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2009 Supplier Showcase is Scheduled for Friday, October 30th, at Albuquerque Convention Center

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Networking ALSO Reduces Crime:

Get the 411 on the 911 on 11-18-09

Property crime constitutes over 85-90% of the “Part 1 Offenses” reported for a community.  However, property crime is often viewed as a victimless crime, making it easier for offenders to re-victimize.

The classic 80/20 rule applies to offenders: 80% of the crime is committed by 20% of these criminal offenders.  By focusing in on property crime and these repeat offenders, law enforcement is able to identify and decrease the number of offenders who commit multiple offenses. 

In 2006, the Albuquerque Police Department began working to build partnerships with various business sectors in Albuquerque to address the crime and public safety issues that impact each sector.  To date, the APD has proactive, crime fighting partnerships with retail, hotel/motel, banking, and commercial property and facility managers.  The most successful of these partnerships is the Albuquerque Retail Assets Protection Association (ARAPA) which works with the APD to identify, apprehend, and prosecute offenders linked to retail theft and property crime.  

Communication and networking is the key. The members and constituents of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network are encouraged to attend the breakfast meeting at 7:30 am on Wednesday, November 18^th, 2009, at Pepper’s Restaurant in the Marriott Courtyard Hotel (Pan American Frontage Road south of Paseo del Norte) to hear how they can involve their facility in a network to support the reporting of crimes against their facilities and support establishing the patterns which will eventually eliminate the perpetrators.

 Speaker Karen Fischer with the City of Albuquerque will explain how YOUR facility, whether you are a facility manager or a supplier, can join in APD’s crime fighting partnership.  Plan now to attend!  Rsvp to carolee@nmfmn.com (preferred) by Monday, November 16^th, to save your place.  

Facility Professionals Showcase a Win-Win

for Managers and Suppliers Alike

     Great information plus crowds of people and delicious food added up to a whole lot of fun combined with hands-on knowledge at October’s Suppliers Showcase.  The event was jointly sponsored by the New Mexico Facility Managers Network (NMFMN), the New Mexico Society for Healthcare Engineering (NMSHE),  the International Facility Managers Association (IFMA), and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).

     The show had grown from the previous years and commanded the professional venue that the Albuquerque Convention Center in downtown Albuquerque offered.  Almost every facility manager who walked through the doors won a substantial door prize, graciously provided by the 50 booth sponsors who demonstrated their products and services or recruited in the aisles for the four sponsoring organizations.

      In the words of La Vida Llena’s facility engineer Dan Chavez, “This is one-stop shopping for facility services at its best.  Chalk up another great, well-organized event benefitting all of us.”

       See you next year!             

November 2009 Executive Director Column

     Anyone who has to produce any kind of writing project on demand shares a special fear with me: writer’s block.   The Encarta Dictionary defines this as “an inability on the part of the writer to start a new piece of writing or continue an existing one”.   About five minutes ago, this dark specter was haunting me, but then, like a scene from some bad movie, the phone rang, distracting me from my impasse.

     It was, simply, one of our facility manager members, asking me for the name and phone number of a supplier member whom he needed to contact to help him solve a particular dilemma which was unfolding in his building.  I thumbed through my Blackberry, got him the information he needed, and then sat back down at this computer to (I thought) consider my deadlocked situation.

     But, halleluiah, I had already been delivered.  This month, I should write about the most important service the New Mexico Facility Managers Network provides: ACCESS to resources and information among the people who all need each other to make a living for themselves and for their families, facility manager members and supplier members the same.  But better than access to “resources and information” (rather cold and lofty words), we provide access to PEOPLE. 

     Voila.  What is it worth to have a personal reference and pre-existent relationship with someone you can call when the chips are down?  What is it worth to get a call from someone you have met, even briefly, at one of this organization’s meeting, asking you to help solve a problem in their building?  Essentially, it is worth everything.  Resources and information are really a face, a person, you can call on when you need help, or the face of someone who offers you the opportunity to be of service.

    Like Verizon says, “It’s the Network”.   Use this Network for your own personal access.  That’s why your face is important to us.

