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INSIDE THIS

ISSUE

2009 BOMA Board Elections

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Assoicate of The Month

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WaterSmart Business

Workshops

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BOMA of Greater Tucson Membership Meeting

October 28, 2008

Reid Park Zoo

1030 S. Randolph Way

Buffet on the Rooftop

Check In—11:00 a.m. Lunch—11:30 a.m.

Program—12:15 p.m.

Please RSVP by noon on October 24th to bomagt@comcast.net

or call the BOMA-GT office at 299-4956.

Once we are finished eating on the rooftop, a Reid Park speaker will come up to talk with us. They will point out the

sights from up top and once we are done there, we shall continue on with the tour.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to enjoy some of the great outdoors!

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BOMA OF GREATER TUCSON 2008 YEAR-LONG COMMITTEES

Associate Member Council ..........

Awards ......................................... Andrea Krug—Chair

AZ BOMA ..................................... Vern Baker—Chair

Community Affairs ........................ Agnes Sheldon—Co-Chair

Community Affairs ........................ Gay Jarvis—Co-Chair

Continuing Education ................... Aaron Stremick, MBA—Chair

Designation Education ................. Jennifer Weiner—Chair

Directory ....................................... Mary Westmoreland—Chair

Directory Advertising ....................

EER .............................................. Lynn Kastella—Chair

Finance ........................................ Andrea Krug—Chair

Golf .............................................. Frank Roesler—Chair

Government Affairs ......................

Membership ................................. Peggy Nolty—Chair

Programs ..................................... Van Wilkins—Chair

Public Relations ...........................

Associate of the Month: Robert B. Withers IV ABM Janitorial Services 3710 S. Park Ave. Ste. 701 Tucson, AZ 85713 Robert.Withers@ABM.com (520) 722-9030 Office (866) 409-8970 eFax (979) 229-4178 Cell

The purpose of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Tucson is to actively and responsibly represent and promote the interests of the commercial real estate industry through effective leadership and ad-vocacy, through the collection, analy-sis and dissemination of information, and through professional develop-ment. The BOMA News is published as a membership benefit to members of BOMA of Greater Tucson. State-ments of fact and opinion appearing in this newsletter are the responsibility of the author and do not imply an opinion or endorsement on the part of the officers and directors of BOMA of Greater Tucson, unless otherwise specifically stated as each.

Building Owners and Mangers Association Of Greater Tucson

BOARD of DIRECTORS President Tina Smith, RPA ....... (520) 546-2742 President-Elect Van Wilkins ............... (520) 623-6061 Treasurer Andrea Krug ............. (520) 888-5127 Secretary Katie Castillo ............ (520) 293-9000 Past-President Van Wilkins ............... (520) 623-6061 DIRECTORS Mona Dean .................. (520) 290-4500 DeLyn Mitchell ............. (520) 740-3056 Teresa Ryberg ............. (520) 546-2719 Jennifer Wiener ........... (520) 624-3110 Peggy Nolty ................. (520) 545-7112 Agnes Sheldon ............ (520) 270-4964 Paula Smith ................. (520) 888-0669 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jeanie Merideth ........ (520) 299-4956

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Hi everyone, can you believe it is October already…this year has flown by and the holidays are coming quick. With the year winding down, it’s time to work on the BOMA Board of Directors for 2009. I have contacted several of you to find out your interest in a board position or possible leadership in the near future and I thank those of you who expressed interest. We have received a few nominations for next year’s board which is wonderful. If anyone else is interested in serving on the board, be-coming President Elect or President some year, please come forward and let us know. Huge thanks to everyone who had anything to do with the Golf Tourna-ment; the golf committee members, the wonderful generous sponsors and the volunteers. We could not have done it without everyone pulling together. It was a great day for golfing with perfect weather. We finished off with a wonderful banquet including awards and raffle prizes. Thanks again!

PRESIDENT’S REPORT By: Tina Smith, President BOMA of Greater Tucson

Tips to Maximizing Performance in the Green Computing Trend With attention shifting from strictly performance to performance with energy efficiency, performance-saving measures are needed now more than ever. Here are the some tips to maximizing performance. 1. De fragment hard drives: A primary and extremely common barrier to performance is disk file fragmentation, in which files are split into pieces (fragments) in order to maximize disk space. Regular defragmentation is vital and is performed at most com-puter sites. With today's enormous disk capacities and file sizes, however, attention must also be paid to the defrag-mentation technology. Scheduled defragmentation, in most cases, can no longer keep up with ever-escalating frag-mentation rates, and sites would find greater benefit from a defragmenter which runs constantly and automatically, in the background, with no impact on system resources. 2. Make sure anti-virus and anti-spyware programs are installed, running and up-to-date. Viruses and espe-cially spyware can work insidiously, unseen inside a computer, drastically hindering performance. Of course, if not caught, viruses can do much worse than hinder performance, so it behooves everyone to insure reliable anti-virus and anti-spyware programs are installed and running. 3. Reduce number of running programs. Checking over servers and especially user systems, how important is it

that all those programs are running? Any running program will be chipping away at pre-cious system resources, especially CPU and memory. It behooves computer sites to implement policies and restric-tions on applications to be run, and to periodically check running applications to see how necessary they really are. Submitted by: Peggy Nolty, Account Evangelist Nextrio, LLC Connecting Business and Technology Phone: 520.545.7112 www.nextrio.com

