Rich Cofoid, DCC Council Director, The Voice Newsletter March 2024

March means Spring has arrived and with it the start of another busy (and hopefully profitable) construction season. March also means that committee week at ASCC is just around the corner, and it is time to get travel plans set to visit St. Louis.

Last year was the first for the DCC to attend Committee Week and hold its April meeting face-to-face. What a revelation it was for us first-timers! At both the annual conference and the World of Concrete, there is so much going on that finding time to sit in on the other board meetings is difficult, if not impossible. However, during Committee Week every member of every board has the time and opportunity to join in and attend the other meetings.

To see firsthand what the other boards are accomplishing is amazing. Picking up creative ideas to bring back to your board (or business) is inspirational. Witnessing the talent of ASCC staff and board members/volunteers is humbling!

If you can’t make it in person, I urge you to join in as many Committee Week meetings as you can via Zoom as almost all board meetings are available virtually. In the DCC we will spend a large chunk of our time reviewing our newly established strategic goals, volunteering for the different subcommittees to accomplish these goals, and setting strategies towards their achievement. While the DCC board has a dozen or so members, you DO NOT need to be a board member to join the meetings and volunteer your talents towards improving ASCC and the concrete industry. With close to 200 ASCC members describing themselves as DCC members, it should be easy to double or triple the average number of monthly meeting attendees. We all joined ASCC to better our businesses, better ourselves, and better our industry. The best way to do that is to join in and become actively involved. No matter how much or how little time you have to give, your participation comes back to you ten-fold.

I hope to see you in person (and if not, on-screen) on April 22nd at 3:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time.