2010 Program Agenda Announced

     At a special meeting held in September, both supplier and facility management members of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network exchanged and discussed ideas for viable programs for the calendar year 2010.  Thematically, the common thread seemed to center on sustainability and the notion that now, since we have all picked the low-hanging fruit, where do we go from here?   

    The outcome:

January:  Sustainability Training for Facility Managers and Suppliers—Central New Mexico Community College

February:  Physical Measurement of Environmental Systems---Applied Mechanical Systems

March:  Earth-Wise Systems----Southwest Trane

April:  Lighting Efficiency and LED----Visible Light Solar

May:  What’s Hot in Flooring---- Dimensions Flooring

June:  Isotopes Baseball

July: NMFMN 16^th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament

August:  Building Systems Efficiency---TBA

September:  Weatherization and Roofing---TBA

October:  Fourth Annual Facility Professionals Trade Show

November: Supply Chain Efficiency---Laun-Dry Supply

December:  Annual Christmas Party and Scholarship Awards

Don’t see a topic that you would like discussed?  Then plan now to attend the 2011 special planning meeting to pitch YOUR idea!

Architecture 2030 E-News Bulletin
1. Feds: Carbon Neutral by 2025

Feds: Carbon Neutral By 2025

Santa Fe (July 7, 2007) - Representative Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) recently introduced a landmark bill calling on the federal government to get its house in order by going carbon neutral by 2025. The Udall bill, H.R. 2947, establishes aggressive and achievable energy performance standards for all new and renovated federally-owned and federally-funded buildings. Federally-owned buildings would need to achieve an immediate 60-percent reduction in fossil-fuel energy consumption compared to the regional average for each building type. The bill also calls for declining fossil-fuel consumption in the amount of 70% by 2011, 80 % by 2015, 90% by 2020, and 100% (or carbon neutral) by 2025.

Since building operations, (i.e. heating, lighting, cooling) account for 43% of all US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, about 50% when building construction is included, any talk about addressing global warming and growing GHG emissions must include robust action in the Building Sector. With the federal government being the country's biggest landlord, it has a responsibility to act decisively in this area.

What is unique about the Udall bill is that it casts a wide net over the Building Sector by including all federally-funded buildings built or renovated with 10% or more of federal funds. These buildings would need to achieve a minimum 50% fossil-fuel consumption reduction as called for by The 2030 Challenge issued by Architecture 2030, and adopted by the US Conference of Mayors (USCM), American Institute of Architects (AIA), US Green Building Council (USGBC) and states of Illinois and New Mexico, among others. This reduction standard would also increase over time so that by 2030, if you receive 10 percent or more of federal funds for construction, your building must be designed to be carbon neutral, meaning it would use no fossil-fuel energy to operate.

In his statement on the House floor, Udall said, “This legislation takes up The 2030 Challenge, issued by Ed Mazria of the organization Architecture 2030… Organizations, architects, local governments, and individuals wanting to do their part have all taken up this challenge. The US Conference of Mayors has adopted it for all buildings in all cities. It is time for the federal government to do so as well."

The Udall bill would also extend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (set to expire in 2008) for another five years, and provide adequate tax incentives for those in the private sector who follow the Feds' lead. This would help those cities and states with GHG initiatives meet their reduction targets in the Building Sector. "Many of the tax provisions [in the Energy Policy Act] are not only scheduled to expire in 2008, but in the estimation of many, were also set at amounts too low to spark the level of construction and efficiency improvements needed" to transform the Building Sector, Udall said. The Udall bill would increase the residential tax credit from $2000 to $4500 per unit and the commercial buildings tax deduction from $1.80/sf to $2.75/sf for buildings that meet the 50% energy consumption reduction target. Since the commercial building tax incentive is a deduction and not a credit (worth about $0.30 to $0.40 cents on the dollar) anything less than $2.75/sf will do little to spur a real transformation in this sector.

According to Ed Mazria of Architecture 2030, "The Udall bill is clearly the most comprehensive and important climate change bill working its way through Congress today. It deals with real Building Sector GHG emissions reductions and provides adequate financial incentives for states, cities and counties to make good on their pledge to address global warming."

Other important Building Sector bills in Congress of special note include the Clinton/Kerry bill (S 1059) and the Waxman bill (H.R. 2635), which would both require that all new and renovated federal buildings meet The 2030 Challenge targets.

