AIA Las Vegas 2017 Annual Report by caronrichardson

2017 ANNUAL REPORT

IN THIS REPORT Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Message

Membership

Continuing Education

Advocacy

Scholarship Endowment Fund

Financial Statement

Board of Directors, Staff

Sponsors

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Share Your Passion ... A Wonderful Gift It is hard to believe that my year as President of AIA Las Vegas has come to an end so quickly. It has been my privilege to serve you and

the chapter these last 12 months and I look forward to continue working on your behalf as President of AIA Nevada in 2018 as well as the Co-Chair of A’19, the 2019 Conference on Architecture, formerly known as the AIA National Convention. A’19 will be in Las Vegas, June 5-8, 2019, so mark your calendars now. I am pleased, honored and thankful that Eric Roberts, AIA is a Co-Chair for this exciting annual showcase of all things architecture. As you all are aware, the focus this year was “Igniting Interest, Education & Passion for Architecture in The Next Generation of Architects”. The programs included the entire spectrum of education; elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and the UNLV School of Architecture. This was accomplished by working with existing programs, creating new programs as well as connecting and strengthening ties to existing scholastic programs. Elementary School Outreach: The Garden Classroom Partnership, created in 2016 when the Committee on the Environment (COTE) joined with Green our Planet has been helping Clark County Schools find funding and resources to build vegetable gardens at existing elementary schools. AIA COTE joined the effort by providing two additional benefits to the process. Anna Peltier, RLA, an Allied Member is not only a leader of the Garden Classroom Partnership, her company, Aria Landscape Architecture has made it their mission to support this program with passion, manpower, drawings and even funds when necessary……superstars in our community. For more information about the Garden Classroom Partnership, please see the President’s Message in the May Issue of FORUM. Anna could use your help, and trust me, spending a couple of hours with these youngsters is extremely fun and rewarding. I know you will get as much out of spending time with them as they do from you.

Middle & High Schools Outreach: Kyle Fischer, Assoc. AIA, Joe Miller, Glenn Nowak, AIA, Harry Ray, AIA, Robert Holtfreter, AIA, Dominic Armendariz, Assoc. AIA, Stephen Ranck, AIA, Michelle Brigida, AIA, Ibrahim Kako, AIA, Brett Robillard, AIA and of course, Randy Lavigne, Hon. AIA met regularly this year. The committee uses a consistent messaging in a power point presentation when speaking to students. The four-part presentation highlights “What do Architects Do?”, “What does Architecture do?”, “How to become an Architect?” and “What is AIA?” The Student Chapter of the AIA (AIAS) at UNLV School of Architecture took a lead role with Clark County Students on a separate, but parallel path under the leadership of Dominic Armendariz, Assoc. AIA. His leadership resulted in the creation of an AIA Student chapter at the East Career & Technical Academy, joining Advanced Technologies Academy as the 2nd AIAS High School chapter in Las Vegas.

High School Design Competition: Ryan Sisti, Assoc. AIA once again led the 45th annual high school design competition. Glenn Nowak, AIA reached out to Skills-USA to garner interest and participation throughout the state. We broadened the number of schools that are now aware of this competition and are planning on participating. We’ve had as many as ten schools participate but with the loss of drafting education throughout the district over the years, the number of participating schools plummeted to a low of three in 2013. In 2018 we will have six participating schools. We look forward to a wide array of creative design solutions to the challenge at our April 2018 meeting where we will announce the winners during our Art, Architecture & Design month celebration.

Principal Shadow Program: The program, administered through AIA Las Vegas and UNLV SOA pairs 6th year graduate students and a participating architectural office. The intent is that students spend time during a normal business day with a principal or other key individuals, in the real world setting of architectural offices, meetings and conferences. The program allows maximum flexibility for both students and professional offices to coordinate hours spent in an office. I am pleased to announce that Atlas Architecture, BWA, Zimmerray Studios, SH Architecture and Gensler & Associates volunteered in 2017. Thank you Brett Robillard, AIA, Leonard Bergman, AIA, Harry Ray, AIA, Eric Roberts, AIA, and Stephen Ranck, AIA.

