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Mission Statement of the Florida Marine Contractors Association

“To support, promote, and educate the professional marine construction industry in the State of Florida.”

President’s Letter – Winter 2011

I want to thank you for your confidence in me by electing me the new President of the Florida Marine Contractors Association.  I am deeply honored to serve on the Board and will strive to further our organization for the betterment of us all.

Our past president, John Loftis, did an excellent job of preparing the organization for the leadership change by closing up much of the old business and allowing me to focus on our future.  In doing this I wish to extend John a heartfelt thank you from the entire organization for leading us through a big change which greatly modified his role and that of the Board.  He didn’t sign up for all the extra responsibility but did a great job with the extra workload.

Our new Board of Directors consists of the following members:

Non-Elected
Past President, John Loftis – Loftis Marine Division

At Large Members
President, Dave Lowell – Ram Marine Services, Inc.
Vice President, Casey Cass – Ferreira Construction
Second Vice President, Kelly White – Kelly White & Associates Ins. LLC
Treasurer, Lori Sousa – Dealer Risk Services
Interim Secretary, Lori Sousa – Dealer Risk Services
Don Ernst – Timber Holdings International

Chapter Directors
Panhandle,  Bryan Ball – Fisher Brown, Inc.
First Coast, Mark Hayward – Hayward Construction Group
Central, Rick Fender (Interim) – Fender Marine Construction
Tampa Bay, Alycia McGlone – Wallace, Welch, & Wellingham
Southwest, Ron Paluck – Shoreline Lumber
South, James Charles – Lewis, Longman, and Walker P.A.

We recently held the Annual meeting in December and at that meeting we discussed goals and objectives to achieve this year.  By far the most resounding goal the Board wanted to see accomplished was to create more member benefits.  We had several members step forward to volunteer their time to serve on a subcommittee to oversee the creation of these benefits.  They will be looking for ideas and participation from the general membership to help guide them.  I implore you to pass along your ideas of what you would like to see the FMCA be able to provide for you.  Without your input the subcommittee will only be guessing at what your needs are.  Please email your ideas to me at Dave.Lowell@myfmca.org.

The Florida Marine Contractors Association is a membership driven organization.  As such, we don’t have a paid staff member to guide us or do the work for us.  Therefore, we must lead ourselves and be active in our participation in the organization.  That takes help from you.  Please become active in your FMCA.  The time requirement does not need to be large.

I look forward to meeting all of you who I do not know and continuing to build relationships with those that I do.  Have a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!

Dave Lowell
President, FMCA