing Medicaid eligibility and adequate provider
reimbursement.
•The LMC supports state funding for a comprehensive transportation plan.
•The LMC supports a construction Prevailing Wage in Missouri.
•The LMC supports development of a statutory framework for public employee collective
bargaining in Missouri to reduce uncertainty for workers and for public employers.
•The LMC supports matching funds for a UMKC performing arts campus.
Watch: Unemployment Insurance, Workers Compensation, Utility Rates & Energy Capacity, Education/Kansas City School District.
Kansas
•The LMC supports reasonable and effective economic development incentives.
•The LMC supports continued funding for the comprehensive transportation plan.
•The LMC opposes immigration reform proposals that would put the burden of I-9 verification
on contractors for subcontractors. Verification responsibility should fall only on the direct
employer of those workers.
•The LMC supports reinstatement of a local option for prevailing wage in Kansas.
Local
•The LMC opposes elimination of the Kansas City, Mo. city earnings tax until an alternative is in
place.
•The LMC supports prevailing wage on projects with economic development incentives.
•The LMC supports modernization of the Kansas City International Airport.
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