The LMC Construction Committee meets tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 12 at 8 a.m. at Mark One Electric Co., Inc.

Summary of Minutes
LMC Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 • 9:30 a.m. • Builders’ Association

Attending: Sam Alpert, Bret Bonge, Clarence Brown, Teri Casey, Greg Davey, John Doughty, Tom Gebken, Don Greenwell, Dan Heizman, Mike Kane, Stacy Smyly, Chris Stanton, Jimmy Walker, Bob Jacobi

•Thanks to Greg Davey, Don Greenwell and the Builders’ Association for hosting the meeting.

•M/S/C to approve the Financial Report subject to audit. The LMC has experience difficulty setting up repayment of the EIDL loan with the Small Business Administration, and will continue to look for a solution so repayment can begin as soon as possible.

•M/S/C to approve the 2023 Issues Agenda:

Federal
•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.”
Watch: Multiemployer benefit fund reform implementation
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 Prevailing Wage.
•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 opposes legislation that discriminates against transgendered persons.
•The LMC opposes legislation that prohibits employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated (except for religious and health exemptions).
•The LMC opposes changes in unemployment compensation contained in 2022 SB 665 and HB 1860 that reduce benefits based on the statewide unemployment rate.
•The LMC supports state of Missouri matching funding for the Health Sciences Development District.
Watch: Unemployment Insurance, Workers Compensation, Utility Rates & Energy Capacity, Education/Kansas City School District, Prompt Pay and Retainage on Construction Projects.
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.
•The LMC supports maintaining and increasing Medicaid eligibility and adequate provider reimbursement.
•The LMC opposes legislation that discriminates against transgendered persons.
•The LMC opposes legislation that prohibits employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated (except for religious and health exemptions).
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.
Watch: Possible Kansas City, Mo., Public Safety Sales Tax increase, Energy Codes

•M/S/C to hold the 44th Anniversary Celebration and 23rd Awards Dinner on April 13, 2023 at Argosy Casino; the 26th Craig Whitaker Golf Tournament July 25 at Eagles Landing Golf Club; and the 4th Sporting Clay Shoot Sept. 21 at Saddle & Sirloin. An October date for the Public Officials Reception at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is being researched. US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh has been invited to speak at the Anniversary Celebration; alternative speakers and programs were discussed if he is unable to be here.

•The National Institute for Construction Excellence iBuild Showcase will be held April 28 at Bartle Hall, with a reception the evening of April 27. For the first time since 2019, there will be full student participation in the Crayons to CAD contest and the Showcase, generating the need for more contest judges. Information will be distributed to LMC members.

•The Labor Vice Co-Chair position becomes open as of April 13. Nominations for that and other officer positions are open; please share self-nominations and/or other suggestions with Bob Jacobi.

•The next Board meeting will be Wednesday, April 5, 9:30 a.m., tentatively at the Builders’ Association.

•M/S/C to adjourn at 10:30 a.m.