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2009 BOMA Board This slate will be voted on at the November 18, 2008 BOMA of Greater Tucson Luncheon. President - Tina Smith (PICOR) President Elect - Mona Deane (PICOR) Treasurer - Andrea Krug (CB Richard Ellis) Secretary - Gay Jarvis (Anthem Equity Group) Past President – Van Wilkins (Sabino Electric) Principal Directors (Elect 4): Katie Castillo (Ashland Group) Jon Conyers (Tri-Pointe Plaza) DeLyn Mitchell (Pima County Facilities Management) Jennifer Wiener (Healthcare Realty Services) Associate Director (Elect 3): Peggy Nolty (Nextrio) Glen Perry (Global Prevention Services) Agnes Sheldon (Distinctive Carpets) Robert Withers (ABM Janitorial Services) Nominations from the floor may be sent to the BOMA-GT office prior to the November 18th meeting via email (jgmerideth@aol.com) or fax (520)299-6431.

Computer Recycling Event Many of the hundreds of thousands of used computers taken out of service every year are still perfectly usable and could be passed along to nonprofit organizations, schools, and people with Disabilities. In conjunction with the National Make A Difference Day, Nextrio is sponsoring a com-puter recycling event with all the donated electronics to go to World Care of Tucson Date: Saturday, October 25th Time: 10am-2pm Where: Bank of Tucson 4400 E. Broadway Blvd

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BOMA OF GREATER TUCSON COMMITTEE DESCRIPTIONS

Associate Member Council Responsible for keeping the lines of communication open be-tween Associate members and the Association as a whole. Pro-viding fundraising & networking events where the funds would go to BOMA. Assisting the membership committee with educating new and current Associate members regarding the benefits of BOMA membership. Awards Responsible for establishing the criteria for Principal and Associ-ate of the Year and other member recognitions. Plan and host the annual Awards and Officer Installation Banquet. AZ BOMA Communications Responsible for publishing the BOMA-GT Newsletter, includes sales of advertising, solicitation and editing of articles, writing articles, and content/layout decisions. Community Affairs Responsible for community outreach through community service and charitable work. They organize the annual Holiday Toy Drive and Gift Wrap to benefit Those Who Care. Some of their past projects have included participation in the annual Bowl-a-thon benefiting Big Brothers and Sisters, painting over graffiti, sponsor-ing kids from the Arizona Children's Home at a baseball game, and heading up fundraising for the Fallen Fireman's Memorial. Directory Responsible for publishing the annual Membership Directory, including sales of advertising, editing, layout and printing. Education, Continuing Responsible for planning and hosting the professional develop-ment seminars offered by BOMA-GT that are attended by BOMA-GT members. Because these seminars are structured to qualify for Arizona Department of Real Estate continuing education credit, members of the real estate brokerage community also at-tend them. Education, Designation Responsible for planning and hosting the BOMI Institute classes offered by BOMA-GT. These classes are required in order for property professionals to earn their Real Property Administrator (RPA), Facilities Management Administrator (FMA), or Systems Maintenance Administrator (SMA) designations. Experience Exchange Report This committee was set up many years ago for each BOMA chap-ter to work on obtaining all statistical data needed for the compila-

tion of the Experience Exchange Report issued by BOMA Interna-tional each year. We contact each Principal and Additional Principal members at the first of each year to ask them for complete reports to be sub-mitted to International prior to their deadline in March of each year. The forms should list all income and expense line items for each commercial building that they own/manage. BOMA's infor-mation that they will disseminate will be listed by city, type of building and square footage. They will show the average, me-dian, low, and high benchmarks for each category. These reports give all of us the ability to compare and know all income and ex-penses reported in the United States and Canada. It is the committee’s goal to contact each Principal and Additional Principal to obtain all necessary information from each member and make sure they submit in a timely manner. We call, email and speak at meetings to be sure members know what is needed. Finance Responsible for establishing and reviewing the annual budget and auditing the financial condition of the organization. Golf Responsible all aspects of the annual golf tournament, including planning, fund raising, and host activities during the event itself. Government Affairs Responsible for monitoring legislative, political, and regulatory activity as it might affect the real estate industry in general and BOMA-GT’s members in particular. Creates and maintains rela-tionships with political leaders and regulatory officials in order to promote our organization and its interests. Educates the mem-bership about issues that could affect them. Organizes lobbying and grass roots efforts to influence the legislative and/or the regu-latory environments. Membership Responsible for retention of existing members and recruitment of new members to the organization. Programs Responsible for arranging/scheduling the programs for the monthly membership meetings, including extending the invitations and introducing the speakers at the meetings. Public Relations Responsible for promoting BOMA of Greater Tucson and its mem-bers to special interest groups and the general public. This com-mittee coordinates with staff and all the other committees to issue press releases when appropriate.