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In an effort to get information to you on the organization’s activities in a timely and technologically contemporary manner we have started a “Yahoo! Email Groups” so you can receive these important email notifications.  We value your support of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network and want to stay in touch with you in order to serve you better and it’s free!

Invitations have be sent out to everyone I have on my email list, to Join the “Yahoo! Email Groups”.  If you did not receive an invitation or need it re-sent please fill out the Update Contact Information Form. 

The group email will be  NMFMN@yahoogroups.com.  Messages will be sent out with the email address NMFMN-owner@yahoogroups.com . Please see that these addresses  does not get blocked by your IT department.  Any messages sent to this address will come to me and I will forward them to the appropriate person.

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November meeting

Summary Trade show

Executive Corner

2010 Program Agenda

Feds: Carbon Neutral By 2025

 Newsletter Changes

Partial List of Programs

and Incentives to Assist Local

 Businesses

The University of New Mexico Foundation
Annual Endowment Report

 Lead Engineer Building Maintenance

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Wanted:  Volunteers to Make the NMFMN Organization Excel

     The New Mexico Facility Managers Network needs you!  The Board of Directors is looking for good-hearted people who wish to volunteer for positions on our steering committee, the Board, and to help guide us towards which programs should be presented to the general membership at the meetings throughout the year in 2010. 

     Make a difference in your professional development and a personal contribution to our organization:  decide NOW to give a small amount of your time to help us ultimately support our scholarship funds at the University of New Mexico and at the Central New Mexico Community College.

    Do you have questions?  Call or email your favorite board member, or contact the Executive Director, Carolee Griffin, at carolee@nmfmn.com for details.

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JOB OPENING 

City Of Albuquerque

HVAC CONTROL SPECIALIST
 

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From:   Purchasing 
Sent:   Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:05 PM
To:     Rodriguez, Joseph M.; Lozano, Juan M.; Herrera, Steve ; Pollock, Rob ; Garcia, Rudy P.; Gray, Terry W.; Saavedra, Vince ; Listy, Andrew ; Burnham, Kenneth

Subject:        FW: City of Albuquerque New Procurement on-line Quote Requirement

In order to comply with the City of Albuquerque's new purchasing procedures all non contract procurements of $10,000 or less must be quoted on the following on-line procurement site.

Please register your Company's name and establish and account. The Aviation Department will not be able to solicit verbal, faxed or e-mail quotes any longer. All quotes will be solicited through this new procurement site.

The City of Albuquerque has issued online a Request for Quote (procurements of $10,000 or less) which you may be interested in.

Registration is required to view and respond to quotes.  Registration is free.

Please follow the link below:

https://basec.sicomm.net/register/corpInfo.html?partner=Albuquerque

If you are interested in being notified of Request for Bids (RFBs) and Request for Proposals (RFPs) please click on the link below:

http://www.cabq.gov/vendor/regisinfo.html

Thank you for your interest in doing business with the City of Albuquerque.

Tony Gurule
Facilities Maintenance Coordinator
Aviation Department, City of Albuquerque
Office: 244-7871
Cell: 250-2417
 

Supplier Directory

Updated 11/16/07

The New Mexico Facility Managers Network is over one-hundred member companies strong.  In these ranks are some of the most esteemed and responsible suppliers to the people who make it look easy to keep their buildings up and running.

     Board member Mary Anne Giangola and supplier member Shannon Deterding from the Improve Group have compiled the “First Source Supplier Directory” to make access to the companies that support the organization easy.  Each member listing provides a detailed description of the services that the supplier offers, along with contact information.

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 Information NOW!

In an effort to get information to you on the organization’s activities in a timely and technologically contemporary manner we have started a “Yahoo! Email Groups” so you can receive these important email notifications.  We value your support of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network and want to stay in touch with you in order to serve you better and it’s free!

Invitations have be sent out to everyone I have on my email list to Join the “Yahoo! Email Groups”.  If you did not receive an invitation or need it re-sent please fill out the Update Contact Information Form. 

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Messages will be sent out with the email address NMFMN-owner@yahoogroups.com . Please see that these addresses  do not get blocked by your IT department.  Any messages sent to this address will come to me and I will forward them to the appropriate person.

Take Care,

Roy Evans

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