The most consistently repeated comment from students in our K-12 outreach programs is that architecture was never considered a career path…….but now they want to be architects.

MEMBERSHIP

MEMBERSHIP DEMOGRAPHICS

Architects

Architects by Gender

6% Unknown Ethnicity Male

2% Two or More Ethnicity Male

5% Hispanic Male 2% Unknown Ethnicity Female

9% Asian Male

8% White Female

1% Two or More Ethnicity Female

Associates by Gender

Allied

Total

JANUARY 2017

242

120

438

NEW MEMBERS ADDED

TRANSFERS/LOST/ DROPPED

256

114

455

Architects

Associates

DECEMBER 2017 67% White Male

Associates

As a national organization, the American Institute of Architects is the voice of the architectural profession and a resource to its members in service to society. AIA Las Vegas, the local chapter, is a professional association that promotes the value of architecture and design, advocates for local and state members, educates and supports architects as leaders in the community. Membership benefits include: • Public policy influence

7% Asian Female 7% Unknown Ethnicity Female 7% Asian Male 4% Two or More Ethnicity Male

4% Black or African Female 15% White Female 22% Hispanic Male 7% Unknown Ethnicity Male

15% Hispanic Female 1% American Indian or Alaska Native Male 4% Native Hawaiian

NOTE: Gender percentages based solely on chapter member responses from the AIA National database.

• Industry connections • Peer-to-peer engagement • Mentorship • General public connection through the membership Directory • Access to industry standard AIA Contract Documents • Continuing education • Resources enhancing professional excellence • Volunteer leadership opportunities • Visibility and greater understanding of the profession

Allieds

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Through membership meetings, continuing education luncheons, seminars, special lectures, events, recorded sessions and mentoring, AIA Las Vegas provides opportunities each year for members to achieve required continuing education credits and maintain AIA membership and to renew licenses in most states. In 2017 AIA Las Vegas provided the opportunity to achieve a total of 50 Continuing Education credits. 36.5 credits qualified for Health, Safety, Welfare credits, 8 qualified as Codes credits and 5.5 as learning credits.

ENGAGE IN EDUCATION

WAYS TO ENGAGE IN EDUCATION SIGN-UP for in-person education, hard hat and facility tours, luncheons and meetings at aialasvegas.org

PARTICIPATE in the AIA Las Vegas | AIAS UNLV Mentoring program as either a mentor or mentee. JOIN the AIA National Knowledge Communities. 13

ADVOCACY

2017 Advocacy Highlights Having succeeded in the 2015 Legislative Session to eliminate the â&#x20AC;&#x153;duty to defendâ&#x20AC;? clause from public works contracts, AIA Nevada went to work in 2017 to change the language used in NRS 108 that prohibits architects from filing a lien to receive payment for services they have provided prior to the beginning of construction. Many small firms are caught unaware when payment for their services are held until after construction has begun, when in some cases funding fails or the project is canceled and they have no recourse for receiving payment for services provided. Throughout 2018 and in the 2019 Legislative Session, AIA Nevada will continue to work to change this language so that architects, engineers and other design professionals are protected.

WAYS TO ENGAGE IN ADVOCACY DONATE to the AIA NV PAC, our non-partisan, legal vehicle for individuals to pool resources and make financial contributions in support of issues affecting architects and architecture. VOLUNTEER for the AIA Nevada Government Affairs Committee and Grassroots. JOIN US to voice your opinions directly to state and federal legislators through our call writing campaigns on specific issues.

AIA Nevada The mission of the Nevada Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is to advocate on behalf of architects in the state of Nevada and to promote design excellence and service to the profession and the community.

