It’s official!
NAWIC Boise Chapter 245 met with Governor Brad Little and signed the proclamation recognizing the week of March 6th-March 12th, 2022 to be Women in Construction Week!
March’s general meeting had 22 Members and 4 Guests in attendance.
Our guest speaker was Wayne Hammon, CEO of Idaho AGC. He spoke on the topic of “What is happening in the political world of construction this legislative session” We learned how the Idaho AGC and it’s team work on advancing, tracking, and opposing all different types of legislation to the benefit of the construction industry. In addition to legislation about money for transportation, building, workforce development and workforce housing, they are working to fix the transient personal property tax issues that they’ve heard about from their members that creates such an impact in dealing with the county assessors in the last year. They play defense on the side of contractors everyday down at the statehouse.
We installed 4 new members. Welcome Kristie Chavez with Young Elevator, Britney Elliott with Sherwin Williams, Melissa Anderson with Forge Building Company, and Sandra Wilkinson with Summit Wall Systems, Inc. May your NAWIC membership bring you everything you need and more.
Our business meeting consisted of reminders about WIC Week and upcoming events:
NAWIC Online Auction March 6th - March 18th
Women in Construction Week - March 6th - March 12th
Regional Forum hosted by Boise this year, April 7th-9th at Hilton Garden Inn, downtown Boise
We had a great turnout for our February General Meeting. We welcomed 2 guests and 4 new members.
Dawn Brubaker, our president set a theme for the her term. “She believed She could so She did”. In keeping with that theme, we started off with a Congratulations to Rhonda Miller for meeting her goal that was set back in October at the beginning of our year.
The speaker presentation was our very own Brenda Smith from PayneWest Insurance.
She presented the book: GRIT, The Power of Passion and Perseverance , By Angela Duckworth
· How Gritty are you?
· What is Grit and why it matters?
· Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
· Four Keys to Grit
We took the Grit Scale to learn about our level of Grit and how it compares to others: https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/
NAWIC Boise is proud to have meet our goal of collecting goods for Stuffed Stockings for 2 retirement homes in the outlying communities. With amazing donations from our members and extra help from the wonderful staff and crew at Outback Steakhouse in Boise (where we hold our general meetings) we filled 60 stocking last night. Thanks to Ruth Fritts for suggesting this as our Holiday Charity for 2021 and for handling the delivery
