Reminder About Sending Email Messages
Everyone please read this -- it's important

Since most of you (both vendors/suppliers and property/leasing managers) communicate electronically with your customers and prospects, you need to review the requirements of the CAN-SPAM law which became effective 1/1/04. You probably don’t think of yourself as a commercial emailer, but by the law’s definition, you are. This doesn’t mean that your messages are spam, only that the Act applies to them.

Commercial email is defined very broadly as any electronic message that promotes your company or its products/services. The CAN-SPAM Act applies to essentially all businesses that use email, even charities. Furthermore, the law applies to individual messages as well as those broadcast to a group.

Even if someone has specifically requested the information you’re sending them by email, there are rules you have to follow when sending commercial messages. Fines for violating the law are very steep ($11,000 per violation) and they accelerate at a frightening rate since every single noncompliant message you send counts as a separate violation.

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The SABOMA/SAABE Trade Show is set for May 24, and as of this moment we only have 9 booths and 19 tables remaining. They are going fast! Please see our website for the exhibitor contract and sponsorship information if you're interested. Allied Members who are not exhibiting in the show must be a sponsor to attend, or pay a $100 entrance fee. Property managers get in free.

Many thanks to the following companies for their support!

EXHIBITORS

ABC Pest & Lawn Services
Allied Fire Protection SA, LP
American Light / Design Electric
Brandt Engineering Co.
Cram Roofing
Dimensions Contracting
Ed Flume Building Specialties
Empire Roofing Companies, Ltd.
Engineering Diagnostics
Gerloff Company, Inc.
Gratr Landscapes
Holt CAT Power Systems
Jim Whitten Roof Consultants
JPM Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning
Maldonado Nursery & Landscaping
McCrory Engineering, Inc.
Mechanical Maintenance of Texas / Ward Systems
MEI-McCrory, Inc.
Pavecon, Ltd.
Sanitors / Grounds Control
SimplexGrinnell Fire & Security
Southpro Restoration
SunTerra Landscape Services
TDIndustries
Terracon / Drash Consulting Inc.
Trane
Voss Lighting

SPONSORS

Grand Prize: Longhorn Lot Maintenance
Bartender: McCrory Engineering Inc. and MEI- McCrory Inc.
Prizes: Future Electric, Mechanical Maintenance of Texas / Ward Systems, Holt CAT Power Systems Food: United Building Maintenance, Cram Roofing, ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Servpro of Northeast San Antonio

The Balcones Chapter of the USGBC invites you to attend a LEED-NC Technical Workshop Monday, May 7, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in San Antonio, TX. The workshop is certified for CEU credits.

This workshop is a detailed exploration of LEED for new construction. You'll acquire the basic tools and insights you need to incorporate green building into your work, including examples of successful strategies for each credit. This workshop is highly recommended for LEED Professional Accreditation exam preparation.

LEED for New Construction and Major Renovation (LEED-NC) is a green building rating system that was designed to guide and distinguish high-performance commercial and institutional projects, with a focus on office buildings. Practitioners have also applied the system to K-12 schools, multi-unit residential buildings, manufacturing plants, laboratories and many other building types.

Feel Free to forward this information to friends, co- workers, and business acquaintances whom might be interested.

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Our March luncheon kicked off our golf tournament sponsorship sales and several categories are already sold out. Please check our website for details. Welcome to our newest sponsor which has been added since the previous list went out: TDIndustries has purchased two drink station sponsorships!

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Charcoal, of course.

Cade Rensmeyer of Orion Partners was our first correct answer and he wins a free drink ticket to the upcoming trade show.