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Tucson Water’s WaterSmart Business Program

This year, Tucson Water is launching the new WaterSmart Business Program. The program is the result of a collabo-ration with business leaders, conservation advocates, and landscaping and irrigation firms. The WaterSmart Business program is intended to assist those business owners and managers who want to conserve water, save money and contribute to a more sustainable community. Participants will evaluate their water uses (conduct a self-audit); develop a Water Management Plan; and create a Water Budget. A multi-tiered certification program will allow a WaterSmart Business to be recognized for incorporating conservation Best Practices at the Copper, Silver, Gold and Platinum levels depending on the level of water saving devices and practices used. Businesses will receive public recognition, signs, plaques, advertising logos, discounts, networking op-portunities, variances from future water restrictions, and more! The program will offer educational and training opportunities to interested businesses, and begins this fall with a series of workshops in October (see list below). As the program expands over time, we anticipate that pursuing a WaterS-mart Business certification will become a standard practice for Tucson’s commercial community. To learn more about this program call Tucson Water’s Public Information Office at 520-791-4331 or visit our conservation web site at www.tucsonaz.gov/water/conservation

Be prepared for potential drought‐related water restrictions.  Learn how your business can navi‐gate the waters!  Come to one or all of these workshops to learn about Tucson Water’s new  WaterSmart Business Program.  A Technology Expo will take place at all workshops.  Workshops sponsored by City of Tucson‐Water and Building Owners and Managers Associa‐tion of Greater Tucson (BOMA‐GT).  

To Register contact: BOMA‐GT at 299‐4956,  bomagt@comcast.net; FAX: 299‐6431  

How to Water Audit your Business October 22nd, 2008  8am – 12 pm     Radisson Suites 6555 E. Speedway Cost:   $25 BOMA‐GT members/$35 non‐members Stage 2 Drought Response requires that commercial facilities with 325 ccf or more usage per month  to conduct water self‐audits and develop a conservation plan. This hands‐on workshop will prepare you to assess your water uses (by inventorying the hotel) and find your greatest wa‐ter and money saving potential.  

AZ Department of Real Estate CEU credit hours pending approval Association of Facility Engineers CEU credit hours pending approval   

Creating a Water Budget October 22nd , 2008  1pm – 5 pm     Radisson Suites 6555 E. Speedway Cost:   $25 BOMA‐GT members/$35 non‐members You have a financial budget, right?  Now all you need is a Water Budget!  Discover how to create a water budget to better manage your water use, saving both money and time!  

AZ Department of Real Estate CEU credit hours pending approval Association of Facility Engineers CEU credit hours pending approval 

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Associate Members

Contact the BOMA-GT

Office For the

Opportunity To be the Associate

Member of the Month!

   Irrigation System Efficiency:  How to Save Money & Water with your Landscape  October 29th, 2008   8am – 12pm     Williams Center Offices – 5210 E. Williams Circle Cost:   $25 BOMA‐GT members/$35 non‐members Explore the methods and equipment used to improve your irrigation system performance.  Learn how to pre‐audit your site.  Case study examples of irrigation system improvements and pay‐back periods will be shared.  AZ Department of Real Estate CEU credit hours pending approval Association of Facility Engineers CEU credit hours pending approval 

 

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Registration Form 

Water Issues & Your Business (10/1/08—No Charge)  How To Keep Your Cooling Tower Water Efficient  (10/15/08—$25 BOMA‐GT members*/$35 non‐members)  How To Water Audit Your Business  (10/22/08—$25 BOMA‐GT members*/$35 non‐members)  Creating A Water Budget  (10/22/08—$25 BOMA‐GT members*/$35 non‐members)  Irrigation System Efficiency:   How To Save Money & Water With Your Landscape  (10/29/08—$25 BOMA‐GT members*/$35 non‐members) 

Name  Company  Address  Phone           Email  Card Number            Exp. Date    Amount $  Name On Card  Signature  Mail to:  BOMA‐GT, PMB 140, 3305 N. Swan #109, Tucson, AZ  85712—Or Fax:  (520) 299‐6431

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*Member Price applies to BOMA‐GT, IFMA, IREM, CCIM, ASBA, CAI, AACM  

and AFE. 

BOMA of Greater Tucson Jeanie Merideth, Executive Director PMB #140; 3305 N. Swan Rd. #109 Tucson, AZ 85712

Address Service Requested

Next Meeting: October 28—Reid Park Zoo

RSVP by doing one of the following: Fax this page to 299-6431 E-mail your info to bomagt@comcast.net Call the BOMA office 299-4956 Name _________________________________________ Reg ________ Alt. ________ Company ______________________________________________________________ Guest Name ___________________________________ Reg ________ Alt. ________ Company ______________________________________________________________ Is Guest a potential Member? Yes No If yes there is no charge (Non-BOMA members may attend up to 2 meetings per year at the guest rate.) If no, $20 guest fee payable at the door. (Visa, MasterCard & American Express accepted)