Mike Dennis, President of Custom Stoneworks

& 2010 Vice President and a Greater Phoenix NARI Board of Director

 

Aside from being beneficial for networking, sharing ideas and socializing, the NARI meetings many times we  have extremely informative guest speakers. Last September's was a true home run in my book.

 

Having Bill Mundell, the Director of the Registrar of Contractors with us, proved invaluable. Very few of us in the room were aware of the "sweeps" that the state legislature had made to the ROC financial accounts. NARI holds their members to a higher integrity level than the majority of non-member companies in the Valley. Therefore, we all have a high level of frustration at the inactivity of the ROC toward no-complying companies. Mr. Mundell brought us to a a clearer understanding as to how this occur and what we  might expect in the future, unless the legislature keeps their hand out of the ROC accounts. He also invited us to participate through delegation in the the monthly ROC Executive Meetings to combat this and other problems that consistently arise. We all must be informed and aware of the problems in our industry.

 

NARI through its members, is the organization which needs to "carry the banner." Informative meetings and speakers, such as Mr. Mundell go a long way to helping us help our industry.