Report of the MCAA Legislative Committee

Words: Mackie Bounds

MAC PAC

The MCAA had an extremely successful MAC PAC event at last years annual meeting, the best we have had to date. The PAC raised nearly $52,000. We plan to have another very successful event this year.

Political Education Fund

The committee has had a very successful year so far raising funds for the political education fund. We had a very successful golf outing at Midyear that benefited the PEC. In addition, proceeds from this year’s South 40 event will benefit the PEC. These events should put us on pace to do very well for our PEC in 2018-19.

MCAA Issues

The MCAA has all of our current position papers on the MCAA web-site which can be found at www.masoncontractors.org/positions. Look under legislative and you will find the position papers. The MCAA has several very important issues in the year ahead and we have hopes to see them move in 2019. The key issues we will be focusing on are: A guest worker program tied to an infrastructure bill and to support infrastructure spending in 2019 particularly on school and other structural buildings. Another key component of the push will be to look to require “sustainable structures”.

Check-off

The committee is proud to announce that the CMU check-off program passed in 2018. This will now give our industry an opportunity to offer a commodity check-off program and raise serious dollars for our future. We expect the industry vote to take place in the fall of 2019 and will be working with NCMA to secure the votes for passage. This is a very exciting time for our industry.
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