2017 AIA Nevada Executive Committee Brett Ewing, AIA, President Mike Andersen, AIA, Secretary/Treasury Jon Sparer, AIA, President AIA Las Vegas Jeff Frame, AIA President AIA Northern Nevada Mark Ryan, AIA, Past President Committee Chairs & Advisors Nate Hudson, AIA Emerging Professionals Director, AIA Northern Nevada Dennis Panars, AIA Emerging Professionals Director, AIA Las Vegas Daniel Chenin, AIA, NCARB Architectural Licensing Advisor Chris Lujan, Assoc. AIA, State Government Network Rep Lobbyist Michael Hillerby Kaempfer Crowell Director of Legislative Affairs 50 West Libery Street, Suite 900 Reno, NV 89501

email: mhillerby@kcnvlaw.com phone: (775) 852-3900 6

SCHOLARSHIP

The AIA Las Vegas Scholarship Endowment Fund was established in 1995 with an investment of $30,000.00. Over the last 22 years the fund has not only grown and maintained a balance of over $100,000.00 each year, it has also funded over $100,000.00 in scholarship awards to UNLV architecture students. This year, AIA Las Vegas provided $10,500.00 in scholarship awards as follows: • AIA Las Vegas Scholarship to Rafael Armendariz, Assoc. AIA for $1,500.00 • Ric Licaata Memorial Scholarship to Dominic Armendariz, Assoc. AIA for $1,500.00 • Carpenter Sellers DelGatto Travel to Landon Baker for $1,500.00 • William Snyder Honorary Scholarship to Graciela Paola Chire-Ortiz for $1,000.00 • SHarchitecture Scholarship to Maelle Egea, Assoc. AIA for $2,000.00 • John R. Klai, FAIA Honorary Scholarship to Yasmin Soliman for $1,250.00 • John R. Klai, FAIA Honorary Scholarship to Scott Davis for $1,250.00 • Jon Sparer Leadership Award 2016 to Dominic Armendariz, Assoc. AIA for $1,000.00 • Jon Sparer Leadership Award 2017 to Rafael Armendariz, Assoc. AIA for $1,000.00 RESERVE FUND

The purpose of the AIA Las Vegas Reserve Fund is to support and protect the Chapter during difficult economic times and to help secure the future of the Chapter. A portion of the fund was used to see the Chapter through the recent recession years and it currently stands at $125,375.70.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

ASSETS - AIA Las Vegas AIA LV School of Architecture Account AIA LV Chapter Account

$4,817.90 $65,143.50

AIA LV Chapter Account (2018 Dues Collected)

$31,019.00

Total Bank Assets

NOTE: The statements reflect Year-End unaudited AIA Las Vegas and AIA Nevada Financials as of December 31, 2017.

$100,980.40

Scholarship Endowment Fund LPL Financial Reserve Account Total Current Assets

$106,373.02 $125,375.70 $332,729.12

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS - AIA Las Vegas Current Liabilities Retained Earnings

$26,665.64 $199,974.55

Net Income

$106,088.93 Total Liabilities & Equity

$332,729.12

ASSETS - AIA Nevada AIA Nevada Chapter Account AIA Nevada Chapter Account (2018 Dues Collected)

$2,659.09 $7,565.00

Total Current Assets

$10,224.09

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS - AIA Las Vegas Retained Earnings Net Income

$3,054.46 $7,169.63 Total Current Assets

$10,224.09

2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

COMMONLY REQUESTED LINKS AIA Las Vegas Facebook www.facebook.com/aialasvegas AIA Las Vegas Twitter Feed @aialasvegas MY CES (AIA CONTINUING EDUCATION TRACKING) www.aia.org/my-account AIA CONTRACT DOCUMENTS www.aiacontracts.org

Jon Sparer, AIA - President Jennifer Turchin, AIA – President-Elect Pat Batte’, AIA – Secretary John Sawdon, AIA – Treasurer Dwayne Eshenbaugh, AIA – Director Jeni Panars, AIA – Director Lance Kirk, AIA – Director Cesar Ceballos, AIA – Director Glenn Nowak, AIA – Education & Scholarships Director Travis Allen, Assoc. AIA – Emerging Professionals Director Anna Peltier, RLA – Allied Director Brett Ewing, AIA - Past President Dominic Armendariz, Assoc. AIA - AIAS President Randy Lavinge, Hon. AIA - Executive Director

AIA ARCHITECT info.aia.org/aiarchitect

AIA LAS VEGAS STAFF

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) www.ncarb.org Nevada State Board of Architecture, Interior Design and Residential Design (NSBAIDRD) nsbaidrd.state.nv.us

Randy Lavigne, Honorary AIA Executive Director

Kelly Lavigne Director of Operations

Caron Richardson Program Manager, Membership