Greetings, KC Chapter friends!!! The 2011-2102 program year ends with the May meeting. Please remember the Chapter will vote for new board members this month and the new board members will take oath at the meeting. Please show your support for the board members by voting.

We had our Chip in for Charity on April 20th at the program venue provided by Alan Lankford and Robert Franklin. Please see VPM and Affiliate Liaison’s article for more information.

The April meeting was sponsored by Mr. Bill Hagan with W. T. Leonard. The topic was “Infection Control Strategies for Sanitary and Efficient Healthcare Facilities”.

Remember the May meeting will be on the 21st as opposed to the second Monday of the month due to conflicts that will affect the meeting attendance. The May meeting will be “Commercial Permitting Standards. Why? Infiltration/Inflow” presented by Ms. Jennifer Harder of Johnson County Wastewater. Please see VPT Bruce Hellmer’s article and our new website www.kc-aspe.org for more information.

Please contact VPM Mike Monthey if you would like to arrange a tour of your facility for the Kansas City Chapter members.

I would like to thank you all for your support to the Chapter and to me during my term as the Chapter President. It was a pleasure to serve the Chapter and I had fun. I would like to come back and serve the Chapter again in future. See you all at the May meeting. Cheers!!!

Last month’s meeting was sponsored by WT Leonard with Richard Klaess from American Standard speaking on Infection Control Strategies for Sanitary and Efficient Healthcare Facilities.

The meeting on Monday, May 21st is being sponsored by the chapter with Jennifer Harder, Shane Burnett and Pam Henry of Johnson County Wastewater speaking on Do You Know SSO’s.

Johnson County Wastewater (JCW) provides wastewater collection and treatment services for much of Johnson County Kansas. JCW has seven treatment plants located throughout our Johnson County Service Area. Combined, our treatment plants are designed to serve more than 665,000 people in our service area.

The Golf Tournament will be on Monday, June 11th at the Sunflower Hills Golf Course. Joe McCoy is the Golf Tournament Chairperson.

It is not too early to make arrangements for next seasons meetings. If you are interested in sponsoring or speaking at any of next season’s meetings, please call me at (816) 373-4878.

The Third Annual Chip in for Charity Event was held at 1814 Oak Street KC MO on April 20th. Attendance was light, but the event for those who attended was great! Please join me in extending a special thanks to Robert Franklin and Lankford and Associates for providing the event space, and to Steve Reed and Roy F Johnson for sponsoring the event. All told we raised just shy of $800 for Seamless Dance Theater. This is a great thing, but I want to challenge the chapter to do better in the future. Please advise the board on charitable activities you think we should be performing. If a poker tournament isn’t the best event for us as a chapter, we can change what we do. Before we make any changes though, we need some input. Share your thoughts!

Reading through the membership society-wide, there have been some large numbers of new members added in some chapters, most notably the Boston chapter. I’d like for Kansas City to raise eyebrows with new membership as well. To this end, please take the time over the next month to approach at least one plumbing designer, contractor or code official, and invite them to this month’s meeting on May 21st. Nearly all of us know people in the industry who can benefit from the chapter, let’s take the few minutes out of our day to reach out to them and welcome them to see what we’re all about.

The 2012 ASPE Convention and Exposition is in Charlotte North Carolina is October 27-31. Registration begins in May. For booth reservations contact 800-687-7469 or ASPEsales@ntpshow.com . More information, for sponsorship or patronage go to http://events.ntpshow.com/aspe2012/public/mainhall.aspx?ID=1528&sortMenu=102000%20. If you are looking for travel discounts, hit the housing/travel tab from this link too. I recently re-upped for my CPD, and realized that my participation in the expo accounted for nearly half of my overall development hours needed. Now that I’ve been to one, I can truly say that if you’re in the plumbing industry, this show is NOT to be missed.

The ASPE Plumbing Engineering and Design Handbook of tables is now available as a digital app for members. The app is available to all members, go to http://aspe.org/tablesapp to download the FREE application.

ASPE membership gives a 20% discount on International Code Council (ICC) membership. http://aspe.org/ASPEtoICC is the link to click to take advantage of this membership perk!

Not a member? Excited? Want to join? Fill out a membership application at: https://aspe.org/sites/default/files/webfm/pdfs/membership/MembershipApplication.pdf

If any of you are aware of people who we should extend invitations to, whether designers, reps, code officials or contractors, please feel free to either approach them or contact me at mike.monthey@hei-eng.com and I can do so instead.

We’re looking for options and ideas for plant tours over the upcoming year. Please contact me if you have a venue you’d like to see, or if you’re a manufacturer that would like to showcase your plant.

Let’s all keep up the good work, and work together to make the chapter thrive! I’ll see you all at the chapter meeting at our slightly adjusted date this month, May 21st, same time and same place however!

Please join us on Monday May 21st, note this meeting is the third Monday of the month. This will be our last meeting of 2011/2012. We will have the Joe McCoy golf tournament at Sunflower golf course on Monday June the 11th. We will begin the 2012/2013 year with a joint meeting with ASHRAE in September.

Chip in for Charity happened on April 20th 2012, the Texas Hold'em tournament was at 1814 Oak Street in the Crossroads District. A special thank you to Alan Lankford and Robert Franklin, they provided the venue. If you are looking for a great place to hold an event, I'd recommend contacting Robert. Everyone that came out that Friday night seemed to have a great time. We raised around $800 for Seamless Dance Theater, this year's charity. The winner of the poker tournament was Joe McCoy, followed by Jeff McCoy, and third place went to Jim Brune. I would also like to thank Mike Monthey for all his effort in staging the poker tournament, and to everyone else that helped and or came to the event. Seamless Dance Theater will be performing at the Gem Theatre on Saturday evening May 5th. The 8 PM show is their major fundraiser and the ticket prices are $20 for adults and $15 for children 10 and under. The Gem is located @ 1615 E. 18th Street K.C., MO (18th and Vine Jazz District), if you're looking for some entertainment, tickets are available at the door. Contact me if you need further information @ 913-894-9097 or cell 913-707-6677.

Greetings! The program year is coming to a close but it does not mean the work of the chapter will come to a grinding halt. Please contact me with changes you’re your line card or desire to advertise in our newsletter. So far we have not had any additional firm take advantage of our free offer to list their firm on our website, provide a linecard or link to their website for FREE. Like the car companies say this is a limited time only and now is the time to act. Please give me a call at 1-913-742-5426 at your earliest convenience.

All ASPE members are encouraged to use our Manufacturer's Representatives advertising page. The website provides you with a quick access to all affiliates’ contact information and an email link. You also have two search option for finding who represents a given product or line. You can search our spreadsheet by the product category or by the manufacturer.

Just click on the following link to access a wealth of information: www.kc-aspe.com/productsreps.htm. The ASPE Board met and we have formalized our advertising Policy and will print it once in this newsletter and then provide a link to the document on our Product / Representatives page.

From April 2nd to April 6th Tony Hitchcock and I conducted a plumbing program at Olathe Northwest High School, Aero Space and Engineering Class. Mr. Matt Peterie is the instructor of the engineering class, and he has been presenting the different areas of engineering.

Our presentation was to design the plumbing for a one-story house. We spent the week going through the different plumbing systems including a bill of material. These students are freshman who are interested in learning more about being an engineer. The students were impressed with the concepts of plumbing that goes on in a house. The students were given a set of house plans with instructions, and time to learn about laying out the different lines. This is our second semester of working on this project. We have simplified the instructions which the students enjoyed.

We are preparing for our next semester in the fall. One of our next projects is to contact Olathe South, and Olathe East High School to set up programs for next school year. Have a great summer.